# US 5,704,242 A · Universal ring bender > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 5,704,242 A - Document ID: US5704242A - Status: Granted - Kind: A - Application number: 08/642,266 - Filed: 1996-05-03 - Granted: 1998-01-06 - Earliest claimed: 1995-05-12 - Assignees: C.M.L. Costruzioni Meccaniche Liri S.r.l. - Inventors: Alessandro Caporusso; Mario Caporusso - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5704242A ## CPC - B21D 11/07: Making serpentine-shaped articles by bending essentially in one plane - B21D 7/08: by passing between rollers or through a curved die - B21D: WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL (working or processing of wire B21F) ## Abstract Universal pipe bender comprising a geared motor (1; 11); a box, on a working table whereof two or more pairs of hollow rotary motion drives having fixed parallel rotation axes (2, 2a; 2', 2a'; 2", 2a"; 12, 12'; 12a, 12a') intended to receive, interchangeably and integrally in rotation, in their concavity respective roller hearing mandrels (200) and to transmit to the latter rotary motion impressed by said geared motor through gears arranged in said case, and a through slide (4, 40) that can be slidingly operated and fixable in position in a through guide (4') provided in said case, on the same side where said rotary motion drives open, which traverses the fixed interaxes of said pairs of rotary motion drives, and which mounts one or more further roller hearing mandrels (5, 5'; 50, 50'). ## Claims ### Claim 1 A ring bender comprising a geared motor; a box having a working side whereupon rotary motion drives open, taking their motion from said geared motor through gears arranged in the case itself, intended to actuate ring bending rollers respectively mounted thereupon; a through slide that can be slidingly operated and fixedly in position in a through guide provided in said box, by the same side where said rotary motion drives open, intended to mount a ring bending roller, said rotary motion drives including hollow rotary motion drives provided in pairs, having fixed parallel revolution axes, and then fixed interaxes between one another, intended to receive, interchangeably and integrally in revolution, in their concavity respective roller bearing mandrels and to transmit to the mandrels the rotary motion impressed thereto by said geared motor through the gears arranged in said box; said through slide transversing the fixed interaxes of said pairs of hollow rotary motion drives, and endowed with at least one means for mounting further roller bearing mandrels. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The ring bender according to claim 1, wherein said pairs of rotary motion drives are provided with their axes of rotation being fixed in a same common plane. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The universal ring bender according to claim 1, wherein three pairs of rotary motion drives are provided. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The universal ring bender according to claim 1, wherein said pairs of rotary motion drives are provided with their rotation axes being fixed on staggered planes. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The universal ring bender according to claim 1, wherein two roller bearing mandrels are provided, the one on a side, the other on the other side relative to the input of said geared motor in said box. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The universal ring bender according to claim 1, wherein one (5') of the roller bearing mandrels provided on said slide (4) is arranged eccentric on a plate (5") fixable in angular position on the through slide itself. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The universal ring bender according to claim 1, wherein at least one roller bearing mandrel on the slide is motored by connection to said geared motor through a Cardan joint. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The universal ring bender according to claim 1, wherein said motion drives are each one made up of a mandrel conical shell cone (100) with their concavity projectingly facing on the working side of the box, which takes its motion through a toothing (101) provided on it from said geared motor, and that is endowed with a screwing means (103), accessible from the side of the box opposite the working one, for axially fixing a roller bearing mandrel to it. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The universal ring bender according to claim 8, wherein said cones are endowed with an axial groove (202) for their keying with the roller bearing mandrel itself to render it more safely integral to itself in rotation. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The universal ring bender according to claim 1, further characterized in that it comprises a means for mounting an adjustable position pressure counter-roller.