Patent ID: 8356505

Claim:
A forging machine for making complex parts including a banjo style brake hose fitting, the machine having a die plate and a slide reciprocal towards and away from the die plate, a plurality of spaced forming stations where the part is progressively shaped and between which the part is transferred, the machine being arranged with tooling to shape the part from an initial piece of round wire by upsetting one portion of the part into a ball-like shape, extruding another portion of the part into a hollow cylindrical open end shell, and maintaining, with a segmented die of the tooling, a cylindrical neck portion between the ball shape and the shell with a cross section smaller than both the ball shape and the shell, all while a longitudinal axis of the part is parallel to a direction of slide motion at respective forming stations, a part rotator between forming stations arranged to rotate the part about an axis perpendicular to its longitudinal axis so that its longitudinal axis in the machine is thereafter perpendicular to the slide motion, the machine having tooling to flatten said ball shaped portion, and to form a counterbore through said flattened portion.