Wire or strip bending mechanism

A bending mechanism for bending material in the form of wire or strip, said mechanism having a substantially right circular cylindrical bending form, and a bending-tool mounted on a rotatable tool carrier which can be rotated in either direction about the axis of the bending-form, said bending-form having an end face, said tool carrier having an end face and said bending tool having an end face, said bending-form being shiftable along said axis between a working position in which said end faces of said tool carrier and said bending-form are substantially touching and a rest position in which said two end faces define between them a gap for the passage of a wire which is to be bent, said gap being only slightly larger than the thickness of the wire to bent the bending tool being eccentrically mounted on said tool carrier with respect to said axis, and said bending-tool end face being substantially coplanar with said end face of said bending-form in said rest position of said bending form.