.No. 795,180.

J. H. VANDERSLIG-E. FLANGING MACHINE.

PATENTED JULY 18, 1905.

APPLIUATION FILED 1330.2.1904.

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J. H. VAND'ERSLICE. FLANGING MACHINE.

PATENTED JULY 18, 1905.

APPLICATION rum) DEC 2 1904

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No. 795,180.

Patented July 18, 1905.

NITED STATES PATENT

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JOHN H. VANDERSLIOE, OF OOATESVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO LUKENS IRON AND STEEL COMPANY, OF OOATESVILLE, PENNSYLVA NIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

FLANGING-MACHINE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 795,180, dated July 18, 1905.
Application ?led December 2, 1904. Serial No. 235,219.

from the shaft D. Carried by the slide is a Be it known that I, JOHN H. VANDERSLICE, pin f, on which is mounted a beveled anvil 50 a citizen of the United States, residing at roller f, over which the ?ange is formed. Ooatesville, Pennsylvania, have invented cer The pin is set at an angle, as shown in Fig.1
To (all whmn it TIMI/y concern:

?ange dished plates and to remove the buckle main portion of the roller and the under side in the ?ange in a rapid and effective manner, of the former. The face of the roller is pref erabl y parallel with a line through the center as fully described hereinafter. _ In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is of. the anvil and clamp. On the segmental slide B is a carrier G, a view in elevation and partly in section of a ?anging-machine to which my invention has whichcan be adjusted transversely. On this been applied. Fig. Q'is a view similar to Fig. carrier is mounted the two rolls 9 g. In the '1, showing the plate completely ?anged. Fig. present instance the carrier slides in ways 6 [5 3 is an enlarged side view of a portion of the and has a screw-threaded lug g at the rear, which passes a handled adjusting 65 ?anging-head quadrant and carrier. Fig. 4: through screw Gr, con?ned longitudinally to the slide is a front view of the carrier. Fig. 5 is a B. On turning the screw either one or both sectional view on the line 5 5, Fig. 3. Fig. of the rolls can be adjusted in position. 6 is a view of the anvil-roller and its slide. During the ?anging process the rolls are Figs. 7 and 8 are diagram views showing the two positions of the rolls. Figs. 9 and 10 in the position shown in Fig. 7 , one roll only are views illustrating a modi?cation of my being inaction, and when it is desired to re invention, and Figs. 11 and 12 are views illus move buckles then the carrier is shifted so as to bring both rolls into action, as shown in 25 trating a still further modi?cation. ~ A is the bed-plate of a ?anging-machine on Fig. 8. In some instances I may pivot the carrier 75 which is mounted the ?anging-head B, which head can be moved longitudinally on said bed to the slide B, as shown in Figs. 9 and 10. by any suitable operating means. Adjust The carrier Gr2 is mounted between the two able on the head is a quadrant b, in which brackets b2 b2 of the slide B2 and is pivoted
at the rear with which meshes a worm-wheel c on a vertical shaft O, driven by a shaft O,

5, so as to bring the edge of the roller as tain Improvements in Flanging-Machines, of near the overhanging edge of the former as which the following is a speci?cation. possible and yet allow clearance between the 55 The object of my invention is to accurately

travels a segmental slide B, carrying the thereto by a pin Q2. The rollers g g are car 80 ?anging-rollers g g. The slide B has a rack ried by the forward end of the carrier G2,
while the rear end extends between the bear

ing and has two perforations g3 in the present

instance, through which can pass locking 35 so that on turning the shaft O the segmental bolts 9*, so that by drawing the bolts the car slide can be turned to ?ange the plate. D is a central shaft stepped in a suitable rier can be shifted to any one of three posi bearing A and driven by gearing d d from tions and readilv locked by one or both bolts. In Figs. 11 and 12, I have shown a slide G3 a driving-shaft D. Carried by this vertical mounted in a carrier B3, and the brackets of shaft 1) is a former D2, upon which the plate to be ?anged is clamped. This former is the carrier have a series of holes therein shown in the present instance as having a through which locking-bolts h h are passed, rounded upper surface, and E is a clamp so as to lock the slide Or3 in either position to

which is shaped to conform with said former,

45 so as to secure a dished plate a thereto, as

which it is adjusted.

