Pillar Machine | HP5D – Horizontal Bore, Dowel and Panel Grooves
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.
Standard Operations:
A part is placed 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.
The 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.
The HP5D performs the following functions:
- Horizontal Boring
- Panel Grooving
- Glue Insertion
- Dowel Insertion
The HP5D will drill holes, insert dowels and cut panel grooves on stiles and rails. This makes the HP5D an all-in-one drilling, doweling and grooving machine.
Standard Features:
- 3 HP high frequency 18,000 RPM direct drive routing spindle for horizontal boring
- 7 HP high frequency 18,000 RPM direct drive routing spindle mounted vertically for panel grooving
- X Axis CNC control for positioning
- 15″ industrial color touchscreen for creating and selecting programs
- 4 zones
- 4 clamp units
- Panel Grooving Tooling
- Digital mechanical readouts for height and depth
- 60″ work zone
- Heavy duty 2000 lb. frame
- 1″ thick machined aluminum work surface covered with a 3M maintenance free non-slip surface
- Our standard sealed glue injecting system injects glue or water with little to no maintenance.
- Small footprint to conserve floor space
- Our “protrusionator” dowel inserter allows for adjustment of dowel protrusion.
Advantages of The HP5D:
- 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.