Patents by Inventor Giorgio Del Fabro
Giorgio Del Fabro has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20090007621Abstract: A feeder device and method for feeding bars to a machine, for picking up and removing from a bundle at least one bar, to prepare it said bar for use in a working machine comprising a drawing assembly. The device comprises a first magnetic assembly for separating from the bundle at least an end segment of a plurality of bars and to dispose at least the end segments of the plurality of bars on a plane distanced with respect to the bundle, and a second magnetic assembly for picking up from the first magnetic assembly one bar at a time from the plurality of bars and to unload the bar in a desired release position. The device comprises an accumulation assembly for receiving in sequence from the second magnetic assembly a desired number of bars so as to form a store, and to transfer the desired number of bars simultaneously to the drawing assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2007Publication date: January 8, 2009Inventor: Giorgio Del Fabro
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Patent number: 7260969Abstract: Bending machine for profiles in the form of bars sheared to size, including at least a drawing assembly, shearing apparatus and bending apparatus. At least part of the drawing assembly is movable between a first loading position, wherein it is upstream of and remote from the bending apparatus to take at least one of the bars sheared to size from an accumulation site, and a second drawing position, wherein it is upstream of and in proximity with the bending apparatus to draw/feed at least one bar towards the shearing apparatus and the bending apparatus and to cooperate with the shearing apparatus and the bending apparatus in performing the bending cycle.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2002Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici SpAInventors: Giorgio Del Fabro, Marcello Del Fabro
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Patent number: 7104102Abstract: Bending machine (10) to obtain shaped elements from pre-cut profiles (11), equipped with a drawing assembly (14) which draws the profiles (11), first shearing means (13) arranged downstream of the drawing assembly (14) and bending means (12) arranged downstream of the first shearing means (13). Downstream of the bending means (12) are arranged second shearing means (15) to eliminate the terminal segments of the profiles (11) corresponding to the difference between the linear development of the shaped element to be produced and the length of the pre-cut profiles (11).Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2002Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici SpAInventors: Giorgio Del Fabro, Marcello Del Fabro
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Patent number: 7004003Abstract: Bending machine for profiles comprising at least a drawing assembly able to draw the profiles, a first shearing device arranged downstream of the drawing assembly and bending means arranged downstream of the first shearing means. A second shearing device is arranged upstream of at least part of the drawing assembly and is able to shear the profiles to eliminate excess parts thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2002Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignee: M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici SpAInventors: Giorgio Del Fabro, Marcello Del Fabro
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Publication number: 20050076693Abstract: Bending machine to obtain shaped elements from pre-cut profiles, equipped with a drawing assembly which draws the profiles, first shearing means arranged downstream of the drawing assembly and bending means arranged downstream of the first shearing means. Downstream of the bending means are arranged second shearing means to eliminate the terminal segments of the profiles corresponding to the difference between the linear development of the shaped element to be produced and the length of the pre-cut profiles.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2002Publication date: April 14, 2005Inventors: Giorgio Del Fabro, Marcello Del Fabro
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Publication number: 20040250591Abstract: Bending machine for profiles comprising at least a drawing assembly able to draw the profiles, a first shearing device arranged downstream of the drawing assembly and bending means arranged downstream of the first shearing means. A second shearing device is arranged upstream of at least part of the drawing assembly and is able to shear the profiles to eliminate excess parts thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Giorgio Del Fabro, Marcello Del Fabro
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Publication number: 20040187540Abstract: Bending machine for profiles in the form of bars sheared to size, including at least a drawing assembly, shearing apparatus and bending apparatus. At least part of the drawing assembly is movable between a first loading position, wherein it is upstream of and remote from the bending apparatus to take at least one of the bars sheared to size from an accumulation site, and a second drawing position, wherein it is upstream of and in proximity with the bending apparatus to draw/feed at least one bar towards the shearing apparatus and the bending apparatus and to cooperate with the shearing apparatus and the bending apparatus in performing the bending cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2004Publication date: September 30, 2004Inventors: Giorgio Del Fabro, Marcello Del Fabro
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Patent number: 6460235Abstract: Device (10) to produce reinforcement metal cages comprising a plurality of longitudinal round pieces (13) associated with a plurality of stirrups (12) arranged at intervals along them, said device (10) comprising at least a supporting plane (20) on which said cage is progressively formed able to support rods (30) which complete the cage (11), lifting means (31, 32, 33a, 33b) being provided along said supporting plane (20) to keep said rods (30) raised at least during the advance of the cage (11) which is progressively formed and to allow said rods (30) to be inserted inside the perimeter of the stirrups (12).Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2000Date of Patent: October 8, 2002Assignee: M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici SpAInventors: Giorgio Del Fabro, Marcello Del Fabro
