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    Platen Design

    Hello, I am a recent graduate working at my first job. I have been assigned to redesign a flour tortilla press. The problem that I am having mainly deals with heat expansion of my frame/platens. We use a ridged 4 post frame to keep the upper frame stable. However, due to thermal expansion, the...
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    Platen Design

    Hello everyone, I am a recent graduate and working at my first job. As my project I am in charge of a platen structure design. As for how it is stacked up, from bottom up, it is a .5" steel contact plate, then a 2.5" al. heating plate, with cartridge heaters inserted through it, then finally the...

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