Willis Machinery & Tools Co.

CNC Bed Mills

CNC Machinery - Vertical Travel Bed Mills

Willis Machinery and Tools offers two different models of CNC bed mill with conventional milling heads: the BTM-40 and BTM 50.  Providing customers with different sizes and capabilities, the BTM-40 allows for 40 inches of x-axis travel where the BTM-50 is able to provide 50 inches of x-axis travel.  Willis CNC bed mills offer high quality, heavily ribbed castings.  These large bed mills are provided with hardened and ground box ways as well as hardened and ground table surfaces for accurate machining.  In addition to an oversize, high precision ball-screw, Willis CNC bed mills include programmable spindle speeds plus automatic lubrication and flood coolant systems.  If a more rigid head is required for specific applications, Willis Machinery offers the RTM series, a large CNC bed mill with a machining center style head.

• The Willis BTM series CNC bed mills provide AC inverter drive motors to allow for variable spindle speeds
• These large CNC bed mills also allow for programmable spindle speeds
• CAT 40 or NMTB 40 taper spindles are available on Willis large vertical travel bed mills
• Power, AC brushless servo motors provide these CNC bed mills with smooth and precise positioning
• Willis bed mills include hardened and ground box ways on the saddle and column for sturdy and precise operations
• These large CNC bed mills also provide hardened and ground T-slotted table work surfaces
• All Willis CNC bed mills allow for a massive 27 inches of z-axis travel to provide a larger available workspace
• These CNC machines also incorporate a quill with 6” of manual travel
• These bed mills have controls featuring full 3-axis contouring CNC capabilities as well as internal and external thread milling.  An optional 4-axis CNC is also available on Willis CNC bed mills
• An automatic, metered lubrication system is standard equipment on Willis CNC bed mills
• Chip pans and splash guarding are optionally available with these large bed mills as well as a “Maxi Torque-rite" pushbutton power drawbar
• A Manual Pulse Generator (MPG) hand-wheel is also offered for manual positioning

Acu-Rite 3500i Control includes the following;

Ease of Use

• Intuitive touch screen interface
• Full alphanumeric touch keyboards
• Machinist language canned cycles
• 3D form help graphics
• Large high resolution display

Innovative

Highlights

• Solid state flash memory storage
• 1 Gig of RAM
• 1 GHz Intel CPU
• Windows® compatible off-line system
• Easy to learn
• Intuitive navigation and programming
• 2 USB ports