Patent ID: 6487889
Filing Date: 2002-12-03
Classification: B21D

Abstract:
A tube bender comprising:a) a pair of elongate handles pivotally connected near respective handle ends; b) each of the handles having a grip portion near an opposite end; c) the handles being of different length such that the handles are offset effort to avoid interference with one another in a bending operation; d) a form wheel secured to one of the handles near the pivot; e) a form shoe connected to the other of the handles for coaction with the wheel in tube bending operations; f) the wheel and shoe being complementally stepped axially with each complemental step including a coacting pair of grooves of arcuate cross section for coactively bending tubes in bending operations; g) each coacting pair being of radial spacing from a wheel axis different than the radial spacing of each other pair of grooves; h) a holder connected to the one handle for positioning work pieces each in a selected appropriately sized wheel groove during a bending operation; i) the holder and said one handle including a tongue and groove arrangement for locating the holder in one of a plurality of a plurality of positions selectively and one at a time; and j) there being a like number of holder positions and groove pairs with each position for use with a different and an associated on of the groove pairs.