Linear shaper

Linear sharper machines serve the manufacturing of longitudinally, curved parts, especially of solid wood. Typical area of application is the manufacturing of boards for the restriction of balconies as well as chair, table and bed constructs. They are suitable for the serial production, batch size 1 production in unrentable.

Construction

Longitudinal milling machines consist of three essential components.

Machine stand It's the central machine component and should be especially executed during the solid wood processing.
Copying slide This mostly hydraulically-driven slide serves the intake of exemplary workpieces as well as raw workpieces. It passes the workpieces along the processing units. Its size restricts the workpiece length. Constructed on the slide, there's the clamping bridge which presses the workpieces through vertical, pneumatic clamps onto the slide.
Machining units The machining units in the shape of vertical spindles are installed left and right from the machine stand. They serve the intake of milling and sanding tools and can be delivered pneumatically. On the bottom of the spindle there's the thrust ring which scans the contour of the exemplary workpiece. The length of the spindle determins the maximum amount and force of the workpieces, which are being processed in one workflow. Longitudinal profile milling machines are often equipped with a laterally-constructed magazine for the raw workpieces.

Workflow

The exemplary workpiece will be clamped on the copying slide. Manually or via the magazine the slide is being equipped with raw parts. The copying slide gets the parts closer to the machining area. Through the on-pressure of the pneumatically impinged working unit the thrust rings scan the contour of the exemplary workpiece one by one. Thus the milling and sanding tools transmit the contours of the exemplary workpiece onto the raw pars. After the complete throughput of the machining area the units go back to parking position. The slides move back to the starting position, the produced parts can be taken off.

CNC-control

The movement of the units does not take place via the scanning of an exemplary workpiece but according to the deposited program.

All machine functions are computer-controlled.

Images

UINZE 2+2T
PADE, 2012

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