New ARTITECT AD200 Series | Long Folder

Description

The AD Double Folder Series takes your sheet metal shop one step closer to automation.
Its unique design makes the ARTITECT machine flexible and fast. Customizable for your particular application.

SYNCRONIZED CONTROL DRIVE SHAFT TECHNOLOGY
The AD series Double Folder utilizes 50mm drive shafts on both folding beams
and upper beam movement. There are a total of 6 drive shafts on the AD
series. The drive shaft ensures parallelism of the beams, which is great for
forming radius parts and longevity of the machine. Torsion drive shafts remove
the ‘twisting’ that can occur over time from hydraulic cylinders fighting each
other’s force. Drive shafts allow for faster speeds. All shafts rotate on closed
spherical bearings for smooth synchronized movement. No jerky movement of
any axis while forming.

ZERO-POINT LOCKING
The mechanism on the clamping beam is unique. Unlike systems of other
manufacturers, where clamping power is applied to the clamping beam tool by
means of hydraulic force, ARTITECT utilizes a toggle mechanism with
Zero-Point Locking that ensure the clamping beam tool firmly hold in place the
sheet metal. This also ensures no over clamping of the upper beam.

UNIQUE WORKSPACE
The combined features and geometry of the ARTITECT AD’s workspace
makes this machine even more unique and flexible. Each of the benefits
listed below are specifically design to benefit a flexible machine for different
applications.

DYNAMIC FOLDER
Dynamic Folding allows the moving of multiple machine axes at the same time.
With this, repositioning and stop times are reduced to a minimum. Thanks to the
simultaneous tool movements an extremely fluent and highly dynamic folding
process results. All in all features that will lead to a significant increase in
productivity and a substantial grow in capacity.

HARDENED LINKAGES
The AD Double Folder incorporates hardened linkages and pins on both the upper and lower
bending beam.

CROWNING
For more precise forming on various material types, adjustable crowning is standard.

CNC MATERIAL THICKNESS ADJUSTMENT
Separate drive shaft adjust for material thickness With the fully-automatic radius adjustment system, the clamping tools can be positioned precisely in accordance with the sheet thickness used, therefore achieving perfect folding radii. The material thickness can be defined in the controller. The adjustment value can also be adapted to suit the specific material, in order to enable the folding of larger radii. Adjustment is fully hydraulic. Also great for control of material during hemming process.

HYDRAULICS
The hydraulics have been developed and designed specifically for the AD series
by ARTITECT. Each axis is controlled by its own, safe servo proportional valve. An
additional pressure control valve per system guarantees the low-power pressure
less closed-circuit operation. At the same time the pressure for the respective axis
is set via the valve. As an additional safety feature, each axis is equipped with two
lock poppet valves. They ensure that the axes can be stopped immediately in the
event of a power failure or defective proportional valve. Each axis's thus
triple-secured.

BACKGAUGE AND MATERIAL GRIPPER SYSTEM
The backgauge gripper system has a range from 20mm - 1250mm at 250mm/
sec. We offer a gripper that can be custom designed to meet the customer’s
part requirements. The grippers come standard with clamping from both top
and bottom, to insure even clamping of sensitive material. The gripper system
is a modular type system, so change over is quick if more than one type of
gripper system is purchased. The pneumatic grippers use 6.0 bar of air.

SPRING FINGER
For big flanges or position less than
12mm.
-smallest gauge 5mm
-smallest Z shape gauge 10mm
-gauge range 5-1150mm

TAPERED BACKGAUGE UNIT
Fully automatic tapered gauge, you can produce offsets of left to right of
+/-127mm. Since integrated by the control, allows you to work without a fixed
tapered reference point. The software automatically calculates the best position

AUTOMATIC EXTENDABLE SHEET LOADING & SHEET SUPPORT
Allows the handling and processing of long sheets or several parts at the same time
with one operator. This doubles productivity and half labor cost. 710mm extension,
stainless steel top with multi-layer composite for full load capacity of machine. The
tables are servo driven, so fully programmable. The extension is either calculated
based on the sheet’s width or manually by the machine operator.

AUTOMATIC SIDE SHEET LOADING DEVICE
The integrated side sheet metal side loading device sets new standards. Sheet metal will be fed automatically, fast and flexible via a linear guide. The sheet metal feed-in device is capable to load a sheet the capacity of the machine. The table automatically drops down as sheets are loaded. Loader can
feed one single sheet or multiples in a sequence e.g. 2 x 3m on a 6.4m machine. The sheet metal drop position can be freely defined in the controllers setting.

AUTOMATIC PART FLIPPER
Machine flips part for double sided hem or grip other side of part. Range of part
125mm - 635mm without operator assist. Great than 635mm to 1219mm operator
does not have to flip, but does need to assist on keeping part on table after release
of suction cups.