Patent ID: 8720245

Claim:
A device for bending a metallic strip, including at least one feed section to pass said strip through a guide aperture, at least one pair of bending tools which can be rotated around at least one common rotation axis, and means for rotating said bending tools around said at least one common rotation axis, said device including controllable blocking means to lock said bending tools mutually alongside said guide aperture when they are in the rest condition and to release at least one of said bending tools to the operating condition in which the bending is performed, wherein said means for rotating said bending tools include controllable engagement members to engage or disengage the opposite ends of said tools, and wherein said engagement members are housed in hubs and translate in a direction parallel to a rotation axis of said hubs between a retracted position inside said hubs, in the disengaged condition from said bending tools, and a position extracted from said hubs, in the engaged condition with said bending tools.