Caleo
Caleo from Diego Beltrami
Caleo

Caleo was designed to fit between the big industrial machines and the homemade variants in order to tap into the hobbyists, model makers and small manufacturers market that’s being under-served by the current machine offering.
For that purpose it was designed as a bench tool with a reduced work area, making use of sheets of 50x50cm (or the eighth part of a standard 2×1 meters sheet).

This project was a team effort with three other Industrial Designers. Although I was involved in all the phases of the product development my main contributions were centered along the areas of research, mechanical and electrical engineering, component design, technical documentation and detail design.

This project was part of “Innovar 2013” exhibition and contest organized by the Argentinian Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation.

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A structure made of steel sheets contains the internal components while the CNC aluminium parts form the lever mechanism for the holding frame. The heating system is composed of several quartz heating tubes, making obtaining replacements easy and cheap. And the use of central vacuum motors reduce the production costs considerably while making the machine much smaller without having to sacrifice vacuum power.
The platen dimension were designed to accommodate sheets of 50x50 centimeters in order to make full use of the standard plastic sheets of 2x1 meters. This measurements also meant that the machine would retain a relatively small size without having to sacrifice the production size. The machine power allows it to work with plastics such as Polystyrene or Polypropylene of up to 3mm thickness.
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Caleo

Caleo was designed to fit between the big industrial machines and the homemade variants in order to tap into the hobbyists, model makers and small manufacturers market that’s being under-served by the current machine offering.
For that purpose it was designed as a bench tool with a reduced work area, making use of sheets of 50x50cm (or the eighth part of a standard 2×1 meters sheet).

This project was a team effort with three other Industrial Designers. Although I was involved in all the phases of the product development my main contributions were centered along the areas of research, mechanical and electrical engineering, component design, technical documentation and detail design.

This project was part of “Innovar 2013” exhibition and contest organized by the Argentinian Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation.

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Freelance, Full-time
Diego Beltrami
Industrial Designer Buenos Aires, Argentina