摘要 |
A heading machine for joining and shaping, by cold welding under pressure, cut lengths of wire of respectively different metal compositions is disclosed as including means for feeding continuous wires of the different metal compositions, means for severing that short lengths of the different wires, means for positioning and retaining the short lengths in axial alignment with each other, pressure means for forcing the cut ends of the short lengths of wire into abutment to cold weld the short lengths to each other, and shaping means operable to deform and "head" one end of the joined short wire pieces, these means being mounted on a mounting means which is arranged to be stepped along a path of travel past plural working stationed in uniformly spaced relation.
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