Patent ID: 11904369
Assignee: NV BEKAERT SA
Field: Machine tools (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 3:
4. The method according to claim 1,
wherein the apparatus is a combination of two, three, or more apparatuses, each of the apparatuses having a groove plane, each one of the apparatuses having an apparatus axis corresponding to the tangent line to the circumferential groove of the first roller and the circumferential groove of the exit roller, all of the apparatus axes of the two, three, or more apparatuses coinciding to one another,
wherein the groove planes of the two, three, or more apparatuses are pairwise different from one another, and

wherein the metal wire is treated in the combination of apparatuses,
wherein first the metal wire is reversibly bent multiple times in a first plane, followed by one or more multiple and reverse bends in one or more subsequent planes, the subsequent planes differing from the first plane, the subsequent planes mutually differing from one another.