Hodge Clemco Ltd
Hodge Clemco Ltd
[
South Yorkshire,
United Kingdom ]
South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Blast Machines
Internal Cylinder Cleaning
Other
Automatic
New
Hodge Clemco purpose-designed and manufactured an internal cyclinder cleaning machine for the leading manufacturer of aluminium gas bottles in the UK. The machine was designed to be both simple to operate and easy to maintain. The use of agency staff by the client dictated that the control system needed to be intuitive. The PLC control system enabled the operator to select from a list of preset part numbers and then the machine automatically set the required parameters.
This machine allowed the components to be processed from 90mm ID to 230mm OD and from 300mm to 1830mm long.
The internal walls of the bottles are cleaned by a lance which is automatically fed from the base of the machine, through the neck and into the bottle. The abrasive in this application was glass bead which not only removed the score marks from the previous drawing operation but also peened the internal surfaces, increasing the fatigue life of the parts.
