Innovations

The automatic sheet metal flipping unit ensures a high reduction in sheet metal parts handling and a leaner folding process. After the flipping process, the sheets are placed exactly at the gripper units for the next fold.

Customers also benefit from a simplified manufacturing processes, higher safety for operators, lower personnel deployment and reduced manufacturing costs.

In combination with the lateral sheet metal feeder, customers get an almost fully automatic solution for sheet metal profile production. The machine operators only loads the lateral sheet metal feed and then remove the finished profiles from the machine.

Thanks to the extendable handling table, both very long and multiple sheets can be loaded, bent and removed simultaneously by just one operator. Sheet metal parts handling is simplified and the entire manufacturing process is accelerated.

The direct fixed cost reductions compared to traditional folders are often well over 50%, especially in combination with the integrated sheet loading and flipping device. In combination with stoppers and grippers the positioning of sheets is fully automated, this greatly enhances reproducibility and accuracy of folded parts sheet after sheet. In addition, the bending process becomes safer for the operator.

The curved clamping beam tool provides customers more freedom and variety in sheet metal profile production. With the additional folding clearance, profiles with an aspect ratio of e.g. 1:2 (height to depth) can be easily produced.

Architects, industrial designers and façade designers are continuously looking for new profile geometries. With the addition of a cropped bending beam on a Thalmann folder a wider range of dimensions of bended sheet metal parts can be produced. With this feature Thalmann customers are able to expand their product portfolio and business for folded sheet metal parts.

The kinetic control shaft technology offers sheet metal processors the highest folding precision and a high level of reproducibility of the manufactured sheet metal profiles. This unique technology is unmatched and at the heart of all Thalmann long folding machines.

The synchronized distribution of force to the machine can be compared to the synchronised mechanical control used in aircrafts.

Possible angular deviations in the middle of the sheet metal (banana effect) are compensated for by dynamic crowning. With dynamic crowning uniform angles are achieved over the entire profile length.

The simultaneous movement of several machine axes enables faster folding processes without loss of precision. DFT creates the conditions for high productivity, increased capacities and a smooth folding process.

The technology of simultaneous movements ensures a minimum of stop times in a bending cycle.

An evenly distributed and very high clamping force development is provided by the vertical force drive (VFD) exclusive to Thalmann machines. The mechanical zero-point lock securely clamps the sheets and presses the folds evenly.

The unique design of the rigid C-frames combined with the vertically positioned clamping beam is the basis for this unique technology not found in any other design of folders around the world. All the force is evenly distributed over the full length of the sheet being bent.

Thalmann’s Vertical Force Drive (VFD) ensures that all forces are vertically applied to the sheet metal that is being bent. This design principle of Thalmann machines guarantees that the forces applied for the bending process are efficiently used without significant losses.

Unlike other technologies in the market the vertical force is applied directly at the zone where the actual bend is being formed.