Ocean Liberator Coping Machine

Steel beams are usually fabricated to fit up to another beam. In order for the beams to fit perfectly, coping and slotting are required.

Coping or notching of beams is required to ensure that beams and columns fit without conflict (interference). It is often necessary to remove material from a flange or web in order for the intersecting steel pieces to fit.

Manual Beam Coping

This necessitates laying out and removing the coped section. In smaller shop this is done manually. A layout man reads the detailed drawings and then transfers the dimensions of the cope to the steel, and uses a tape measure, framing square and chalk to draw the cope.

The using an oxy-fuel gas torch, an operator will manually cut out the cope.

Often this rough cut requires grinding in order to improve the appearance and finish of the cut.

CNC Beam Coping

The Ocean Liberator Beam Coper is a single torch CNC beam coping machine that removes the need for manually laying out your copes, and ensures that copes are done neatly and accurately, direct from your CNC detail drawings.

The Liberator performs copes significantly faster than copes done manually.

Very little grinding is required one the cope is done, further reducing non-value added labor costs.

The Ocean Liberator CNC Beam Coping Machine is capable of processing almost any structural steel profile including beams, channel, tube, angle, and plate.

The Ocean Liberator beam coping machine has 5 axes of movement.

It simulates the human hand holding a cutting torch and WILL do everything a human hand can do with the torch on beams, channels, plates, angles, tubes, and almost anything you can put in the machine.

At cutting time, the torch will light automatically. The operator then determines the preheat time at each start point. The beam coping machine will bevel the flanges and the web automatically at any degree between +/- 45 degrees.