Zeuna-Staker Gmbh & Co., Kg

Alfons Bohm

Enrique Santiago

Bernhard Grescher

A tube junction is produced having at least two inlets and an outlet, and at least one bend between the two inlets by providing a forging die with a first recess contoured to hold a bent tube piece. A second recess opens into the first recess and, terminates in a moveable counterpunch. A tube piece having two inlets is bent to bring the two inlets into positions relative to each other generally similar to relative positions of the inlets in a finished tube junction. The bent tube piece is placed within the forging die, and pressurized internally to bulge the tube piece wall into the second recess and form a neck for the outlet. Motion of the counterpunch away from the first recess is controlled as the neck forms under pressure in the second recess.

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Meitingen, Germany

Alfons Bohm