Patent ID: 6397900
Filing Date: 2002-06-04
Classification: B21F

Abstract:
An apparatus for shaping wire into wire products having a wire guide and a wire intake device at an inlet of the wire guide, the wire intake device having clamping parts which clamp the wire, the clamping parts together with the wire guide and the wire being rotatable about a wire axis; the apparatus further having at an outlet of the wire guide a wire holder for forwardly guiding the wire from the wire guide as it moves therethrough, said wire holder being located on a cantilever, said wire holder and said cantilever being movable in a circle around the wire axis, and said wire holder cooperating at its outlet with a cutting tool moving transversely to the wire axis, wherein the movement of the wire in its lengthwise direction and the rotation of the wire about its lengthwise axis as well as the circular movement of the cantilever and the wire holder about the wire axis are programmably controlled and coordinated with each other.