Patent ID: 6094958
Filing Date: 2000-08-01
Classification: B21B,B21C,B23D

Abstract:
A material-working machine comprising, in combination:a housing constituting a primary support for said machine and comprised of a pair of parallel, vertically oriented plates laterally spaced from one another and defining a work zone therebetween at an upper end of said housing;a plurality of spreaders affixed between said housing plates and maintaining the mutual lateral spacing thereof;material-working tooling disposed at said work zone at least partially in the space between said plates;a structural beam assembly providing support for said machine, said beam assembly including an elongate beam member to which said housing plates are rigidly attached, and said beam member having first and second end portions that extend in opposite directions from said housing; anddrive means for said tooling,said machine being constructed for working continuous-length materials stored as coils, and additionally including pay-off and take-up coil-supporting means operatively mounted on said first and second end portions of said beam member.