Category: Angle Roll

Determining Coordinates What is an axis? The Latin word axis meant an axle or a pivot, and the English terms axis and axle derive from it. The meaning shifted over time from simply referring to a physical axle around which an object like a wheel could rotate to an imaginary straight line around which a […]

A Machine Every Fab Shop Can Use Profiles rolls—very frequently called angle rolls because of the primary profile they roll, namely angle iron—are a standard feature in most fabrication shops. This is especially true of those shops that specialize in the manufacture of handrails, metal window frames, exhaust pipes, motorcycle components and ornamental iron work […]

A Roll by Any Other Name “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” – William Shakespeare No other machine tool or piece of metal fabrication equipment has as many different names as does the everyday profile roll—a machine designed to put a curve into […]