Abstract: A quill supporting member supporting a quill may include a movable body, e.g. Z-axis movable body that moves in a Z-axis direction of an XYZ orthogonal coordinate system representing a shaft core of the quill as an Z-axis. A tool holder supporting member supporting a tool holder for holding a tool may include the other movable bodies, e.g. an X-axis movable body that moves in an X-axis direction and a Y-axis movable body that moves in a Y-axis direction. Therefore, the quill is shortened in the Z-axis direction, and a contact area is reduced between a guide path of the quill and a wire rod.

Abstract: Providing a coil spring manufacturing machine capable of adjusting the shape of a manufactured spring with fixing a wire feeding unit, followed by moving a shaping tool mounting member, attached to one or a plurality of movable members, in the front-rear, left-right, and/or up-down direction of the wire feeding direction. The shaping tool mounting member may be moved in all the three directions. Each movable member is provided with a drive source for driving the movable member.

Abstract: A spring manufacturing apparatus includes a supporting body which moves in X, Y, and Z-axes directions of a XYZ orthogonal coordinate system representing a moving direction of a wire rod fed from a wire rod feeding unit as a Z-axis. The supporting body is formed with an opening in which the quill is arranged. The supporting body further includes a tool holder for holding a processing tool for processing the wire rod to a spring. The supporting body arranged at the vicinity of the quill is moved to accurately adjust the relative position of the quill and the processing tool, thereby manufacturing a desired spring.

Abstract: A wire-forming machine, comprising a machine frame, a wire feeder and a wire guide for transporting wire to a working area of the machine where the wire is processed by one or more tools. The tools are affixed on a tool plate on the machine frame and around a recess formed in the plate. A wire is fed through the recess to the working area of the machine. The tool plate is fitted on a second plate and is displaceable along a first direction (x) relative to the second plate, while the second plate is displaceable along a second direction (y) relative to the machine plate. Both directions (x, y) have an inclination of 45° each to the vertical normal axis of the wire-forming machine and are perpendicular to each other.

Abstract: A method of processing different sized long products delivered from a rolling mill, comprising forming products within a first range of sizes into helical formations of rings having a first diameter, and alternatively forming products within a second range of sizes larger than the largest product size within said first range into helical formations of rings having a second diameter larger than said first diameter. The helical formations of rings are deposited on a conveyor for transport to a reforming station where they are gathered into coils.

Abstract: A spring manufacturing apparatus comprises a tool support (30, 40, 50) which supports a tool in a way that the tool can be slid toward the spring forming space. A plurality of the tool supports can be arranged in a radial pattern from the spring forming space on the forming table. The apparatus also comprises a driving force transmission unit (70), attached to the tool support on the forming table, which transmits driving force to the tool support for sliding the tool. The tool support includes first and second tool supports for driving a tool by different driving methods. The first tool support (30) comprises a first driving mechanism (32) that transmits driving force of a common driving axis to the tool. The second tool support (40) comprises a second driving mechanism (41) that transmits driving force of the driving axis to the tool.

Abstract: A spring manufacturing apparatus with a reduced number of driving sources, yet capable of adjusting the relative positions among the bending dices with higher precision when manufacturing a spring is to be provided. A second bending dice mounting slider and a third bending dice mounting slider are symmetrically located about a center line extended from a moving direction of a first bending dice mounting slider. An arm mechanically connects the first bending dice mounting slider and the second bending dice mounting slider, or the first bending dice mounting slider and the third bending dice mounting slider, so that either of a driving source that drives the second bending dice mounting slider or a driving source that drives the third-bending dice mounting slider moves the first bending dice mounting slider, thus to determine a winding direction of a wire for manufacturing a spring.

Abstract: A molded body is tightly fitted to the wire guide block on the side facing the collet and laterally to the guide groove that is braced against the collet via attachment media coming in from the side of the collet and is attached to the latter in a wire guide for a wire processing machine, in particular a spring manufacturing machine. It is also used to guide a wire feed to wire processing tools and is attached to a wire guide block with a collet, thereby forming a guide groove for the wire.

