Tooling Plates and Columns Specifications

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Tooling Plates / Column Type

	Tooling Plate / Clamping Column Type:
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	Angle Plate		Angle plates are used as work holding device in machining, inspection and layout applications.  Most angle plates are machines out of cast iron with square faces; however adjustable angle plates are also available.  Angle plates typically have slots or T-slots used to assist in work holding.
	Base Plate		A base plate is used as the foundation plate in machine tools and other heavy machinery.
	Box Cube / Clamping Cube		A box cube, or clamping cube, is machined on all six sides and typically has slots for work holding on the top and all four sides.
	Box Bracket / Riser Plate		A box bracket, or riser plate, has four ground surfaces with slots or openings for work holding and two open ends.  They are used to raise clamps and locators parallel to the tooling plate to reach the workpiece.
	Floor Rail		Floor rails are mounted to the floor and contain holes for bridge or table mounting.
	Pallet Tooling Plate		Clamping pallets are used as work holding surfaces on pallets used in palletized conveyors.
	Platen / Mold Plate		Platens, or mold plates, are the flat plates on a molding machine that the molds are mounted to.
	Platform Tooling Plate		Platform tooling plates are a raised tooling plate for mounting machining center pallets.
	Tombstone Block		Tombstones are workholding columns with two, three, four, six, or eight surfaces for mounting work.  Tombstones types and names include two-sided tooling blocks, four-sided tooling blocks, mounting cubes, silos, window frame tombstones, and T-fixtures.  Cross column tombstones are machined to provide minimal tool clearance.
	Tooling / Fixture Plate		A tooling plate, or fixture plate, is used as a surface for locating and clamping work.  Plates may be mounted to a machine surface or tooling block, horizontally or vertically.
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Dimensions

	Width		The overall width of the tooling plate, typically the workholding surface.
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	Length		The overall length of the tooling plate, typically the workholding surface.
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	Height / Thickness		The overall height or thickness of the tooling plate.
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Configuration

	Shape / Mounting Surfaces
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	Square		Tooling plate, typically a two-sided plate, has a square mounting surface.
	Rectangular		Tooling plate, typically a two-sided plate, has a rectangular mounting surface.
	Round		Tooling plate, typically a two-sided plate, has a round mounting surface.
	Cube		Tooling plate, typically a tombstone, has a cube shape and may have four or six mounting surfaces.
	Hexagonal		Tooling plate, typically a tombstone, is hexagonal in shape and has six mounting surfaces.
	Octagonal		Tooling plate, typically a tombstone, is octagonal in shape and has eight mounting surfaces.
	T-shaped		T-shaped columns have two machined surfaces for workholding or mounting of tooling plates.
	Triangular		Tooling plate, typically a tombstone, is triangular in shape and has three mounting surfaces.
	Other		Other, unlisted shape or mounting surface configuration.
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	Orientation:
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	Horizontal		Tooling plate designed to be mounted horizontally.
	Vertical		Tooling plate designed to be mounted vertically.
	Multi-axis		Tooling plate can be mounted in any orientation.
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	Special Features
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	Cross construction		Cross column tombstones are machined to provide minimal tool clearance.
	Multi-piece Construction		Tooling plate is constructed of more than one piece.
	Window		Window style plates or columns are manufactured with a rectangular or square hole through them to lighten the load or allow for front and back machining.
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Material

	Material
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	Aluminum		A bluish silver-white malleable ductile light trivalent metallic element that has good electrical and thermal conductivity, high reflectivity, and resistance to oxidation.
	Brass		Brass comes with good strength, excellent high temperature ductility and reasonable cold ductility, good conductivity, excellent corrosion resistance, good bearing properties and low magnetic permeability.
	Cast Iron		The term "cast iron" refers not to a single material, but to a family of materials whose major constituent is iron, with important trace amounts of carbon and silicon. Cast irons are natural composite materials whose properties are determined by their microstructures - the stable and metastable phases formed during solidification or subsequent heat treatment. The major microstructural constituents of cast irons are: the chemical and morphological forms taken by carbon, and the continuous metal matrix in which the carbon and/or carbide are dispersed.
	Granite		Granite is an igneous stone type, characterized by a distinctive grain structure, and extreme hardness.  Granite can be lapped to a very smooth and extremely flat surface. A major constituent of granite is quartz, which imparts hardness to granite.  The hardness gives granite excellent wear resistance, and the elasticity of the material insures that it returns to its original accuracy after loading/unloading. Many granite types are ideal for precision applications.  Pink or red granite typically contains more quartz and provides greater life before reconditioning compared to black granite. However, color alone is not an indication of the performance of the stone rather the physical properties such as elastic modulus, hardness, density and wear resistance.
	Plastic		Any of numerous organic, synthetic, or processed materials that are mostly thermoplastic or thermosetting polymers of high molecular weight and that can be made into objects, films, or filaments.
	Stainless Steel		Stainless steel is chemical and corrosion resistant and can have relatively high pressure ratings.
	Steel		A commercial iron that contains carbon in any amount up to about 1.7 percent as an essential alloying constituent. It is malleable when under suitable conditions, and is distinguished from cast iron by its malleability and lower carbon content.
	Other		Other, unlisted, or proprietary material
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