Abstract: A method of and apparatus for press forming sheet metal into articles, such as roof cladding element (10), having intersecting fold lines. A strip of metal is advanced through a forming die which has first (20) and second (21) stages and a press forming operation is performed on the metal strip in each stage of the die during each closing stroke of the die. One portion of the metal strip is formed in the second stage (21) of the die during a first time interval of each closing stroke of the die and a further portion of the metal strip is movably clamped in the first stage (20) of the die during the same time interval in order that it may be pulled into said second stage (21) of the die during the first time interval. During a second time interval of each closing stroke the metal strip is immovably clamped in both stages (20 and 21) of the die.

Abstract: In a multi-stage forming machine, a die-change device, for male dies in a male-die block has a mounting plate for receiving a clamping face of the male-die block on one side. Bayonet fasteners on hollow pistons in the mounting plate then engage the male dies, and a pressure medium then moves the hollow pistons to move the male dies against thrust pieces displacably in the hollow pistons and the thrust pieces against an adjusting wedge on the opposite side of the mounting plate.

Abstract: A press assembly is disclosed with a series of punch/die sets for successive operations on parts connected together in a strip. The punch/die sets are conveniently relocatable anywhere on regularly-spaced fixed stations and the stations can receive more than one punch/die set. The punches and dies in the sets can be mounted on removable base plates or otherwise made movable to any spacing, such that the sets are easily spaced to reflect a length of the parts being manufactured. The increment of strip feed between operations of the press is also adjustable. The press assembly can therefore be inexpensively set up to make parts of any characteristic length.

Abstract: The apparatus of this invention, for bending wire and metal strip, comprises a stationary working plate, a drive shaft rotatable in bearings spaced along its length and fixed relative to the working plate, and a tool guide unit confined to adjustment relative to the working plate in directions parallel to the drive shaft and carrying a tool slide that it guides for reciprocation transverse to the drive shaft. A cam on the drive shaft by which the tool slide is reciprocated is fixed to an axial sleeve portion concentric to the drive shaft and axially slidable along it, which sleeve portion is rotatably received in a cam bearing that is secured in the tool guide unit. The cam bearing thus radially supports the cam and the drive shaft so that the drive shaft can be relatively slender and light.

Abstract: An adjustable clevis includes a pair of opposed, spaced clevis members each having one end thereof secured to a cylindrical body. The body may consist of a threaded bore or a threaded stud to permit coupling with the male or female components of a linkage or the like. The clevis members are formed by passing a sheet of metal through a progressive die which shears and coins blanks into a configuration consisting of an outer perforated ear and an arcuate base having an inner curved surface which conformingly engages the body and is off-set relative to the ear.

Abstract: A spiral-wound metal catalyst support is disclosed, wherein the layers of the spiral cannot telescope outwardly in either direction. The support is formed by first winding together a flat strip and a corrugated strip, the strips being wound on a mandrel. The mandrel is removed to leave an axial hole. The catalyst support is then flattened at each end, so as to close the axial hole at each end. The flattening is done in mutually perpendicular directions, so that the catalyst support has tapers in both of two directions. The tapers prevent telescoping of the layers of the support. The catalyst support can be placed in a tube before it is flattened, and then the tube and the support can be flattened together, so that the support becomes firmly anchored in the tube. In an alternative embodiment, a second, tapered mandrel is inserted into the support before flattening, the tapered mandrel having a shape conforming to the inner cavity defined by the flattened support.

Abstract: A press machine is disclosed which is provided with a plurality of press dies fixedly secured on a bolster. The machine has a vertically reciprocable frame member with a predetermined constant stroke, which carries a plurality of pressure plates cooperating with the die, respectively. Each pressure plate is axially movable with respect to the frame member and threadedly connected with a spacer plate arranged between the frame member and the pressure plate. The shut height of the machine can be individually adjusted for each pressure plate, by rotating the spacer plate relative to the pressure plate. The shut height can be optimized very easily and in short a time so that the productivity can considerably be improved.

