Development and design of a device for edge processing of copper

Mechanical Engineering

Študent: Aleksander Bratkovič

Aleksander Bratkovič is a graduate of the Mechanical Engineering study programme at Academia, College of Short-Cycle Higher Education. He successfully defended histhesis paper in August 2025.

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Diploma paper Aleksander Bratkovič

The thesis briefly introduces Elsta Mosdorfer and the entire Knill Group, as the companies differ in terms of their organisation, the industries in which they operate, and a specific issue or need that we face daily. The thesis describes Elsta Mosdorfer (Kaindorf) in more detail. The company and the topic of the thesis relate to the electrical sector, the so-called branch of industry.

When choosing the topic for the thesis, we tried to establish a connection to our everyday problem and came up with an idea that would facilitate and improve the processing of copper, which is shaped into the desired form by the tonne on an annual basis and is also optimally converted into the workpiece using various other processes. Copper is one of the materials that conducts electricity best and can be found in all of our company’s switch cabinets and transformer stations.

With the Boschert CU-WK-2 device, copper of various dimensions is cold-pressed into shape using a matrix. The machine is designed for the efficient punching of copper rods and is equipped with a CNC control system with a 5-head AMADA tool system. After the copper has been processed, nuts with different metric threads (mostly M6, M8, and M10) are pressed into it.

A problem arose when the copper arrived from the supplier in a softer state because it had bent and thus stuck to the edges of the work surface and, in the worst case, destroyed the dies used for cold pressing. During my research, I noticed that our company (Kaindorf) processes 200 tonnes of copper per year and a total of 280 tonnes, which created a need for a 1×45* copper scraping machine.

The principle of the machine is quite similar to the GARANT Volumec JT3150, but the difference lies in the machining table, the clamping principle and the machining tool. The work surface measures 1450X600mm and has 2 pneumatic vices attached to it, as the workpieces are between 200 and 2000mm long.

Using Creo 7.0, I modelled the components of the entire machine, assembled them in the assembly drawing and then created a plan for the production of the prototype. The drawings are made to a scale of 1:1 so that there are no complications during production.


 

Diploma paper Aleksander Bratkovič

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Diploma paper Aleksander Bratkovič

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