Advanced Composite Industries offers, in addition to the carbon dial table, to
reduced operating inertia still further, lightweight composite tooling.
Lightweight composite tooling is designed by ACI engineering to clients
requirements.
ACI engineering offers the service of assembling the tooling to the carbon
dial table and testing functionality.
An example of lightweight composite tooling nests mounted on a 42"
Diameter Carbon Dial Table, 12 stations.
Comparative index/min performance of a special 30 inch diameter carbon
dial table, 0.75 thick, showing effect of tool weight reduction from 80 lbs
to 32 lbs.
The special 30 inch carbon
dial table showed an increase
in index/min performance from
155 index's/min to 233
index's/min by reducing tool
weight from 80 lbs to 32 lbs.
A aluminum 30 inch
diameter dial table also
had a performance
increase from 139
index's/min to 175
index's/min by reducing
the tooling weight from
80 lbs to 32 lbs.
Comparative index/min performance of a 30 inch diameter aluminum dial
table, 0.75 thick, showing effect of tool weight reduction from 80 lbs to 32
lbs.
ACI can design
composite
tooling using
either continuous
carbon and glass
fiber or from
polyurethane
moldings. Shown
is a polyurethane
tooling nest for a
cosmetic dish.
Comparative performance of 32lb tooling with 15 lb tooling. The number of possible
index's for 32 lbs tooling is 220 while the number of index's by reducing the tooling weight
by 50% was 340.
30 inch Diameter Carbon Dial Table designs with 16
composite laminate tooling stations. Designs show
tooling attachment and steel insert for part location.
