The patented EasyFlipper from Teqram turns sheet-metal parts within seconds without the need to use a crane and slings, belts or clamps to turn heavy workpieces. This is a less dangerous alternative, the company said, and helps keep the part from being scratched during material handling.
Teqram's Hydraulic EasyFlipper 5 Tons is designed to turn steel plates up to 5000 kg/11000 lbs smoothly and efficiently, the company says.
The EasyFlipper plate turner is often used as a workstation for deslagging and sanding as well as a plate flipper for steel plates or sheet metal blanks. Its use as a universal turning device is particularly popular for applications where speed and safety are important.
In one application, the EasyFlipper, which is mobile and can be moved with a forklift, was initially deployed at the plasma cutting station, the press brake, and the deburring machine as it was needed.
Typical applications:
- Safe and fast turning of heavy sheet metal components
- Turning of flame-cut parts, turning of plasma parts
- Turning heavy components in front of a machining center for processing the opposite side
- Turning laser-cut sheets next to a folding machine
- For visual inspection of the top and bottom sides in QA
- Turning of sheet metal packages - e.g. tear plates
- Turning heavy blanks to fulfill packing instructions
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- machining center
machining center
CNC machine tool capable of drilling, reaming, tapping, milling and boring. Normally comes with an automatic toolchanger. See automatic toolchanger.
- turning
turning
Workpiece is held in a chuck, mounted on a face plate or secured between centers and rotated while a cutting tool, normally a single-point tool, is fed into it along its periphery or across its end or face. Takes the form of straight turning (cutting along the periphery of the workpiece); taper turning (creating a taper); step turning (turning different-size diameters on the same work); chamfering (beveling an edge or shoulder); facing (cutting on an end); turning threads (usually external but can be internal); roughing (high-volume metal removal); and finishing (final light cuts). Performed on lathes, turning centers, chucking machines, automatic screw machines and similar machines.
