Patent ID: 6250177
Filing Date: 2001-06-26
Classification: B21D,Y10T

Abstract:
A cam apparatus comprising:a cam driver having a sliding surface with a V-shaped cross section and adapted to be fixedly supported by a cam-driver supporting base;a cam slide having a sliding surface of a shape complementary to the sliding surface of said cam driver in such a manner as to be slidably brought into contact with the sliding surface of said cam driver; anda cam-slide supporting base for movably supporting said cam slide so that said cam slide can move while being guided by the sliding surface of said cam driver as the sliding surface of said cam slide and the sliding surface of said cam driver are brought into contact with each other,wherein at least one of said cam driver and said cam slide is supported by the supporting base of said at least one of them in such a manner as to be movable in a transverse direction perpendicular to a moving direction of said cam slide.