Abstract: A method for finishing a relatively long metal tubing stock to any desired tapered shape through a single-pass operation. The method is performed with any number of individual swaging units, arranged in tandem each having the identical construction including the same working parts and assemblies. A grooved roll arrangement, associated with the tandem-configured swaging units, is used as a preliminary step to form an initial metal tubing stock into a multiple-stepped shape.

Abstract: In a metallic mold apparatus, a rotational power for a skewing operation and a rotational power for an indexing operation are applied through a differential gear device to a rotatably supported die. More specifically, the skew power from such an electric motor as a servomotor operative in synchronism with a press operation and the indexing power from an index means operatively coupled to a press are applied to the differential gear device.

Abstract: An electrical terminal having a coined rib for contact section rigidity and for increased crimp pressure against a wire in the wire barrel. The terminal, stamped and formed from thin metal stock, meets electrical and mechanical requirements and is lower in manufacturing costs.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming hinges from strip stock and for applying the hinges to cards and pockets. Hinge blanks including a pair of hinge legs are stamped from the strip stock and the barrel of the hinge partly formed at a first station. The blank then moves laterally to a second station where the legs are bent at a right angle to the hinge body and the barrel further shaped. Thereafter, the hinge continues in the same lateral path to a third station. Here, the formation of the barrel is completed; the hinge legs are driven through a pocket or card theretofore brought to the station; and the hinge legs are then bent over and against the pocket or card to secure the hinge to it.

Abstract: A press forming process is composed of a step of removing wrinkles of the surface of a curved elongate flat sheet metal workpiece which has been prepared by a so-called edge bending process. The wrinkle removing step is carried out prior to a U-shape bending step in which the workpiece is bent to have a U-shaped cross-section in order to obtain an curved elongate channel-shaped article, thereby improving the quality of the resulting article while preventing press dies from being damaged.

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for folding sheet metal blanks. For folding a sheet metal blank, there is provided at least one folding member having a folding surface and being driven by an eccenter to perform a reciprocating beat movement. The sheet metal blank is drawn into the gap between the folding member and a stationary anvil for folding. The folding member is pivotally mounted in a holder for ease of operation and to obtain a neat folding. So the folding member is adapted to adjust to the instantaneous resistance of deformation of the sheet metal blank. If a sheet metal blank is to be folded twice, a corresponding second folding member, which is also pivotally mounted in a holder, is disposed downstream of the first folding member.

Abstract: A rectangular prism (FIG. 10A) is cut diagonally to form a pair of generally wedge-shaped billets (FIG. 10B). The generally wedge-shaped billets are heated and placed in a transversely elongated die cavity of a lower busting die (20). An upper busting die (22) presses the billet generally into conformity with the busting die cavity. The busting dies include a projection (36) which forms a recess in one planar surface of the billet (FIG. 10C). The busted billet is disposed axially in an axially elongated split ring die cavity (46) of a split ring die (40). A blocking punch (60) presses the billet generally into conformity with the split ring die cavity (FIG. 10D). The split ring die and the blocked billet are moved from a blocking well (14) to a finishing well (16) where a finishing punch (70) presses the blocked billet into conformity with the finishing die cavity (FIG. 10E). The flanges are trimmed from the finished billet and mounting apertures (80, 82) are punched to form an excavator tip (FIG. 10F).

Abstract: A press machine adapted for the production of many different types of products in limited quantities. The press machine comprises a plurality of lower dies mounted on a bolster and a plurality of upper dies each mounted to a slide facing to the respective lower dies. Each upper die is mounted to the slide by means of a die clamper via an adapter plate and each upper die is biased upwards by coil springs so that a predetermined gap exists between each pair of upper and lower dies when the slide is moved down to a bottom dead center. An activating plate can be insertable between the slide and each adapter plate so that the activated upper die is allowed to make contact with the opposing lower die.