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Patent number: 5966979Abstract: Perfected bending system for bending machines including a working plane (19) cooperating with at least a drawing device (12) including one or more pairs of rolls (15), the rolls (15) having at least a working position ("I") wherein they are closed on the round piece (11) in order to feed it forward, the drawing device (12) cooperating with at least one bending assembly (13b) arranged downstream thereof and with at least one shearing assembly (14), the system providing that, at the end of the feeding and positioning step of the round piece (11) in correspondence with the relative bending assembly and before the bend is made, the rolls (15) of the drawing device (12) are temporally arranged in an open position ("II") where they do not interfere laterally and are not in contact with the round piece (11) so as to allow the already bent portion located beyond the bending assembly to fall onto the working plane (19), returning subsequently to the closed working position ("I") before the bending is carried out.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 1998Date of Patent: October 19, 1999Assignee: M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici SpAInventors: Marcello Del Fabro, Giorgio Del Fabro
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Patent number: 5906128Abstract: Drawing assembly for bending machines used for metal shapes, in particular round pieces (11) for reinforcement purposes or metallic wire, the drawing assembly comprising at least a drawing device placed upstream of the shears (13) and the bending unit (14) and at least a straightening device placed upstream of the drawing device, the drawing device comprising at least a rotary drum having at its periphery a containing seating (19) for the round piece (11), the round piece (11) winding partly onto the rotary drum (17) and within the containing seating (19), the rotating drum (17) being at least 300 mm in diameter, the drawing device (12) comprising at least two contrasting cylinders (18) of a diameter of not more than 180 mm, placed in a position of reciprocal proximity and cooperating with the periphery of the rotary drum (17), the contrasting cylinders (18) acting against the periphery so as to define the arc of winding of the round piece (11) onto the rotary drum (17), there being immediately upstream of thType: GrantFiled: August 6, 1997Date of Patent: May 25, 1999Assignee: M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatricia SpAInventors: Marcello Del Fabro, Giorgio Del Fabro
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Patent number: 5586709Abstract: Device to compensate the elongation of two or more wire rods or round bars on machines fed with two metallic wire rods or round bars of iron or alloys thereof of a type for building work, the machines being, for instance, bending/shaping machines, the device comprising a pair of opposed rolls (12), namely an upper roll (12a) and a lower roll (12b) respectively, the rolls (12) defining between them respective inner (17a) and outer (17b) passes (17), with which the wire rods passing through cooperate, at least one (12a) of those rolls (12) being able to move substantially parallel to itself on a plane containing the axes of the rolls (12), the rolls (12a-12b) having respective shafts (15a-15b) each of which is fitted to a relative support (13), namely to respective upper (13a) and lower (13b) supports, the other roll (12b) being able to move in a controlled rocking manner on the plane containing the axes of the rolls (12) and being adjusted by a bottom positioning screw and a return spring (22).Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1995Date of Patent: December 24, 1996Assignee: M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici SpAInventors: Giorgio Del Fabro, Marcello Del Fabro
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Patent number: 5537852Abstract: Bending assembly of a bending machine (13), which can be employed to make upstream or downstream, clockwise or anticlockwise, bends of up to 180.degree. and more, on a bundle of bars (14) stacked on each other and lying on a plane substantially perpendicular to a working surface (15), the bending assembly (10) comprising an abutment plate (16) with two opposed abutment pins (17) and a rotary bending plate (11) coaxial with, and external to, the abutment plate (16) and including a bending pin (12), the abutment pins (17) and bending pin (12) having their axes substantially at a right angle to the working surface (15), the abutment plate (16) being able to rotate on its own perpendicular axis and including the two diametrically opposed abutment pins (17) with a space between those two abutment pins (17) at least equal to the diameter of the bars forming the bundle (14) of bars.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1994Date of Patent: July 23, 1996Assignee: M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici SpAInventors: Marcello Del Fabro, Giorgio Del Fabro
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Patent number: 5498113Abstract: Butting assembly and butting method employing the same to butt a single bar (11) or to butt a bundle of bars (11) by butting the single bars (11), the assembly being installed upstream of a processing machine, the bars (11) being fed one by one by hand or automatically to the butting assembly, which comprises a trolley (12) capable of to-and-fro alternating motion and able to move along a guide (13) extending lengthwise along the axis of the bar (11), the trolley (12) including at its upstream end gripper means (15) and at its downstream end abutment plate means (14) on the same axis as the bar (11), the abutment plate means (14) being kept resiliently in an inactive position and cooperating directly with position detection means (16) associated with an assembly (17) that manages and controls the butting assembly (10), the extreme positions of the trolley (12) being defined on the guide (19) by two end-of-travel stops (19), which are an upstream end-of-travel stop (19a) and a downstream end-of-travel stop (19Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1994Date of Patent: March 12, 1996Assignee: M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici SpAInventors: Giorgio Del Fabro, Marcello Del Fabro
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Patent number: 5375447Abstract: Method to carry out bends of a bundle (13) of bars having a diameter up to 32 mm.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1993Date of Patent: December 27, 1994Assignee: M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici SpAInventors: Giorgio Del Fabro, Marcello Del Fabro
