Press forming process and apparatus therefor

摘要

A press forming process is composed of a step of removing wrinkles of the surface of a curved elongate flat sheet metal workpiece which has been prepared by a so-called edge bending process. The wrinkle removing step is carried out prior to a U-shape bending step in which the workpiece is bent to have a U-shaped cross-section in order to obtain an curved elongate channel-shaped article, thereby improving the quality of the resulting article while preventing press dies from being damaged.