Abstract: An apparatus for punching a workpiece has a stationary frame, a longitudinally extending row of horizontally spaced and upwardly facing different dies fixed on the frame below a horizontally elongated punching station, at least one horizontal and stationary rail fixed on the frame, and a punch carriage displaceable horizontally along the rail above the station. A turret rotates about a horizontal turret axis on the carriage and carries a plurality of radially outwardly directed different punches angularly spaced about the turret axis. A positioning unit is operatively connected between the carriage and the frame for displacing the carriage through a plurality of positions in each of which the turret axis is above one of the dies. An indexing unit angularly displaces the turret about its axis through positions in each of which one of the punches is facing down in the station toward the respective die.

Abstract: A progressive forming method of a product having a varied cross-sectional length in the direction of supply of strip material. A material is first drawn so that a portion which corresponds to the portion of the product having a cross-sectional length larger than the smallest cross-sectional length is processed. The material is elongated by an amount corresponding to the difference of the length from the smallest length. Operations that require no differential elongation in the direction of supply are all performed subsequently, since such operations do not require excess stock that must ultimately be scrapped.

Abstract: An apparatus (100) and process for multistep heading of elongated stock to form a brush contact (10) with a relatively great reduction in the length of the wire stock material (386) achieved during successive heading steps, including a rotary holder plate (112) mounting a series of blank clamping holders (166) indexed through a series of stations and a series of coning dies (240) and punches (244) carried by independently actuated tooling plates (114, 116) which are axially advanced during forming of the blanks. A final forming step involves a reverse extrusion to create an endwise axial opening (26). The apparatus (100) also includes a feed mechanism (148) and a cutoff mechanism (160) for forming blanks from wire stock (386). A clamping member (178) is associated with each holder (166) for clamping the blank for securement during the forming steps, which is unlocked at an ejection station to enable removal of the formed article by an ejection mechanism (610).

Abstract: A beaded edge is formed on a plate member, which has an upstanding outer edge bent with a predetermined radius of curvature, by placing the plate member on a lower die and applying a uniform force against the free edge of the upturned portion at an approximately 45.degree. angle to turn the outer portion inwardly to form an angle of about 45.degree. with the plate member, and then pressing the free edge downward into contact with the plate member while maintaining a substantially constant curvature of the bend region to produce a beaded edge.

Abstract: A pipe press having a main press section and at least one end press section aligned with the main section for movement with and independently of the main section. The press is designed to accommodate elongate heavy gauge steel pipe blanks having lengths varying between the length of the main section and the combined composite length of the main and end sections. Because of the independence of the end section relative to the main section, the main section is loaded uniformly, even though a blank may be of a length less than the combined composite length of the press. The end press section is free to move axially relative to the main press section to accommodate elongation of a blank during operation of the press. Actuating cylinders for the press are arranged in paired sets extending transversely of the press dies to provide increased load capacity, without resorting to the use of extraordinarily large cylinders.

Abstract: Apparatus for radial shaping of rotors, stators, crankshafts, spindles and the like from an elongate seamless tube where a supporting ring performing a reciprocating motion according to an adjustable stroke of a connecting rod causes by way of rollers and guiding segments a reduction and increase of the radial distance of sliding shoes with forming jaws with respect to the formed object.

