Powered bender
AssigneeECM Industries, LLC
InventorMatthew W. Sweeney
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Abstract
An assembly for bending a conduit and a portable conduit bender. The assembly may generally include a portable bender including a base having a base surface supportable on a work surface, a housing supported by the base and defining a housing axis, the housing including a handle engageable by an operator to carry the bender, and a shoe supported by the housing for pivoting movement about the housing axis, the shoe defining a channel for supporting a conduit to be bent; and a pipe threader removably supported by the housing, the threader being operable to pivotably drive the shoe relative to the housing to bend the conduit.
Claims20
An assembly for bending a conduit, the assembly comprising:
- a portable bender including
- a base having a base surface supportable on a work surface,
- a housing supported by the base and defining a housing axis, the housing including a handle engageable by an operator to carry the bender, and
- a shoe supported by the housing for pivoting movement about the housing axis,
- the shoe defining a channel for supporting a conduit to be bent;
- and
- a pipe threader removably supported by the housing, the threader being operable to pivotably drive the shoe relative to the housing to bend the conduit.
A portable conduit bender comprising:
- a base supportable on a work surface;
- a housing defining a housing axis and supported for movement relative to the base to adjust a position of the housing axis relative to the base;
- a roller supported by the housing and extending along a roller axis parallel to the housing axis, the roller having a roller surface;
- and
- a shoe supported by the housing for pivoting movement about the housing axis, the shoe defining a first channel for supporting a first conduit up to a first diameter and a second channel for supporting a different second conduit up to a second diameter, the second diameter being greater than the first diameter;
- wherein the housing is movable relative to the base to selectively align one of the first channel and the second channel relative to the roller surface to support a corresponding one of the first conduit and the second conduit between the roller surface and the one of the first channel and the second channel;
- and
- wherein the shoe is pivotable about the housing axis to bend the corresponding one of the first conduit and the second conduit when supported by the shoe.
A portable bender comprising:
- a base supportable on a work surface;
- a housing supported by the base, the housing including a hollow spindle having an outer surface and defining a housing axis;
- and
- an annular shoe extending from an inner surface supported by the outer surface of the spindle for pivoting movement about the housing axis, the shoe defining a channel for supporting a conduit to be bent, the shoe being pivotable about the housing axis to bend the conduit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.