Milling is used as a machining
technique to remove material from work-piece by effective feed rate in a
direction at an angle with axis tool and through rotary cutting attachment. The
Milling Machines are being used for
working with metals such as wood, metal and other hard objects. Most often,
this machine tool is attached with automated system and can be classified as horizontal
or vertical oriented. The prime aim for carving out materials to create
required pieces relies on its pre-existing designs. Such milling designs are
operated with Computer Aided Design system to generate objects. However, you
can also come across traditional or manual-automated milling devices. The dynamic
movements can also be incorporated with such machines along with its acceleration values. Certain
other items are also specific to perform machining with multi-axis configuration.
The availability of these options represent the machines vary in terms of
orientation, application use and working process, and thus are going to differ
in operating mechanism.
About its tooling, these items may
be equipped with different tool heads for meeting a variety of machining requirements.
The tool heads can incorporate rounding mills, cutters, ball end mills and fluted
mills. These multiples tools are typically used in this product to obtain the
wanted shape from material. Steel and wood with its dissimilar physical
properties use various tool bits for machining the elements. So it needs to be
aware of these attributes to avoid damage to work piece and machine. The main
difference between the two machines (Horizontal and Vertical) is that the table
of the universal machine can be set at an angle for the helical milling while
the table of a Plain Horizontal Milling Machine and other second not.
Cutter tooling:
A cutter is the basic tooling bit
of the milling mechanism of shape like a tool comprising of tough shaping saw
teeth. This cutter clearly rotates quickly to shape and cut down materials.
This cutter is now attached to arbor, which can also be defined as mandril or
mandrel. This is another shaped bar, designed to change in length, size and
ending. The main purpose of this mechanism is to hold cutter strongly in its
current position.
Some basic milling types and their
functionalities are:
- Knee type: It is versatile bed type machine tool characterized by its adjustable vertical resting cast.
- Plain horizontal and vertical: Generally in both the tools comprise of affixed swivel head assembly and the turret and positioned corresponding to the workspace.
- Universal type: This type is chiefly varies from the horizontal one as it is added with table swivel housing. It facilitates the table to move to the measure of 45 degree with respect to its standard position.
Besides the
mentioned 3 options, Swivel cutter and ram type are the other two options
available. So try to be sure of all these types first and then put investment on
the product, as per your production needs and it will prevent you from spending
money wastefully on a surplus item.