he operation of my machine is as follows:

shown in Fig. 1. F is a slide adjustably secured to the bed

If, for instance, a dished plate is to be ?anged as shown in Fig. 1, it is clamped upon the 95

. plate A, so that it can be moved toward or

head D2 by the clamp E, and the carrier for

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of a head, means for clamping a plate on said

head, an adjustable roller against which the portion of the plate, as shown in said ?g plate is ?anged, a slide, a carrier mounted on ure. As the plate is rotated the roller is said slide, a pair of rolls on said carrier for
quadrant so as to cause the overhanging por for shifting said carrier whereby one or both tion of such plate to be turned down to form of said rolls may be brought into engagement the ?ange. In ?anging thin plates, how with the ?ange of the plate, substantially as
described. >

the Hanging-rollers g is adjusted so that one of said rollers presses upon the overhanging

gradually lowered by moving its slide in the performing the ?anging operation, and means

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ever, the use of a single roll will in many cases cause the plate to buckle as the ?ange of the same is turned over, and the purpose

4. The combination in a Hanging-machine,

of means for holding a plate to be ?anged, an

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of my invention is to reduce such buckling.

IS the mechanism is so adjusted as to bring both

During the formation of the ?ange and before for turning said slide, a carrier mounted on the itis completely turned to the position required slide and means for moving the carrier trans
rollers g 9 into action, as shown in Fig. 4.

anvil, a?anging-head,a segmental slide, means

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25 it will be understood that it can be applied to

Although I have shown and described my rier mounted to slide on said ways, a trans versely-arranged screw for shifting the car adjustable and rotatable anvil, as the roller f, rier, two rolls arranged side by side on the car
invention as applied to a machine having an

versely across the slide and a pair of rollers mounted side by side on the carrier, substan These rollers, with the anvil-roller f, work tially as described. the buckle or crimp out of the ?ange, and they 5. The combination in a ?anging-machine, also complete the turning of the ?ange, pro of means for holding a plate to be ?anged, an ducing a ?nished article free of a buckle or anvil, a Hanging-head, a segmental slide on 65 crimp and true in diameter. said head, transverse ways on the slide, a car

a machine having the ordinary anvil without 6. The combination in a Hanging-machine, departing from my invention. of a convex former, a clamp for holding a 1 claim as my invention~ , dished plate on the former, a frame, an anvil 1. The combination in a ?anging-machine, roller carried thereby and arranged to pass 30 of means for holding a plate to be ?anged, an under the edge of the former, a carrier and 75 anvil, a carrier,a pair of ?anging-rolls mounted two ?anged rollers mounted side by side on , thereon and situated side by side, and means the carrier, substantially as described. whereby one or both of said rolls may be 7 . The combination in a ?anging-machine brought into engagement with one side of the of means for holding a plate to be ?anged, an 35 plate, substantially as described. anvil, a carrier, two ?anging-rollers arranged 2. The combination in a ?anging-machine, side by side on the carrier, the rollers bearing of a head, means for clamping a plate to be on the plate on each side of the anvil and ?anged to said head, an adjustable roller means for turning the carrier, substantially against which said plate is ?anged, an adjust as described. 85 able carrier, a'pair of rolls mounted thereon, In testimony whereofl have signed my name means whereby one or both of said rolls may to this speci?cation in the presence of two sub be brought into engagement with the ?ange of scribing witnesses. the plate, and means for locking said carrier in JOHN H. VANDERSLIGE. its adjusted positions, substantially as de Witnesses: 45 scribed. WILL. A. BARR, 3. The combination in a ?anging-rnachine, Jos. H. KLEIN.

rier, substantially as described.