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Leader’s award-winning MMY offers cost-effective productivity
Leader’s award-winning MultiChuck MMY
offers cost-effective productivity
Featuring an award-winning design, the Leader MultiChuck MMY brings a host of advantages to the self-centring of round and square parts on vertical and horizontal machining centres, milling machines and grinders. Precision rapid clamping and short set-up times are achieved due to the inherent rigidity and accuracy of the chuck units.
The concentric clamping system offers a cost-effective route to more productive manufacturing, and an improved Return on Investment (ROI) from the capital invested from your machine tools. Unlike traditional side lock/unlock units the simple top face operation of the MultiChuck MMY means that the chucks can be tightly packed on to a base plate, increasing the density of the workpieces loaded on the machine’s table to maximise the running time of the spindle.
Available in two- or three-jaw configurations, MultiChuck MMY combines fast initial jaw travel with controlled second-stage clamping to offer a large jaw opening with high gripping force.
Jaw strokes are 4, 5, 8 and 10 mm across the four variants and the low unit height, from just 25 to 40 mm across the range, maximises the machine's Z axis. Quick change top jaws can be supplied to suit most materials/components.
Mark Jones, managing director, says: “The productivity rewards available from the MultiChuck MMY for a relatively low outlay makes this system an ideal workholding investment for companies implementing a World Class Best Practice programme. And, the flexibility offered makes the chucks an ideal choice for precision subcontractors looking to gain more throughput without purchasing another machine tool.”
MultiChuck MMY can be provided as standard in a range of chuck sizes - 80, 100, 125 and 150 mm. With base dimensions of 80 by 80 mm, 100 by 100 mm, 125 by 125 mm and 150 by 150 mm the range will fit all tee-slotted machine tables.
Available for external and internal clamping MultiChuck MMY can be used to clamp workpieces for both first and second operations in the same machining cycle, to provide continuous output of finished components.
