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CASE HISTORIES -
1981 Orion: 1 off Reichmann abrasive belt power grinder with vertical table and incremental feed.
1982 Sandvik Tubes, formerly TI Stainless Tube, formerly Sterling Tubes, Walsall: A two head abrasive belt centreless machine for polishing of nuclear tubes. With automatic loading from a belt magazine and with automatic unloading. For tubes up to 30m long.
1983 Dowty Mining, Gloucester: Fully automated abrasive centreless machine for grinding and finishing of hydraulic tubes 60 -
1984 Wyman Gordon, formerly Cameron Ironworks, Livingston : Dedicated abrasive belt roll and pipe grinding machine. For max. 1200mm dia and max. 12,000mm length. With 55 KW abrasive belt driving motor. For max. part weight of 20 tonnes. This was the largest abrasive belt grinding machine in the UK, only surpassed by a sister model in the Netherlands for finishing hydraulic rams used in installations for land reclamation.
1985 Ralph Martindale, Birmingham : 2 off abrasive belt flatbed throughfeed machines for grinding and finishing of forged machete blades. The blades tapered along the length and the width and being forged they were not consistent. The problems were overcome by specially designed jigs with a “floating” mechanism that would compensate for tapers and inconsistent sizes.
1986 Terrill Bros.: 1 off Reichmann abrasive belt power grinder with vertical table and incremental feed.
1987 Avesta, formerly Rollo Hardy, formerly Stelco Hardy, Blaenrhondda: 1 off 10 head abrasive belt centreless tube polishing machine. Running at 10 m/sec. 1 off 7 head abrasive belt centreless tube polishing machine. off 3 head abrasive belt centreless tube polishing machine.
1987 Accles and Pollock, Nuclear Division, Oldbury, Birmingham : A six head abrasive belt centreless machine for polishing nuclear tube. From 6mm dia to approx. 75mm.
1987 Desford Tubes, Leicester : 2 off extra heavy duty abrasive belt centreless machines for grinding of hardened and tempered hollow bar. Up to 300mm dia. With 20 HP motor.
1988 Apollo Sports Technologies Ltd (formerly Accles and Pollock), Oldbury, Birmingham: Two 5 head abrasive belt centreless machines for polishing tapered and stepped golf shafts. With automatic loading and unloading. Production rate shaft every second. Each machine could run with one operator only. These two machines replaced about a dozen single headed fifty year old machines, each with an operator.
1988 Avesta, formerly Rollo Hardy, formerly Stelco Hardy, Blaenrhondda: 1 off 7 head flatbed throughfeed machine.
1989 British Steel, Sheffield: Automatic Johannsen abrasive belt machine for grinding faults and entire surface of large steel plates up to 3m wide and 10m long. With GEC PLC. Hot rolled, annealed and descaled. Up to 125mm thick and up to 11 tones in weight. The machine could be programmed to automatically grind spot faults and then to grind and blend the entire surface. Plates were inspected and spot faults marked and then programmed into the machine’s controls. It then automatically recognised the spot faults and removed them. For difficult faults the machine could be operated manually from a gantry. Abrasive belts were 300mm wide and over 20m long. The British Steel machine had 2 belt heads.The machine replaced two dozen operators who previously ground the surface with portable power tools.
1989 Energy Tubes, Coventry: Ten head abrasive belt centreless tube polishing for fully automated operation and automatic loading and unloading. For tube sizes 12mm to 100mm dia and from 350mm to 6500mm long.
