Round Knife Cutting Machine:
This machine is called round knife cutting machine because its cutter is round but slightly octagonal in shape. This machine is small in size, flexible & used for small production. It is also a popular cutting machine.
Fig: Round Knife Cutting Machine |
Features of Round Knife Cutting Machine:
It’s useful for gentle curve line cutting, big parts cutting, cutting out fabric block from lay & small scale cutting. It’s normally use for small production.
- It contains a round but slightly octagonal type knife with sharp edge.
- The other main parts of this machine are base plate, electric motor, handle & knife guard.
- Knife diameter varies from 6-20 cm.
- Manual grinder is used.
- Motor r.p.m. is 800-1600.It depends on machine.
- A handle for the cutter to direct the knife.
- Easy to handle & movement due to low weight.
- Knife is lubricating manually.
- Three types of knife edge can be used for cutting different objects. Such as, waved edge, toothed edge & circular edge.
- A round knife rotating so that the leading edge cuts downwards into the fabric.
- Flexible movement helps to cut non linear shape.
- Base plate gives support for fabric.
- Maximum 40% of the knife diameter can be used for fabric lay.
- Suitable for cutting single ply as well as multilayer (say 20-30layers).
- Easy to handle & operate.
- Suitable for small scale cutting.
- Suitable for gentle curve line cutting.
- To cut the larger part of the garments.
- With a same r.p.m. its efficiency is 10 times greater than the straight knife.
- Very low r.p.m. & knife height.
- Manual grinder is used.
- Low productivity since few number of lay can be cut.
- Difficult to cut small components & high curve line.
- Not suitable for large production.
- Lubrication is manually done.
It’s useful for gentle curve line cutting, big parts cutting, cutting out fabric block from lay & small scale cutting. It’s normally use for small production.
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