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BPERFORMING OPERATIONS TRANSPORTING B21Mechanical metalworking B21DWORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING METAL B21D7/00Bending rods, profiles, or tubes

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for remedying a non-conforming feature of an a...
- Patent number 11,618,067
- Issue date Apr 4, 2023
- The Boeing Company
- Michael Ryan Zolnowski
- B23 - MACHINE TOOLS METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for producing hot induction pipe bends with hom...
- Patent number 11,414,723
- Issue date Aug 16, 2022
- Welspun Corp Limited
- Balkrishan Goenka
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Differential temperature push bending method and device for tube wi...
- Patent number 11,185,904
- Issue date Nov 30, 2021
- Nanchang Hangkong University (NCHU)
- Xuefeng Xu
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Heat treatment apparatus, heat treatment method for steel workpiece...
- Patent number 10,626,475
- Issue date Apr 21, 2020
- Nippon Steel Corporation
- Kazuo Uematsu
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Method for manufacturing a bent member
- Patent number 10,537,927
- Issue date Jan 21, 2020
- Nippon Steel Corporation
- Atsushi Tomizawa
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Method for induction bend forming a compression-resistant pipe havi...
- Patent number 10,478,880
- Issue date Nov 19, 2019
- AWS SCHAEFER TECHNOLOGIE GMBH
- August Wilhelm Schaefer
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Machine and method of bending a longitudinal cylindrical pipe
- Patent number 10,471,490
- Issue date Nov 12, 2019
- STELIA AEROSPACE
- Damien Sireude
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Method for automatically bending spacer elements for insulating gla...
- Patent number 10,441,986
- Issue date Oct 15, 2019
- LOMBARDA MACCHINE S.R.L.
- Giovan Battista Lattuada
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Method for manufacturing a worked member using an induction heating...
- Patent number 10,406,581
- Issue date Sep 10, 2019
- Nippon Steel Corporation
- Nobuhiro Okada
- C21 - METALLURGY OF IRON
Information Patent Grant
Method for manufacturing bent member, and hot-bending apparatus for...
- Patent number 10,335,843
- Issue date Jul 2, 2019
- Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
- Atsushi Tomizawa
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Value stream process for forming vehicle rails from extruded alumin...
- Patent number 10,086,422
- Issue date Oct 2, 2018
- Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- S. George Luckey
- C21 - METALLURGY OF IRON
Information Patent Grant
Joining structure for member in vehicle body
- Patent number 10,071,774
- Issue date Sep 11, 2018
- Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
- Michitaka Yoshida
- B23 - MACHINE TOOLS METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
Information Patent Grant
High frequency induction heating apparatus and processing apparatus
- Patent number 10,005,116
- Issue date Jun 26, 2018
- Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
- Nobuhiro Okada
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Induction heating coil, and an apparatus and method for manufacturi...
- Patent number 9,604,272
- Issue date Mar 28, 2017
- Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
- Nobuhiro Okada
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for manufacturing a bent member
- Patent number 9,457,390
- Issue date Oct 4, 2016
- Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
- Atsushi Tomizawa
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Pipe manipulator
- Patent number 9,399,247
- Issue date Jul 26, 2016
- AWS SCHAEFER TECHNOLOGIE GMBH
- August-Wilhelm Schaefer
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Method and system for radially expanding a tubular element
- Patent number 9,303,458
- Issue date Apr 5, 2016
- Shell Oil Company
- Leon Van Den Steen
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for manufacturing a bent member
- Patent number 9,227,237
- Issue date Jan 5, 2016
- Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
- Atsushi Tomizawa
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Shaping apparatus and method of shaping a workpiece
- Patent number 9,010,167
- Issue date Apr 21, 2015
- Rolls-Royce PLC
- Richard Green
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Stabilizer and method for manufacturing the stabilizer
- Patent number 8,827,288
- Issue date Sep 9, 2014
- NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Shigeru Kuroda
- B60 - VEHICLES IN GENERAL
Information Patent Grant