Abstract: The slide motions of tools mounted on tool units (400A, 400B, 400C) are realized by a single ring gear (10) serving as a common driving force for all the tool units and arranged on a forming table (200), and cam shaft blocks (20) for transmitting the rotation force of the ring gear (10) to the tool units (400A, 400B, 400C). The cam shaft blocks (20) are formed separately from the tool units (400A, 400B, 400C). The angles of arrangement of the cam shaft blocks (20) on the forming table (200) can be changed independently of the tool units (400A, 400B, 400C).

Abstract: An indexable spring coiling point tool, for use on spring coiling machines, includes a holder for mounting in a spring-forming station of a spring coiling machine. The holder has a base end and a working end configured to engagingly receive a coiling point. The tool also includes a coiling point configured for attachment to the working end of the holder. The coiling point is formed of a material comprising a metal carbide, and is removably attachable to the working end of the holder. The coiling point can take the form of an insert or another attachment which can be removably affixed to the working end of the holder.

Abstract: To efficiently manufacture springs having various kinds of shapes, a spring manufacturing machine is structured such as to bend a wire by two inner engagement projections (47) by adjusting a position of a position adjusting table (34), fitting a gap (46) to the wire fed out from a final wire guide (13) and temporarily stopping, and thereafter rotating a rotation spindle (48), and also to bend a wire on the basis of a cooperation of an outer engagement projection (44) and the inner engagement projection (47) by adjusting the position of the position adjusting table (34), fitting the gap (46) to the wire fed out from the final wire guide (13) and temporarily stopping, and thereafter rotating a rotation sleeve (45).

Abstract: An apparatus for making mattress and upholstery spring coils. The apparatus has a wire feeding device and a wire guide adapted to support first and second wires of different diameters. The wire guide is movable to first and second positions to align the first and second wires, respectively, with the wire feeding device. A spring coiling machine is positioned adjacent the wire feeding device. When the wire guide is in the first position, the spring coiling machine receives the first wire of one diameter from the wire feeding device; and the spring coiling machine bends the first wire into a spring coil of a desired diameter and pitch and having a first stiffness. When the wire guide is in the second position, the spring coiling machine receives the second wire of another diameter from the wire feeding device; and the spring coiling machine bends the second wire into a spring coil of the desired diameter and pitch but having a second stiffness.

Abstract: A coil spring forming machine for forming a coil spring having a dimensional characteristic, such as a coil diameter and a coil pitch, includes a frame, a control tool movably mounted on the frame, and a control mechanism mounted on the frame and coupled to the control tool. The control mechanism is operable to move the control tool to vary the dimensional characteristic. The control mechanism includes first and second cam surfaces and a cam follower assembly selectively engageable with either of the first and second cam surfaces to vary the dimensional characteristic depending on which cam surface is engaged.

Abstract: Tool units (400) are slid by crank mechanisms (409) which are arranged on the respective sides of a table (200), convert rotational motions into translational motions, and use servo motors as drive sources, and are supported to swing on the rear end portions of the tool units.

Abstract: A method and machine for selectively manufacturing wire springs from two different wires by feeding the wires through a pair of continuously rotatable opposed feed rollers, which rollers are operative to feed only one of the wires at a time into engagement with a coil forming mechanism having a pair of coil forming tools. The tools are selectively positionable for engagement with one or the other of the two wires depending upon which of the two wires is being fed into the coil forming mechanism.

Abstract: An apparatus for making mattress and upholstery spring coils . The apparatus has a wire feeding device and a wire guide adapted to support first and second wires of different diameters. The wire guide is movable to first and second positions to align the first and second wires, respectively, with the wire feeding device. A spring coiling machine is positioned adjacent the wire feeding device. When the wire guide is in the first position, the spring coiling machine receives the first wire of one diameter from the wire feeding device; and the spring coiling machine bends the first wire into a spring coil of a desired diameter and pitch and having a first stiffness. When the wire guide is in the second position, the spring coiling machine receives the second wire of another diameter from the wire feeding device; and the spring coiling machine bends the second wire into a spring coil of the desired diameter and pitch but having a second stiffness.

