Abstract: A bending machine for reinforcement mesh wires wherein the bending-rod which bends the wires around mandrels is supported by arms extending beneath the rest upon which the mesh is located in use. The bending-beam which carries the rod is driven in an arcuate path to perform the bending operation by means of cranks of adjustable eccentricity which co-act with a web member to which the beam is adjustably coupled. The components are so arranged that an imaginary line intersecting the crank axes is parallel to a similar line intersecting the bearings whereby the cranks are coupled to the web member.

Abstract: A tool particularly suitable for use in crimping includes two arm members and a pair of working jaws each supported on a different one of the arm members. A drive arrangement such as a pair of handles is connected to the arm members for moving the arm members relative to each other between open and closed positions. The drive arrangement, arm members and working jaws provide two force transmitting paths each extending between a different point on the drive arrangement where an external operating force is applied, and a different one of the working jaws whereat the operating force is transferred to an article to be worked on by the tool. At least one pivotal connection is provided, including at least one pivot member and a bearing member for engaging the pivot member. The bearing member is arranged to deform resiliently when the operating force is transferred to the bearing member by the pivot member.

Abstract: A tube bender construction for manual operation in bending a tube. The tube bender includes a mandrel defining a bending groove into which the tube is urged by a forming member mounted to the mandrel to swing about a bending axis of the bending groove. The tube to be bent is held against longitudinal movement during the bending operation by tube holding structure arranged to clamp the tube against an extended groove portion of the mandrel. Movement of the forming member about the bending axis is effected by manipulation of a pair of handles. Indicia are provided on the mandrel and forming member for indicating the angular extent of a bend provided in the tube as a result of the swinging movement of the forming member about the bending axis. At least one of the first and second indicia are adjustably mounted to provide accurate correlation between the indicia in indicating the bend angular extent.

Abstract: A rivet bucking tool (10) is provided with a damping piston (13) actuated by air pressure in a damping chamber (42) of the tool housing (11) of sufficient volume to isolate the housing (11) from undesirable vibration. The piston (13) forms an assembly with a bucking die (23) so as to inertially restrain recoil jointly therewith. A pressure reduction valve (28) is provided on the tool (10) for selectively setting the pressure in the damping chamber (42) to produce an elastic force bias on the assembly approximately equal to the optimal manual bucking force required for properly forming the rivet head and bucking in the riveting work at hand.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for the feeding of oval-shaped open end wire links seriatim, from an open-link feeding bar magazine, to a groove in a movable link-forming slide tool. Subsequent upward movement of the link-forming slide tool carries the open oval-shaped wire link into internal surface contact with a fixed position link center-forming anvil. Closed chain links or findings are mounted over the ends of the open wire links at this point, and further upward movement of the link-forming slide tool results in the closure of the previously open wire link to a desired configuration such as oval or round, and its assembly with the preformed ornamental objects is completed. The present device may be employed in various power driven modes.

Abstract: A tube bender construction for manual operation in bending a tube. The tube bender includes a mandrel defining a bending groove into which the tube is urged by a forming member mounted to the mandrel to swing about a bending axis of the bending groove. The tube to be bent is held against longitudinal and rotational movement during the bending operation by tube holding structure arranged to clamp the tube against an extended groove portion of the mandrel. Movement of the forming member about the bending axis is effected by manipulation of a pair of handles. The tube clamping structure includes a hook which is swingably mounted to the mandrel and adjusting structure is provided for adjusting the disposition of the swingable hook to provide a desired clamping force of the hook against the tube. The illustrated adjusting structure includes an eccentric pin and structure for locking the pin in adjusted positions.

Abstract: A tube bender construction for manual operation in bending a tube. The tube bender includes a mandrel defining a bending groove into which the tube is urged by a forming member mounted to the mandrel to swing about a bending axis of the bending groove. The tube to be bent is held against longitudinal movement during the bending operation by tube holding structure arranged to retain the tube against such movement. Movement of the forming member about the bending axis is effected by manipulation of a pair of handles. The mandrel defines an extension adapted for adjustably mounting the tube holding hook to further define structure for adjusting the disposition of the tube to be bent to be accurately tangential to the bending groove at a bend start position thereof.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for the bending of metal-sheet section comprises a bending saddle engaging the section at two spaced-apart points and a bending anvil or support engaging the workpiece at two other points disposed outwardly of the first two points. The bending saddle is pressed toward the anvil so that the sheet bends substantially uniformly between the two bearing points of the saddle and the two support points of the anvil with substantially equal bending force components equidistant from the center between the support points. After each bending stroke of the saddle, the workpiece is advanced by an increment less than the length of the uniformly bent section between the two saddle bearing points.

Abstract: An anvil for a blind riveting tool comprises an annular disc 23 of resilient nylon-6 material received in a counterbore in the front of a rigid backing or mount 25. When the tool is used to place a blind rivet, the nylon disc contacts the rivet shell head to support it against the pull of the mandrel. The disc is flexible enough to conform to the shape of the rivet head, thus maximizing the contact area and minimizing the contact thrust, and is soft enough not to damage or mark the rivet head surface, which may, for example, be painted.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device for opening a flanged joint of the type wherein one or more flange extensions on one flange part of the joint are bent around into engagement with the other flange part of the joint. A first leg member including a first generally tapered end portion is adapted to enter behind the bent-around flange extension of the flanged joint and engage the end of the bent-around flange extension. A second leg member includes a first end portion cooperating with the first end of the first leg member and having a generally flat contact surface on its side facing the first end portion of the first leg member, with the flat contact surface being adapted to engage and support the outer circumferential surface of the flanged joint. Preferably, the device includes a fluid cylinder attached to the second ends of the first and second leg members for selectively producing relative rotation of the leg members with respect to each other about a hinge connection.

