Press
| 16.11.2011 Rational aligning of castings | |||
The Dutch enterprise CIREX – the most important wax investment foundry throughout the world – stakes on the 4-column press systems from TOX PRESSOTECHNIK for the sizing and aligning of castings.When it comes to castings produced in a wax investment process, the Dutch specialist CIREX is the first-class name in the international field! The wax investment process is mainly used for the production of costly formed, i.e. complex components. Due to the relatively low tool cost, this process is already profitable with small quantities. For this process, the model gets first founded in wax. For major series, the wax model can also be made by injection moulding and provided then, as a kind of sealing, with a ceramic layer. Thereafter the casting moulds (smaller parts are also called clusters) are put into the autoclave. There the wax gets melted and the ceramic mouldings remain and are subjected to a sinter/baking process in another oven. Thereafter the correspondingly liquefied metal is cast into the ceramic mouldings. After cooling, the ceramic layer is knocked off and the castings close to contour and shape remain. ..... |
 Fig. 1 shows the general view of the custom press at the CIREX factory used for aligning; it includes a TOX-4-Column-Press MAG 050 and two alignment units flanged to the left and the right side of it  Fig. 2 shows the tool installation area of 430 mm (between the columns) equipped with a base holding fixture for castings which can be aligned and/or sized here in horizontal and in vertical axis  Fig. 3 shows the modular kit system used for TOX-Presses of series MAG; the 4-column press frames can be individually equipped with almost every press drive |
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