Patent ID: 8631674
Filing Date: 2014-01-21
Classification: B21D,B21F

Abstract:
1. A wire bending device comprising: a bending head; a turret cluster coupled to the bending head; a mandrel-bending mandrel coupled to the bending head capable of rotating around the turret cluster, the mandrel-bending mandrel capable of raising, lowering, and spinning independently of the turret cluster; and a nose-bending mandrel coupled to the bending head capable of rotating around the turret cluster, the nose-bending mandrel capable of raising, lowering, and spinning independently of the turret cluster; wherein the wire bending device is configured to create an off-plane bend by automatically pulling a wire slightly off center of the bending head and pinching the wire between a triangular block of the turret cluster and one of the mandrel-bending mandrel and the nose-bending mandrel, wherein one of the mandrel-bending mandrel and the nose-bending mandrel positions itself off of a centerline of the wire such that the wire is bent off of a normal wire centerline axis.