Abstract: A tightening and untightening tool for a roll bearing assembly of a rolling mill has a box-shaped body of toroidal shape with a central hole fitting around the cylindrical end part of a back-up roll. It has drive keys that slide into corresponding drive splines on the outside of the locknut and a torque reaction slot that fits over a reaction plate. The tool is provided with a hydraulic drive motor for tightening with bearing locknut against a thrust bearing.

Abstract: A concentric bore bend die and clamp insert assembly including a bend die and a clamp insert positioned within a recess formed in the bend die in a tube clamping area of the bend die. The clamp insert includes a curved portion matingly received within a correspondingly shaped curved bore in the recess, such that the curved portion extends between a tube groove in the insert and the curved bore. The curved portion of the clamp insert and the curved bore are radially concentric in order to evenly disperse clamping pressures exerted on the clamp insert in all radial directions across the curved portion of the clamp insert to the curved bore. The clamp insert further includes a non-circular portion that is matingly received within a correspondingly shaped non-circular region of the recess in order to resist rotational movement of the clamp insert with respect to the bend die.

Abstract: A cable or wire dressing tool includes a main body in substantially the form of a doughnut-shaped member having a center hole and front and rear surfaces. The outer periphery of the doughnut-shaped member has spaced slots in it, with each of the slots sized to slidingly accommodate a single cable or wire. The center hole of the doughnut-shaped member is sized to accommodate a plurality of wires or cables passing therethrough.

Abstract: A roller guide for the guidance of the wire or rod between the finish rolling mill stands of a wire or rod rolling line. The guide has a guide roller pair which are mutually juxtaposed and journaled on free ends of pivot arms of double arm levers. The lever journals are connected with a support body between the finish mill rolls of the rolling line and which has a centering funnel for the rolled wire or rod between the double arm levers. The whereby the pivotal displacements of the pivot arms are settable and spring adjustable about the lever journals. The roller guide is improved in that the pivot arms have setting elements pressed against the support body and in that an adjustable-pressure pneumatic spring connected with the support body and bearing upon the pivot arm extending away from the guide roller or is connected with this pivot arm.

Abstract: A cutting device for a metal band bundling apparatus includes a band guider, a rotatable knife fitted in a hole of the band guider fixed on a first handle of a metal band bundling apparatus, and a press rod connected with the knife. The press rod consists of a bent portion and a press portion, and the bent portion located to pass across over the first handle and a second handle. A user can hold the grip portions of the first and the second handle with four fingers of a hand and presses the press portion with the thumb of the hand to rotate the rod-shaped knife for a certain angle to cut off a metal band. So cutting operation can be preformed with the thumb of a hand only, very easy and quick to operate after bundling an object with the metal band.

Abstract: A metallic plate is curved and folded by means of a press such that a curved portion is formed along an edge thereof, and two opposing straight portions are parallel, which are on two sides of the curved portion; the press includes first and second lower dies, and first and second hydraulic actuated upper dies; the first lower die has notches along it; the second lower die has a trench along it, whose cross-section is like an U; the second upper die has a pressing portion fitting the trench; the plate is first formed with two parallel folded portions, which each defines an obtuse angle, and together define an intermediate portion, with the notches and the first upper die; the width of the intermediate portion equals the arc length of the trench; next, the intermediate portion is sandwiched between and pressed with both the second dies to have the same curvature as the trench.

Abstract: An improved machine for performing a swaging operation includes a mandrel and an expandable collet that are mounted to an actuator such as a conventional pneumatic gun. The mandrel includes a plurality of ramped planar engagement surfaces that are slidably engageable with a plurality of planar reaction surfaces on deflectable segments of the collet. The planar nature of the engagement surfaces and the reaction surfaces avoids unwanted deflection of the segments that would otherwise turn the segments into cutting tools, such as would occur if the surfaces were of certain other shapes. The mandrel is rotatably mounted to the pneumatic gun whereby the engagement surfaces are self-aligning with the reaction surfaces during an initial stage of a swaging operation.

