Kurt Manufacturing Company

The HDL CarvLock Towers from Kurt HDL decrease cycle time by maximising the machine work envelope with eight stations to 12 stations within each tower. This provides a high-density workholding platform for ganging dozens of parts depending on size. Eight station tower configurations can be selected from Kurt’s standard four inch and six inch base models.

To achieve closer positioning of multiple vises with no need for space consuming toe clamps, the DX6 CrossOver Vise features strategically located holes for through the body mounting. The vise also uses sine keys which can be inserted quickly into pre-drilled dowel holes in the vise base for positioning onto t-slots, machine tables, grid plates, sub-plates, fixture plates and tombstones.

It has been announced that mounting newer Kurt vise models is easier, faster and more precise. Through the use of Sine Keys, vise alignment and lockdown is simplified. Kurt Sine keys are positioning devices that insert and lock quickly and accurately into pre-drilled dowel holes in the base of every newer model Kurt vise.

Proven to help machinists enhance their ability to machine parts better and increase productivity, Kurt has developed the DX6 Crossover Vise. The DX6 Vise mounts and locates directly onto 40mm, 50mm, and 2” grid patterns. This provides for an accurate workholding setup and repeatable reference and elimination of relocating and greatly reduces setup time.

If you are a machinist in need of flexible 5-axis workholding tool, the MaxLock HP420 5-axis vises from Kurt maybe a solution. These vises combat jaw deflection and part lift with Kurt AngLock design and Kurt’s new patented lift control system, for 5-axis workholding rigidity. For precision parts, this could mean the difference between machining pass or rejects.

Seeing is believing – in just one minute, machinists change vise jaws with ±0.001 repeatable accuracy! Changing the Kurt DoveLock jaw setups is fast, simple and extremely precise and reduces jaw change time by 90%. 

Kurt’s line up provides machinists with a first ever, wide array of holding options for their work pieces being machined on small CNC tables. The product line is categorised by workholding envelopes fitting machine tables measuring 16” or smaller in the Y dimension.

Designed for use on small machine tables, this versatile vise mounts easily on all three sides to handle a wide range of workholding projects.

2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the Kurt AngLock Vise and Kurt Industrial Products. It all began with one vise model – the D60 AngLock - and it quickly became the vise of choice by machinists everywhere because of its unique patented design.