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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 1984
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1982
Applicant:
Inventor:
Iwao Nihashi, Toyota, JP;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B21F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
140 / ; 414225 ; 414751 ; 72306 ;
Abstract
A method for making a formed wire in a predetermined shape by merely bending a clamped wire from its opposite ends toward its center portion, unclamping the bent wire to allow release of any bending-induced tortional stresses, and rotating the bent, unclamped wire around the unbent wire axis without twisting; and an apparatus for carrying out the method, which comprises a wire support, wire a selectively operable clamp, a rotating pin wire bender for bending the clamped wire from the opposite ends to the center portion, and a chuck for locating, holding, and rotating the bent, unclamped wire around the unbent wire axis.