GB646243A - Improvements in or relating to machines for forming fishhooks - Google Patents

Abstract

646,243. Making fish-hooks. MELLERIO, L. P. (Shoe Form Co., Inc.). June 24, 1948, No. 16956. Addition. to 591,378. [Classes 83 (ii) and 83 (iv)] Angular bending.-In a fish-hook making machine in which wire blanks are moved by a turret work carrier past spaced operating stations as set forth in the parent Specification the eye-forming mechanism includes a pin about which the wire is bent in a three-stage operation by reciprocating benders and from which it is stripped by rotation of the work carrier. The wire blank 22 held in a chuck 16 on a turret 14 is clamped on a recesses die 36 by a hold-down 40. A forming tool 30 with projecting pin 46 is cam depressed to bend the wire into the recess 38 in the die and a second forming tool 32 is operated by a cam to bend the wire about the pin 46 and is then retracted to allow a third forming tool 34 to be depressed by a cam to complete the eye. The forming tool 34 is then retracted and the cam lever operating the tool 30 is raised to relieve the pressure on the blank, by a distance limited by a latch. The turret is then moved to strip the blank from the pin 46 and the latch is released by upward movement of the cam lever.