Rolling Sheet Metal Into Cone

It allows you to determine either the size of raw material needed or the number of gore sections to fit on your available material.

Rolling sheet metal into cone.

The burned out shaped is formed into cones primarily by either rolling the plate in a plate roll or forming the plate with radius dies in a press brake. Cone bending on revolution machine tools r smart 6 709 plate roll presented by atakan nerminer for more info. As you do this you will see the circle begin to contract into a cone. Net weight whole cone lbs.

Video showing the processes involved in producing a steel cone. Net weight per piece lbs. Some companies step brake lines into the metal but this usually leaves kinks at each place the plate is hit. Below is a picture of a cone that is being used as a tub.

The cone was made in two halves. Place the tip of your marker. How to roll a metal cone step 1. Cut a length of string with a loop at one end and the other end held at the pivot mark.

Draw a line onto your sheet metal the same length as you want the slanted edge of your cone to be. Steel plate is formed into cones primarily by either rolling the plate in a plate roll or forming the plate with radius dies in a press brake. Sheet metal cone calculator. Overlap one cut side onto the other.

Beginning at the cut push the pieces of sheet over each other. View the cone instructions below to learn how to manually layout the flat pattern for a truncated cone in single or multiple gore sections. The string should be. The major diameter is 87 5 inches and the minor diameter 55 inches.

Depending on how deep you want the cone stop where needed.