Part No: 432-248
TMS Lightweight Three Point Bend Fixture
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The TMS lightweight three-point bend is a medium scale fixture used to snap, bend and measure the flexure properties of brittle foods such as biscuits, potato chips and vegetable crudités.
The principle component of the fixture is a 120mm adjustable span support plate which fits directly to the “T” slots on the TMS-Pro test bed.
This plate is constructed from anodized aluminium and comprises of 2 adjustable 60mm high support arms, each of which is capped with hard wearing 3mm diameter stainless steel rods for friction free and damage proof testing. The support arms are held in place via a stainless steel locking bar and hex screw, which gives maximum freedom of configuration. A top blade type assembly, also with 3mm diameter stainless steel rod, completes the fixture and is used to travel down and snap samples positioned on the support arms. Recommended for use with S-beam type load cells.
Contents and Summary
- Adjustable support plate with 2 x “T” bolt fixings
- Top blade with 3mm diameter test surface
- 6mm top thread and locking nuts fits:
-standard load cells via 10/32 to M6 thread adapter
-heavy-duty load cells via relevant M6 thread adapter supplied with load cell
Recommended for use with:
- Maximum rating 2500N depending on load cell fixing
-'S' Beam type load cells
Applications
- Crispness of vegetable crudités
- Break strength of chocolate bars to predict transport damage
- Crispness in staling of potato chips
- Brittleness and hardness of hard baked biscuits
- Flexure and softness of American style cookies
- Freshness of asparagus spears
- Brittleness and flexure of spaghetti and lasagne sheets
- Break strength of tortilla shells
- Softening in celery stalks
