Rod bending tools range from small, handheld devices, to automated machines. Bending tools are made to adjust the bending angle by reference, stroke measure or angle measure. There are several classification of bending tools. Read More…
Leading Manufacturers
Acme Wire Products Company, Incorporated
Mystic, CT | 800-723-7015Acme Wire Products provides close tolerance wire fabrications using steel and stainless steel. Customized applications include a wide range of wire forms for many different applications. Acme works with wire from .050 to .500 diameter.
Angola Wire Products
Angola, IN | 260-665-9447With over 40 years of experience in providing products for the retail industry as well as OEMs, Angola Wire Products is a premier manufacturer of wire goods, wire racks and wire products like commercial wire displays. We offer custom quality products to meet a variety of needs and uses.
John Evans‘ Sons, Inc.
Lansdale, PA | 215-368-7700Wire forms help hold objects in place, while having the ability to flex and return to their original shape. At John Evans‘ Sons, we manufacture a variety of different size wire forms made from strip and round wire steel. These wire forms are customized to work with each requirement and are frequently designed for applications in the aircraft, industrial machinery and medical device industries.
Master Spring & Wire Form Co.
River Grove, IL | 708-453-2570Master Spring & Wire Form specializes in small to medium wire form orders, as wire form manufacturers with over 60 years of experience. Secondary wire forming operations offered include grinding, threading and chamfering. As one of the industry’s leading wire formers, Master Spring & Wire provides wire forms for diverse applications including fitness equipment, POP displays and pinball machines.
All-Rite Industries
Lake Zurich, IL | 847-540-0300All-Rite has been a proud supplier to the North American and international industrial marketplace for over 60 years. Our customers include automotive aftermarket, electronics, and appliance, military, aerospace, medical, and entrepreneurial industries. All-Rite industries utilizes high precision production equipment including punch presses, four-slides, CNC, spring coilers, injection molding presses, insert molding presses, and other secondary operation equipment.
Hoosier Spring
South Bend, IN | 574-291-7550Hoosier Spring Company, Inc. is a leading spring manufacturer, producing custom springs for a wide variety of applications. We specialize in the manufacture, heat treatment and inspection of custom springs and wire forms for hundreds of the world’s top aerospace, military, nuclear (Navy and commercial), and industrial companies.
Rod Bending - All-Rite Spring CompanyEstablished bending tool types are: Standard Bends, U-Bending, Offset Bending, Edgewise Bending and Torsion Bending. In their own categories, respectively, are CNC Bending machines and Universal Bending Machines-Modular Construction. Classifications are determined by the kind of bends they generate.
Standard Bending tools produce bends without extraordinary geometry. The distance between a bend and material end is rather high, assuming an adequate bearing area. The same is also true from one bend to the next.
U-Bending tools make, as the name implies, “U”-shaped rods, like piping for below sinks. When the required bends are more tight and narrow than the tool can handle, a U-Bend tool is swapped out for a bending mandrel, which has narrow geometry. Offset bending tools are used to assemble two bends with a small distance between each other in one step. Edgewise Bending tools are used when a bending axis is placed parallel to the tight side of the workpiece.
Rod Bending - All-Rite Spring CompanyThis type of tool may come equipped with electronic angular measurement component, to ensure a high bending accuracy. Torsion Bending tools are able to rotate the workpiece on a longitudinal axis.
A consumer can alternatively achieve a similar end by using complex assembly groups with standard bends. CNC wire bending machines are a fairly recent development, and they have been designed for high flexibility and a quick set-up. They are able to economically bend both single pieces and small batches with the same level of precision and efficiency as series-produced parts. The final category of Rod Bending tool is the Universal Bending Machine-Modular Construction.
This type of tool consists of a basic machine that is adjustable with little effort and can therefore be applied to a number of bends. The exchange of tools, supported by a simple plug-in system, is quick and easy.
The basic machine is comprised of a CNC-operated side stop, a work bench and software for programming and operating. Because of its modular construction, this machine offers an affordable gateway into bending technology.
After the initial investment, a machine can be customized and extended without any conversion. In other words, the basic machine provides a bending stroke, while the kind of bending is determined by the accompanying tool.
Bending tools are great for a number of industries and markets. Types of construction, among other, to which the Universal Bending Machine lends itself, are metal construction, steel construction, metalwork, machine construction and utility vehicle construction.