Abstract: A bending system (1) on a bending machine for bending rod shaped and/or bar-shaped workpieces and especially pipes (4), incorporates at least one multilevel bending tool (3) with multiple bending levels arranged one above the other in the direction of a bending axis (8). For each bending level a bending die (5, 6, 7) and, associated with the corresponding bending die (5, 6, 7), at least one clamping jaw (8, 9, 10) and at least one slide rail (18, 19, 20) are provided. The clamping jaws (8, 9, 10) are effectively supported by means of a modular clamping jaw support (24), the slide rails (18, 19, 20) by means of a modular slide rail support (44) in the transverse direction of the bending axis (8) and in the transverse direction of the workpiece, respectively. Clamping jaw support units (28, 29, 30) and slide rail support units (33, 33a, 34, 34a, 35, 35a) of which the clamping jaw support (24) and, respectively, the slide rail support (44) is composed, are appropriately configured.

Abstract: A toolholder unit for sheet metal bending brakes, comprising a bar to be associated with a fixed or movable part of the brake, and provided with at least one recess forming with a jaw associated therewith a groove to receive the shank of the tool, there being provided elastic means to maintain said jaw spaced from said recess and from the shank contained therein, and locking means to clamp said jaw against said shank, said locking means comprising: at least one slider axially slidable within a seat facing that side of the bar facing the jaw; at least one appendix projecting from said slider beyond that side of the bar facing the jaw; at least one cavity provided in the bar, or in a part rigid with it, to receive said appendix; and means of variable profile to cause said slider to undergo controlled translations relative to said bar.

Abstract: A forging machine includes a machine bed, a driving unit driven by a driving source to activate a feeding unit, a sliding seat unit, and a forging unit. The machine bed includes left and right sidewalls. The driving unit is disposed at an inner side of the left sidewall. The sliding seat unit is disposed at an outer side of the right sidewalls, and includes a sliding plate unit that can reciprocate forwardly and rearwardly to activate a cutting unit and a holding unit. The sliding plate unit is guided by a guiding roller mechanism such that the sliding plate unit moves smoothly.

Abstract: A bending machine for the bending of rod-shaped and/or bar-shaped workpieces and especially of pipes incorporates a bending device (5) with bending tools (10, 11) that are provided on both sides of a tool platen (12). These bending tools (10, 11) include in each case a bending swage (13, 16) and at least one thrust member. At least one thrust member on one side of the tool platen and at least one thrust member on the other side of the tool platen (12) are drivingly coupled for joint movement in the transverse direction of the workpiece, with the movement in the transverse direction of the workpiece for shifting the thrust member(s) on one side of the tool platen (12) into its or their operating position permitting movement of the associated thrust member(s) on the other side of the tool platen (12) in the opposite direction.

Abstract: A method for expanding tubular blanks includes pre-expanding or initially expanding a section of the tube by forcing a punch into an open end of the tube. The punching process may be repeated to achieve up to approximately 50% expansion from the original configuration of the blank. Then, the same pre-expanded section can be further expanded by hydroforming such that the blank is filled with pressurized fluid to achieve further expansion of the initially expanded section up to approximately 100% expansion from the original configuration of the blank. As a final step, the open end of the expanded tube may be cut to its ultimate shape.

Abstract: A press forming machine having a slide plate which reciprocates by driving sources between a lower support stand and an upper support plate and has a forming space between the lower support stand and the slide plate. In the press forming machine, a reference plate for a displacement reference for the slide plate is supported on the lower support stand. The driving sources are engaged with the slide plate by the drive shafts of the driving sources to drive and press the slide plate. The drive shaft is provided with a through hole axially extending in a shaft center thereof, and displacement measuring devices each for each of the drive shafts measures the displacement of the slide plate portion corresponding to the through hole with respect to the reference plate, through the through hole. As a result, the displacements at the pressurized points on the slide plate can be measured.