Leather Cutter Q

[watzmann]

Hi All ,

i have cnc router that i made it myself , but i need to convert it to a leather cutter machine , thats by changing the router unit with a leather unit ,

my problem is : i have no idea about leather units which can cut metals ,

could anyone help me to find a leather cutting unit , that i can mount it in my router?

Thanks for advance

Ali

[ViperTX]

Ali....I think you "hit the nail on the head".....leather is cut, not abraded away as with any rotary mill.

Depending on what you're actually trying to make (thickness of the leather) you may be better off looking at die cutting or the traditional template cutting that's done by garment manufacturers.

There is also some abrasive jet cutting done....just depends on what sort of edge finish you need.

[watzmann]

i know that leather is cut , and actually i need to cut , have anyone notice this unit on the net .......i need to buy it

[txcowdog]

I've been manufacturing leather products for 27 years and have never seen leather cut on a mill. It is cut on a machine called a "Clicker". These are similar to a punch press but with a larger platen usually in the 20" x 40" size and are either powered by hydraulics or a large and very heavy flywheel. I have both types and prefer the mechanical flywheel for speed and the hydraulic machine for cutting pressure since it develops 25 tons of cutting pressure and the flywheel is only 7.5 tons.

[jmullett]

There's a show in Detroit every year in May called the Automotive Interiors Show. I've seen dieless cutting machines on display there cutting various leather and fabrics. The two populay ways I've seen it done is with some type of traveling knife or by waterjet. Most of them incorporate some kind of visual inspection system to determing the shape of the hyde and nest the appropriate pattern pieces for most efficient use of the leather. Below is a link to some traveling knife tooling manufactured by one such source. I hope it is what you are looking for.

http://www.exact-technology.com/cutt...ing_index.html

[widgitmaster]

http://www.gerbertechnology.com/gtww...cam/Taurus.htm
http://www.pathfinderaus.com.au/docu...therCutter.htm
http://www.relcoinc.com/dieless_cutters.htm