Horizontal Bore, Dowel, and Panel Grooves

Description

The HP5D is designed to machine parts used in TFL (thermally fused laminate), TFM (thermally fused melamine), paper wrapped, vinyl wrapped or thermofoil doors.

The model HP5D is a horizontal point to point bore and dowel insertion and panel groove machining center. It is designed to CNC position a drill spindle, bore a hole, then CNC position the dowel inserter, inject glue or water (for pre-glued dowels), and insert the dowel into the hole. As well as cut a panel groove in the center section of the inside edge of the door stile and the entire inside edge of the door rail material.

HP5D Advantages:

• Quick, accurate assembly of TFL doors.
• Elimination of complicated machine setup.
• Perform multiple machining operations on one machine reducing the amount of time the part is being transferred.
• Gain production times on CNC routers and Point to Points by shifting boring, doweling and grooving to the HP5D.

Our dowel insertion machine is a customizable line of horizontal point to point machining centers designed for boring, gluing, doweling, and panel grooving.

Pillar’s bore and dowel machines are designed to CNC position the spindle, then CNC position the dowel inserter, inject glue or water (for pre-glued dowels), and insert the dowel into the hole, providing a cycle time of 10 seconds for each bore, glue and dowel insertion when the holes are spaced at 64 mm intervals. Add 15-30 seconds for grooves. Custom designs are available, as the HP5D can be outfitted with multiple horizontal and vertical spindles, horizontal dowel inserters, and hardware inserters.

Standard Operation

Place a part into the work zone referencing the back and side fences. The palm button is pressed, and the clamps secure the part into place. The machining is now ready to begin in the work zone. There are two fixed zones and two pop up zones standard in the base model HP5D allowing for pendulum processing. While the one part is being machined, the other zone(s) can be loaded and queued for machining.

A standard HP5D is equipped with a single horizontal drill and glue/dowel insertion unit that is set up for 8 mm diameter dowels. The HP5D has 4 work zones, standard, with the left and right fences removable for the processing of longer length panels.

In addition to machining Stiles and Rails this machine can be used as a standard dowel machine.