Patent ID: 7405095

Claim:
Method for producing a wheel from circular sections manufactured from a plate-shaped substrate, employing the following steps: positioning of predefined edge break lines in a manner whereby in a subsequent operation they serve to separate circular sections in a columnar arrangement, wherein within a column the circular sections are so positioned relative to one another that in each case at least certain points of the inner annular edge ( 7 ) of a given circular section is in contact with the outer annular edge ( 5 ) of another circular section, thus forming a segment of a common predefined edge break line, and the orientation of the curvature of the circular sections of neighbouring columns extends in alternating fashion and neighbouring columns are interlaced, wherein the interlacing is limited to a degree that one or multiple loss areas result, breaking the circular sections along the break lines, and joining the circular sections along their radial edges into a two-dimensional wheel.