Safety Strap Secures Parting Lines During Mold Transport, Storage
Progressive Components introduces its new mold safety strap for safe securing of parting lines during mold transport and storage.
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Progressive Components introduces a mold safety strap that offers safe, assured securing of parting lines during mold transport and storage.
Progressive’s safety straps feature an engineered break point designed to prevent the shearing of bolts. Previously, if a mold was opened with a mold strap unintentionally left on, the bolts were then sheared, preventing the attachment of a new strap to remove the mold from the press safely.
Rather than creating an unsafe condition from sheared bolts, Progressive’s safety strap enables the easy replacement of the strap while the mold is in the press to ensure no subsequent machining-out of a sheared bolt will occur.
The following options are available in three sizes, each powder coated in OSHA Yellow, assigned a safety factor of two and compatible with previous standards: SAFT-88 = 7/8″ bolt centers, SAFT-150 = 1-1/2″ bolt centers and SAFT-200 = 2″ bolt centers.
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