VAN-MARK Brakes
Van Mark brakes are designed to be used directly on the job site. Van Mark brakes and slitters mean easy sheet metal cutting, bending or perforating. Van-Mark brakes become more and more popular in Europe
9 main advantages why to invest into Van Mark brakes:
- CAM-LOCKING SYSTEM. Locks to the gage of the material.
- THROAT DEPTH. Limited depth results in the strongest castings available. Normally, added depth is not re-quired for this type of machine.
- ANVIL ACCESSORY TRACKS. Dual tracking system provides superior guidance for accessories.
- FULL-LOOP BENDING HANDLES. Provide equal bending from any point along the tool.
- DUAL HOLLOW-CORE BASE RAILS. Provide the base support and prevent tool warping.
- LOCKING HANDLE. Extends away from the working area and does not interfere with tool operations.
- UNITARY PIVOT ARMS. Single die-cast pivot arms are solid and do not flex while applying clamping pressure.
- DUAL CARRYING HANDLES. Moving this tool around is easy with built-in carrying handles.
- FINE-TUNE ADJUSTMENTS. Though you may never have to, you can fine tune your brake or replace the cam wedges with little difficulty.
- Cam-Locking System
VanMark brakes & accessories brief description (.pdf)
Van-Mark Brake, already known as Portable Tinsmith Brake or Portable Tinsmith Workstation in Europe, is multi-purpose tinsmith´s machine. Portability, the most significant feature of this brake, affords exact and fast production of building tinsmith´s shapes directly on the job site.
Traditional brakes are usually designed with massive constructions and the comfortable portability directly to the job site is impossible. These modern, non-electric brakes are currently used mainly for realization of prefabricated skinned buildings, heat cladding of panel houses, realization of all types tin roofs, aluminum siding (Northern Europe, USA), classic roofs´ finishing profiles etc. Van-Mark Brakes proved good in production of HVAC profiles and work with varnished/painted sheets as well (e.g. Interior fridge boxes). Van-Mark Brake and its technical finish of bending jaws covered with vinyl strip enables absolutely safe touch with the painted or varnished surface of the bent material. Van-Mark Brakes are also suitable for hot bending of plastic material, e.g. for production of pharmaceutical furniture (Germany). Van-Mark Brakes are also very useful for creating of aluminum profiles. The maximum thickness of the material is 1,2 mm.
Van-Mark Brake functionality description
All Van-Mark Brakes work on the same principle and all machines use compatible accessories - without any difference in model series. Particular model series differ in the bending capacity only i.e. different thickness of the bent material. The machine itself – brake – ensures material bending only. Further material processing is possible by using accessories only.
Professional series of VM brakes – Industrial - are equipped with the stable heavy-duty extruded aluminum Xtreme™ shop stand. Unit is fully detachable and collapsible for easy fast setup and transport. Its ergonomic design ensures absolute stability of the machine. This is very advantageous mainly while bending harder material using maximum bending capacity. Maximum bending capacity of this model series is the thickness from 0.8 to 1.1 mm, depending on the kind of material.
We recommend Van-Mark Brake Contractor and Commercial series for bending thinner materials (thickness up to 0.6 mm). These machines are both lighter for manipulation and cheaper.
Material formation – Van-Mark Slitters and their basic functions
Slitters are significant option in process of metal sheet forming from straps, sheets or coils. We 
can provide you entire slitting set – Industrial Slitter Combo – or separate slitting part without accessories – Slitter Combo. The principal characteristic/advantage of these equipments is the possibility to slit the sheet stock down to any size and you can make even 4 cuts in the material width. Furthermore, the slitter can pull the coil up to 600 kg – with no additional equipment. The cuts are performed by cutting knives where 220 volt motor runs the shaft. The rubber clutch ensures torque from the engine to the shaft. To setup the cutting width is very quick. The run is quiet. Minimum maintenance required.
Van-Mark Brakes and Slitters are the machines with long tradition and they have been passing through fluent improvement and modification.
ABC – American Bohemian Corporation is the exclusive and certified distributor of these machines for European Union and Eastern Europe. The machines are distributed from our central stock in the Czech Republic to the particular distributors. Our distributors can fully show and demonstrate all machines incl. accessories directly at their showrooms. In case of your interest there is no problem to use your own material to compare Van Mark hardware quality.
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