Abstract: A method of producing shaped parts includes drawing in the wire in cycles conveying the wire; severing wire portions in cycles; gripping and feeding the wire portion into work area; shaping the wire portion in multiple stages to form a shaped part with shank and head portions; ejecting formed shaped parts in cycles; transporting the fully formed shaped parts with a pneumatic conveyor system including a transporting pipe with an insertion opening: arranging the insertion opening near an ejector system such that the finished shaped parts can be inserted into the insertion opening directly in a positionally oriented manner by the ejector system; successively feeding the finished shaped parts into the transporting pipe by the ejector system; taking up the shaped parts inserted into the transporting pipe by suction into the transporting pipe; and pneumatically transporting the shaped parts through the transporting pipe in a direction of a subsequent station.

Abstract: A silicone extrusion plant has a silicone extruder and a silicone feed device configured to load the silicone extruder. The silicone feed device has a feed hopper. The feed hopper opens into a feed opening at the bottom thereof. The feed opening is in a fluidic connection, via a feed duct, with an inlet zone of the silicone extruder. A feed screw arranged in the feed hopper in such a way as to be drivable for rotation protrudes into the feed opening at least partly. The feed screw has a cone portion and a cylinder portion. According to another aspect, the silicone extrusion plant has at least one feed pressure sensor configured to measure an actual feed pressure of silicone material to be extruded. A control unit is in a signal communication with the feed pressure sensor and a feed drive device in order to drive the silicone feed device.

Abstract: A transport apparatus for transferring workpieces in a processing device includes at least two stations having at least two gripping tool units arranged on a gripping tool support which is movable back and forth between the stations of the processing device. The gripping tool support is movably mounted so as to be linearly guided and mounted by a parallelogram guide arrangement so as to be displaceable transversely with respect to its linearly guided movability. The gripping tool support is movable by a gripping tool support drive with two crank gear arrangements each having a gripping tool support drive motor.

Abstract: Tooling for making pointed headed bolts of a given diameter in numerous lengths with roll thread ready threaded to the head and partially threaded shanks in a four forming station forming machine, the tools being configured to work on wire stock as received at the first station of a diameter larger than or substantially the same as the roll diameter and not greater than the nominal diameter of the bolt, including at least two sequential head forming tools for mounting on the slide, an extrusion pointing tool for mounting on the die breast, a roll diameter extrusion tool for mounting on the die breast and a head support tool mountable in a station on the slide at multiple axial positions corresponding to standard lengths of the bolts being made, the head support tool being arranged to work at either the extrusion pointing station or the roll diameter extrusion station.

Abstract: A set of tooling for making pointed headed bolts of a given diameter in numerous lengths with roll thread ready threaded to the head and partially threaded shanks in a four forming station forming machine, the tools being configured to work on wire stock as received at the first station of a diameter larger than or substantially the same as the roll diameter and not greater than the nominal diameter of the bolt, including at least two sequential head forming tools for mounting on the slide, an extrusion pointing tool for mounting on the die breast, a roll diameter extrusion tool for mounting on the die breast and a head support tool mountable in a station on the slide at multiple axial positions corresponding to standard lengths of the bolts being made, the head support tool being arranged to work at either the extrusion pointing station or the roll diameter extrusion station.

Abstract: A upset forging machine assembly (20) including a pair of gripper dies (22, 24) for gripping forging stock in a closed position and movable to an open position for receiving stock and removing a forged part. A gripper drive mechanism (34) moves the gripper dies (22, 24) between the open and closed positions. A header (84) is removably clamped to a header support member (36) by multiple pairs of studs (72) extending from the header support member (36) with each stud (72) having a head (78) disposed in an associated channel (90) in the header (84). An actuation mechanism (92, 94) moves the studs (72) between a clamped position and a release position. A tool punch (142) is supported by the header (84) for upsetting the forging stock. Having the header (84) clamped to the header support member (36), a header drive mechanism (46) moves the header support member (36) to a forging position is when the gripper dies (22, 24) are in the closed position.

Abstract: A screwhead forming apparatus includes an operating mechanism driven to reciprocate, a male die driven by the operating mechanism to reciprocate and having a die cavity of a predetermined shape, a stationary female die, and a punch rod driven by the operating mechanism to impel the blank into the die cavity of the male die so as to forge an elongated blank. A compression spring assembly consists of a plurality of spring units which are disposed between the operating mechanism and the male die and which have different spring forces so that the spring assembly creates a successively increasing spring force to bias the male die to press against the female die after the male die is brought to contact the female die by the operating mechanism during movement of the punch rod relative to the female die. The spring units are compressed completely just before the blank is moved entirely into the die cavity of the male die so as to prevent removal of the male die from the female die.