Rock seriesRock is located in the medium-high price segment of straight-line edgers market; this value is given by:

Performance: Double speed compared to other machines with the same number of spindles

Quality: superior finishing level

Precision: extreme accuracy and repeatability

Comfort: no vibration, no noise during processing

Heavy duty: built to last, 15-20 years with intensive use

With these features, Rock becomes the most valuable (most convenient, inexpensive) machine, considering lifetime, maintenance costs, productivity and quality added value.

Rock processing• Designed for flat edging with arris

• Also industrially polished chamfer up to 10mm (Rock 8 and 11), with special metal wheel or high-quality polished chamfer (Rock 10-45)

• Glass thickness till 40 mm

• Glass weight up to 2000 Kgs (250 Kgs per meter)

How is all this technically obtained?

•Strong know-how and tradition

•Important R&D leading to innovative technical solutions

•Strong and heavy structure

•Enhanced automation

Strong and heavy structure

Made entirely in:• Cast iron

– Structure

– Spindles and cases

– Transmission

• Thick steel – Front and rear carters

– Racks, inlet-outlet arms

• Stainless steel– Conveyor guides

• ABS– Top cover, control

panel,

– inlet and outlet conveyors cover

16mm

55mm30mm

Front & rear carters

Spindles & cases Structure

Conveyors belts by chains

The conveyors belts are driven by a chain system•Rubber part in contact with the glass in long lasting anti-cut material •The wearing part in contact with the glass can be easily replaced when needed, at a low cost.

Conveyor on guides• The concept is based on by pads sliding on

guides in tempered steel and stainless steel with an oil film in-between

• This ensure a long life and a parallel wearing allowing constant quality up to the end

• Guides are mounted on the structure and replaceable when worn out

• Pads in a material resistant to glass powder abrasion

• Centralized automatic lubrication system

Conveyor pads

Conveyor pads based on a new patented concept with double material:1.Body in very hard material with excellent mechanical performances (no flections, no thermal dilatations)

2.Part in contact with guides in Kevlar for wear-less performances

The soft rubber part in anti-spot rubber.•No marks on glass•Replaceable•Easy maintenance

Spindles driven by belt

Spindles and motors are separated and linked by belt system•No vibration from motor to spindles means better quality and longer spindle life•Revolution speed perfectly adjusted to the wheel need •All spindles managed from the front side•Permanent lubrication system

no maintenance required

Control panel with touch screen NCRock uses the same CN platform as Drillmax and Promax•24V voltage on machine board•Ethernet connection for data transfer or remote assistance•Wheels absorption with precise graphic indication•Main functions

– Automatic removal adjustment– Centralized lubrication management– Counters:

• Tools life

• Total/partial working meters

• Total/partial working hours

• Programmed maintenance

• Alarms

Removal adj.

Wheels absorption

Glass ThicknessSpeed

Glass position in conveyor

Statistics

Electrical cabinet

Placed outside the machine to avoid any type of oxidation of the electrical components caused by moisture coming from the machine.

No high voltage on control panel area

Allows easy and quick maintenance

Automatic removal adjustment

Glass to be removed is managed by NC trough an Y axis 5mm stroke.

The operator can select the removal on the control panel and the inlet conveyor is automatically adjusted

No manual hand wheel adjustment

Y

Rock features

Rock 10-45 Rock 11 Rock 8

Conveyor driven by inverter √ √ √

Automatic glass removal adj. √ √ √

High finishing quality √ √ √

Liquid cerium circuit Opt Opt -

Flat diamond spindles 3 3 2

Diamond arrises 1+1 1+1 1+1

Polishing arrises 1+1 1+1 1+1

Flat polishing spindles 3 4 2

Variable angle 0-45° √ - -

Benefits

heavy structure

patented conveyor

powerful NC

rectified

steel guides

independent electrical cabinet

RockRock

Low maintenance

Low maintenance

User friendly

User friendly

High speedHigh speed

High finishing quality

High finishing quality

Long lifetime

Long lifetime

maintenance free spindles driven by belt

spindles assembled directly on the structure

Maybe using a DOUBLE EDGER?

