Sheet metal bending means
CA 1067384 A · Owner: Lockformer Company (The) · Inventors: Ryan, Marshall J.
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An apparatus for bending sheet metal wherein a plurality of forming rolls are utilized. The rolls are situated at succeeding stations, and a first bending station includes a roll having forming protrusions in spaced apart relationship on the roll surface. The roll also defines drive elements which are engageable by the sheet so that movement of the sheet against a roll drive element operates to drive the roll and to thus move a forming protrusions into contact with the sheet for bending the sheet. Shift means are associated with this roll for locating the drive elements and protrusions in different positions to thereby control the particular drive element engaged by the sheet whereby the …
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- Granted December 4, 1979. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended December 4, 1996.
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