THE BRUNO PRESS LINE:

CUSTOM-BUILT PRESSES USED BY THE WORLD'S
TOP MANUFACTURING COMPANIES!

DIE CUTTING - EMBOSSING & STAMPING - HEAT SEALING - MOLDING

AMD is the exclusive manufacturer of hydraulic, mechanical, and hydraulic-mechanical die cutting and molding presses under the Bruno Name.
These presses are used to cut numerous types of materials including (but not limited to) foams, plastics, textiles, paper, cardboard, chipboard, rubber, composites, carpets, etc. Bruno Presses die cut on steel, belts and cutting pads. All press sizes can be built with various feed systems for feeding roll stock and sheet stock.

BRUNO presses are manufactured with all steel fabrication that are stress-relieved, designed and built for heavy production requirements.

PRESS SIZES range from:

• 10" to 120" wide
• 10" to 216" deep
• 10 to 4000 tons

Press feed systems include:

• Manual Sliding Trays
• Beltfeeds
• Clampfeeds
• Rollfeeds
• Progressive feeds
• Shuttles
• In-line systems

HIGH SPEED DIE CUTTERS

• 20 to 40 ton die cutters capable of 75 strokes per minute.....cutting 24"x24"
• 50 to 100 ton die cutters capable of 83 strokes per minute....cutting 32"x24"

MULTI-CONTOUR MOLD & TRIM PRESSES (SMC)

• Various tonnages, sizes, stroke lengths and hydraulic speeds....CUSTOMIZED to meet our customer needs and applications.
• T-SLOTS....for tooling.
• HEATED bolster plates and PROGRAMMABLE heat ZONES (option).
• Automatic SLIDING TRAY option.
• SAFETY collet wedge system....which allows our customers to safely work directly with their tooling and product.
• FULL LINE of ACCESSORIES and OPTIONS.
• Quick RETURN ON INVESTMENT.

BRUNO PRESSES are:

• Designed and manufactured in the U.S.A. by our own staff of professional engineers, machinists and mechanics.
• Serviced by our own sales force, parts department and service technicians....which are always just a phone call away.

BRUNO Mold and Trim Presses
Mold and trim presses are controlled by four interactive variables...load, position, velocity and time. You cannot pre-set all system variables; e.g. if load is controlled, position will vary with time and the compressibility of the material. If velocity and final position are set, load will vary right.

The tooling for molding presses may be heated and can contain auxiliary hydraulic cylinders to cut surfaces that are not perpendicular to the platen motion. Close control of the full closed position of the tool is normally accomplished with stop blocks in the tool. The selection of a mold and trim press requires a thorough understanding of the intended process or the recognition that the press is a process development tool and must have all the anticipated control functions to develop a process. The following is a list of parameters that are often a part of a mold and trim press cycle:

1. No load closing speed (rapid approach)
2. Adjustable load during work portion of cycle (pressing, tonnage)
3. Speed @ load (pressing speed) B typical is 2@/sec.
4. Dwell times @ load
5. Dwell times @ no load
6. Out gassing cycles (platen stops before full closed and dwells or backs up (optional B burp cycle)
7. Dwell at full closed on mechanical stops
8. Slow open for pre-set distance (option)
9. Fast open for pre-set distance (rapid return)
10. Safety system to lock press open if people are in platen area for part removal, or if hydraulic system fails
11. Heated platens or tooling (option)
12. Tooling weight, lower and upper platen tooling weights