Abstract: A shaping machine for bending a plate into a cylindrical shape which comprises a frame and first, second, and third roll assemblies disposed on the frame. Each of the roll assemblies includes a roll for engaging a plate to be bent and a plurality of pairs of support rollers axially distributed along and supporting the roll. There is a drive disposed at the frame for rotatably driving each of the rolls of the first, second, and third roll assemblies, and at least one of the roll assemblies is displaceable transversely to the longitudinal axis of its roll.

Abstract: A method of producing a conical shell from a metal sheet cut to size. The method includes feeding the sheet in a nip between two transport rollers an incremental distance between respective positions in which nonparallel straight line generatrices on the sheet defining the shell to be produced are in an aligned with the nip, translating a bending roller into engagement with the sheet to incrementally bend the sheet in a direction perpendicular to the generatrix between the nip, then retracting the bending roller away from the sheet, and successively repeating the above steps until the sheet is in the shape of the conical shell to be produced.