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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2019
Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin, Clermont-Ferrand, FR;
Loic Berlioux, Clermont-Ferrand, FR;
Christophe Amyot, Clermont-Ferrand, FR;
Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Mic, Clermont-Ferrand, FR;
Abstract
A crimping station comprising a crimping tool designed to crimp a sleeve around a first end portion of a thread and around a second end portion of a thread, said crimping station comprising a sleeve preparation subassembly which has a feed device that supplies a metal strip and conveys said strip as far as a shaping device designed to plastically deform said strip in order to give said strip a concave curved cross section, so as to obtain a preformed strip, and then as far as a cutting device which is designed to sever a portion of length of said preformed strip in order to obtain a sleeve preform that a loading tool places within the crimping tool.