Patent ID: 7530161

Claim:
A stator bar form tooling system, comprising: a central tooling support structure having at least one clamping mechanism mounted thereon for immobilizing a center-section of a stator bar stock; a pair of end-arm support structures for supporting one or more tooling modules for working on opposite end portions of the stator bar stock, each end-arm support structure positioned in a region on opposite sides of the central support structure and each including an upper support surface having a grid array of tool location alignment holes; and a stator bar tooling module having one or more tool location alignment pins protruding from a bottom mounting surface that mate with corresponding tool location alignment holes on the upper surface of said end-arm support structures, wherein said tooling module is adjustably positioned on said support surface of an end-arm support structure such that an arrangement of one or more of said tooling modules mounted on said one or more end-arm support structures results in producing a particular stator bar shape during a bending and/or forming operation.