Abstract: A rotary transfer press comprising a bed; an upright extending upward from the bed; a crown mounted on the upright and providing a plurality of stations between the crown and the bed in an annular arrangement; a slide upwardly and downwardly movable by being guided by the upright; a feed bar having clamps corresponding in number to the number of the stations and provided around the upright for transferring workpieces from station to station in succession; a slide drive disposed in the crown for moving the slide upward and downward and comprising a main shaft coupled to a main electric motor to rotate at a reduced speed, eccentric rings coupled to the main shaft to rotate at a reduced speed and connecting rods connecting the eccentric rings to the slide; a feed bar lifting drive having a lift cam coupled to one of the eccentric rings and adapted to be actuated by the lift cam for moving the feed bar upward and downward; a feed bar feeding-drive having a feed cam coupled to one of the eccentric rings and adapte

Abstract: A versatile, calibrated cable connector crimping tool capable of crimping a plurality of cable connector sizes and a method of forming a calibrated crimp or a plurality of calibrated crimps in a cable splice connector positioned around a cable splice along a cable using said crimping tool are disclosed. The crimping tool comprises a first die member having a plurality of dies of select sizes, a second die member having a single die of select size, and a hinge joint connecting said die members and allowing them to be swung into engagement. One die member has a die or dies which are spatially fixed to define a fixed die member. The other die member has a moving means along which the die or dies may be moved into a position allowing engagement of the die members to define a movable die member.

Abstract: A tool for crimping a connector sleeve onto the ends of cable strands or the like for joining the strands together consists of an anvil arm having a V-shaped notch therein pivotally mounted relative to a base for its notch to be swung into cooperative opposed relation with a V-shaped notch in a die block on the base for crimping a connector sleeve that is placed through the die block notch.The size of the crimp opening, defined by the two notches in cooperative opposed relation, is determined solely by the size of the notch in the die block. The notch in the anvil arm is the same for all crimp opening sizes. The die block has shoulder surfaces that are engaged by end portions of the walls of the anvil arm notch to bring the two notches into precise operative alignment and to stop relative movement of the notches together when they are in the spaced relation that will produce the size crimp desired.

Abstract: A mandrel jaw and a process for forming it from a strip of steel including the steps of forming a shape, bending portions of the shape and then stamping the bent body into the configuration of the jaw.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for manufacturing a cylindrical member utilizing a pair of dies each of which has a semi-cylindrical recess formed therein and which are adapted to be brought into abutment against each other to form a material disposed within the recesses into a cylindrical form. The abutting surfaces of the pair of dies are offset from a plane which includes the axis of a cylindrical member to be formed within the recesses of the dies and which is perpendicular to the direction of movement of one or both of the dies. In this manner, the formation of a bulge or flash on the outer periphery of the cylindrical member can be prevented which may be formed if the abutting surfaces lie in said plane.

Abstract: A method and apparatus (32) is provided for crushing a portion of a corrugated sheet (10) in an area (20, 22) extending transversely to the corrugations in the sheet without blocking the passages (14) between the crowns (12) of the uncrushed portions of the corrugated sheet (10). In accordance with the method, spacing members (58-66 and 78-88) are inserted into each of the passages (14) on either side of a ridge (12) to be crushed, and the ridge (12) between the spacing members (58-66 and 78-88) is crushed before the spacing members (58-66 and 78-88) are withdrawn. The apparatus for crushing the sheet (10) includes opposed die members (34, 36), each having a plurality of blades (58-66 and 78-88) spaced by slots (68-76 and 90-98). The slots (68-76 and 90-98) in each die member (34, 36) progressively decrease in depth and are positioned to receive the blades (58-66 and 78-88) of the opposed die member.

Abstract: A punching apparatus for punching a strip of lead alloy material into a battery grid is provided with a support for supporting the material to be punched thereon and biased punch members above the support for punching through the material. Rotating cams engage the punch members and force the punch members downward through the material on the support. Rollers provided adjacent the support and the material to be punched move the material across the support means synchronously with the motion of the rotating cams engaging the punches.

Abstract: A pilot assembly as for locating a workpiece in successive forming stages of a machine, such as a punch press, where the workpiece is progressively moved through the forming stages of the machine. The pilot assembly includes a pilot pin mounted to a movable die member of the machine for guiding entry into a previously formed hole in a workpiece or in a companion die member as the die members are moved toward each other, the pin being axially retractable in its mounting in the event it strikes an obstruction.

