Abstract: A method enhances fatigue strength of ear portions which are high fatigue risk parts in a torsion beam almost without bringing about disadvantages in terms of productivity and cost. A torsion beam is formed with a portion of the tubular body into an approximately U-shape in cross section by crushing the portion of the tubular body in the radial direction and, thereafter, due to bending with a bottom line set as a belly side of bending, a bending strain of 2 to 6% in the tube longitudinal direction on a tensile side is imparted to the ear portions.

Abstract: A flaring body has first and second opposing ends. A perimeter surface intersects the first end, and a flaring surface is located between the perimeter surface and the second end. The perimeter surface has a first cross-sectional profile with a first area, and the flaring surface having a second cross-sectional profile with a second area less than the first area. The perimeter surface and the flaring surface are joined by an inside, rounded corner. A crimping body has a top surface and an opposing bottom surface, and an interior surface that forms defines a passageway that connects said top and bottom surfaces. The interior surface has a third cross-sectional profile with a third area larger than the first area. The flaring body is slidably captureable in the passageway. The interior surface further has a crimping channel that extends along at least a portion thereof and terminates at the bottom surface.

Abstract: A ferrule securing assembly including a die set assembly for reducing a cylindrical ferrule. The die set assembly having a female die and a male die. The female die having a female die opening sequentially defined by a tapered section, a parallel section, and a concave seat. The male die having a concave die face with at least two lateral edges, a medial area, and a radius of curvature. The male die is receivable in the female die opening to move the ferrule through the tapered section so as to forge the ferrule into a substantially oval shape, to move the oval shaped ferrule through the parallel section, and to compress the oval shaped ferrule between the concave die face and the concave seat to forge the oval shaped ferrule into a substantially cylindrical shape.

Abstract: A bending head for bending of metallic hollow profile strips (2) in the production of spacer frames for insulating glass panes has a bending abutment (5) and a bending cheek (7). The bending abutment (5) can be placed by swivelling against one side of the section of the hollow profile strip (2) to be bent, conversely the bending cheek (7) can be placed from the outside against the hollow profile strip (2). In the execution of the bending process the bending abutment (5) and the bending cheek (7) are moved at the same time and hold the section of the hollow profile strip (2) to be bent between themselves.

Abstract: One or more closed perimeter openings are formed in the compression area of a flange of a member that is to be bent transversely to the flange. The member is bent along a transverse bend line, and the flanges are bent inwardly on themselves. The bending of the member along the transverse bend line is done with a great force, and because portions of the side flanges are supported on their distal and proximal side, the material of the side flanges in the compression area plasticizes and flows into the closed perimeter opening, causing them to deform. Because the closed perimeter opening or openings are present, the side flanges are compressed in a more controlled manner, reducing cracking, wrinkling and thinning during the bending of the member along the transverse bend line.

Abstract: A coining die apparatus for reshaping the backing plates of spent rotary drum brake cores in the production of remanufactured brake shoes comprises a lower die having a concave working surface configured to support a convex outer surface of a brake core backing plate to be coined. A moveable upper die includes axially-spaced outer die portions and a middle die portion between the outer portions having convex working surfaces. The middle and outer die portions are spaced laterally to accommodate a pair of mounting brackets extending from a convex inner surface of the backing plate. The middle die portion enters between the brackets when the dies are closed to strike and reshape a corresponding middle region of the backing plate between the brackets, while the outer die portions strike and reshape corresponding side portions of the mounting plate adjacent either side of the mounting brackets.

Abstract: A forming press for L-shaped and T-shaped workpieces includes first and second press members relatively movable toward and away from each other along a first direction, a first forming die carried by the first press member for engaging and deforming the workpiece to a desired shape when the press members are moved toward each other with the workpiece held therebetween, and a clamping assembly mounted on the second press member for clamping the leg of the workpiece to stabilize the workpiece during shaping thereof. The clamping assembly comprises at least one cam member fixed with respect to the second press member. The cam member defines a pair of spaced-apart cam surfaces oppositely inclined so as to form a channel that widens in the first direction toward the first press member. The clamping assembly further includes a pair of clamping members disposed within the channel so as to be movable along the first direction.

