Indexing die shoes in a swage press
AssigneeBetaswage Pty Ltd
InventorFrederick Van Essen
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Abstract
The specification discloses a swaging press (10) having an annular axially movable drive member (19) and a plurality of die shoes (16) cooperable with the drive member (19), the drive member (19) having at least one inwardly facing contact surface (22, 23) engageable with at least one outwardly facing segmented contact surface (24, 25) of each die shoe (16), the die shoes (16) being arranged as a die shoe set (17) whereby axial movement of the drive member (19) in a first direction causes the die shoes (16) of the die shoe set (17) to move radially inwardly during a swaging operation, the die shoes (16) and the drive member (19) being movable relative to one another about a rotation axis (29) after a single swaging operation or after a number of swaging operations.
Claims17
A swaging press comprising:
- an annular axially movable drive member;
- a plurality of die shoes co:
- operable with said drive member;
- and
- an actuator operable between said drive member and at least one of said plurality of die shoes,
- wherein:
- said drive member has at least one inwardly facing contact surface engageable with at least one outwardly facing segmented contact surface of each said plurality of die shoes,
- said plurality of die shoes are configured as a die set whereby axial movement of said drive member in a first direction causes said plurality of die shoes of the die set to move radially inwardly during a swaging operation, and
- said plurality of die shoes and said drive member are movable via the actuator relative to one another about a rotation axis after a single swaging operation or a number of swaging operations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.