Hardening



We have designed and manufactured a range of equipments for use in a wide variety of hardening applications including shaft hardeners both horizontal and vertical types, single  shot hardening, tooth by tooth and ring hardening of gears.

A small range of components that have been induction hardened with our equipment.

Automotive Products

The equipment shown here is a four station hardening machine. Each of the four stations has a 4 way horizontal turret with dedicated fixturing.

The machine was designed for a leading manufacturer to allow them to induction harden any one of 16 different components to a predetermined specification without operator intervention other than for loading and unloading. One induction heater provides the heating energy to the work stations on a non-simultaneous basis. All process variables for all components are stored in a microprocessor allowing the equipment to be operated by non skilled personnel.


Industrial Products

This photograph shows a typical vertical shaft hardening machine. The high frequency induction heater can be seen on the left and the control system that stores all process variables for some 200 component types can be seen on the right (the water and quench cooling unit is out of view behind the hardener).

This equipment is used for hardening machine tool parts.


Agricultural Products

This Rotary Index hardening machine  is used for hardening a range of agricultural products. The control panel on the far left is for the water and quench cooling/pumping unit that is just to the right of it.

The main body of the machine has a vertical opening access door to allow the loading/unloading of components.

The control console (foreground) has a touch sensitive screen with visual display of the components to be processed and graphic indication of the areas to be hardened or annealed.


Domestic Products

This photograph shows a section through a hardened shaft. The steel shaft is about 8mm (5/16") in diameter. The section has been polished and etched and clearly shows the hardened zone to be around 1mm (3/32").

This particular shaft is for an electric drill and has been processed on one of our High Frequency 4 index twin spindle rotary shaft hardening machines.

For other hardening applications, please contact our head office, Technical Sales Staff who will be pleased to help you.

updated: 19/02/2007


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Email: sales@cihinduction.com

updated: 25/06/2008