Expanding Family of Five-Axis Workholding

Kurt Workholding is augmenting its PF Series five-axis Workholding lineup with an 8-inch vise, quick-release pallets and a wide-base vise option for 96-mm docking. All the new models feature three jaw options, easy adjustment and pull-stud compatibility for automation-ready mounting and zero-point systems.

The PF840 vise features an 8-inch jaw width and a four inch maximum opening, offering customers an off-the-shelf vise capable of handling much larger parts than most five-axis vises are designed to hold. Dovetail, serrated and machinable jaw options are to be made available.

Kurt Workholding says the PF840 was originally designed to hold several different aerospace parts, but the vise saved time on custom fixturing and worked well in the five-axis milling centers. With this experience with its own product, Kurt Workholding decided to move it into its consumer workholding lineup.

Kurt Workholding is also introducing wide-base models of their smaller vise sizes, including the PFW420, PFW440 and PFW460. Like their narrower siblings, the wider models can quick-change mount with either 52 mm or 96 mm pull studs. The three new models feature a four inch jaw width and jaw openings ranging from 2.625 inches to 6.625 inches.

In addition to the new three-axis vise models, Kurt’s new five-axis MP Pallets are designed to further streamline automation and allow an operator or a robot to position a PF vise quickly and securely with just a single motion. Vises attach with pull studs and can be robotically or manually released with the press of a button. Designed for use with five-axis vises with 52 mm or 96 mm pull-stud patterns, Kurt’s MP-Series manual quick-release pallets come in three sizes to fit the PFW420, the PFW440 and the PFW460 five-axis vises.

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