Abstract: A folding machine has a pair of longitudinally extending forming members which in a rest position have horizontal co-planar upper surfaces 22 and 23. In use as a folding machine a holding tool (not shown) is supported on a holding bar 33 to hold a workpiece which is folded by swinging the forming members 15 and 16 upwardly and outwardly as shown. The folding machine is modified in accordance with the invention by the provision of a vertically guided horizontal platten 41 connected to the forming members by pivoted links 42 and 43 to enable the apparatus to operate a punch and die set 48. A fixed abutment 51 on the holding bar 33 operates the punch as the platten is raised.

Abstract: A tool for modifying openings in carburetor jets includes a base, upwardly extending guide rods, a relatively heavy tool-carrying block slidable on the rods, and a plate for holding the jet or jets to be modified. The plate has locating openings and the base has a locating pin, the locating openings being spaced so that when the proper one is placed on the pin the selected jet is accurately located beneath a tool carried by the block. The block, with the proper tool installed therein, is then lifted and allowed to drop so that the tool reduces the jet orifice size. The tools have rounded ends and diameters to properly modify various jets.

Abstract: A fully automated tool changer system for multi-station forging machines is disclosed. This system provides a tool and die supporting head providing spaced support rails on which the tools or dies are supported during the transfer between the machine and the tooling rack. Such head is operable to properly position tools and dies which have different diameters for insertion into the cylindrical cavities in which they are mounted within the machine. A second tooling head is rotated to an operative position when the elements of the shear are to be changed. The tool heads are directly supported on the machine frame or the tool rack so that the loads of installing and removing the tooling are directly transmitted to stationery supports and need not be absorbed by the power transfer system. Further, the supports are arranged so that a high degree of positional accuracy is provided during the tool changing operations.

Abstract: Part of a red-hot metal rod between the ends of the rod is supported and first and second bending members are displaced, preferably simultaneously, to bend parts of the rod on both sides of said part around respective forming surfaces to produce two U-bends substantially without movement of said part. Then the two end portions of the rod point in substantially opposite directions and overlap without touching one another. Preferably the rod bent in this way, still red-hot, proceeds to another location where it is bent further to produce a railway rail-fastening clip of the desired final shape.

Abstract: A progressive stage forging machine is provided for forming an article in stages by means of a plurality of dies and cooperating punches, carried on a ram, wherein more than two forging blows are required to complete the forming of the article. The invention particularly provides a forging machine of the three-blow type having three punches and three cooperating dies, wherein two of the dies are carried on a member to permit alternating changes of position of those two dies, thereby eliminating a transfer mechanism between the two dies and achieving a one hundred percent increase over the production rate of presently available forging machines of the three-blow type.

Abstract: A pair of press tools, such as punches, are mounted on a tool support for axial reciprocation between extended and retracted positions with respect to the support. The tool support may be defined by a press slide, bed or component part of a tooling package mountable thereon and is provided with a hydraulic fluid receiving cylinder for each of the tools. Each tool is interconnected with a piston received in the corresponding cylinder and the cylinders are in flow communication with one another. Accordingly, if one of the tools engages a workpiece before the other during operation of the press, the one tool is displaced in the direction of retraction causing the other tool to be displaced in the direction of extension until both tools engage the workpiece, thus to avoid eccentric loading of the press slide and frame.

Abstract: In accordance with this invention a part having an internally threaded section is formed by a progressive stamping operation in which there is only opposed rectilinear motion between the punch and die, and no mandrel is used. The part may include a U-shaped receptacle portion and a prong element for being bent over an object that is supported. In producing the part, grooves are formed in the surface of the workpiece, being progressively deepened to the depth of the screw thread and with side wall portions progressively given the inclination of the flanks of the screw threads. The threaded portion then is given a concave shape at either of its two opposite edges and a convex shape in between. The convex shape subsequently is made concave as the threaded section is closed up. In these steps the part is engaged by punch elements in the form of threaded members which have ridges corresponding to the grooves in the workpiece.

