Rolling Sheet Metal Into Cone

It a job that requires a little skill and a lot of patience.

Rolling sheet metal into cone.

Net weight whole cone lbs. Cone bending on revolution machine tools r smart 6 709 plate roll presented by atakan nerminer for more info. The string should be. View the cone instructions below to learn how to manually layout the flat pattern for a truncated cone in single or multiple gore sections.

Place the tip of your marker. Beginning at the cut push the pieces of sheet over each other. The cone was made in two halves. Cut a length of string with a loop at one end and the other end held at the pivot mark.

How to roll a metal cone step 1. As you do this you will see the circle begin to contract into a cone. Video showing the processes involved in producing a steel cone. Net weight per piece lbs.

The major diameter is 87 5 inches and the minor diameter 55 inches. Draw a line onto your sheet metal the same length as you want the slanted edge of your cone to be. Some companies step brake lines into the metal but this usually leaves kinks at each place the plate is hit. Below is a picture of a cone that is being used as a tub.

To demonstrate the correct method of setting up pinch rolls. Cones can be produced from a single piece of steel or in segments. Depending on how deep you want the cone stop where needed. The burned out shaped is formed into cones primarily by either rolling the plate in a plate roll or forming the plate with radius dies in a press brake.

It allows you to determine either the size of raw material needed or the number of gore sections to fit on your available material.