Abstract: In a spring winding device for producing right-hand or left-hand helical springs from wire, with pull-in rollers, a wire guide and two winding apparatuses, each of which has a slide guide body with a slide displaceably arranged therein, every slide guide body is swivelable at its end remote of the wire guide around a swiveling axis directed vertical to the wire guide axis. The two winding apparatuses lie on different sides of the center plane, with a drive for the movement of the slide and a cam drive controlled by a cam disk for swiveling the slide guide body. A shared cam disk with two control portions and at least one rest portion is allocated to the two cam drives. Each control portion serves to introduce controlling movements in one of the two cam drives, while the rest portion, or every rest portion, does not introduce any controlling movements in the cam drive.

Abstract: Plural types of tools are mounted on the tool selection table 210 so as to be selectable by rotation of the tool selection table 210. The tool selection table 210 is made movable by numerical control in the X, Y and Z directions, by virtue of the front-to-back table 206 movable in the front-to-back direction which is parallel to wire axis line L1, horizontal table 203 movable in the horizontal direction which is parallel to the front-to-back direction, and up-and-down table 209 movable in the up-and-down direction which is perpendicular to the front-to-back and horizontal directions.

Abstract: A wire output central shaft of a wire bending machine comprises a seat, two wire plates, an central shaft seat, and a central shaft. The seat has a body, and one end of the body is connected to the body. A through hole is installed on the fixing portion. A first concave chamber and the second concave chamber are installed on the body. The first concave chamber is behind the second concave chamber. Two wire plates each is installed with a wire groove. As the two wire plate are combined to be located against one another, the two wire grooves will be combined. The two wire plates are fixed to the first concave chamber of the seat. The central shaft is installed on and penetrating through the central shaft seat. A wire hole is installed on the central shaft and extends along the length of the central shaft seat. The central shaft seat is assembled to the second concave chamber of the seat and is locked to the seat. The wire hole of the central shaft is in a position with respect to the through hole of the seat.

Abstract: A first large drive gear for slider driving mechanisms and a second large drive gear for a tool rotating driving mechanism are disposed coaxially with an axis of a wire feeding quill and in parallel with a rear surface of a front base frame panel, and a single small drive gear and a plurality of small driven gears corresponding to a plurality of wire working units are disposed around each of these large drive gears. A plurality of slider driving mechanisms and at least one tool rotating driving mechanism are operated with a single common servomotor respectively.

Abstract: A point tool assembly includes a vertical moving table disposed on a forming table and movable in a direction parallel to the forming table surface and perpendicular to the feed direction of a wire, and a longitudinal moving table disposed on the forming table and movable in a direction parallel to the forming table surface and the feed direction of the wire independently of the vertical moving table. A link arm moves a parallel slide table and first and second inclined slide tables the same distance upon longitudinal movement of the longitudinal moving table. A forming table includes first and second independent tool drive units for supporting first and second point tools in positions where the first and second point tools oppose the wire and moving the tools in a direction substantially parallel to the forming table surface and substantially perpendicular to the feed direction of the wire and in a direction parallel to the forming table surface and the feed direction of the wire.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for forming the linear springs. In the apparatus three or more forming tools are arranged radially about the center of the quill for guiding the linear material are rotated within a predetermined angle about the centerline of the quill and are simultaneously advanced in the extension direction of the centerline of the quill perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the centerline of the quill of the quill and collided against the linear material fed from the tip end portion of the quill to thereby always perform the formation of the linear spring, the apparatus being suitable for embodying this method is provided.