Abstract: A continuous metal strip is fed lengthwise along a line of dies intermittently from one end of the line to the other beneath a vertically reciprocating ram carrying a plurality of punches that are slidable vertically in the ram from a projecting operating position to a retracted inoperative position. Each punch is selectively movable automatically from either of those positions to the other independently of the rest of the punches so that different punches can punch a strip at different times while the strip is passing through the press.

Abstract: Tools for stamping very delicate lead frames for semiconductor packages, including scored and bent-up tabs that retain groups of inner lead tips in position through subsequent operations, after which they are broken off. Sequential punch and die sets are used to (1) define the tabs, (2) bend down the leads, (3) score the tabs and coin the lead tips, and (4) bend the tabs up. At stations (3) and (4) means are provided to lift scored tabs out of the die and to allow the frame strip to move over the tab-bending die without interference.

Abstract: A transfer press having a plurality of generally linearly spaced die stations, a transfer mechanism for successively advancing blanks or partially stamped parts from one station to the next each cycle of the press and quick change upper and lower die plates mounted in fixtures attached to the press slide and bed or bolster, respectively. Each of the die sets includes a plurality of die fixtures having extendible and retractable clamps which open to permit a die plate to be slid therein and approximately located by means of locating ears on the die plate which contact the forward surface of the respective fixture or by contacting locating blocks at the rear of the fixture. When the clamps are retracted, the die plates are pulled downwardly and are accurately located by means of a plurality of locating pins which engage corresponding apertures in the plates. The clamps lock the plates in their final operative positions for the successive stamping operations.

Abstract: An automatic rotary die forging press includes a pair of vertically arranged top and bottom die bolsters each having a polygonal section and rectangular faces corresponding to those of the other bolster. The top die bolster having as a bearing thereof a suspended holder supported in a ram and the bottom die bolster having as a bearing thereof a stationary holder supported in a frame and both supported rotatably. The press further includes a rotary drive mechanism for rotating said top and bottom die bolsters simultaneously, uniformly and intermittently in the same direction.

Abstract: A method of forming a cup shaped housing member with an integral inlet tube extending radially to the axis of a cup shaped member from a flat strip of metallic material in progressive dies such that a tube is formed first to extend parallel to the axis of the cup shaped member and in subsequent progressive steps is moved first to a position extending at an angle to the axis and finally to a position extending radially to the axis of the cup shaped member. SUThis invention relates to a method and apparatus for forming metal parts in progressive dies and more particularly it relates to the method and apparatus of forming a dished housing member with a tube extending radially from the axis of the housing member.To provide a radially extending tube from a housing usually requires the welding of separate parts together or requires forming the assembly from molded materials such as plastic.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making a housing member with a projecting bracket receiving adaptor from a sheet of flat material in which the material is formed in progressive dies by displacing material in the direction of die movement and also transversely thereof by a die arrangement movable into engagement with a portion of the material displaced in the direction of die movement to confine that portion while permitting displacement of the unconfined portion transversely.

Abstract: A high speed end forming apparatus for elongated work pieces, such as coated tube, includes two selectively variably spaced C-shape heads having feed openings therein to receive the two ends of the advancing work piece, the two ends sequentially being clamped and formed in such position, respectively, by relatively movable chuck jaws and forming apparatus carried by such C-shape heads. The work piece is advanced to the C-shape heads by a walking beam transfer conveyor that is simultaneously operative to deliver an unformed work piece to the C-shape heads and to remove a formed work piece from the C-shape heads.

Abstract: This disclosure includes a die for forming metal piece parts and includes two progressive die sections which partially form metal piece parts and transfer same to a rotary die section which nest the parts and rotates same through a series of work stations for finishing operations.

