Shearing Machine: Everything You Need to Know
A Shearing Machine is a piece of industrial equipment used to cut strong iron sheets and metal bars with rotating disks and blades. Shearing is the process of applying intense pressure to a metal bar only once in order to remove some of the metal. All metal shears use the same configuration of a fixed upper blade, a lower blade, and an adjustable clearance between the two for their cutting mechanism. The bottom blade is forced to cut and divide the metal in two when pressure is applied to the upper blade. Shearing machines are categorized into hydraulic guillotine and swing beam shears depending on whether their blades are linear or circular. Modern sheet metal processing production lines for ironworkers typically use hydraulic guillotine metal shear machines due to their superior cutting precision, adjustable shear angle, longer blade and oil cylinder life, and wider application range. The Mechanism of the Action of Shearing Machine Punching or shearing motions result f