Abstract: A tree shear blade is formed by pressing a pre-shaped flat metal plate or blank into a die shaped to turn up opposite side and rear tabs of the blank to form mounting portions of the blade and to cylindrically curve a central portion of the blank to form a cutting portion of the blade. The side and rear tabs are then welded together.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 11, 1976
Date of Patent:
December 6, 1977
Assignee:
Deere & Company
Inventors:
James Knox Dunn, III, Lee Everett Tucker, Andrew Paul Redman
Abstract: Looped wire initially having a circular cross section is, with a single application of pressure between dies, simultaneously coined to a wedge shape and curved in a portion thereof extending between loops.