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CASE HISTORIES -
1972 Cashmores, Walsall: 3 off Johannsen automatic narrow belt stainless steel sheet and plate grinding and polishing machines. The Johannsen machines were slower than wide belt machines but much more flexible. They could grind available in Europe.With facility to remove surface faults and polishing of the whole surface.
Cashmores were the first stainless steel stockist to invest in polishing machines. The Johannsen the wide bn narrow belt machines were the forerunners oelt machines which at the time were only available in the USA but then became widely and polish heavy plate with uneven surfaces which was not possible on wide belt machines. Johannsen type machines are still available today.
1974 Leading manufacturer of aluminium chair legs in its day, South of England (company no longer in existence -
1975 Stanley tools: 3 dedicated rotary table abrasive belt grinding machines for claw hammers and ball pein hammers. The three machines replaced about 30 operators who had previously ground hammers manually.
1976 Toolchrome, Uxbridge: Two head abrasive belt centreless machine for polishing hydraulic round bar prior to and after chrome plating. Final finish was between 6 and 8 CLA.
1977 Aluminium Closures, Dublin: 60 spindle rotary table polishing machine for polishing of aluminium perfume bottle tops. When machine worked at full capacity of around 1000 parts per hour it needed 2 operators to load and
unload.
1979 Truecast, Isle of Wight: A dedicated abrasive belt rotary table machine with 4 jigs and a horizontal abrasive belt head for flat grinding of feeders on turbine wheels.