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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2006
Mark Clough, Strasburg, OH (US);
James T. Henley, Saratoga Springs, NY (US);
Jeffrey A. Henkel, New Philadelphia, OH (US);
Mark Clough, Strasburg, OH (US);
James T. Henley, Saratoga Springs, NY (US);
Jeffrey A. Henkel, New Philadelphia, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A modular 'quick-form' tooling system and stator bar form set-up method is provided for reconfigurably mounting various stator bar bending/forming tool modules that are used to produce custom bends and curvatures in a length of stator bar stock. At least one stator bar support structure is provided having a support surface formed with an array of tool location alignment holes that allow a variety of different bend-forming tooling modules to be positioned relative to each other in a manner that will define the shape of a generator stator bar during a bending/forming process.