On Thu, May 7, 2015, at 05:31 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > Hello! > > I built some pretty large gluing press for a customer. > Here are 2 pics of it during the build. > Here is the whole rotating platform (5m long, 1,6m wide): > http://picpaste.com/IMG_20150403_140923-6uIvoq8i.jpg > Here is some material loaded in it: > http://picpaste.com/IMG_20150324_185227-meOk5ilU.jpg > > It can glue together wood plates of size up to 5000x1200x60 mm (max > weight can reach 200+ kg, depending on particular wood used). The > thing is that those plates need to be sanded from both sides to get > smooth surface, but sanding machines process only one side (usually > top surface) so customer needs a device that would swap them over > between the operations. > Can anyone share some pics or suggestions on what would best practice > to do so? I believe that somebody somewhere already must have faced > this kind of issue. I am not sure that my current ideas about > cylindrical structure, which has an opening at one end to move the > plate in and out is the best solution for this task. > Any viable suggestions will be appreciated :) > > Viesturs >
How many plates do they process? Do they need to turn a plate over once a day or every five minutes? Totally different scale of investement for those two cases. Here is a suggestion if they don't need to do it very often: (Not sure if I can communicate this without a picture, but here goes) Since the maximum width of the plate to be turned is 1200mm, make four half-circular "pieces" of diameter 1300mm. Maybe welded up out of steel or aluminum. Make them wide enough that they won't fall over if you set them on edge - maybe 100mm. Put holes on the flat sides so that they can be bolted together in pairs to make complete circles. Lift the wooden plate on a forklift. Set one half-circle on the floor at each end, with the round side on the floor and the flat side under the plate. Lower the forklift just enough that the plate rests lightly on the two half-circles. Set two more half-circles on top of the plate, flat side down and round side up. Bolt the upper half-circles to the lower ones with bolts at the outer corners, so they clamp the wood plate between them. Now you have a wood plate with wheels on each end. Lower the forklift, roll the plate and wheels one-half revolution, put the forklift back under it, lift, and remove the half-circles. -- John Kasunich [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
