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801-550-5183
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Steve Devereaux
Chris Deal
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How many shapers does it take to cope in your shop?
Without a Copenshape: Multiple shapers for multiple profiles
With a Copenshape: One Coping machine, one shaper machine for multiple profiles.
Who should consider using a Pillarick Copenshape?
Safety
The Pillarick Copenshape Automatic Shaper has hands-free operation, eliminating any risk of accidental material insertion by hand.
Just Doors
For small shops that just does doors and resells to local cabinet makers, watch your productivity increase with fewer machines and smaller crew to run them.
Improve Quality
You’ll make higher-quality parts, enhancing your reputation, minimizing returns, and instilling confidence that you produce an exceptional product.
Shop Floor Space
If your shop has 2-4 profiles, you’re stacking tooling on multiple shapers, and you have no moulder – you can reduce those 6 machines down to 2 with our Copenshape Door Cell.
Efficiency
Automated processing reduces the need for manual labor, thereby reducing your workforce.
Choose from any one of these stock profiles:
We’ll send a drawing:
Don’t have a stock profile? NO PROBLEM!!
Send a profile list to your sales manager and we’ll work up a drawing to assure manufacturing feasibility.
PILLARICK COPENSHAPE IN ACTION
Pillarick Copenshape Coping Machine
This machine is designed for chip free coping or tenoning of either square or profiled parts without the need for a back-up piece or chip breaker.
Pillarick Copenshape coping machine is designed to create end coping/tenoning for rail ends, as well as finger jointing or end matching – all in one machine.
Pillarick Copenshape Automatic Shaper
A versatile shaper, with its fast and easy changeover, makes it ideal for the shop with a large inventory of profiles. It’s conveyor fed, making the automatic shaper ideal for shaping small parts which could not be fed with a conventional power feeder.
Horizontal and vertical shaper adjustments with digital position indicators and the 5 position fence make profile changeovers extremely quick and simple.
All Pillar Machine Machines are built 100% at our Salt Lake City, Utah and Fort Collins, Colorado Factories.
The benefits of purchasing an American made machine extend far beyond simply supporting the “local” economy.
We outshine our competition with these distinctive advantages:
- Parts are all sourced from Vendors in North America
This increases parts availability, superior quality, and assures honest pricing. - Real Factory Support
When technical assistance is required you can often talk directly to the people that built, wired,
and tested your machine.
Pricing
Options for the Coping Machine
An additional rear guarding option adds to the machine with hinged access doors. The doors are made of tube steel and expanded metal.
Notes:
1. This option is a welded feature installed during manufacturing.
2. Selecting this option may increase your machines lead time.
3. This option does not include an electronic interlock.
4. When this option is used, it increases the depth of the machine to 40″.
Keyed Electronic Interlock option gives instant switch access to the rear guarding hinged access doors and acts as an “Emergency Stop”.
Notes:
1. Photo may not represent the exact switch to be used on the machine.
2. Selecting this option may increase your machines lead time.
A foot pedal control option will convert the machine from a palm button start switch to a foot pedal start switch.
Notes:
1. Selecting this option may increase your machines lead time.
2. Photo may not represent the exact foot pedal to be used in this option.
For additional cost, we will setup one profile of your tooling in Salt Lake City before the machine ships to you. If you would like Pillar Machine to setup more sets of tools, you will need to select this option and tell us how many setups you would like.
Notes:
1.If Pillar is setting up you’re tooling you will need to provide Pillar with the HSK arbors and shims needed to perform this setup for each tool (including the first profile that is included) that is needing to be setup
2. Selecting this option may increase the lead time of your machine.
Options for the Automatic Sander
This cutter will reduce the need to use a backer block or the requirement for putting back to back parts in the machine as to reduce tearout on the tailing edge of the part being processed.
This tool is made of high-grade diamond and is custom made for your profile shape.
This option will replace your 7.5 HP Shaper motor with a 10HP Shaper motor.
The outboard fence allows you to size stiles and rails to the correct width. When using this outboard fence, the shaper references to the outboard fence instead of the normally used back fence.
460 volt three phase option is cost is per motor.
460 volt three phase option is cost is per motor.
575 volt three phase option is cost is per motor.
This option replaces the standard belt drive spindle with a 11HP HSK-63F Quick Change Spindle, allowing your operator to change the profile tool on the Shaper machine very quickly. Includes a push button control for releasing the tool from the spindle.
