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The Mate Rollerball tool creates stiffening ribs and decorative beads in sheet metal parts without a secondary operation. The comprehensive kit also includes alternate configuration to produce offset forms and custom embosses.
Mate Rollerball is available in popular tool styles including: Ultraform for thick turret, thin turret, 112/114, and Trumpf.
How Does It Work?
The Mate Rollerball tool forms the sheet metal by pinching the material between the two, omni directional, ball bearings of the upper assembly, and the single ball bearing in the lower assembly. The shape of the form is the result of programs created in the punch press programming system.
Stiffening Rib Mode:
- Forms the sheet metal to create a rib that can be used to stiffen the sheet metal to reduce sheet flex. This is particularly helpful in large unsupported panels.
- Allows fabricator to reduce sheet metal thickness without compromising the strength and rigidity of the product
- Eliminates secondary brake press or welding operations.
- Ribs can also be used to create decorative elements in a product that would otherwise be cost prohibitive.
Offset Mode:
- Forms the sheet metal to create an offset form anywhere on the sheet.
- Offset forms can use used on the edge of the component to allow flush panel joints to be created.
- Offset forms can also be used to create embosses that exceed the normal forming capacity of the punch press.
- Using Rollerball to create embosses eliminates secondary operations, and reduced tooling costs as the same tool can be used for multiple applications.
Mate Rollerball is typically used in an auto-index station for maximum design flexibility. Mate Rollerball is suitable for machines with control mechanisms that allow the sheet to be moved in both the X-axis and Y-axis and allow the auto-index station to be rotated, while the ram is held down.
Mate Rollerball is another innovative product designed to expand the punch press user’s capabilities. Incorporating more elements into sheet metal components at the punch press, allows the fabricator to deliver greater added value, and become more competitive in today’s global marketplace.
Punching processes frequently cause burrs on sheet metal parts. They are unavoidable. Removing them requires secondary deburring operations that are either performed manually or use specialized equipment. Now Mate helps you eliminate these costly secondary operations with our new Rollerball Deburr™ tool!
The Mate Rollerball Deburr tool is designed for Thick Turret and Trumpf Style applications. This new tool takes advantage of Mate’s Rollerball™ technology by using the extended programming capabilities of punch presses that can operate in the x and y axis with the ram down.
Rollerball Deburr pushes the burr away and creates a radius on the side of the part. Using a special ball in both the upper and lower part of the tool, every possible part contour can be processed—even small corners. Mate Rollerball Deburr can be used with materials of any thickness in mild steel, stainless steel and aluminum. Sold as a set, Rollerball Deburr comes complete with everything you need.
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Three springs and a reversible spacer, that allow you to adjust the tension appropriate to the material being punched. |
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Three springs and a spacer, that allow you to adjust the tension appropriate to the material being punched. |
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This picture shows a side view of the sheet after the slitting operation. The lower side, you can see the burr clearly.
This enlarged side view clearly shows the principle of the deburring tool The balls are pressed against the punched part which pushes away the burr and creates a radius on the part.
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