The product
One machine. Lots of boxes.
The proposed BUILD YOUR OWN BOX machine is deliberately mechanical.
No CNC controller. No motors. No computer. No complicated powered cutting equipment.
The current engineering concept uses a rigid benchtop platform, guided manual carriage, adjustable positioning system and interchangeable scoring/cutting tools.
Current prototype targets
- Footprint
- Approx. 700 × 500 mm
- Working zone
- Approx. 600 × 420 mm
- Material
- Approx. 2–7 mm corrugated cardboard
- Power
- None
- Operation
- Manual
- System
- Interchangeable cutting/scoring head + interchangeable box templates
Current dimensions and specifications are prototype engineering targets and may change through physical testing.
Features
- —Rigid benchtop base
- —Metric positioning
- —Perpendicular datum edges
- —Adjustable fences
- —Manual linear carriage
- —Spring-loaded tool head
- —Controlled scoring pressure
- —Replaceable scoring wheel
- —Guarded cutting cartridge
- —Adjustable blade depth
- —Replaceable cutting surface
- —Interchangeable sizing templates
- —Repairable / replaceable wear components
Built to be repaired, not replaced.
Scoring wheels, blades and the cutting surface are treated as wear components from the outset — parts intended to be replaced rather than reasons to replace the machine.
See templates