Abstract:
A cam-type press system is provided which includes a cam base slidably mounted on a lower die and securing a material panel with a formation pad: cam base steel is mounted on the cam base corresponding to a height of the formation cam. The cam base steel is performs a formation process on the material panel together with a formation cam. A cam slider is mounted on the cam base through a linkage assembly such that the cam slider and the cam base are able to slide. The cam slider is linked with the operation of an operational driver. First and second return assemblies are mounted respectively within the cam base and the cam slider and contacting the lower die. The first and second return assemblies exert a biasing force to return the cam base and the cam slider, respectively, to an initial position when displaced from the initial position.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a negative-angle forming die. The die has upper and lower halves. The upper die half has a supporting portion for receiving a sheet metal work, and an intrusion forming portion. The lower die half carries a plate-like cam which can be moved toward the lower die half for forming the work. The die also has a rotary cam, the ends of which terminate in first and second shafts journaled in the lower die half. The die also has a slide cam, which itself has an intrusion forming portion. This portion is slidably opposed to the rotary cam. The die is equipped with a cam follower arm centrally fastened to the supporting shaft. One end of the cam follower arm carries a cam follower in operable relationship with the plate-like cam carried by the upper die half. In operation moving contact between the plate-like cam and the cam follower causes the cam follower arm to rotate. This in turn causes rotation of the rotary cam. When the work is placed on the supporting portion of the lower die half, it is formed by the intrusion forming portion of the rotary cam and the intrusion forming portion of the slide cam.
Abstract:
A bending and hemming apparatus configured to both bend and hem a sheet metal panel to form a body closure member at a single station. The apparatus includes a hemming machine movable between a retracted position spaced from a bending machine and advanced positions adjacent the bending machine to assist in the bending operation and to hem the body panel into a finished product. The apparatus also includes an anvil assembly pivotably supported on the hemming machine. The anvil assembly is movable between a lowered position where it engages the workpiece when the hemming machine is advanced to a bending position adjacent the bending machine. In the lowered position, the anvil assembly provides a fulcrum around which the workpiece is bent. The anvil assembly is pivotable to a raised position to allow the hemming machine to be advanced to a hemming position adjacent the bending machine from which the hemming machine can engage the bent workpiece to hem the workpiece.
Abstract:
A negative angular forming die having a lower die for supporting a workpiece. An upper die is lowered with respect to the lower die to abut against the workpiece for forming the workpiece. A columnar body is rotatably mounted on the lower die, and a groove is formed in the columnar body in the axial direction of the lower die. A slide cam is supported on the upper die and is opposed to the columnar body. An automatic returning tool is provided on the lower die for rotating and retracting the columnar body to a position at which the workpiece can be taken out from the lower die after the forming process is completed. The workpiece is placed on the supporting portion of the lower die with the columnar body being turned, and the slide cam is slid to form the workpiece by an entering forming portion of the columnar body. The columnar body is turned and retracted by the automatic returning tool after forming so that the formed workpiece can be taken out from the lower die. A clamping member is slidably mounted in the columnar body and acts to clamp the workpiece during forming.
Abstract:
The movable blank-holder of a bending press includes a series of segments and a pair of motor-driven carriages each of which has an entraining member which can selectively engage and release the segments in order to move them for re-arrangement purposes. Each of two segments situated at opposite ends of the series includes a shoe-holder which supports a respective shoe by means of inclined guides. Each shoe-holder body carries a respective slide having a driving portion and each shoe has a driven portion. These driving and driven portions have facing cooperating pressure and sliding faces arranged in a manner such that a movement of the slide towards the center of the press is converted into an oblique movement of the respective shoe such that it is released from a lateral channel-shaped bend already formed in a metal sheet, without sliding on the sheet. Each carriage includes an entraining member and each slide includes an entrained member which can be engaged by the entraining member in order to move the slide selectively towards the center of the press. The two carriages are movable simultaneously in opposite directions upon command in order to simultaneously bring about the aforementioned movements of the shoes, by means of the slides, in directions such as to release them from the respective lateral bends. The shoes have respective resilient mechanisms for biasing them in directions to return each shoe to a working position to which it is moved away from the center of the press and from the movable blank-holder.
Abstract:
The subject invention provides a sheet bending brake assembly for securing a work piece. The sheet bending brake assembly includes a clamping member having a lower leg extending therefrom and a pivoting arm pivotally supported by and extending from the clamping member. The pivoting arm defines a clamping area with the lower leg. A base supports the clamping members and provides support to the assembly while moving the pivoting arm between the open position and the clamped position. A guide mechanism reacts between the clamping member and the pivoting arm for moving the pivoting arm between the open position and the clamped position. The guide mechanism has a guide slot with a detent positioned within the guide slot between the first and the second ends for positioning the pivoting arm in an intermediate position to allow for precisely aligning the work piece.
Abstract:
A hydromechanical drive for a metal part forming machine includes an electric motor having a rotary output shaft, a drive shaft attached to the rotary output shaft and adapted to undergo rotational motion therewith about a rotational axis defined by the drive shaft, and a motion conversion mechanism coupled with the drive shaft and being movable between expanded and retracted positions along the drive shaft in response to the rotational movement of the drive shaft. The motion conversion mechanism has a first coupling element stationarily disposed at a fixed location offset from one side of the drive shaft and a second coupling element movably disposed at another location offset from another side of the drive shaft being angularly displaced from the one side thereof. The second coupling element is interconnected with a piston of a hydraulic transmitter of the forming machine such that movement of the motion conversion mechanism between the expanded and retracted positions along the drive shaft in response to rotation of the drive shaft about the rotational axis causes movement of the second coupling element toward and away from the fixed first coupling element and movement therewith of the remainder of the motion conversion mechanism, except for the fixed first coupling element, as well as movement of electric motor, drive shaft and the piston of the hydraulic transmitter connected to the second coupling element along a generally linear reciprocatory path extending in a generally orthogonal relationship to the rotational axis of the drive shaft.
Abstract:
An apparatus prepares data for manufacturing a product or a part with a predetermined shape by using a bending press provided with detachable tools. The apparatus includes a computer memory storing bending operation support information obtained after successfully completing bending operations. The bending operation support information supports an operator later performing bending operations on a workpiece while manufacturing the product or part. The bending operation support information is one of dependent on and associated with the completed bending operations.
Abstract:
A press-forming die set including a first die and a second die which are linearly movable in a press-forming direction for mutual engagement to form a negative-angle portion on a workpiece placed on the second die, the press-forming die further including a rotary cam having a first negative-angle forming portion, and a forming cam having a second negative-angle forming portion. The first negative-angle forming portion is disposed such that the rotary cam is rotatable about an axis of rotation inclined with respect to a bottom surface of the workpiece. The rotary cam is engageable with the second die and is rotated about the axis of rotation in one of opposite directions when the first and second dies are moved toward each other, and is rotated in the other direction when the first and second dies are moved away from each other. The forming cam is held in engagement with the first negative-angle forming portion while the first and second dies are held in engagement with each other, and is disengaged from the first negative-angle forming portion when the first and second dies are spaced apart from each other.
Abstract:
A device that includes a frame equipped with guiding means, blank holder modules to be moved along the guiding means, means for blocking independently each blank holder module in a specific position, a magazine of end modules located near each end of the guiding means and gripping and handling means for grasping an end module to fix the end module to a blank holder module and vice-versa.