B - Operations – Transporting – 21 – D
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
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D
B21D 7/08 (2006.01) B21D 7/024 (2006.01) B21D 7/06 (2006.01) B21D 7/14 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2221324
Apparatus and method for the bending of rigid workpieces, particularly tubes, such as those of use in automotive exhaust systems, heat exchangers and aircrafthydraulic systems. The apparatus comprises a workpiece clamping means for retaining the workpiece on the bending apparatus; a pressure die means engageable with the workpiece; a radius die means for providing a radius form about which the workpiece is bent, the radius die means being adapted to rotate about an axis for bending the workpiece about the radius die means to the bend angle; a workpiece clamping die means for engaging and bending the workpiece relative to the pressure die means and about a portion of the radius die means; control means for moving the clamping die means between a bend angle position in which the workpiece is bent about the radius die means to said bend angle relative to the clamping means and a relieved position in which the clamping diemeans is not bending the workpiece; a workpiece displacement means for displacing said workpiece to a displaced position relative to said pressure die means and said clamping die means out of the engaging plane of said clamping die means by movement of said workpiece clamping means; and sensor means for sensing the free portion of the workpiece after the bending when the workpiece is in said displaced position and for sending a signal providing said sensing to the control means.
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