Roll former and/or cutter with quick automated tool

Apparatus for manufacturing shaped or cut sections by feeding strips of material between mated pairs of cooperating shaping and/or cutting rollers, and obtaining different sections and/or widths with said apparatus, said apparatus comprising

• upstanding inner and outer frame supports
• a first and a second turret head rotatably mounted on said inner and outer frame supports, with said first turret head oppositely disposed above said second turret head,
• said first and second turret head respectively holding a plurality of first and second shaping and/or cutting rollers,
• said first shaping and/or cutting rollers being formed with specific shaping and/or cutting patterns which differ from roller to roller,
• said second shaping and/or cutting rollers being shaped so that a given second roller meshes with one only first roller,
• wherein each frame support has a lower bore and an upper bore formed therein, driving shafts extending through said lower bore and said upper bore and drivingly connected respectively through said first turret head and said second turret head to rotate a selected one of said first rollers and a corresponding second roller,
• each said turret head comprising a first rotary roller holder rotatably mounted relative to said inner frame support and a second rotary roller holder rotatably mounted relative to said outer frame support,
• said first and first and second rotary roller holders being connected together by means of an axle which is fixedly engaged at one end at central part of said first rotary roller holder and at the other end at central part of said second rotary roller holder, so that rotation of said first rotary roller holder induces rotation of said second rotary roller holder and vice-versa,
• the other end of said axle extending through an opening provided in said outer frame support into a ratchet clutch enabling to precisely rotate said turret head when a change of first and second rollers is indicated,
• means locking said first and second turret heads in positions relative to one another corresponding to predetermined shaped sections and/or widths, and
• means to unlock said first and second turret heads from a given locked position producing predetermined shaped sections and/or widths, and to rotate same to another position producing a different section and/or widths.