Slot Mounting Systems
As an alternative to traditional round cartridges and their costly, time consuming deep hole drilling requirements, square cartridges utilize simple, cost effective surface milled slot mounting systems. This approach provides close fits between the cartridge and tooling maximizing heat transfer and performance while still allowing easy heater removal for maintenance and cleaning. Lead channels added during the slot machining process provide total protection for the heater power leads while allowing routing of the leads to connectors or terminal strips at any desired location on the tool. A square cartridge forming option further simplifies heating of special shapes and can be utilized in heating both large and small tooling components.

The high wattage and high temperature capabilities provide a reliable heat source for a wide range of process heating applications. The versatile construction can readily satisfy the diverse requirements of direct solid, liquid and gas heating applications as well as indirect radiant heating applications. Square cartridge heaters and the slot mounting method can be readily combined with machined plates and shapes of aluminum, brass, bronze or other alloys to create a quality substitute for most plate and cast heater configurations. This approach improves heating efficiency, allows lead and heater repair and reduces turnaround time.
square cartridge
The unique square cartridge is the first fully formable cartridge construction. The capability of factory forming the heater into special configurations allows the heater to be implemented in a nearly unlimited range of tooling and process heating applications. Compound multi-plane, multi-axis, spiral and multi-turn coil style bends can be provided at any desired location along the entire cartridge length. The square cartridge forming option permits configuring the heater as a high performance band or coiled cable heater. The square cartridge cross-section insures maximum contact with cylindrical components often allowing the use of multiple heater surfaces in transferring heat to the component.
Square cartridge configuration will impact tooling design in virtually all plastic processing disciplines including injection molding, compression molding, thermoforming, blow molding, extrusion, and packaging.

Square Heater
Introducing the versatile, square cross-section, high performance, swaged cartridge heater (U.S. and foreign patents pending). Considered to be the most significant advance in heater design in years, the square cartridge heater overcomes many of the shortcomings and limitations imposed by other heating element constructions. The heater can be configured to provide the functionality of cartridge, tubular, strip, band, plate, cable and cast heaters while dramatically improving performance. Popular design features including distributed wattage, multiple independent heat zones and internal temperature sensors can be implemented in the square cartridge
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The square heater assembly consists of an element wound on shaped ceramic cores and securely connected to internal lead conductors. This assembly is centrally located within shaped tubing and voids are filled with ceramic insulation. The heater assembly is swaged to the final square cross-sectional dimensions to metallurgically bond the element wire to the lead conductors and to compact the internal ceramic core and ceramic insulation to near theoretical density. The densely compacted assembly provides the optimum heat transfer and insulation dielectric essential to heater performance and reliability and maximizes the heaters resistance to vibration, shock and physical abuse.