Patent ID: 7637134

Claim:
A flanging device for beading a flanging web of a component part around a flanging edge, said flanging device comprising: a) a tool head; b) a first flanging die and a second flanging die which the tool head bears, simultaneously situated in a processing position, and one of which is arranged following the other in a processing direction; c) a bearing unit which mounts the first flanging die and is mounted by the tool head such that the bearing unit can be moved in a transverse direction relative to the processing direction; and d) an actuating means which the tool head bears, wherein the bearing unit is chargeable, by means of the actuating means, with a force which acts in the transverse direction; wherein the first flanging die can be advanced by means of the actuating means in the transverse direction towards the flanging web far enough that the first flanging die protrudes beyond the second flanging die and can be moved back in the transverse direction far enough from the flanging web that it is short of the second flanging die.