Device for continuous bending of metal mesh
AssigneeSlick Tools LLC
InventorMarshall Poland
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Abstract
A material-forming device for a wire mesh includes a plurality of contact rods that are supported by the frame and configured to threadedly receive a sheet of wire mesh that moves through the plurality of contact rods in a downstream direction. An inner contact rod and an outer contact rod are each configured to engage a first side of the sheet of wire mesh, and a middle contact rod is positioned between the inner contact rod and the outer rod and configured to engage a second side of the sheet of wire mesh that opposes the first side. The shape of the outer contact rod and/or the inner contact rod is configured to bend the sheet of wire mesh around the middle contact rod as the sheet of wire mesh moves in the downstream direction.
Claims20
A material-forming device for a wire mesh, the material-forming device comprising:
- a frame defining a longitudinal axis;
- and
- a plurality of contact rods that are supported by the frame and elongated along the longitudinal axis, the plurality of contact rods being configured to threadedly receive a sheet of the wire mesh that moves through the plurality of contact rods in a downstream direction that is parallel to the longitudinal axis,
- the plurality of contact rods including an inner contact rod and an outer contact rod that are each configured to engage a first side of the sheet of wire mesh, and a middle contact rod positioned between the inner contact rod and the outer rod and configured to engage a second side of the sheet of wire mesh that opposes the first side, wherein at least one of the outer contact rod and the inner contact rod is configured to bend the sheet of wire mesh about the middle contact rod as the sheet of wire mesh moves in the downstream direction.
A method of bending a sheet of wire mesh, the method comprising:
- threadedly inserting the sheet of wire mesh into a contact rod arrangement supported by a frame defining a longitudinal axis;
- engaging a first side of the sheet of wire mesh with an inner contact rod and an outer contact rod that is radially spaced from the inner contact rod;
- engaging a second side of the sheet of wire mesh that opposes the first side with a middle contact rod that is radially spaced from and positioned between the inner contact rod and the outer contact rod;
- moving the sheet of wire mesh through the contact rod arrangement in a downstream direction that is parallel to the longitudinal axis;
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- bending the sheet of wire mesh about the middle contact rod via at least one of the inner contact rod and the outer contact rod engaging the sheet of wire mesh as the sheet of wire mesh is moved in the downstream direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.