Apparatus for forming profiles on strip materials

Apparatus adapted to receive an elongated flat sheet of formable material and operative to form a profile along at least one longitudinal margin thereof, comprising:

• (a) a frame having an entryway at a first end and an exit at a second end;
• (b) a drive assembly supported by said frame and operative to engage a portion of said elongated sheet at a location proximate to the entryway and advance said elongated sheet longitudinally in a downstream direction to discharge said elongated sheet at the exit;
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• (c) a forming station operative to engage said longitudinal margin to configure said longitudinal margin into a selected profile, said forming station including a coacting first pair of first and second forming rollers and a coacting second pair of first and second forming rollers, said first forming rollers journaled for rotation about respective first axes on a common first axle extending between a pair of support plates, a first one of said first rollers having a fixed relative axial position with respect to said first axle and a second one of said first rollers being axially slideable on said first axle and wherein said first axle has an axial bore at one end thereof sized to matably receive an axial post disposed on and projecting from a first one of said support plates and wherein said first axle is slideably mounted in a second one of said support plates, and said second forming rollers journaled for rotation about respective second axes, said first forming rollers relatively movable with respect to one another in a first axial direction such that a first separation distance therebetween may be selectively varied and said second forming rollers relatively movable with respect to one another in a second axial direction such that a second separation distance therebetween may be selectively varied whereby a selected profile of at least two different dimensions may be selectively formed.

Apparatus adapted to receive an elongated flat continuous sheet of formable material and operative to form a profile along at least one longitudinal margin thereof, comprising:

• (a) a frame having an entryway at a first end and an exit at a second end;
• (b) a drive assembly supported by said frame and operative to engage a portion of said elongated sheet at a location proximate to the entryway and advance said elongated sheet longitudinally in a downstream direction to discharge said elongated sheet at the exit;
• (c) a plurality of forming stations each including a coacting pair of first and second forming rollers journaled for rotation about first and second axes, respectively, said first and second forming rollers disposed on opposite sides of a first forming plane and configured to deform said first margin into a selected profile, at least some of said forming stations are organized into an assemblage supported on a common subframe that is mounted to said frame;
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• (d) adjustable subframe mounts operative to secure said common subframe to said frame, each of said subframe mounts permitting adjustment in an x axis and a y axis that are transverse to the downstream direction whereby yaw and pitch of said subframe may be selectively varied.