Shaper machine

Metal-cutting, shaper machine in which the workpiece is generally held in a vise or similar gadget that is clamped to a table and can be manually operated or energy-driven at right angles to the path of a childlike cutting tool with just one cutting edge held on the end of the reciprocating ram. A moving table feeds the workpiece in little, discrete increments at the end of each stroke of the instrument, and a scalloped but essentially flat surface is produced on the workpiece. The adjustable mounting of the tool allows the cutting of grooves and the age of surfaces at almost any angle to one another.

During the forward stroke, the ram is gripping the tool is reciprocating over the workpiece to cut into the needed shape. During the return stroke. Not metal cutting. In the shaper tool, the rotary motion of the drive is changed into reciprocating motion of ram gripping the tool.

So, in order to decrease the full machine time, it permits the ram gripping the tool should move shower during forwarding cutting stroke and it comes quicker in return stroke. This can be got by a mechanism known as a fast return mechanism.

Shaper machine process

The shaper process can be defined as a procedure for removing metal from the surface in vertical, horizontal, and angular plans by the use of a single point cutting tool held in a ram that reciprocates the instrument in a linear way across the workpiece held on the table of the machine. The work is fed at correct angles to the way of the ram in little increments, at the close of the return stroke.

Parts of shaper machine

The following are the big parts of shaper machine:

Cross-rail
Column
Base
Ram table
Ram