Engel Industries, Inc.

Jerry A Sostman

Lamont R McClain

A progressive rollformer machine is readily adjustable, without removal of rolls or use of spacers, to produce sheet metal workpiece margin flanges of variable depth. The machine includes a gear train housing having perpendicularly extending spindle shafts and idler gear shafts, and two forming roll housing sections, with their rolls mounted outboard. One of these, conventionally fixed relative to the gear train housing, provides one reference line of forming. The other forming roll housing section provides a second reference line of forming--it may be positioned at a variable distance from the gear train housing, at a spacing adjustable by a screw drive. Tracking throughout all roll stations is made possible by using the adjustable-position forming roll housing first in line of flow, with supplemental tracking rolls mounted onto the ends of the spindle shafts.

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Pacific, MO, United States of America

Jerry A Sostman