The flexible metal profiles can be carried out by different bending installations. One of the best ways for this purpose is a profilegile machine or simply a profilegility. It is only worth such equipment is quite expensive, so it is not available to anything. However, the simplified version of the machine can be made independently, while focusing on your needs. How to make profilegib will be further.

Profiegil characteristics

To begin with, consider the classification of profilegies, their design, as well as the principle of operation.

Today, such tools are widely used for the manufacture of various pipes from metal profiles. Profile focus machines are capable of bending both part and the whole profile. Some models allow you to bend blanks even 360 degrees. And for this can be used any material. In order to bend the metal under the desired angle, self-made profiles also use.

For the implementation of bending does not require preheating of the part. The tool works by cold rolled products. With the help of a profile, you can get parts of various shapes. They can be both symmetrical and asymmetric, with one or several bends.

Such machines are able to make a bend in just one rental. Profiles can be processed both in the vertical and horizontal plane. Profilegib allows you to do from metal blanks and profiles of circle, zigzags, spirals. In addition, with the help of them you can do both closed and opening profiles. They are also capable of making parts with a smooth transition.

To date, these machines are widely used in various fields of industry, including during the construction, repair of buildings and cars, as well as in the manufacture of furniture.

The flexion process on challegises consists of two main movements:

1. Rolling the workpiece between the rollers.
2. Simultaneous tolerance of the upper (or side) roller.

Profilegibov design

Bending machines are a device equipped with a mechanical, hydraulic or electrical drive. They usually have small dimensions and mass. You can create details of various configurations by using special nozzles.

The design distinguishes several types of roller profile systems:

1. Machine with upper rolling roller. They are considered the most simple. Indeed, in this case, only the top roller comes in motion. In the settings of the manual type roller moves due to the gearbox. In hydraulic machines - with a hydraulic system. The fact that videos are located on top, allows you to calculate the possible radius for bending products. In this case, the gradient and error in the deformation of the profile are small.
2. Installations with left moving roller. These machines are convenient if you need to twist the spiral. The difference of this design from the previous one is consisting only in the mechanics of the drive of the roller. Some models are equipped with software control, which allows you to control the gradient of bending, as well as bending the item according to individual drawings. There are models, with pre-installed flexible functions.
3. Machine with movable lower (side) rollers. These devices are used to work with large profiles. This is achieved due to the fact that the effort during bending is distributed on both lower shafts. These types of machines are equipped with a hydraulic drive. In this case, each shaft has its own position controller. In this case, the rollers are moving along the segment of the circle, which is why this design has become the most common.
4. Installation with all moving rollers. These machines have the most complex design. They combine all the main advantages of the profilegibes mentioned above. They can perform work that can only be done on the other machines separately. Thus, this design can be called universal.

Principle of operation Profiegiba

Profilegib differs from other pipe bending machines by the fact that the deformation of the metal occurs due to the rental, and not by the help of bending.

Operating procedure:

1. This tool is quite rigidly installed. After that, through the hole in the frame, the material (profile) is fixed using anchor bolts.
2. Before starting work, it is necessary to check whether the mechanical and electrical connections are grounded correctly.
3. Before the first starting rollers, the machine must be cleaned of lubrication. This can be done with a simple dry cloth. In addition, it is necessary to check that the network voltage corresponds to the characteristics of the tool.
4. Then the running of the machine at idle during the half an hour. If during this time problems were detected, then work should be stopped and be sure to eliminate all the faults found.
5. If the machine is working, then you need to clean all the parts from the oil.
6. Then it should be checked the hardness of the material (over the entire length of the header should be the same).
7. After that, the rollers need to be adjusted to the processing of the bend item. This is done as follows:

• first, the nut fastening nuts and support rollers are unscrewed. This can be done using the key;
• then the rollers are installed on the shafts with the key;
• they are fixed using nuts;
• next, the clamping roller is raised to the upper position. This is performed using a handle.

When the rollers are configured, the blank is clamped between the shafts. After that, it rolled between them under high pressure, which leads to the profile bending. To set the radius of curvature, you need to raise and lower the top shaft. If the manual profilegility, the mechanism is driven by the lever rotated by the operator. The electrical option works due to the installed motor.

Classification of profilegibov

There are several types of such machines. Each of them has its own characteristic features. Distinguish the following types of installations:

1. Electrical profiles.
2. Hydraulic.
3. Manual.

Manufacturing of profiles manual with their own hands

Profile drawing:

The homemade profilegib should be used only if it is needed for simple flexion of the pipe. For more voluminous work, professional machines need to be purchased.

So, if you decide to make this tool, then, first of all, you need to know that its design is selected depending on the diameter of the pipe. So, if it has a diameter of less than 20 millimeters, it can be bent using a concrete slab with holes. Flexing in this case is as follows:

1. Steel pins are inserted into the stove.
2. Pipe place between pins and exit to the desired angle.

If the pipe diameter is more than 25 millimeters, then the tool is needed a more complex design.

Procedure for work:

1. For the manufacture of a profiler, you need to attach the rollers first to base. They must have a round cross section of the side face. It is important that the diameter of the section is the same as the pipe for bending.
2. The pipe is inserted between the rollers, after which one of its ends is fixed.
3. The free end of the material must be attached to the winch.
4. Then the winch mechanism is activated.
5. The winch stops when the pipe reaches the required bend.

Another option of the homemade machine:

1. This will require cement mortar. It is mixed at the calculation that four parts of the sand will be needed on one part of the cement.
2. Then the thick cuts of the pipes with a diameter of 80-90 millimeters will need to be inserted into the platform covered with rubble, at a distance of about 40-50 millimeters from each other.
3. Then the playground is filled with cement. It is important that at the same time the pipes remain strictly vertical.
4. You need to wait until the site is dry (it is usually required to 2 days).
5. So that cracks and deformation do not appear, before heating the pipe should be fascinated by quartz river sand. Before that, one of her end is stuck in a plug.
6. Then sand in a small amount falls asleep in trimming pipes. After that it is heated to dark cherry blossom.
7. When the material cools, you can fade the rest of the pipe.
8. If the pipe has a length of no more than 1.5-2 meters, then it is possible to fill it in manually by small portions. In order to do not form emptiness, it is necessary after each portion to overtake the outer side with the hammer. The main thing is that the sand is not a little reaching the top edge of the pipe. This place will be needed for traffic jam.
9. There must be several holes in the scored cork. They are needed so that the formed gases can come out of the pipe.
10. Then you need to take chalk and apply a label in the place of the greatest bend. Its radius should be no more than 3-4 diameters of the pipe.
11. If it is necessary to bend the pipe at an angle of 45 degrees, the heating interval is taken equal to 3 of its diameters.
12. If you need to bend the material at an angle of 60 degrees, then it is allowed to take an interval of the warming up 4 diameters.
13. If the pipe must be bent at right angles, the warm-up site should be approximately 6 of its diameters.
14. When the pipe is completely warmed, the whole scale will fly away from her. At this point, you need to stop further heating.
15. If sparks appear, this is a sign that heating was too long.
16. It is important that the pipe is bent for one heating. Otherwise, the structure of the metal may worsen. During operation, it is necessary to comply with all safety rules.
17. When the pipe took the desired form, then the plug out of it is drawn up, and the quartz sand is poured.