Ultrasonic Hole Punching Machine for Webbing, Zipper Tape and Leather WM-598

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The WM-598 is a bench ultrasonic punch press: material is laid flat on the work table and one pedal stroke drives a vibrating horn through it into a pillar-guided die, so the hole is melted open and its rim fused in the same instant — no punched-out fluff, no frayed rim, no eyelet or heat-seal second pass. The die is a bolt-in part, so one machine covers round holes today and a shaped mold tomorrow, and two or more layers can be punched together. It runs at 60–100 punches per minute on woven tape, hook-and-loop, lace, zipper tape, woven labels and leather. The 2,000 W generator accepts 220 V/50 Hz or 110 V/60 Hz; the table measures 1,260 × 600 × 1,260 mm.

Specifications

Key features

• Punching is a different operation from cutting — the tape stays in one piece and gets a hole through it, so straps, zipper tape and woven labels come off the table ready for a rivet, screw, hook or lace with no cut-to-length step involved
• Ultrasonic energy melts the weave open instead of shearing it, and the same stroke fuses the hole rim — synthetic tape does not unravel around the hole and needs no eyelet, no flame sealing and no glue
• The die is bolted into a pillar-guided holder and swaps out in minutes, so one machine covers several hole sizes; different molds also punch shapes rather than plain round holes — five-pointed stars, hearts and animal outlines are standard examples
• Two or more layers of flannel or tape can be punched in one stroke, which keeps a stack of pieces registered to each other instead of punching them one at a time
• Open flat work table with a foot pedal — the operator positions each piece by hand, so odd-shaped pieces, cut leather panels and short runs are handled without threading a reel or setting up a feeder
• Analogue ultrasonic power and horn-match meters sit on the generator front, so a setter sees load and tuning at a glance while dialling in a new mold

What it processes

• Fixing holes and lacing holes in nylon and polyester strap for harness bundling, cargo lashing and sling assembly
• Hook-and-loop tape, lace trim and elastic band punched for buttons, cords, studs and rivets
• Zipper tape, woven labels and trademark tape perforated for stitching or hanging
• Leather and multi-layer flannel pieces punched to shape for bags, footwear and garment trim

Suited for: putting holes — round or shaped — through woven tape, hook-and-loop, lace, elastic, zipper tape, woven labels, flannel and leather, at 60–100 strokes a minute, where the rim has to come out sealed and the material stays in one piece.

Not suited for: cutting to length. If the job is one automated cycle that both punches the holes and cuts the strap off a reel, use the WM-564 ultrasonic webbing punching and cutting machine, which sets hole count and hole spacing on a touchscreen and severs each piece as it goes. If the hole pattern changes constantly and you would rather not own a mold for every layout, the WM-575 dual-head laser hole punching and cutting machine draws holes and cut-offs from a program file with no tooling at all. If there are no holes in the job and you only need tape cut and sealed to length, the WM-567 ultrasonic ribbon and tape cutting machine does straight and angled cuts at 60–80 pieces a minute. Wire and cable are a different category altogether — see the wire cutting and stripping machines.

The machine runs on compressed air; tell us your shop air pressure along with the material, its thickness and the hole size or outline you need, and we will confirm the mold and the setup before you order. Send us a metre or two of your tape or a few leather offcuts and we will punch them on this machine and mail the pieces back, so you judge the rim quality on your own material rather than on our photographs.