Patent ID: 6843091

Claim:
A straightening machine for the straightening of sections, profiles or structural shapes, said machine comprising: a plurality of driven straightening shafts located above a pass line for a section to be straightened and below the pass line in a transport direction of the section to be straightened and parallel to one another; tools on said shafts engageable with the section to be straightened, said straightening machine and said shafts having a drive side at which said shafts are driven and a service side opposite said drive side, at least some of said shafts being individually adjustable to set a straightening gap; and adjusting means juxtaposed with ends of the adjustable straightening shafts and engageable therewith, whereby in a straightening operation at least the adjusting means on the service side is subjected to a force (F A ) acting counter to the straightening force (F R ), the straightening shafts having said tools mounted on a shaft end which is journaled so as to be cantilevered, each drive side adjusting means being loaded in compression and the respective service side adjusting means being loaded in tension.