Definition of Shaper Machine

Shaper Machine:

 Shaper Machine

The shaper machine may be a reciprocating sort of machine basically used for producing the horizontal, vertical or flat surfaces. The shaper holds the only point cutter in ram and workpiece is fixed within the table.
During the forward stroke, the ram is holding the tool is reciprocating over the workpiece to cut into the required shape. During the return stroke, No metal is cutting. In the shaper machine, the rotary motion of the drive is converted into reciprocating motion of ram holding the tool.
Therefore in order to reduce the total machine time, It allows the ram holding the tool should move slower during forwarding cutting stroke and it comes faster in return stroke. This can be achieved by a mechanism called a quick return mechanism.
The shaper process can be defined as a process for removing metal from the surface in horizontal, vertical and angular planes by the use of a single-point cutting tool held in a ram that reciprocates the tool during a linear direction across the workpiece persisted the table of the machine. The work is fed at right angles to the direction of the ram in small increments, at the end of the return stroke.