Abstract: An attachment device is disclosed for affixture on pliers having a first and second plier jaw. The device includes a single jaw lug to be secured to the jaw of a standard compound acting adjustable vise type of hand pliers. A piece of sheet metal is introduced between the jaw lug of the device and the opposing jaw of the hand pliers and pressure is applied to the hand pliers. An offset shoulder is displaced along the edge of the piece of sheet metal parallel to the original contour of the piece of sheet metal to form an offset shoulder and edge.

Abstract: An automatic shot-blasting device for containers, adapted more particularly for automatic sand-blasting and shot-blasting installations. The installation comprises a movable gantry for the shot-blasting of the sides and the roof, a shot-blasting panel for the end, and possibly an internal shot-blasting device. The air-shot mixture is transmitted by a switching device comprising two plates of which one is fixed and the other is movable in rotation and in translation. A step by step device causes the movable plate to rotate in order to bring the nozzles of the two plates into communication and permit the passage of the air-shot mixture therethrough.

Abstract: For bending wiring conduits projecting up from the floor of a building under construction, the present apparatus has a padded block providing a lower abutment, a grooved block providing an upper abutment located above and behind the lower abutment, and a jaw pivotally movable from a retracted position on the opposite side of the conduits from the lower and upper abutments to an extended position toward the upper abutment to force the conduits against the padded block for forming lower bends in the conduits. The jaw has a grooved convex face which engages the conduits to form upper bends of the opposite curvature in the conduits between the lower and upper abutments. The padded block is adjustable to determine the amount the conduits are bent. The grooves in the convex face of the jaw are laterally spaced to spread the conduits apart laterally from their spacing at the floor. A manually pivoted handle actuates the jaw through a mechanical linkage.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a dampener particularly adapted to be connected to a load beam of a forming press wherein at an initial forming stage there is to be a higher than normal resistance to movement of the load beam. The dampener includes suitable lever arrangements which are coupled to fluid motors which resist the movement of the lever arrangements. The lever arrangements are actuated by a cam member carried by a movable press component which is coupled to the supporting pad of the press tooling.

Abstract: An apparatus for bending a substantially planar, plastically deformable sheet-metal blank or plate into a shell of cylindrical curvature comprises two normally provided spaced apart die bars mounted on a die bed plate and a punch edge provided on a punch member, the punch edge being arranged, upon stepwise advancement of the plate, to press said plate down between the two spaced apart die bars. For the purpose of bending respective end parts of the plate, which is effected by so-called eccentric bending, the apparatus includes at least one additional die bar which is located at a greater distance from the end in question of the plate and at a higher level than that one of the two normally provided die bars located furthest from the end of the plate, and functionally replaces the one normally provided die bar. Preferably the apparatus includes a further die bar located outside each of the two normally provided die bars.

Abstract: A fastener setting tool is disclosed for setting, to a panel member or the like, a fastener including an internally threaded nut portion, a tubular portion extending from the nut portion and a flange portion at the end of the tubular portion. The tool has a driving shaft, a nut member operatively connected to the shaft, a pulling rod threadably connected to the nut member and extending forward to the tool and a mandrel movably mounted to the end of the pulling rod with the end thereof having an externally threaded portion, and a half nut connected to the nut member so as to be rotated with the nut member and mounted on the externally threaded surface of the pulling rod under a predetermined binding force by a ring. The mandrel of the fastener setting tool is furthermore independently slidable with respect to the pull rod and is furthermore associated with a stop clutch which engages the mandrel when pushed back by a blind nut type of fastener so as to prevent further rotation.

Abstract: An assembly for precisely positioning a pair of die members beneath a reciprocating press ram, wherein a clamping assembly extends between each die member and a frame supported on a bed of the press for clamping and unclamping the die members. A self-lifting assembly provides a force which bears downwardly against the frame and upwardly against the die members for appreciably reducing frictional contact therebetween. An adjustable key is positioned for aligning the frame beneath the reciprocating ram. Finally, positioning apertures are provided for aligning the die members relative to one another on the frame.

Abstract: The present invention relates to adjustable positionable die members of the type employed in a press brake or the like, wherein a plurality of grooves are formed in a frame supported on the press brake bed with support blocks slidably received in the grooves. Connecting bolts attach the die members to the support blocks and positioning pins extend through the die members into openings formed in the frame to align the die members relative to one another.

Abstract: A hydraulic press such as a press brake is disclosed having a pair of long movable and fixed tools which are always kept in parallel with each other by detecting the obliquities of the movable and fixed tools and controlling the fluid delivery to hydraulic motors which drive the movable tool. Each hydraulic motor is controlled by a valve which is actuated by a rocking cam arrangement. The limit of movement of the movable tool toward the fixed tool also can be easily adjusted by adjusting the rocking cam arrangement.

Abstract: A shotting turbine having blades with working faces having a longitudinal profile comprising a convex part and a concave part with angles of curvature chosen to provide an optimized rate of ejection of the shot and a high concentration of the jet.