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PROTECT-PANEL System: The “Impenetrable” Housing for Your Machines.

High speeds, quick machining cycles, cooling water and particles: Machine tools represent a dangerous environment for people. This is why all machine tools are contained in nearly “impenetrable” housings. These help reduce or eliminate the hazards for the persons who work with them.

With the KABELSCHLEPP PROTECT-PANEL System, we offer you optimized protection
for a particularly attractive price.

Complete housing in modular construction






Complete housing in modular construction



Connecting elements keep the walls in line

Systematic spring band steel construction

Each machine housing is produced individually according to your plans – while at the same time consisting of standardised parts. We carry out all of our engineering in 3D, combining various predefined elements to form your housing. Simple, specially developed connecting elements keep the walls in line.


The entire system is made of steel. Screwed and riveted connections and a rigorously implemented sandwich construction method are used to turn industrially prefabricated components into extremely stable wall modules, without any need for welding. The wall elements are mounted vertically on solid C-profiles with fastening elements, e.g. on the shop floor. Irregularities in the floor can be compensated for using the adjustment features.

This manufacturing method offers you numerous advantages: Short design engineering times, since standardised parts are used wherever possible. Short delivery times, since our production is based on predefined processes. Short installation times, since our mounting profiles are likewise standardised, and the large wall elements can be connected with just a few screws.

Processing on state-of-the-art machine tools provides high precision for all elements, and because welding is avoided as much as possible, distortion and irregularities are excluded.

 


KABELSCHLEPP PROTECT-PANEL
Modules:

  • wall module (standard dimensions B x H 1235 x 2350 mm)
  • window modules (with 44 mm thick special glass pane insert)
  • corner elements
  • standard doors
  • sliding doors (manual and automatic)
  • folding doors (up to three wings are electric motor-driven under PLC control)
  • lift gates (up to four segments)
  • roll gates (for vertical and vertical-horizontal motion)
  • material: steel plate, 0.5 mm thick, powder coated (colour as desired, RAL 9002 is standard)



PROTECT-PANEL: Secure Protection Against Water Spray

PROTECT-PANEL: Connecting elements   Protection against sprayed fluids

Protection against sprayed fluids: Sealed with a rubber seal and deflector plate.



The unique connecting element means that the individual wall elements are sealed against water spray, and are joined to each other in an extra-sturdy manner. Each pair of modules is joined by specially-formed plates held together by bolts. An additional plate on the inside forms a labyrinth seal.

In order to direct the remaining water spray downwards, we have fitted a deflector plate which guides the downward-flowing water directly into the particle conveyor, for example. The special sandwich construction of the wall elements, together with the deflector plate, result in a sealed protective wall which can withstand even high water pressures.

An Open Road for your Workpieces with Modern Drive Technology

To make exchanging workpieces easier, and if it is not possible to implement a guide rail in the upper and lower areas of the enclosure, then you can equip the enclosure with a folding door which moves to the side. The folding door is suspended only from a lateral post, leaving the greatest possible open space for your workpieces, especially in the upwards direction.

Door elements for PROTECT-PANEL


The door elements have the same design as the wall elements. Each of them is driven by a 24 V DC motor with a planetary gear unit and integrated PLC controller. Country-specific voltages can easily be obtained using an appropriate transformer. Modern CAN-BUS technology makes it possible to program different motion patterns for individual door elements. Teaching and loading of programs are remarkably simple. If suitable CAN-BUS equipment is present, the motors can also be monitored using the machine controller. When closed, the doors are held together by a locking mechanism, and will not open even if a person leans on them, for example. The end positions can be monitored and interrogated either via the program, or by means of additional limit switches.



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