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Steel beams are usually fabricated to fit up to another beam. In
order for the beams to fit perfectly, coping and slotting are
required.
Coping or notching of beams is required to
ensure that beams and columns fit without conflict
(interference). It is often necessary to remove material from a
flange or web in order for the intersecting steel pieces to fit.
Manual Beam Coping
This necessitates laying out and removing the
coped section. In smaller shop this is done manually. A layout
man reads the detailed drawings and then transfers the
dimensions of the cope to the steel, and uses a tape measure,
framing square and chalk to draw the cope.
The using an oxy-fuel gas torch, an operator
will manually cut out the cope.
Often this rough cut requires grinding in order
to improve the appearance and finish of the cut.
CNC Beam Coping
The Ocean Liberator Beam Coper is a single torch CNC beam coping machine
that removes the need for
manually laying out your copes, and ensures that copes are done
neatly and accurately, direct from your CNC detail drawings.
 The Liberator performs copes significantly
faster than copes done manually.
Very little grinding is required one the cope is
done, further reducing non-value added labor costs.
The
Ocean Liberator CNC Beam Coping Machine is capable of processing
almost any structural steel profile including beams, channel,
tube, angle, and plate.
The
Ocean Liberator beam coping machine has 5 axes of movement.
It
simulates the human hand holding a cutting torch and WILL do
everything a human hand can do with the torch on beams,
channels, plates, angles, tubes, and almost anything you can put
in the machine.
At
cutting time, the torch will light automatically. The operator
then determines the preheat time at each start point. The beam
coping machine will bevel the flanges and the web automatically
at any degree between +/- 45 degrees. |