Maybe using a DOUBLE EDGER?

Maybe using a CNC

machine?

Maybe using a CNC

machine?

How can I get it?How can I get it?

90°

90°

90°

90°

800mm ±0.5mm/m

NEPTUN CAN SURELY HELP

ME

NEPTUN CAN SURELY HELP

ME

Edge-to-shape

Edge to Shape: the innovative evolution developed by Stefano Bavelloni and PATENTED by Neptun which allows the straight-line edgers of the Rock series to perform edge processing, with control of the final geometry both in terms of angles and final desired dimensions.

From irregular to 90°an now also from 90°to a defined irregular shape

90°

90°

90°

90°

800mm ±0.5mm

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ETS

Edge-to-shape

From indefinite shape to square and to size

804mm

ETS

Edge-to-shape

800mm±0.5mm

90°

797mm±0.5mm 3 mm

From indefinite shape to defined irregular shape

Edge-to-shape

Rock evolves from conventional machine into a real CNC machine

Thanks to CNC solutions, the high precision mechanics, and the new patented conveyor of Rock.

Rock can now be used as an alternative in all the processes that, up to today, could be carried out only by CNC machines or double edgers.

Edge-to-shape

Concept:•Thanks to the powerful CNC the angle and the length of the glass are measured by a laser system•Glass is introduced by interpolation of Y and C axes

YC

Measure angleMeasure length

First step:

Processing of the first edge in order to get a good reference (no need to correct the angle in this phase)

Second step

Turn piece 90°and use the first edged side as reference, correct the angle, edge the second one: Angle 1^2 goes 90°

Third step

Turn piece 90°and use the second edged side as reference, correct the angle, edge the third one:

Angle 2^3 goes 90°

Fourth step

Turn piece 90°and use the second edged side as reference, correct the angle, edge the fourth one: Angles 1^2^3^4 go 90°

Edge-to-shape90° squaring cycle concept

Edge-to-shapeLimits

• Glass can be processed in four cycles (four sides) provided that the maximum removal is 5mm per step, otherwise it has to be introduced more times

• Glasses ha to be placed with a minimum distance of 100cm between each other in order to allow all adjustments

• Tolerances:– 0,3mm/m on diagonals– 0,5mm/m on final dimensions– Maximum angle correction:

• 0°24’ with standard inlet• 0°17’ with 3200mm inlet

Edge-to-shapeWhat does angle correction 0°24’ or 0°17’

mean?

0°

3mm

500mm

0°24’

3mm

765mm

0°17’

With standard inlet/outlet With 3200mm inlet/outlet

• Possibility to perform processes that are typical for double edging machines without incurring in high investments in terms of capital and required space.

• Possibility to prepare glass sheets for other processing phases on CNC work centers, limiting the further processing time only to the drilling or milling phases.

• No set up time, so flexibility and convenience in using it also for single pieces and small batches

• Possibility to process multiple glasses simultaneously by job list up to 10 pieces in the same time

Edge-to-shapeAdvantages

ETS Job listThe operator inserts the dimensions of the glass sheets to be processed in the job list and processes the pieces.

Once finished, the CN displays the final obtained dimension, in case of non conformity a red number is shown.

In case of irregular shapes, the four lengths are imputed

Possible options

Inlet or outlet module lenght

Conveyors module can be:•Lengh

– Standard 2000mm– Longer 3200mm

•Height– Standard– Higher +1000mm

Independent motorization on inlet

Independent motorization allows to stop the inlet conveyor for the loading phase.

By a foot command operator can start & stop conveyor with hands free•Safe loading operation•Possibility to load while machine ids processing

ETS predisposition

With ETS predisposition, there are no ETS functions but all mechanical ETS parts are already mounted.

It results cheaper when afterwards ETS would be implemented as no parts has to be replaced.

Remote service

Remote service is a package consisting in:• Hardware firewall for internet connection between Neptun

central service and the installed machine– The price of the initial kit includes the first 12 month service

• Free software upgrades: in case a new software release is issued, Neptun provide it free of charge otherwise would be charges (example ETS2 upgrade for non square would cost € 4.000)