Steel plate 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.
Rolling sheet metal to form cone.
Plate and sheet metal rolling.
Cones can be produced from a single piece of steel or in segments.
This is thick steel plate that was cut to size and then rolled here at jorgenson metal rolling forming to make a custom cone in 2 pieces.
If you want any other idea.
Cut out your cone template from the sheet metal using your tin snips then file the edges smooth to avoid cutting yourself or someone else with the cone.
This is 1 4 thick steel plate.
It allows you to determine either the size of raw material needed or the number of gore sections to fit on your available material.
Cone bending on revolution machine tools r smart 6 709 plate roll presented by atakan nerminer for more info.
Sheet metal cone calculator.
Here is a prototype model of sheet metal cone rolling machine.
We can use up to 1 5 mm thick sheet on this prototype to make cone.
View the cone instructions below to learn how to manually layout the flat pattern for a truncated cone in single or multiple gore sections.
Steel plate rolling to make a cone.