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Light Curtain and Machine Guards

Light Curtain
A Safety Light Curtain

Our range of infrared electronic safety light curtain and machine guards systems are suitable for category 4 applications.

The whole concept of design is modular in construction to maximise versatility and serviceability, each safety light curtain comprises of repeated electronic modules that may be plugged together in various formats during production and tailored to best suit your specific application.

The Complete Package
We provide a complete safety package for industrial machinery to meet both the HSE requirements and your production needs.

We offer full technical surveys, design, installation and commissioning.

We are specialists in the field of photoelectric guarding supplying safety light barriers for a wide range of Industrial machines including:

Hydraulic Press Brakes, Folders, Presses and Shears
Mechanical Press Brakes and Presses
Paper Cutting Guillotines and Folder Box Gluers
Packaging Machines, Conveyor Entry / Exit
Turret Punch Machines and Robot Cells.

Call us Now on:

(01933) 226335

Machine Safety Guards
Press Brake Safety Light Curtain

How they Work

Safety Light Curtains work by emitting pulsed infra-red beams between a sender and a receiver unit to create an invisible safety screen. Interruption to any beam is immediately detected and the Light Curtain safety circuits will effect a "STOP" to the machine cycle.



Step 1
1) Light Curtain Active, press brake tools closing
Step 2
2) Light Curtain Muted, press brake tooling stopped at 6mm
Step 3
3) Insert Material - Light Curtain Muted - Press Brake Tools closed to complete fold
Step 4
4) Press Brake Tooling Returns Fully Open, Light Curtain Mute Removed
Step 5
5) Alternative to Step 4, Press Brake Tooling
returns to 6mm Light Curtain Mute Point,
and return holds ready for next fold.



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