Lathes .. for Furniture and Railings

Used Locatelli MK-CC-E 120 Lathe

Lathes are machines to produce “turnings” generally used in the furniture or stair railing industries. Lathes can be totally manual or can be fully automated with CNC controls. The more simple lathes simply rotate the work piece while a single gouging knife following a shaped jig is transported along the length of the component shaping it to match the jig shape. More productive lathes operate on a rotating turret where the rotating components are first roughed and then finished at subsequent stations. This allows higher production without vibration. There are also high production lathes where the knives are rotating and shape slowly rotating components which move past them. More sophisticated lathes produce multi sided spindles as well as symmetrical round shapes. There are also carving lathes that produce non-symmetrical shaped components like “Queen Anne” or other furniture legs and components, axe handles, etc... Some more productive lathes produce multiple components at the same time. 

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Get Your Double-End Tenoners for Sale

Used Silver SFX-3825 Double-End Tenoner

Double end tenoners (DETs) are used for the squaring, sizing, edge profiling and edge sanding of panels. They are also used for dimensioning the length of sticks (solid lumber) generally used in the window, door and furniture industries. The material is generally transported through the machine on precision tracks, adjustable for width, past several working stations each side which can include a combination of saws (hogging heads) to cut to length,  shapers to edge shape, Tenon heads to tenon, dado heads to apply top or bottom surface grooving and either straight or profile sanders to finish panel components or the ends of sticks. The sanders can be either disk or belt units. There are also specialized DETs that process the ends of furniture components producing round or oblong hidden tenons. DETs are usually used by medium to large processing factories.

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The Necessity of Material Handling Equipment

Used Giben Fanuc Robot Material Handling

This category includes many different device types, all aimed at reducing the intensity of physical labour and/or reducing the required manpower to accomplish specific tasks. Devices in this category include idle and motorized floor conveyors, vacuum and mechanical material lifters, robots, return conveyors which convert many processing machines normally requiring 2 employees into single operator machines. There are also motorized scrap conveyors to automatically remove waste material, scissor lifts to keep material to be processed at a comfortable operating height for an operator and material transfers to automatically advance material from one processing machine to the next without the need for human intervention. There are panel turners to automatically flip individual panels or full bundles of panels and automated feeders to feed processing machines panels or solid wood components as well as laminating materials automatically.

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Rip, Rip Hooray for Rips Saws!

Used Cantek C12 MRL Rip Saw

Rip Saws are generally used for ripping solid lumber planks. They come in either single blade or multiple blade configurations. Some multiple blade machines have 1 or more movable blades to facilitate the cutting of variable widths. Some are controlled electronically. They are often used in a lumber defecting operation. Some single blade machines are called Straight Line Rip Saws, meaning that they are capable of cutting to tolerances acceptable for later lamination for solid wood furniture, etc... The more accurate machines have the timbers transported on a knurled feed chain to control the timber more precisely. Some, generally less precise, machines are roller fed. Rip saws are generally used in larger production furniture or moulding factories where wider planks are reduced in width for subsequent operations. 

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Panel Saws of a Vertical Kind

Used Holzher 1230 Vertical Panel Saw

Vertical Panel Saws, also known as Wall Saws, are primarily used in applications where space is at a premium. Panels are positioned almost vertically against an inclined frame that is generally positioned against a wall. The saw head traverses and rotates to allow execution of both rip and cross cuts with the same head. This makes the footprint required much smaller than for either a Sliding Table Panel Saw or a Beam Saw. They are generally purchased either as entry level machines by smaller shops, or for specific applications in larger shops. Vertical Panel Saws can be from basic machines with completely manual controls and adjustments to semi-automated machines with programmable controllers. Scoring is done either by means of leading scoring knives, or on more sophisticated machines, with an independent scoring blade. Electrics range from 120/1/60 to three phase.

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Toyota to bring new generation’s ‘E-shed’ at ITMA

Toyota Industries Corporation will participate in the International Exhibition of Textile Machinery “ITMA 2011”, which will be held at Fira de Barcelona Gran Via from Septe mber 22nd (Thu) to 29th (Thu). Toyota will demonstrate 5 air-jet weaving machines with the latest technology, and a brand new ring spinning frame at Hall 3, Booth D-112.

• Air-jet weaving machine “JAT710” 5 sets
• Ring spinning frame 1 set

Toyota’s bestseller air-jet loom “JAT710” has been holding the world’s No.1 share since itslaunch into the market. In addition to the proven reliability and performance of JA T710, Toyota original electronic shedding motion “E-shed” widens the potential of air-jet weaving machine to the utmost extent.

At the forthcoming ITMA 2011, Toyota will launch the new generation’s “E-shed” with greatly enhanced performance that provides JAT710 with further versatility. Furthermore, the newly developed functions bring out the extremely reduced vibration, energy consumption even at high-speed operation and weaving of broad range of applications in the practical weaving mill operations.

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