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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eugen Müller, Dietikon, CH;
Assignee:
Elpatronic AG, Bergdietikon, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B21D 5/14 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B21D 5/14 ;
Abstract
According to the present invention, a method and an apparatus for rounding a sheet or plate blank in a rounding apparatus having rounding rolls is provided. A predetermined second part region of the blank is rounded after a predetermined first part region has been rounded. A feed direction of the blank for the rounding of the second part region is selected such that rounding in the second part region proceeds towards the previously rounded first part region.