Patent ID: 7043951

Claim:
A wire rod-forming apparatus, comprising: a wire rod-forming machine body; a means for shaping at least a part of a wire rod, fed into the wire rod-forming machine body, into a shaped part of at least one of a ring shape or a coil spring shape; a cutting member, that swings from a starting point to an end point aligned in a horizontal direction in the wire rod-forming machine body, for cutting the wire rod to separate the shaped part from an unshaped part; a holding member, that is crossed by the cutting member during swinging at a point that is half-way between the starting point; and a shaft-shaped chute which can be moved into a position along an inner side of the wire rod, and wherein once the wire rod is cut such that the shaped part is separated from the unshaped part, the holding member allows the shaped part to be moved, wherein once so moved the shaping of the wire rod is caused by winding the wire rod around the shaft-shaped chute, and wherein once the shaped part of the wire rod is cut off from the unshaped part, movement of the cutting member moves the shaped part toward an end side of the shaft-shaped chute.