Abstract: The invention relates to a device for forming an at least in part closed hollow profile from a board a with a tool comprising a first half having an at least a U-stamp and at least an upper cavity and a second half having two identical at least in part U-shaped die cavities. The U-stamp and the upper cavity of the first tool half are each meshed with an at least in part U-shaped cavity when the tool is shut. The at least one U-stamp and the at least one upper cavity of the first tool half and the at least two at least in part U-shaped die cavities of the second tool half are arranged in a rotationally symmetrical manner to the rotational axis running in the closing direction of the tool.

Abstract: A workpiece is formed into a shape having curvatures in the longitudinal and width directions required for a final closed cross-sectional shape, and bend-facilitating lines are provided at positions corresponding to bent lines in the closed cross-sectional shape. The workpiece formed in the first step is bent in a direction that left and right side wall portions approach each other by clamping the bottom portions between a punch and pad in the plate thickness direction and by pressing a punch into a space between dies. A plug having an outer shape the same as the final closed cross-sectional shape is placed on the bottom portion of the workpiece formed in the second step, and the bottom portion and the left and right side wall portions are bent along the bend-facilitating lines by pressing the bottom portion and the left and right side wall portions against a periphery of the plug.

Abstract: The different advantageous embodiments provide a method and apparatus for forming materials that may comprise a body having a channel and an insert. The channel may extend to a first opening in the body and a second opening in the body. The embodiments may also provide a mandrel disposed in the channel of the body and the insert of the body. The mandrel may have a shaft, a head on the shaft, and a compressible material disposed between the head and the insert of the body. The embodiments may also provide a collar. The collar may have a diameter smaller than a diameter of the body. The embodiments may also provide a biasing system configured to guide the collar in a first direction to a first position and then to a second position and configured to apply force to the body in a second direction.

Abstract: A stamping tool for stamping a product having an extending portion includes an upper mold having an inserting punch of which a bottom end defines an inclined pressing surface exposed under the upper mold, and a lower mold including an adjusting element, a sliding block, a returning block, a returning bolt and an elastic element. The returning bolt is inserted in the elastic element, and then screwed in the sliding block through the returning block. The sliding block is slidable between the returning block and the adjusting element and has one corner provided with an inclined abutting surface. The inclined pressing surface presses the abutting surface to push the sliding block and the returning bolt to slide towards the adjusting element so as to make the extending portion clipped between the sliding block and the adjusting element for modulating the product.

Abstract: A vehicular body panel or component part having a reinforcing backing plate reconciled or joined to a part of a blank material at a position wherein a bending formation is implemented. The backing plate has one or more apertures formed in at least one lateral row at a location equivalent to the position of the bending formation. When forming the blank material and the backing plate concurrently by a bending operation, the backing plate becomes intimately associated with the blank sheet to avoid the backing plate from locally separating from the blank material and from forming a gap relative thereto, with a resultant improved product quality.

Abstract: A device, such as an inner race of a torque converter's overrunning clutch, is formed by powder metallurgy. The race includes oil grooves and chamfers formed in each face by forging. The oil grooves on the first face open onto the chamfer. The chamfer on the second face is interrupted at the oil grooves such that each oil groove opens onto the diametral surface. A forge assembly for forming the race includes a die assembly including a discontinuous lower chamfer tool, an upper punch including groove tools and a continuous chamfer tool, and a lower punch including groove tools and radially extending teeth disposed at the oil grooves and capable of extending into the gaps of the lower chamfer tool. A method for forming the race includes employing the die assembly to forge the oil grooves and chamfers into the preform and remove flash by conventional grinding processes.

Abstract: Grooves are formed on a rotor by rotor holders for holding a rotor at both ends of a rotary shaft thereof, a groove rolling die for forming grooves in the outer surfaces of the field cores of the rotor, and a holder die having a groove pattern in conformity with a pattern of the grooves that are formed in the outer surfaces of the field cores by the groove rolling die. When the grooves are formed, the grooves are uniform in depth over the entire length of the magnetic poles from the root to the top, thereby preventing the eddy-current loss reduction effect from being deteriorated.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of impressing channels having a cross-sectional area of less than 1 mm.sup.2, notably less than 3000 .mu.m.sup.2, into the surface of an object, notably for the formation of damping channels of ink jet printer heads. The impression of channels having a small cross-sectional area can be performed with high precision by inserting a wire-shaped element (5) between the surfaces of the object (2) and of a plane die (1) in the position of the channel (3, 4, 12) to be formed, after which the die (1) is pressed until it contacts the surface of the object (2).

Abstract: A tool for stamping annular blanks to form retainers for truncated spherical members in a single stroke stamping operation comprises a sectored punch having at least one pair of diametrically opposed sectors of a cylinder separated from one another at their apexes such that the sectors of two punches can be intermated. The distal ends of the sectors are spherically contoured such that alternating spherical surfaces are formed on the inside surface of the retainers by two intermating sectored punches. The sectored punches form alternating cylindrical and spherical surfaces into the upper and lower portions of a blank to form the retainer. The cylindrical surfaces permit spherical members to be inserted into the retainers by hand or with the use of hand tools.

Abstract: A brake shoe resizer characterized as a hydraulically operated die which includes a groove presenting a shape corresponding to the area of the ribs surrounding the openings for the brake shoe anchor pin. Guide and/or stop means are provided for positioning and/or checking purposes during the reworking operation. The latter includes introduction of a guide pin into the openings for the anchor pin and the successive reshaping of each such openings after the selective heating of the areas around the anchor pin openings prior to die or reforming action. The overall assembly further includes structure for reshaping the curvature of the brake shoe, if necessary, and, as well, the spacing between the ribs presented on the brake shoe.

Abstract: Jewelry bands of various polygonal and arcuate shapes are made by forming an annular blank band to the desired shape. Shaping is achieved by forcing the blank rearward and onto an elongated male member having a tapered front portion which merges into a rear portion with a cross-section of the desired shape. The blank is forced rearward by pressing the male member into an aperture in a female member which is shaped to conform to and receive the rear portion of the male member. Compressing the formed blank against the rear portion of the male member makes it conform more closely to the desired shape, and eases removal of the shaped band from the male member.