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indexing head [2 records]

Record 1 2024-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Tools and Equipment
  • Machine-Tooling (Metallurgy)
CONT

Dividing heads ... or index centers are precision measuring devices for accurate workpiece indexing, or positioning from a reference through any desired sector of a circle.

Key term(s)
  • index centre

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage industriel
  • Usinage (Métallurgie)
CONT

Les diviseurs peuvent être simples, à axe horizontal ou vertical, ou universels. Cet appareil est réalisé de telle sorte qu'il permet de diviser une surface cylindrique en un nombre varié de parties égales.

Key term(s)
  • tête diviseur
  • poupée diviseur

Spanish

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Record 2 1997-10-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastics Manufacturing
CONT

The primary difficulty with these methods is that the injection mold and blow-mold stations must stand idle while the finished parts are removed. This led to the 1961 invention in Italy by Gussoni of the three-position method, which used a horizontal 120° indexing head with split mold parison and bottle cavities and three sets of core rods.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plasturgie
CONT

[...] la paraison est retirée de l'empreinte alors qu'elle se trouve dans l'état plasto-élastique, puis est transférée dans le noyau autour duquel le plastique a été moulé, dans le moule de soufflage. Ce transfert est programmé par la rotation de 120° d'une tourelle servant de support au noyau à l'aide d'un dispositif d'indexation entraîné par un moteur [...]

Spanish

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