Manual Traveling Head Presses are tuned towards increasing the overall speed of a manual operation- often requiring the manual placement of your die to maximize material use. Some applications requiring manual operation include the cutting of natural materials like leather, or the cutting of uncommon or sensitive materials that require constant visual quality inspections. Our Traveling Head Presses can accept roll materials up to 72″ wide, but can be custom ordered to accept larger rolls if necessary. The cutting heads are 25.5 x 25.5″ on our stock models, however we have also built custom head sizes up to 40″ x 40″. Tonnages are available between 25 & 50 tons. Higher tonnages can be achieved with some more major custom alterations to the system.  

The Manual Traveling Head Press requires the operator to manually place their material and die, manually move the head into place above the die, manually push the operation buttons to initiate a cut, manually move the head away, and manually retrieve the cut material. This model may be upgraded with a pinch roller, however, this pinch roller only advances by operator approximation through the use of a foot pedal, with no input for controlling the advancement distance to any particular metric.

 The machine is equipped with a two hand tie-down safety feature, requiring the actuation of two buttons simultaneously to ensure their hands are out of the way of the pinch point areas. This two hand tie-down feature is similar to that of the Swing Arm Clicker Press. The Traveling Head Press comes with four different levels of automation including manual, sheet feed, pinch roller feed, and conveyor feed styles.