Abstract: A pneumatic metal forming press which employs at least one pneumatic drive unit which has an expansion chamber defined by a flexible diaphragm acting on a support mechanism and a shock absorber underlying the support mechanism to absorb the impact thereof following the release of a working tool such as a punch after penetration of a work piece during a working stroke. The drive unit may incorporate a plurality of diaphragm chambers arranged one above the other and connected in parallel to a source of high pressure air. The drive unit may also incorporate a pressure multiplier having a fluid chamber pressurized in response to movement of the diaphragm of a drive mechanism and an output drive shaft driven in response to pressure thereto by the fluid in the multiplier chamber.

Abstract: A railway rail-fastening clip is made by bending a resilient rod at least 0.8 centimeter thick in a first bending operation to give it first to fifth portions in direct succession, proceeding from one end to the other, the first portion being a substantially straight leg, the second a reverse bend, the third being beside the first and the whole being such that in a particular position, with the first portion horizontal, in a plan view the third and fifth portions appear to be in opposite sides of the axis of the first portion. The whole of that part of the fifth portion which is between the lowest point in the fifth portion, when the bent rod is in said position, and the adjacent end of the rod is pressed in a second bending operation by a first shaping tool against a second shaping tool to make said end upturned.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for use in a press brake to be actuated between the ram and bed of such an apparatus to cut and form metal workpieces. The ram of the press brake receives a striker bar that engages a force member to coact with a bed member of the attachment to perform cutting and forming operations. The bed member of the attachment is fixed to the bed of the press brake and includes: a rigidly supported shear plate defining at least one recess to supportably receive a length of linear stock, and a yield block yieldably aligned with the rigidly supported shear plate which also defines at least one recess to supportably receive a length of linear stock. The force member is spring mounted above the bed member for separation from the bed member, and includes a movable shear plate defining at least one extension that is complementary to the recess in a rigidly supported shear plate, the two shear plates being supported in offset alignment.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming a multiple throw crankshaft from metal rod in a single forming operation. The ends of the rod are held in axially movable units through which electrical resistance heating to a deformation temperature may be effected. A forming head for each throw is clamped about the rod at a precise location therealong. The forming heads are mounted on individual carriages, which are axially movable along the machine base, and each supports a subcarriage for horizontal transverse movement on the carriage driven by a horizontal cylinder. Each subcarriage supports one of the forming heads plus a vertical cylinder for moving the head transversely up or down. Control means is capable of simultaneously actuating the horizontal and vertical cylinders associated with any individual forming unit to thus achieve composite deforming movement of the forming head in any desired transverse angular direction.

Abstract: Forming of wire contacting jaws for a channel type electrical terminal of conductive sheet metal is disclosed, without diminishing the length of the terminal, by first obtaining a stretching of the conductive metal into a preliminary displaced configuration in a first die. Then in a second die, reverse forming and coining the metal into a jaw formation deeper and narrower than the first configuration. Then in a third die, substantially removing the reverse curvature, with added coining and stretching of the metal, into a final jaw formation which is deeper and narrower than that obtained in the second die, without rupture of the metal. Slight reverse curvature is retained adjacent the juncture of the sides of the jaw with the body of the terminal.

Abstract: Automatic apparatus and method for simultaneously forming eyes at each end of a leaf spring blank in which hydraulic clamps clamp each end of a spring blank into a working position, hydraulic knock-downs knock down the ends of the spring blank about gooseneck forms advanced in alignment with and beneath the clamping surfaces of the clamps and partially form the ends of the blank, scarfing knives advance with scrolling dies to cut the extreme ends of the blank to conform to the underside of the gooseneck forms. The scrolling dies are advanced toward the ends of the spring blank to further form the ends of the spring blank to a semicircular form. Sizing pins are advanced through the semicircular form of the spring blank, and the scrolls are further advanced to conform the eyes with the anvil and form the spring to size about the sizing pins. The sizing pins are then removed and the formed blank may be passed to a quenching solution.