Patent ID: 7878037

Claim:
A device for the free-form bending of longitudinal profiles, with a feed unit taking up the longitudinal profile, with an axial sleeve arranged downstream of the feed unit in the direction of feed taking up the longitudinal profile by positive and/or non-positive attachment, and with a bending sleeve arranged downstream of the axial sleeve in the direction of feed, with a passage aperture for the longitudinal profile adapted to the outer contour of the longitudinal profile, wherein the bending sleeve can be adjusted in linear fashion by adjustment drives in a plane lying orthogonal to the axis of the passage aperture, and can be pivoted about an axis perpendicular both to the axis of the passage aperture as well as to the direction of linear movement, and wherein the axial sleeve is equipped with a drive with a distance interval adjustable from the bending sleeve, the feed unit and the axial sleeve driven by rotary drives in the same direction and simultaneously relative to the bending sleeve, the bending sleeve mounted so as to be rotatable about the axis of the passage aperture, and the bending sleeve either freely rotating in sympathy with the axial sleeve or braked in a controlled manner in relation to the axial sleeve.