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Patent number: 5285671Abstract: Bending-shaping machine for sections with a bending unit (12) located downstream of an assembly (14) that draws and/or straightens sections (15), a shearing unit (11) being interposed, in which machine a drawing unit (13) is comprised downstream of the bending unit (12) and on the same axis as the section (15) and has a first normal working position (13N) and a second downwardly retracted position (13S), the bending unit (12) having a third raised working position (12A) with a section (15) positioned above the shearing unit (11) and above the assembly 14) that draws and/or straightens sections (15).Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1992Date of Patent: February 15, 1994Assignee: M.E.P. Macchine Elettronichi Piegatrici SpAInventors: Giorgio Del Fabro, Marcello Del Fabro
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Patent number: 5275034Abstract: Multipurpose device for rolls of sections which are advantageously round bars in rolls for reinforced concrete, the device comprising a rotary turret winder (25) able to bear rolls (17) of sections produced with a hot cold process and including a rotary support (11) having its axis of rotation (12) substantially vertical and supporting along a circumference at least two roll-holder reels (13) with their axes of rotation substantially parallel to the axis of rotation (12) of the rotary support (11), each roll-holder reel (13) cooperating with a specific upright (20), at least one straightening assembly (21) being comprised in cooperation with each single upright (20) of each single reel (13) and being positioned substantially on the same axis as the axis of use of the machine downstream.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1992Date of Patent: January 4, 1994Assignee: M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici SpAInventors: Giorgio Del Fabro, Ercole Masera
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Patent number: 5228322Abstract: Plant and method to select and bend bars for building work, which is suitable to select and bend simultaneously in a substantially identical manner a plurality of bars, starting with substantially identical bars, the plant comprising at least one store, a first traversing roller conveyor, a shears for shearing to size, at least one movable arm to engage and position bars lengthwise and a supporting bench:the first traversing roller conveyor (17) comprising means to butt a bundle of bars (14) by means of an abutment face (18),fork means (20) for the positioning and vertical alignment of the bundle of bars (14) being included between the first traversing roller conveyor (17) and the shears (39),the movable engagement and positioning arm (31) including in its lower portion a movable engagement gripper (34) and cooperating with the abutment face (18), a relative vertical movement taking place between the movable engagement arm (31) and the shears (39) during the transient time of the arm (31) passing the shears (Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1992Date of Patent: July 20, 1993Assignee: M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici SpAInventors: Giorgio Del Fabro, Marcello Del Fabro
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Patent number: 5199292Abstract: Assembly to bend bundles of rods consisting of two or more rods, which are positioned and bent, one upon another, substantially in a position normal to a supporting bench (15) and are bent into the same shape at one and the same time, the assembly advantageously having the purpose of bending the bundle of rods (14) in four directions so as to produce any desired closed figure therewith, retaining means (12) with grippers (20) able to move vertically in guides (21) and to be retracted downwards being included upstream and downstream of the bending assembly (10) and substantially on the same axis as the bundle of rods (14).Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1992Date of Patent: April 6, 1993Assignee: M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici SpAInventors: Giorgio Del Fabro, Marcello Del Fabro
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Patent number: 5195348Abstract: Bending-shaping machine for sections (29) in which a drawing unit (10) located downstream of a bending unit (35) and on the same axis as the section (29) takes up not only a retracted position (10B) and a normal working position (10L) but also a high position (10A) to lift the section (129) above an abutment roll (12). Method for the automatic bending of the trailing end of sections (29) in a bending-shaping machine as above described, in which so as to invert the orientation of a bend (26) when making bends (26) in the trailing end (C) of a section (129), the drawing unit (10) moves from its working position (10L) to its high position (10A) and returns to its working position (10L) while a bending disk (11) is displaced sideways (from position 11S to position 11D or viceversa) by passing under the section (129) and thus re-positioning the abutment roll (12) in relation to the section (129).Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1991Date of Patent: March 23, 1993Assignee: M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici SpAInventors: Giorgio Del Fabro, Marcello Del Fabro
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Patent number: 5138860Abstract: Combined assembly to straighten and linearize bars or rods (11), the bars or rods (11) having a substantially round or specially shaped but round-like section, a ribbed section or section with protrusions or with TOR-type helicoidal ribs, a three-lobed or cross-shaped or star-shaped section, etc., the bars or rods (11) arriving from a coiled package (12), the combined assembly being suitable to process one bar or rod at a time and comprising substantially on one and the same plane a feeder unit and a straightener unit and including in sequence a first feeder unit (14), a first straightener unit (20), a second feeder unit (21) and a second straightener unit (23), downstream of which is included an orthogonal adjustment unit (24) cooperating with a contrast unit (27), the second straightener unit (23) inducing in the bars or rods (11) a general path consisting of a half-loop (22).Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1991Date of Patent: August 18, 1992Assignees: Marcello Del Fabro, M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici SpAInventors: Giorgio Del Fabro, Marcello Del Fabro