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US 2011/0226380 A1Published application
Apparatus and Method for Producing Springs
AssigneeRemex AG
InventorsBernhard Graf, Michael Egli
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Abstract
Using a method for producing a spring from a spring wire, turns of a first spring part are produced, wherein said produced turns move in a first direction. Thereafter, turns of a second spring part are produced, wherein said produced turns move in a second direction which is different from, in particular opposite of, the first direction. Such a method can be used to produce a spring having a plurality of spring parts.
Claims21
1-16. (canceled)
A method for producing a spring from a spring wire, comprising the steps of:
- producing coils of a first spring part, which produced coils move in a first direction, and
- producing coils of a second spring part thereafter, which latter produced coils move in a second direction,
- wherein said second direction is different from the first direction.
An apparatus for producing a spring from a spring wire, said apparatus comprising:
- a forming unit adapted to produce coils of a first spring part, said produced coils being movable in a first direction, and adapted to produce coils of a second spring part thereafter, wherein these produced coils of the second spring part are movable in a second direction which is different from the first direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.