Eliminate Difficult Tube Bender Programming

In Booth C-47091, CML USA Ercolina® (Davenport, IA), the North American supplier of Ercolina tube, pipe and profile bending and metalworking machinery, will display the new Super Bender® Plus. One of the most common ways to bend tube and pipe is the rotary draw tube bending process. Performed correctly, this process produces highly satisfactory results at a reasonable cost. Ercolina’s Super Bender Plus rotary draw tube and pipe bender eliminates the intense labor and difficult programming associated with many entry-level benders. The Super Bender Plus is ideal for producing consistent quality bends in pipe, tube, squares, solids and other profiles. Bend information is stored, and the desired bend is produced in seconds.

Super Bender Plus has a newly improved and easy-to-read control which displays machine position and all current functions on one screen for greater convenience. This large, color-coded touchscreen eliminates difficult programming and indicates bend angle, springback and actual bend position in real time. Material springback, the amount a material will spring back after the counterbend die pressure is released, is displayed separately for greater accuracy on a variety of materials, allowing the operator to bend any angle to 180 deg with independent material springback compensation for each bend.

Super Bender Plus offers generous capacity from ¼ in to 2 in tube or 1-1/2 in schedule 40 pipe with a maximum centerline radius of 8-7/8 in. The operator can initiate bend cycle from the control panel or included foot pedal. The Super Bender Plus utilizes Ercolina’s quick-change tooling system, with multiple radii available. The swing away counter bend die vise offers easy loading and unloading of the work piece. Three convenient cost-saving tooling kits are available in common tube or pipe sizes: a pipe kit, a small radius tube kit and a large radius tube kit. An efficient, three-phase drive motor operates from a 220 single-phase power source for greater accessibility and efficiency and has single bending speed of 2 rpm. Powerful gear reduction operates quietly without need for hydraulics. Classic Ercolina design reduces floor space requirement and stores easily to save shop floor space.

Several rotary draw accessories are available to expand Super Bender Plus capabilities, including Ercolina’s A40-P two axis positioning table, ideal for repetitive parts and left and right mirror images. Use with Ercolina’s easy part layout software to quickly layout and produce drawings for bending applications.

CML USA, Inc., 3100 Research Parkway, Davenport, IA 52806, 563-391-7700, info@ercolina-usa.com, www.ercolina-usa.com.