Clamping Equipment
There are a number of clamping devices discussed in other sections, such as chair clamps and clamp carriers. Other clamps that are used, as an example, may be for attaching a heavy solid wood edge to an elliptical table top used in boardrooms. It is difficult to attach this curved piece of solid wood to the top, so a specially designed clamp is used to hold the wood in place until the glue has cured or dried.
Other clamps would be frame clamps which normally stand vertically, some however, are horizontal. A complete door or window frame can be placed in the clamp, and it will be clamped together so that the dowels or the construction device that is used can harden and set up at the same time while the frame is being made square. The frame is placed on a ledge vertically while air cylinders, or in certain cases hydraulic cylinders, clamp the parts from different angles and press the door or window frame together. These machines are quite long because of the parts that are being made.
Kitchen doors can be assembled in a similar manner. A number of doors are placed on a flat table having numerous air cylinders that can be located into various parts of the table. The lay-up table is normally pre-drilled with a number of holes at various increments for example at 3" centers. The clamps can be located in any one of these holes depending on the size of the door. Numerous kitchen doors are placed in this clamping device at the same time. The various clamps which are pedal activated lock the kitchen doors together and square them at the same time. There are certain applications where picture frames will be assembled in a similar manner using special staples to assemble them once squared.
MANUFACTURERS OF THESE MACHINES INCLUDE:
Activa, Castle, CMS, , Dodds, Evans, Her-Saf, Hess, Italpresse, J & P, JLT, Nove, Orma, Quick, Ritter, S & S Hess, Unique.
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