Four-Sided Planers are a type of planer product in the woodworking machine category. They are mainly used to process wooden products such as wood squares, wooden boards, decorative wood lines, wooden floors, etc., and to plan the top, bottom and sides of the wood. According to industry practices, they are divided into four-axis four-sided planers, five-axis four-sided planers, six-axis four-sided planers… multi-axis four-sided planers, with up to ten axes.
Four-sided planers are generally suitable for large and medium-sized furniture factories. On the one hand, their purchase cost is high, and on the other hand, tool adjustment is troublesome. Therefore, they are suitable for large-scale production or fixed process station production in large and medium-sized enterprises. Small enterprises often use double-sided planers to process two main surfaces, and vertical planers or other planers to process two side surfaces to save costs and shorten tool adjustment time. Four-sided planers have strong production capacity. For example, a medium-sized six-axis four-sided planer can process two squares of multiple materials in one hour, and its efficiency is relatively recognized in the industry.
Advantages of four-sided planing processing technology
1. Improve processing capacity and production efficiency
The four-sided planing is a typical process-concentrated multi-tool joint machine tool, which concentrates the processing that can only be completed by multiple machine tools such as flat planing, pressure planing, and lower axis vertical milling machine in traditional processes. It greatly improves processing capacity and production efficiency by shortening auxiliary work time. In addition, the number of traditional machine tools is reduced, the number of operators is saved, and the floor space of the workshop is reduced.
2. Improve the yield rate of wood
The four-sided planing is a one-pass processing. The workpiece can be processed to the required size, cross-sectional shape and surface finish in one pass, avoiding the need to reserve a certain amount of cutting each time when multiple machine tools are repeatedly processed to ensure the elimination of multiple losses caused by the indentation generated by the feed mechanism.
3. Improve product quality and processing accuracy
The four-sided planing process completes multiple processes at one time, reducing the cumulative accuracy error caused by multiple clamping of traditional machine tools. Since the four-sided planing adopts mechanical continuous forced pressing feed, there is little vibration and displacement during the workpiece cutting process. The feed speed can be frequency-converted or steplessly regulated according to the material of the processed wood and the amount of cutting, which reduces the quality defects caused by excessive cutting to a certain extent and improves the quality and processing accuracy of the product.
4. Expand the process range and increase the product variety
The processing of the four-sided planer improves the required flatness and surface finish of the workpiece, providing the necessary conditions for subsequent processes to ensure processing accuracy. In addition to plane processing, the four-sided planer can also perform shaping processing such as mortising, grooving, straight lines, profiles, and multi-piece sawing, which is impossible for traditional planing and pressure planing. Without increasing the number of machine tools, the enterprise can increase the variety of products, reduce the purchase investment of machine tools, and reduce the area of the workshop, which relatively reduces the cost of products to a certain extent and improves the production efficiency of the enterprise.
Safety Operation Guide of Four-Sided Planer
1. Preparation before operation
- Familiar with the equipment: The operator must be familiar with the performance, use and operating precautions of the four-sided planer before operation. Novices are strictly prohibited from operating the machine alone.
- Dress requirements: Operators should wear appropriate work clothes, and should not wear gloves or have long hair. Non-operators should not approach the working machine.
2. Start-up inspection
- Safety inspection: Before starting the machine, check whether the safety cover is reliably positioned, and check whether there are tools or foreign objects in various parts.
- Warm-up: The machine needs to be warmed up for 10 minutes before using it, and the dust collection system should be started during cutting to prevent wood chips from clogging.
3. Operation process
- Feeding note: Do not put your hands into the machine to push the wood when feeding, and your hands should leave immediately after the material enters the machine.
- Handling stuck materials: When encountering wood stuck in the tool, you must stop the machine first, and then adjust and remove it.
4. Tool maintenance
- Tool inspection: When maintaining the tool, do not use deformed or cracked tools; wear gloves when installing and removing the tool, and pay attention to the rotation direction of the tool shaft to ensure that the tool shaft ring is tightly combined.
- Speed control: When using a movable tool holder, make sure that the blade fixing screw is tightened to prevent the blade from flying out during cutting; the speed of the tool must not exceed the maximum speed when it is running.
5. Maintenance and cleaning
- Safety devices: After repair or maintenance, be sure to restore all safety devices or protective covers to their original positions to ensure that the machine can be started safely.
- Off-duty requirements: When the operator leaves the post for some reason, he must turn off the machine first and avoid talking to others during operation.
- Abnormal handling: When the machine is operating abnormally, it should be stopped immediately and handed over to a professional for maintenance. Make sure the power is disconnected during maintenance.
- Cleaning work: Before leaving get off work, the wood chips around the machine must be cleaned to ensure that there is no wood chips accumulated on the motor, and the daily maintenance of the equipment should be done well.