Abstract: A spring manufacturing apparatus in which the conventional cumbersome process of forming the front end of a quill in accordance with the shape of a desired spring is omitted, and one quill can be used in common for formation of springs having any shapes. A wire is fed out from a wire guide constituted by right and left members, two members symmetric with each other and having inclined surfaces. Tools that are radially arranged to be slidable toward a spring forming space and used for bending, curving, or cutting the wire are caused to abut against the wire to bend or curve it, thereby forming a spring. The spring manufacturing apparatus includes a rotary guide unit, a guide driving motor, tool driving motors, and a CPU. The rotary wire guide unit supports the wire guide and is rotatable about a wire feedout hole of the guide as the center. The guide driving motor transmits a driving force to the rotary wire guide unit. The tool driving motors slide the tools.

Abstract: A tool assembly 120 is attached on a forming table 101 movably in a vertical direction with respect to the forming table 101. The tool assembly 120 has a wedge tool assembly 140 which inserts a wedge tool between coils of wire W being continuously rolled by a coiling assembly 160 and growing coils having a predetermined pitch in an approximate normal-line direction with respect to the forming table 101, and a core block 123 which applies a cutting force to the wire W in cooperation with a cutting tool. This integrally moves the core block 123, the wedge tool and the like.

Abstract: A spring-making machine including a spring wire feeding device having a frame, a driving disk rotatably mounted on the frame, a first sleeve fixedly arranged on one side of the frame and having a plurality of fixing holes, a second sleeve inserted into the first sleeve and fixedly mounted on the driving disk, and an elongated core having a sectorial portion with an angle less than 180 degrees at an end thereof and a opening at another end, the core having an axial hole and a radial outlet, a guide rod having an axial hole adapted to receive a spring wire and having an end inserted into the axial hole of the core, and a clamp having a recess in which is fitted another end of the guide rod and a bolt extending through the clamping means to engage with the guide rod.

Abstract: A circular table is provided around a wire forming portion. A plurality of forming tool units are disposed on the surface of this circular table such that they are directed to almost the central position (wire forming portion) of the table. Each forming tool unit is movable along guide grooves formed in the surface of the circular table, and its position can be fixed. Therefore, the entering direction of the forming tool mounted to the distal end of the forming tool unit can be arbitrarily changed. Independent servo motors are respectively mounted to the forming tool units, and they can be driven independently of each other.

Abstract: A cutter unit for mounting to a slide on a spring coiling machine, comprising a holder having an arm portion, extending along a first direction, for mounting to the coiling machine and a head portion extending along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and defining an adjustable bore having an axis which extends in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions. A plug is insertable coaxially within the adjustable bore and sized to provide axial and rotational degrees of freedom within the bore. The plug includes a front face having a slot oriented transversely to the axis of the bore and sized to receive a cutting tool, and screws or the like for fixing the tool in the slot. A bolt or the like is carried by the head portion, for adjusting the bore to selectively permit axial and rotational movement of the insert therein, and to prevent said movement.

Abstract: A versatile spring making machine including a processing tool locating unit consisting of a transverse slide moved in the transverse direction and a longitudinal slide moved in the longitudinal direction, a tool assembly moved by the processing tool locating unit to the desired processing position for processing a steel wire into springs, a feeder unit having feeding rollers controlled to feed a steel wire to the tool assembly for processing, a material guiding unit having guiding rollers controlled to deliver a steel wire to the feeder unit, and a straightener unit disposed between the material guiding unit and the feeder unit and controlled to straighten the steel wire from the material guiding unit or to turn it axially.

Abstract: An automatic spring formation apparatus includes a base on which an upright work table is mounted. A number of linear motion spring formation tools and at least a curved motion spring formation tool are slidably mounted on the front working surface to work on a wire fed through a wire feed passage formed on the work table so as to form a spring by being driven by independent servo motors under the control of a computerized numeric control unit. The linear motion spring formation tools are movable on the front working surface in a linear way along a radial direction pointing out from the wire feed passage while the curved motion spring formation tool is not only linearly movable on the front working surface along a radial direction pointing out from the wire feed passage, but also rotatable about a pivot normal to the working surface so as to move in a combination of linear translation and angular rotation.

