Patent ID: 7441333

Claim:
An assembly device of a support mat for a ceramic catalyst carrier, comprising: a base capable of holding the support mat in a flat plate shape substantially horizontally; a shaping die provided on an intermediate portion of said base and having a recession that has a shape substantially fitting a semicircular bottom surface of the ceramic catalyst carrier; a push-in unit capable of pushing the ceramic catalyst carrier together with the support mat into the recession of said shaping die; a first pressing unit and a second pressing unit that are horizontally driven toward the ceramic catalyst carrier to press both end portions of the support mat from side faces in a state where said push-in unit is moved up to depart from the support mat so as to curve the both end portions of the support mat along an arc-shaped upper surface of the ceramic catalyst carrier, said first pressing unit and said second pressing unit being capable of being pressed toward the both end portions by said push-in unit which is moved downward toward the ceramic catalyst carrier in a state where said first pressing unit and said second pressing unit are horizontally moved toward the ceramic catalyst carrier; and a push-up unit provided on a bottom of the recession in said shaping die and capable of pushing up the ceramic catalyst carrier together with the support mat.