Deburring Systems – Abtex LLC

Abtex Custom Deburring Systems for
Aluminum, Fineblanking, and Powdered Metal

In Abtex’s manufacturing facility in Dresden, New York, you will find no warehouse of deburring systems.

Instead, you’ll find a busy manufacturing floor containing customer innovations in progress – unique, engineered solutions to the deburring needs of automotive, aerospace, and medical-device customers worldwide.

Machine shells, frames, robots, conveyor systems, motors, planetary heads, and parts-moving devices – all developed in the imagination of our engineers and being built into systems that will soon dramatically enhance the efficiency of a customer’s manufacturing operation.

Below you will find examples of systems that have solved deburring problems for some of the world’s most quality-conscious Aluminum, Fineblanking, and Powdered Metal manufacturers. Think of them only as possibilities for the unique solution to your deburring problem.

The only deburring problem we haven’t solved is yours, Contact us today.

Abtex Specialized Deburring Systems for Aluminum

Abtex custom deburring systems enhance the safety of aluminum extrusions while maintaining precise part tolerances.

Abtex custom-designs and manufactures a wide range of deburring brushes and systems to serve manufacturers and suppliers of aluminum extrusions to a wide range of industries, including automotive, aerospace, medical, and others.

All Abtex aluminum end-deburring systems are driven by powerful motors and equipped with a pair of abrasive nylon brushes for each end to be deburred. One brush spins clockwise and the other counterclockwise to ensure that each extrusion is deburred completely and precisely.

Systems are available for single and double-end deburring of short and long parts, and in manual and semi-automatic configurations.

Brushes and systems designed to work perfectly together
Burrs removed quickly and completely; precise surface tolerances preserved
Disc and radial wheel brushes available, with silicon carbide and ceramic filaments
Small machine footprint saves floor space

The Abtex Tri-Ten Deburring System for Fineblanking and Powdered Metal

Abtex’s Tri-Ten Systems with Planetary Head — Simple design, robust construction, exceptional results

The Abtex Tri-Ten System incorporating a Planetary Head is the result of innovative lab work and nearly four decades of machine building and brush application experience. It’s simple in design, robust in construction, and extremely efficient on your manufacturing floor.

Tri-Ten Systems are used primarily in Powdered Metal and Fineblanking applications, where the ability to deburr both flat and intricately contoured parts is essential.

Tri-Ten Systems have been designed to solve customer problems using from one to four planetary heads.

They can be configured as either Flow-Through (parts enter at one end of the machine and exit at the other) or Return-to-Operator (abbreviated “RTO”, where parts are placed on a belt by an operator, deburred, and returned to the starting point).

They are available in “wet” (parts sprayed with coolant during deburring) or “dry” (no coolant) configurations.

Tri-Tens are robustly designed and constructed (some say overbuilt — we say you can’t be careful enough!) for continuous, efficient operation.

For example, to change deburring brushes “on the fly,” the operator simply adjusts a set screw to release or capture the brush via a simple retaining pin eliminating any complexity and allowing a full brush change in under five minutes!

Would you like to learn more about how the Abtex Tri-Ten can make your manufacturing operation more efficient? Call us today.

What's a Planetary Head?

Abtex’s planetary head is a brushing system where rotating brushes orbit around a center point in the same fashion that rotating planets orbit around the sun. The effect on brushing is that parts taking a linear path through the brushing plane will experience evenly distributed abrasive action from all angles resulting in more uniform edge deburring than can be achieved by simply traversing through one or a series of non-orbiting disc brushes. Each Planetary Head head provides more than 200 square inches of abrasive surface area.

The Planetary Head contains separate drives for turret and brushes. With speed and direction independent of one another, it provides infinite capability to fine-tune the process for specific deburring needs. Abtex’ unique planetary head in conjunction with our Abtex brushes allows for deburring the part while still maintaining ultra-precise edge radiuses and it is equally effective on both small parts and large parts.

Abtex has the unique ability to produce application-specific brushes and the machinery to effectively and efficiently apply them. To find out more about planetary brushing or any of our other products, contact us today!

See the Tri-Ten in Action!

Abtex Tri-Ten deburring systems have solved problems for some of the world’s most quality-conscious companies. For competitive reasons, we protect our customers’ identities, but here are some stories of the Abtex technology behind their deburring success.

Fineblanking

See what happens when an automotive supplier needed to deburr huge volumes of fineblanked parts of many different shapes and sizes. No problem for the Tri-Ten!

Watch the video

Powdered Metal

This powdered-metal manufacturer needed to save floor space while deburring two sides of a transmission ring. Watch the Tri-Ten deburr one side, flip the part, and deburr the other.

Watch the video

Flow-Through vs. RTO

Tri-Ten deburring systems are generally configured either as flow-through or return-to-operator (RTO).

Flow-through systems are specially designed to integrate seamlessly and provide maximum efficiency with customers’ existing upstream and downstream operations. Conveyor beds and mechanisms are designed to be easily raised and lowered to line up with existing conveyors and other parts-moving devices.

Below, a brief, 3D video shows the basic operation of a flow-through Tri-Ten, designed to deburr both sides of fineblanked parts. Next, is the process in action for a real fineblanking customer.

View the 3D Model

See the Tri-Ten in action

Return-to-operator systems are designed for freestanding operation. Burred parts are placed into the system by a human or robotic operator and precisely deburred parts are returned to the same place for inspection or delivery to the next stage in the manufacturing process.

This first 3D video demonstrates the RTO process in animation. The second video features real-operation and demonstrates the efficiency gained by a powdered-metal manufacturer using an Abtex Tri-Ten RTO.

View the RTO Model video

Watch RTO in action

Robotic and Vision Systems for Additional Efficiency

Abtex has designed a wide range of robotic and vision systems to further streamline customers’ deburring operations and systems.

This new video shows aluminum deburring using Abtex engineered abrasive filament brushes for complex aluminum parts.

Watch the Aluminum Robotics video

This brief video shows both enhancements in innovative operation for a Canadian manufacturer of automotive parts.

Watch the highlight video

And this video, produced by FANUC, a partner company and worldwide leader in robotics innovation, features an innovative Abtex robotic design in action in the Abtex Applications Lab.

Watch the FANUC Robotics video

Robotic Deburring Information – PDF

YouTube- Abtex Deburring Systems Video Channel

Aluminum Deburring Systems

FineBlanking Deburring Systems

Powdered Metal Deburring Systems