Abstract: A wire working machine and system are described with a working platform on which a rotatable mount with individually controllable wire working tool actuators is provided. The rotatable mount surrounds a workzone in which wire is worked with the tool mount being rotatable about the workzone to provide center line working of the wire. The rotatable mount is formed with removable segments each of which can support a tool actuator but can be removed to enlarge the workzone. The workzone extends through the working platform to enable a second rotatable mount located on the opposite side to form workpieces passed through the workzone. The working platform is movable in x and y directions to align with a wire preforming machine to form a wire working system with great versatility, accuracy and improved productivity.

Abstract: A chuck and arbor apparatus for a spring coiling machine implements an accurate alignment of the block wire guide with the feed line guides from the wire supply rolls. The chuck is modified to provide for discrete, axial clamping positions which correspond to selected wire alignment positions. The arbor is preferably D-shaped to establish a repeatable angular orientation in the chuck, and avoid the need to clamp the arbor while clamping the chuck.

Abstract: A spring manufacturing apparatus has a first mode in which a spring pitch is formed by inserting a wedge tool between coils of a wire material forcibly bent by a point tool, and a second mode in which the spring pitch is formed by pushing the bent wire material in a lateral direction. The first and second modes share the same driving source. The direction in which the wedge tool moves in the first mode and that in which the wire material is pushed in the second mode are substantially at right angles to each other, and therefore driving force in the first mode can be used also in the second mode by mounting on the apparatus a member that converts the direction of motion.

Abstract: A wire working machine and system are described with a working platform on which a rotatable mount with individually controllable wire working tool actuators is provided. The rotatable mount surrounds a workzone in which wire is worked with the tool mount being rotatable about the workzone to provide center line working of the wire. The rotatable mount is formed with removable segments each of which can support a tool actuator but can be removed to enlarge the workzone. The workzone extends through the working platform to enable a second rotatable mount located on the opposite side to form workpieces passed through the workzone. The working platform is movable in x and y directions to align with a wire preforming machine to form a wire working system with great versatility, accuracy and improved productivity.

Abstract: A coiling point holder for a spring making machine precisely fixes the angular and axial position of the coiling point relative to the holder and allows for the pre-established coiling point positions to be replicated upon reversing or replacing the coiling point. The angular position of the coiling point is fixed by a diametral slot of an insert which is angularly fixed in the holder.

Abstract: A forming device in a coil spring forming machine for forming a coil spring by winding a heated rod or wire-shaped spring material into a form of a spiral, wherein the forming machine includes an independent cassette mechanism which may be removably mounted to a predetermined site on the body of the forming machine and the independent cassette mechanism is composed of a mandrel around which the rod or wire-shaped spring material is to be wound into a form of a spiral and a guide means for guiding the spring material in a direction along which the spring material may be wound around the mandrel at a required lead angle into a form of a spiral.

Abstract: A chuck and arbor apparatus for a spring coiling machine implements an accurate alignment of the block wire guide with the feed line guides from the wire supply rolls. The chuck is modified to provide for discrete, axial clamping positions which correspond to selected wire alignment positions. The arbor is preferably D-shaped to establish a repeatable angular orientation in the chuck, and avoid the need to clamp the arbor while clamping the chuck.

Abstract: A coiling device for spring coiling machines, having exchangeable elements that contain adjusting screws. Each coiling pin is mounted in a receptacle so as to rotate therewith and so as to be able to rotate therein about its longitudinal axis after a clamping screw is loosened, and to be capable of moving in its longitudinal direction by means of a set screw, and whereby each coiling pin receptacle is mounted in or on a coiling pin holder, by means of which the coiling pin held in the receptacle can be pivoted in a controlled manner by means of set screws, and can be changed in position by means of an adjusting slide that mounts the coiling pin holder, by means of at least one set screw. One or two such coiling devices are preset in one finger or two finger spring coiling machines to produce helical springs from endless wire. An adjusting device is also provided for coiling tools on spring coiling machines having a coiling device.

Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus for the forming of wire, namely a leg or spiral spring winding and bending machine.It is an object of the present invention to reduce the expenditure for the production of the apparatus and to universalize the forming operations which can be carried out with each tool.The apparatus including a plurality of tools (86, 88, 90, 92 or 142; 162, 190, 192) on a tool holder (74; 160) which is fixed at the free end of a longitudinally displaceable shaft (12) resembling the known winding spindle and is replaceable. Every existing tool can be brought into the pathway of the wire and hence into operation by positioning the shaft by rotation and longitudinal displacement by means of a drive which is known from the conventional winding spindle but differently controlled.The advantage of this apparatus is that it is of simplified construction and enables the same tools to be used for producing different forms of springs.

Abstract: A spring-making machine includes a plurality of forming tools reciprocatively sliding in a plurality of tool guides radially disposed on a panel so that a spring wire led through a central chuck of the machine will be automatically formed as diversified shapes or orientations of spring products by the forming tools for conveniently and efficiently making springs.

Abstract: A starter motor field winding comprises an uninterruptedly continuous conductor edge wound to encircle a plurality of core elements. The core elements are on a mandrel to which the leading end of a length of strapping is secured. The mandrel is rotated about a first axis to locate successive core elements in position to have coils wound therearound and rotated about a second axis to edge wind the strapping into coils about the core elements.

Abstract: A spring coiling machine with an improved drive means has a pair of feed rolls for advancing wire from a source of supply to a coiling station. Coiling tools at the station obstruct feed movement and form coil springs and a cut-off tool successively severs the springs. The coiling tools and cut-off tool are operated from a camshaft driven by a first electric motor and a second electric motor drives the feed rolls. Continuous rotation for both camshaft and feed rolls is provided by the electric motors and a mechanism operated by the camshaft lifts an upper feed roll to terminate feed roll gripping action on the wire and to thus terminate wire feed at the completion of each spring. The first or camshaft motor serves as a lead motor and the feed roll motor as a follower. A digital feedback from the first motor is introduced to the control system therefor and also as an input to a second control system for the feed roll motor.

Abstract: A method of cold-working and stress-relieving iron-chromium ferritic stainless steels of non-heat hardenable type in the AISI 400 series, thereby increasing the ultimate tensile strength while maintaining good tensile ductility. Cold-working is effected by peripherally contacting the steel, i.e., extruding and/or die drawing, to produce a "cellular structure" not attainable in cold rolling. Repetitive cold-working and stress-relief anneals between about 750.degree. and 1200.degree. F increase the ultimate tensile strength in increments and restore the tensile ductility substantially to that of the hot rolled and annealed material, while maintaining the tensile to yield ratio substantially constant. Ultimate tensile strength up to about 400 ksi in small diameter wire is attainable.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing prestressed coil springs whereby the wire is fed about a rotating spindle and taken up or drawn in with a predetermined spacing from the front end of the coils and guided to a point ahead of the front end of the coils in the form of an expanded helix. A stop block is movable along the spindle, fixed against rotation and provided with a plurality of wire grooves at different angles of inclination so that the wire passes beneath the already formed coil as it passes through one of the grooves to produce the desired stress.

Abstract: A machine for fabricating a helicoidal tube from a longitudinal flat and bendable strip includes a frame, and tube-forming means disposed on the frame for receiving the longitudinal flat strip. The strip is then formed into a tube which has a seam. Helicoid-forming means are disposed on the frame for receiving the tube and for the forming thereof into a helicoid.

Abstract: A dual purpose spring coiling machine adapted for two point and single point coiling and particularly adapted for convenient and rapid convertibility from one form of coiling to the other. The machine comprises a coiling tool slide assembly mounted on a frame generally opposite a wire feed and guide means and adjacent a coiling station. The tool slide assembly comprises a coiling tool slide and a guide mountable selectively on the frame in three discrete positions. Right and left-hand two point coiling positions respectively employ mounting of the guide in first and second positions inclined upwardly and downwardly 221/2.degree. from the horizontal. Single point coiling is achieved with the guide mounted horizontally. Coiling tool holders mounted on the slide may be selectively moved from one position to another for right and left-hand coiling with a first holder mounted on and movable with the slide.