Citizen Machinery is offering Ocean Cincom’s GN and RL ranges of CNC chucking lathes, which are designed for automated machinery applications within sectors such as electronics, fuel injection, bearings, medical and fluid power.

The chucking lathes can be customised to suit customers’ applications and have compact floor footprints. The RL chucking/collet machines feature component bowl feed and the GN range is offered in five variations — the GN-3200, the GN-3200W, the GN-4, the GN-4200 and the GN-4200W — each of which has linear platens.

The RLO1 and RLO3 machines feature a single spindle and a linear platen and are built onto a single base. Additionally, the RLO1 has a bowl feel and can carry four tools on its platen. The RLO3 includes a pick-and-place gantry, a two-axis gantry loader in a double-gripper arrangement and an independent double-track conveyor and can carry five tools on its platen base.

The GN-3200 and the GN-3200W — single- and twin-spindle models with in and out pallet stockers — can carry five tools on each platen. The twin-spindle ‘W’ variant features a programmable gantry system that enables the machine to either duplicate the same cycle in each spindle or perform first and use a component turnaround device to conduct a second successive operational cycle.

The GN-4 — which is designed for ultra-high-accuracy finishing cycles — includes a two-axis platen that can carry six tools as well as non-contact encoder positioning and a rigid base.

The GN-4200 self-contained turning cell is suitable for European component production and includes fully integrated, high-speed, programmable automatic gantry loading/unloading. According to the company, it provides accurate concentricity to datum features of a component.

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