Zero Friction Billet Heaters

Banyard™ Zero Friction Billet Heaters have been developed over several years to provide extruders of aluminium micro tubing with billet heating and handling with minimum impact surface damage resulting in higher quality extruded material.
The Banyard® Zero Friction heater is enhanced with improved servo-drive technology and now finds extended application in emerging high quality extrusion requirements such as required in the automotive sector.

Product Details

Features

The Banyard solution provides zero friction servo-handling of the Aluminium billet.
This is achieved by effectively minimising the area of contact with the billet at all stages of the process by end clamping.
Smooth movement is also assured by use of precision linear bearings and hardened slide-ways with racks for servo-motor drives.
Multi-zone Power Convertors and induction coil control zones allow precision billet heating with the capability of variable linear temperature gradients along the billet length, thus reducing press force and die wear and enabling isothermal extrusion. This also allows for a decreased overall energy consumption for the system.
Multi-layer induction coils offer high operating efficiency and precise temperature control.
Patented flux extender ‘mole’ device is used to keep billet end heating uniform and prevent potential overheating of billet ends for a wide range of billet lengths. United States Patent No. US10 034 331 B2 for method and apparatus.

Tech Specs

Reduced mechanical loads on the coil.
Eliminates the need for consumable skid plates.
Available for a billet diameter range 178mm (7”) to 457mm (18”). Other diameters can be considered.
One or two-part billets may be heated in a single heating operation.
The required LFi Frequency Power Convertor (frequency range 20 – 200 Hz) can be located adjacent to the induction coil or mounted on a deck above the induction coil to reduce floor footprint.
For high production volumes single billet heaters can be located in parallel.
All heater configurations can include overhead manipulators for transportation of hot and cold billets between upstream saws or shears and the downstream quench or press loader.

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Banyard Zero Friction Aluminium Billet Heaters

Banyard - Zero-Friction-Billet-Heater - Control and Convertor

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