Jackpot tool holder

Citation

(1998), "Jackpot tool holder", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 70 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.1998.12770bad.010

Jackpot tool holder

Jackpot tool holder

Only a few months after its launch, Kingston-based HSST reports an unprecedented level of interest in its new jackpot tool holder for turret presses. Developed by HSST, the Jackpot has two major objectives, to increase punch life and reduce downtime for regrinds.

According to Max Kislingbury, works director at HSST, "We expected a slow start as people bought one or two to prove that it works. To our amazement people were so taken with the advantages that our first orders included full machine sets of tooling".

With 100 per cent increase in tool life and a 50 per cent reduction in down line, HSST has achieved the original design objectives.

However, once in the field, users have identified other significant benefits. For example setting form tools. When setting a form tool "discretion is the better part of valour". To avoid crashing the punch into the die, the setter will usually inch the tool down. This means taking the tool out of the machine, over to the bench adjusting the height then replacing it.

Feedback from users suggest the adjustment system on the jackpot allows the tool to be inched down in the machine. Simply, make a press stroke, index the tool to the side of the machine, then adjust. Same conscious inching process, but 70 per cent faster.

Details from High Speed Service Tool Co. Ltd. Tel: +44 (0) 181 546 2414; Fax: +44 (0) 181 547 1036.