Abstract: A hemming machine adapted to externally and internally hem a sheet metal fabrication comprising an anvil which itself is apertured so as to register with an aperture in the metal fabrication which is to be internally hemmed, wherein additional hemming apparatus is provided mounted at the upper end of a drive, and support means is located below and protruding up through the opening in the anvil so as to protrude the opening in the fabrication, further comprising a hemming tool displaceable vertically and horizontally having a chamfered lower leading edge, a slidable block carrying the tool at one end, drive means for positioning the slide vertically, and further drive means for positioning the block within the slide for positioning the tool horizontally, a second anvil resiliently displaceable and engaging the underside of the tool or normally raise the latter relative to its lowermost position, and wherein the upper surface of the block is adapted to withstand an impact force and transmit same to the tool to

Abstract: A press is described for prehemming and final hemming the internal periphery of an aperture in sheet material received on an anvil (10) on which the sheet material (12) is held down so that the upturned edge (14) of the aperture which is to be hemmed is substantially in alignment with the edge of the opening in the anvil (10). A composite hemming tool (40, 42) is provided adapted to perform prehemming and final hemming and carried b a tool carrier (36, 38). Drive means (24, 26) protrudes up from the press through the opening in the anvil so that a lower inclined leading edge (44, 46) of the tool substantially registers with the upturned edge (14) to be hemmed. The drive means operates so as to force the tool first of all towards the edge so as to bend the upturned edge over until it is bent through substantially 90 degrees from its upstanding position and thereafter to move in a generally downward direction so as to compress the downturned ege. A method of hemming is also described based on this machine.