Apparatus for manufacturing air turning assembly
AssigneeDuro Dyne Corporation
InventorsJohn E. Lyons, Joseph Magrane
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Abstract
An apparatus and method of forming air turning assemblies is disclosed along with a novel vane supporting rail structure for use therewith. The apparatus holds a pair of rails in spaced parallel relation at a clinching station at which the edges of a vane may be engaged in opposed slotted protuberances in the rails. The spacing of the rails may be increased at the station against a yieldable biasing force, the station including a deforming mechanism for deflecting the vane edges to lock the vanes to the rails. The rails include cam surfaces leading to the vane receiving slots and blocking walls at the trailing ends of the slots to facilitate introducing the vane edges into the slots.
Claims4
Apparatus for fabricating an air turning assembly formed of a spaced parallel pair of vane rails and a plurality of vanes, said rails including projections deflected from the planes thereof, said projections including slots directly substantially transversely to the longitudinal axis of said rails, said vanes being arcuate sheet metal blanks, said apparatus comprising guide means for supporting a pair of said rails in parallel spaced relation with respective projections on each said rail facing each other, feed means for synchronously advancing said rails to a staking station with respective slots of each of said rails aligned with each other, yieldable support means at said station for enabling the spacing of said rails to be increased to permit insertion in said slots of end portions of a vane member and staking means at said station for simultaneously distorting said end portions of said vanes, said staking means including opposed vane deflection portions mounted for coaxial movement toward and away from each other between staking and inactive positions respectively.
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