Scoring units are powered from 1 HP to 10 HP and can be utilized in combinations of top/bottom scoring arrangements. The saws are mounted on dovetail slide castings, which are affixed to a large cast iron column with dovetailed slides. Both vertical and horizontal adjustment are provided. Piggy back scoring and jump scoring options are provided.
Tenon saws are powered from 7.5 to 15 HP, 3600 RPM motors. Special motor arrangements, higher speeds, etc. are available. The standard saw arbors are 2" diameter x 5-3/8" long, with the end of arbor threaded for locking nuts. Other arbors are offered. The maximum diameter of the cutterhead is 10", to fit inside of a standard guard. The saws are mounted on dovetail slide castings, which are affixed to a large cast iron column with dovetailed slides. Both vertical and horizontal adjustment are provided..
Trim / Hogging saws are powered from 7.5 to 20 HP, 3600 RPM motors. Special motor arrangements, higher speeds, etc. are available. The standard saw arbors are 2" diameter x 5-3/8" long, with the end of arbor threaded for locking nuts. Other arbors are offered. The switch from trim to hogging is accomplished by changing saws and removing arbor spacers. The maximum diameter of the cutterhead is 12", to fit inside of a standard guard. The saws are mounted on dovetail slide castings, which are affixed to a large cast iron column with dovetailed slides. Both vertical and horizontal adjustment are provided. Enclosed worm and worm gears are used to provide 90 degree tilting.
High speed shaper heads and jump shaper heads are powered from 7.5 HP to 20 HP, 3600 RPM motors and are gearbelt driven to 5600 or 7200 RPM, as the customer specifies. Other arrangements such as high frequency motor drives are offered. The shape spindles are 1-1/4" diameter x 5" long, with the end spindle threaded for a locking nut. The maximum standard diameter of the cutterhead is 10", to clear the guard. Our shapers are mounted to cast iron columns by dovetails and have vertical and horizontal movements and enclosed gearboxes provide 90 degree tilting. Stacked tooling units are also available for shaping units.
High speed router heads and jump router heads are powered from 5 HP to 15 HP, 3600 RPM motors and are gearbelt driven to 5600 or 7200 RPM, as the customer specifies. Other arrangements such as high frequency motor drives are offered. The router spindles chuck up to 3/4" router shanks. The maximum standard diameter of the cutterhead is 2.5", to clear the guard. Our routers are mounted to cast iron columns by dovetails and have vertical and horizontal movements and enclosed gearboxes provide 90 degree tilting.
Parallel sanding units are available in multiple sizes from 103" to 220" long with single and dual sanding block arrangements and oscillating belts. The sanding units are adjustable in 3 axis.
Fletcher's Patented Roto-Belt profile sanding wheels provide a quick change profile sanding system with replaceable sanding belts. The quick change belts can be changed with out removing the Turbo-Sand head in a mater of seconds. Standard wheel sanders and Scotch Brite sand wheels can be provided with fixed speed or inverter driven options as well as auto-indexing.
DADO's are available, in both fixed and jump configurations. 10, 15 or 20 HP drives are available. Usually a 3600 RPM belt driven arbor (2-5/8" o.d.) is supplied. The arbor has a removable shaft. Multiple cutters can be mounted to the same arbor. A 7-1/2 HP high speed vertical jump router provides clean-up for end the of the jump dado machining. This ensures a cleaner finished product.
Fletcher utilizes a mono-block wall construction of 1" solid steel to ensure stability and accuracy as well as longitivity. Fletcher also utilizes a solid steel floor as the base of our double sided equipment also to ensure stability and accuracy no matter the condition of the floor our equipment operates on.
Each of our tenoner chain links are machined from individual blocks of high tensile strength steel, with replaceable serrated urethane pads. The links are joined by hardened steel pins in special steel alloy PTFE impregnated bushings. The chains ride on a heavy duty steel chain beam with replaceable low friction UHMW track. The feed chain squaring adjustment is located on the outside of the drive shaft for easy access. Fletcher Machine's feed chains are assembled in opposing sections and are pre-tensioned before assembly to maintain squareness.
The chain dogs can be ordered in 5" multiples. The snap-up dog backs against a cut-out in the chain link for support. Snap-in dogs are available in various heights, and bolt-on dogs also available as well as pop-up dogs and automated selection of pop-up dogs is available. Fletcher's dog system provided the greatest flexibility for your machining operations.
Fletcher's environmental
enclosures abate sound, serve to
contain dust and deliver dust and off-fall from the machining process to the
plants dust collection system.
Fletcher environmental enclosures also serve as a safety barrier between machining
heads and plant personnel with safety interlocked doors.
