Method for bending wire or strip material into round parts
OwnerOtto Bihlerinventor
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Abstract
In each cycle of a sequence of repetitive cycles a longitudinal section of an elongated, continuous piece of material spaced from the free end of the piece is draped about an arcuate face of a mandrel by a bending tool moving about the axis of curvature of the mandrel face, and the free end of the piece is thereby engaged with the arcuate face of another mandrel and secured to the other mandrel, whereupon the section draped over the first mandrel is cut. The central portion of the blank severed thereby from the continuous piece is draped over the second mandrel bent into a ring, the curvature of the leading and trailing blank portion, being due to previous draping over the first mandrel.
Claims7
A method of making a plurality of curved shapes of predetermined length from respective, longitudinally sequential sections of an elongated piece of material having an initial free, leading end of arcuately bent shape in a sequence of repetitive cycles, each cycle comprising the steps of:
- (a) draping a longitudinal section of said piece spaced from said free end a distance approximately equal to said predetermined length over a first mandrel until said free end engages a second mandrel, and thereby arcuately bending said section;
- (b) securing said free end to said second mandrel;
- (c) transversely cutting the bent section while backed by said first mandrel, and thereby severing a newly formed, arcuately bent, free end of said continuous piece of material from a blank secured to said second mandrel by said initial free end and further including an arcuately bent trailing end and a portion intermediate said ends;
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- (d) draping said intermediate portion about said second mandrel while keeping said initial free end secured to said second mandrel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.