Fourslide & Multislide Stamping

A fourslide (also referred to as multislide) is a versatile machine that has the ability to run both flat coil stock to make stampings and wire of any type to make wireforms.

The fourslide fabrication process is not entirely familiar to a number of people within the manufacturing industry and that’s because of its specialized nature. It has the ability to make parts with complex shapes and bends that cannot be made compete in a progressive die.

A typical fourslide machine has two main working areas, the die section and the slide section. The first would be the slide area in which each slide is activated by separate cams that move, or “slide” the tool into the coil strip or wire to perform its specific function. Each slide will approach the strip or wire from four different positions, thereby giving it its name “fourslide”. Prior to the strip advancing to the slide section, there is a die section. Similar to a progressive die tool, the die will perform the “gutting” (removal of material that is not need to facilitate the part fabrication) and some bends if needed. Not all fourslides have a die section and that’s because it is not always needed. Especially in the fabrication of wire forms which can be made with precision tolerances and higher run rates. The principles from fabricating a wireform is the same as stampings, but the use of a die station may not always be necessary.

Rowley Spring and Stamping’s diversity in running both fourslide and progressive dies gives us the ability to determine which process will run faster and utilize the material better and provide a high quality part at an effective cost.