Notes:
1. This spindle replaces the manually change cutting spindle that is standard on the Shaper machine.
2. Selecting this spindle may add lead time to your machine.
3. Selecting this option removes the Shaper machine’s ability to accept stacked tooling.
4. The picture may not represent the exact spindle configuration provided for this option.
5. HSK-63F arbor not included. See options section.
FEEDTHROUGH CENTERING JIG
Centering jig allows arching capability on the Automatic Shaper. Templates for arched rails or panels are installed in the centering jig which is placed on top of the parts, then fed through the machine. The machine’s hold down pressure secures the jig and rails or panels to the conveyor. The spindle moves back and forward with its position controlled by a bearing on the spindle which follows the template as they move through the machine, pushing the spindle back and allowing it to move forward.
The jig’s thickness is one inch above the part which includes a ¾” thick template. Side guides move to center the part under the jig with a knob. For rails, fixtures are installed/removed with 2 screws each. These fixtures control the finished width of the arched rail.
Three template styles are available: Traditional Arched Panels with a 1.5 inch arch height, Eyebrow Arches with a maximum arch height of 1.2 inches, and a Flat Top Arch with a 1.5 inch arch height. Each template set includes 24 templates, 12 each for rails and panels.
To use the jig to create an arched rail, the ‘stop’ fixtures and the desired template are installed in the jig. A rail is laid on the machine’s top, and the jig placed on top of the rail. Turning the knob on the jig moves the side guides in to center the part. The jig is then pushed against the shaper’s fence which forces the rail against stops in the jig. While maintaining contact with the fence and pressure on the knob to keep the part centered, the assembly is fed into the machine. After half of the jig is under the hold down wheels, the operator may release the knob and is now ‘hands off’ until the machining is complete. The operator can then place another rail on the infeed table, pick up the jig as it exits the hold down section, drop the part out of the jig, then place the jig over the next part and feed it through to be machined.
To machine an arched panel, the stop fixtures are removed, the appropriate panel template installed, and the feed process is similar to that of a rail. As the jig is placed on top of a panel, allow the panel to extend beyond the jig, then, using the centering knob, turn it to center the panel. Keeping centering pressure, place the panel against the fence and slide the jig over the panel until the template also contacts the fence, then feed the assembly into the machine, maintaining pressure with the centering knob until about half of the jig is under the hold down wheels before releasing the jig.
We recommend using a straight hogging cutter to create the arches on both panels and rails. For rails, on the Shaper, tooling is stacked. Normally, the hogging cutter is on the bottom with a rub bearing with the same diameter above it. A rail cutter is next with a bearing about 1/16 inch smaller than its minor diameter above. This method of first hogging out the rail, then profiling gives a better finish because the profile cutter is only removing 1/32″ of material and the profile so does not burn the part. The Shaper machine also has the capability to have its feed rate to be controlled by the shaper’s load, and to have different rotation directions in the raised (hogging) position and lowered (profiling) position. This allows hogging to be done using a climb cut (CW rotation) which does not split the rails because the wood is being compressed as it’s cut. Profiling can be done with either rotation. The Shaper will automatically change its rotation direction when the spindle is raised or lowered.
Warranty
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Effective within 60 days of the original delivery date.
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Pillar Service will supply, replace, or repair any defective part.
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Full warranty details available on our website:
https://pillarmachine.com/pillar-service/#warranty
Get Your $1000 Tooling Credit Today!*
Email us: sales@pillarmachine.com
*The Details:
FOR $1000 TOOLING CREDIT: Customer must order a minimum of $10,000.00 of tooling with the Pillarick Copenshape Cell purchase.
FOR $500 TOOLING CREDIT: No minimum tooling purchase with your Pillarick Copenshape Cell purchase.
If your profiles don’t match the stock profile list – no problem! We provide complimentary concept drawings to ensure tool integration is seamless.
Your sales manager will need to review your non-stock profile list to ensure they can be manufactured on the Pillarick Copenshape Cell. We create a drawing in 3-10 days (DXF files definitely help to move this along).
Assumptions:
We assume one profile = 3 cutter heads for the Pillarick Copenshape (2 carbide counter-rotating cutter heads for the Coping machine + 1 diamond cutter head for the Automatic Shaper machine). However, this is one example of a possible tool set-up. Assumptions change depending on how many profiles you use.