The edgebanding machine is an important process when manufacturing furniture and interior construction elements of woodwork materials. If panels coated with foil or veneer are used as starting material, after the cutting and drilling the coating of workpiece narrow edges takes place. For this worksteps are required as described as follows.

Working steps with edge gluing one

Successively exectued work steps can also be executed in a clamp through a CNC-machining centre which is equipped with the appropriate units.

Preparing smal surfaces of the workpiece

• The cutting of the workpiece on the panel saw or panel sizing saw with prescorer results mostly in a clean, glueable smal narrow edge.
• The cutting on vertical panel saws, the intermediate storage of humidity, the internal transport and the fluctuation of humidity often lead to skips and cracks in the top layer at the rim of the workpiece. This incorrect rim have to be removed:
• Manual surface milling machine
• Edge planing
• in the edgebanding machine integrated jointing milling unit

Gluing of the edge material

There are different possibilities to coat a smal surface with edgematerial:

• Pre-coated edge material by the roller heat up and press on with an iron
• Pre-fabricated solid wood bars in an edge press glue with the workpiece
• Manual edge gluing unit
• Semi-automatic edgematerial machine for pre-coated edges and form part-edge gluing machine
• Fully-automatic edge gluing machine

Removing the front and back edge protrusions

Edge material from the roller or in stripes are always put on with a certain protrusion and has to be removed after affixing as follows:

• Manual cutting scissor, z.B. VIRUTEX RC21E
• Semi-automatic edge cutting saw, most in connection with semi-automatic edge milling machine
• Fully-automatic edge gluing machine – cutting unit, edge rounding unit (thin edges)

Removal of the top and bottom edge protrusions

Edgematerial from the rollers or in stripes always has to be taller than the workpiece's thickness. This facilitates extra flush levelling the edges with the successively-listed machines over the entire process:

• Manual surface milling machine
• semi-automatic edge milling machine
• fully-automatic edge banding machine – chamfer-, radius- and flush milling unit

Rounding edges

In the workpiece edges where the edges meet, sharp-edging overlapping are created. These can be rounded with the successively-listed machines:

• Edge rounding machine
• Fully-automatic edge banding machine - edge rounding machine

Cleaning and polishing of plast material edges

From the joint between workpiece and edge adhesive sometimes leaks. With the following gadgeds and machins, this adhesive can be removed:

• Manual scraper
• Fully-automatic edgebanding machine – flat scraping unit

Chatter marks on the plastic edge, which are created by the blades of the edge milling units can be therefore removed.

• Manual scraper
• fully-automatic edgebanding machine – profile scraper

The removal of edges with the scraper especially leads to pearlescence which is unwanted. The following possibility for removing pearlescence are:

• Hot air, also available as unit for automatic edgebanding machine
• Polishing by hand
• Buffing unit on automatic edgebanding machines
• IMA ball indentation on automatic edgebanding machines

Cleaning and sanding of veener and solid wood edges

In preparation of the successive coating, real wood veneers can be sanded with this possibility:

• Edgebandingmachine
• Profile sanding unit
• Edge sanding unit on automatic edgebanding machine

Rear wall groove milling in

If the gluing process of the edges takes place on edgebanding machine, it's better to execute the grooves for the rear of the cabinet with the help of universal milling units.

Maschines

In the commercial production one and double sided edgebanding machines have proved themselves over decades for gluing edges on straight workpieces. Through workpiece return units and robots and the alignment of machine in edge processing lines respectively the workpiece handling can be automatised. Workpieces with bow-shaped edges are being affixed often small handicraft businesses with semi-automatic form part edge gluing machine. In big businesses though CNC-machining centres are more deployed. If the workpieces have profiled edges, they can be coated with the help of Soft- and postforming maschines. If the edges can be glued on construction site, it’s done best with manual edge gluing units.

Edge gluing industrial

In the furniture industry the second decade in the third millennium has been cointed by the lot size 1 production. For this reason edgebanding machines which are rather Suite as throughput machines for great serial productions have sky-rocketed in their development. NC-controlled} adjusting mechanisms and multiple rolling magazine fit the machine to the next, different workpiece in seconds. PC-control and barcode scanning units facilitate the involvement in the respective business machining system.