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Get the Real Lowdown on Structural Foam.


The first in a series of "low-profile" structural-foam machines was recently unveiled by Wilmington Wilmington.

1 City (1990 pop. 71,529), seat of New Castle co., NE Del., on the Delaware River and tributary streams, the Christina and the Brandywine; settled 1638, inc. as a city 1832.
 Machinery Inc., Wilmington, N.C. The aim is to reduce the machine height in order to leave headroom head·room  
n.
1. Space above one's head, as in a motor vehicle, above a doorway, or in a tunnel; clearance.

2. Electronics Dynamic headroom.
 for robot parts removers and avoid the need for operators to enter the clamp clamp (klamp) a surgical device for compressing a part or structure.

rubber dam clamp  a metallic device used to retain the dam on a tooth.


clamp
n.
 area. Wilmington's 750-ton Model 750 LP with 102 x 167 in. Super Platens stands only 10 ft high. A robot adds another 10 ft of height. A standard machine is about 15 ft high, and the robot is more than 10 ft taller.
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Publication:Plastics Technology
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Date:Jan 1, 2000
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