Abstract: In a method of making an elongate object (49) with a head at one end and a point at the other end, a blank (49) is placed in a die (50) having a through-going channel, following which the head end is subjected to axial pressure by a tool (52), while a stop member (55) is kept engaged with the die (50) at its other end. A pre-formed head is initially provided on the blank (49) so that the head has an excess of material with respect to the size of the final head. A cavity (56) is formed in the stop member and is in extension of the through channel. When blank (49) is subjected to axial pressure the tool (52) causes flow of material in the shank of the blank (49) so that blank material flows into the cavity (56) of the stop member.

Abstract: A mixer impeller made up of paddle shaped blades, which near their tips (e.g., at 90% of the radius of the impeller from its axis of rotation) are of a width at least 40% of the impeller's diameter. The blades also having camber and twist. They are formed by establishing bending moments which form the blades into sections which are curved and flat, with the flat sections being at least in the center area of the base of the blades.

Abstract: A flat metal strip is placed horizontally on a base plate which is vertically movable between a ram and a bolster of a press. A bending die for bending the metal strip by applying pressure in the widthwise direction is fixed to a slide cam slidable horizontally on the base plate. The slide cam has a slide cam face abutting on a front cam face formed in a drive cam mounted on the bolster. When the ram is moved downwards, a cover plate fixed to the ram covers the metal strip, pushes the base plate and the slide cam downwards, and compels the slide cam to slide horizontally toward the metal strip with the aid of the front and slide cam faces to bend the metal strip with the bending die. On the other hand, the drive cam has a rear cam face abutting on a press cam face formed in a press cam fixed to the ram.

Abstract: An electronic component lead straightening device and method for conditioning, or reconditioning, electronic devices having an elongated body portion of possible different sizes and materials, and a plurality of metal leads extending from opposite edges of the body portion. The leads, for appropriate use of the electronic component in a circuit, such as a printed circuit on a mounting board, requires their disposition at a preferred predetermined angle to the body, and in substantial parallel mutual relationship, one to another.

Abstract: An apparatus for straightening suspension bars removed from cathode plates includes a horizontal press, a vertical press, a vertically movable stop plate, and an ejector in the horizontal press. The horizontal press pushes the suspension bar against the stop plate when the stop plate is in its upper position, and ejects the straightened suspension bar laterally when the stop late is in its lower position.

Abstract: An apparatus for bending an elongate member with a pair of spaced parallel planar flanges which normally extend from the planar web to form a channel section. The apparatus includes a platen shaped for close fitting engagement with the exterior web and flange faces of the elongate member in a region where the elongate member is bent. The platen also includes a counter-pressure member, one surface of which engages the exterior face of the web of the elongate member in the bending region. The counter-pressure member is capable of being selectively advanced or retracted within the platen. A movable head member shaped for close fitting engagement with the interior web and flange faces of the elongate member in the bending region has projections which apply a force in the bending region acting in the planes of the flanges on longitudinally spaced portions of the elongate member for relative displacement of the portions.

Abstract: A brake shoe assembly and an apparatus and method for making same wherein the brake shoe includes a pair of spaced parallel arcuate ribs having outside radii secured to the underside of an arcuate plate with the inside radii of the arcuate ribs having a greater thickness than the outside radii. In accordance with the apparatus and method for making the brake shoe assembly, a straight length of rectangular bar stock having opposite faces is bent into an arcuate shaped member while maintaining the bar stock substantially flat with the opposite faces extending transversely to the axis of bending at a bending station. Subsequently, a plurality of holes are pierced between the opposite faces of the arcuate member at a piercing station.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for bending tubular bodies, wherein elemental tubular sections are gradually shifted with respect to each other, without rotation, in a V-shaped bend from a central bend section. The apparatus includes two slidingly fitted supports for housing the tubular body to be bent, and a central triangular presser acting between the supports on the central tube section. The supports are gradually moved by the presser in opposite directions to define the tube sections that are actually shifted.

Abstract: A sheet metal bending brake apparatus adapted to make complex bends in a sheet metal workpiece, comprising a frame, a fixed holding bar mounted adjacent of said surface, a movable holding bar mounted on said frame movable between a forward clamping position in opposed clamping relationship with the fixed bar and a rearward and downward position below the plane of the fixed surface, a bending brake element adjacent the fixed jaw adapted to contact sheet metal held between the same, said bending element adapted to rotate 180.degree., or more, around a point adjacent the jaws, the movable holding bar being coordinated with the bending brake to release from the holding position before the bending brake has rotated 180.degree..