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Apparatus for chamfering edges of a rim element

US4821548A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 3, 1987
Grant dateApr 18, 1989
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Expiry dateSep 3, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB21D53/30
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for chamfering through press forming edges of a rim element is provided upstream of a flaring machine for forming a rim shape on a disk wheel manufacture line. The apparatus includes a pair of edge rolls having vertically extending axes and having respective groove members formed therein. A wall of a rim element conveyed into the apparatus is axially squeezed between the edge rolls at the groove members thereof and the edges of the rim element is press formed. Since a rim element conveyed into the apparatus has still an axially straight extending wall, the rim element has a high rigidity in the axial direction of the rim element and therefore, an undesirable deformation does not occur in the rim element during the press forming.

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