Bent member and an apparatus and method for its manufacture
- Patent number 8,776,568
- Issue date Jul 15, 2014
- Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
- Atsushi Tomizawa
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Bending apparatus
- Patent number 8,528,380
- Issue date Sep 10, 2013
- Sumitomo Pipe & Tube Co., Ltd.
- Shinjiro Kuwayama
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Bending apparatus
- Patent number 8,511,135
- Issue date Aug 20, 2013
- Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
- Shinjiro Kuwayama
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Bent metal member and a method for its manufacture
- Patent number 8,490,457
- Issue date Jul 23, 2013
- Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
- Toyomitsu Nakamura
- C21 - METALLURGY OF IRON
Information Patent Grant
Boronized laying pipe
- Patent number 8,316,679
- Issue date Nov 27, 2012
- Siemens Industry, Inc.
- Keith Fiorucci
- B23 - MACHINE TOOLS METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
Information Patent Grant
Method of manufacturing a bent product and an apparatus and a conti...
- Patent number 8,316,683
- Issue date Nov 27, 2012
- Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
- Atsushi Tomizawa
- C21 - METALLURGY OF IRON
Information Patent Grant
Method for bending tubular articles with a relative ratio of the be...
- Patent number 8,037,726
- Issue date Oct 18, 2011
- IBF S.p.A.
- Urbano Faina
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Intrados induction heating for tight radius rotary draw bend
- Patent number 6,038,902
- Issue date Mar 21, 2000
- The Babcock & Wilcox Company
- Laroul J. Talley
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Table bender controller
- Patent number 5,315,522
- Issue date May 24, 1994
- Kauffman; Kenneth A.
- Kenneth A. Kauffman
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Grant
Procedure for producing coil-forming tubes in an inert enviroment
- Patent number 5,060,496
- Issue date Oct 29, 1991
- Voest-Alpine Stahl Donawitz Gesellschaft m.b.H.
- Karl Reiter
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
COOLING DEVICE AND COOLING METHOD
- Publication number 20220395881
- Publication date Dec 15, 2022
- NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
- Atsushi TOMIZAWA
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMEDYING A NON-CONFORMING FEATURE OF AN A...
- Publication number 20210094085
- Publication date Apr 1, 2021
- The Boeing Company
- Michael Ryan Zolnowski
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
TUBULAR MEMBER DEFORMATION PROCESS
- Publication number 20200246855
- Publication date Aug 6, 2020
- Tad V. Machrowicz
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
VEHICLE UNDERBODY PART MATERIAL, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING VEHICLE U...
- Publication number 20200109459
- Publication date Apr 9, 2020
- NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
- Toyomitsu NAKAMURA
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING HOT INDUCTION PIPE BENDS WITH HOM...
- Publication number 20190352737
- Publication date Nov 21, 2019
- Welspun Corp Limited
- Balkrishan GOENKA
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
DIFFERENTIAL TEMPERATURE PUSH BENDING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TUBE WI...
- Publication number 20190224736
- Publication date Jul 25, 2019
- Nanchang Hangkong University (NCHU)
- Xuefeng XU
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
HEAT TREATMENT APPARATUS, HEAT TREATMENT METHOD FOR STEEL WORKPIECE...
- Publication number 20190085424
- Publication date Mar 21, 2019
- NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
- Kazuo UEMATSU
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
METHOD FOR INDUCTION BEND FORMING OF A COMPRESSION-RESISTANT PIPE H...
- Publication number 20180043410
- Publication date Feb 15, 2018
- AUGUST WILHELM SCHAEFER
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
METHOD FOR INDUCTION BEND FORMING A COMPRESSION-RESISTANT PIPE HAVI...
- Publication number 20180036780
- Publication date Feb 8, 2018
- AUGUST WILHELM SCHAEFER
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
MACHINE AND METHOD OF BENDING A LONGITUDINAL CYLINDRICAL PIPE
- Publication number 20170259318
- Publication date Sep 14, 2017
- STELIA AEROSPACE
- Damien Sireude
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
JOINING STRUCTURE FOR MEMBER IN VEHICLE BODY
- Publication number 20170197669
- Publication date Jul 13, 2017
- NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
- Michitaka YOSHIDA
- B62 - LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING A BENT MEMBER
- Publication number 20170072446
- Publication date Mar 16, 2017
- NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
- Atsushi TOMIZAWA
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY BENDING SPACER ELEMENTS FOR INSULATING GLA...
- Publication number 20160288185
- Publication date Oct 6, 2016
- LOMBARDA MACCHINE S.a.s. di G.B.Lattuada & C.
- Giovan Battista LATTUADA
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
INDUCTION HEATING COIL, AND AN APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURI...
- Publication number 20160279690
- Publication date Sep 29, 2016
- NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
- Nobuhiro OKADA
- C21 - METALLURGY OF IRON
Information Patent Application
HIGH FREQUENCY INDUCTION HEATING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING APPARATUS
- Publication number 20150239028
- Publication date Aug 27, 2015
- NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
- Nobuhiro Okada
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
THREE-DIMENSIONALLY BENDING MACHINE, BENDING EQUIPMENT LINE, AND BE...
- Publication number 20150004430
- Publication date Jan 1, 2015
- NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
- Atsushi TOMIZAWA
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
BENDING MACHINE FOR CREATING BENDS TO THE LEFT AND RIGHT
- Publication number 20140007639
- Publication date Jan 9, 2014
- August Wilhelm Schaefer
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
BENT METAL MEMBER AND A METHOD FOR ITS MANUFACTURE
- Publication number 20130280548
- Publication date Oct 24, 2013
- Toyomitsu NAKAMURA
- B32 - LAYERED PRODUCTS
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RADIALLY EXPANDING A TUBULAR ELEMENT
- Publication number 20130239643
- Publication date Sep 19, 2013
- Leon Van Den Steen
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
SHAPING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SHAPING A WORKPIECE
- Publication number 20130156557
- Publication date Jun 20, 2013
- Rolls-Royce plc
- Richard GREEN
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
BORONIZED LAYING PIPE
- Publication number 20130081254
- Publication date Apr 4, 2013
- Keith Fiorucci
- B05 - SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATER...
Information Patent Application
BENT MEMBER AND AN APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ITS MANUFACTURE
- Publication number 20130059167
- Publication date Mar 7, 2013
- SUMITOMO PIPE & TUBE CO., LTD.
- Atsushi Tomizawa
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
STABILIZER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE STABILIZER
- Publication number 20120306136
- Publication date Dec 6, 2012
- NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Shigeru KURODA
- B60 - VEHICLES IN GENERAL
Information Patent Application
PIPE MANIPULATOR
- Publication number 20120192612
- Publication date Aug 2, 2012
- AWS SCHAEFER TECHNOLOGIE GMBH
- August-Wilhelm Schaefer
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING A BENT MEMBER
- Publication number 20120167651
- Publication date Jul 5, 2012
- Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
- Atsushi Tomizawa
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
BENDING APPARATUS
- Publication number 20120085138
- Publication date Apr 12, 2012
- SUMITOMO PIPE & TUBE CO., LTD.
- Shinjiro KUWAYAMA
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
BENDING APPARATUS
- Publication number 20120079866
- Publication date Apr 5, 2012
- SUMITOMO PIPE & TUBE CO., LTD.
- Shinjiro KUWAYAMA
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
BORONIZED LAYING PIPE
- Publication number 20120079862
- Publication date Apr 5, 2012
- Siemens Industry, Inc.
- Keith Fiorucci
- B23 - MACHINE TOOLS METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
Information Patent Application
BENT METAL MEMBER AND A METHOD FOR ITS MANUFACTURE
- Publication number 20120009435
- Publication date Jan 12, 2012
- Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
- Toyomitsu NAKAMURA
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...
Information Patent Application
DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BENDING PIPES
- Publication number 20100300169
- Publication date Dec 2, 2010
- AWS SCHAEFER TECHNOLOGIE GMBH
- August Wilhelm Schaefer
- B21 - MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL PUNCHING...

Heating equipment

Industry

Parent Industries

Current Industry

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Method and apparatus for remedying a non-conforming feature of an a...

Systems and methods for producing hot induction pipe bends with hom...

Differential temperature push bending method and device for tube wi...

Heat treatment apparatus, heat treatment method for steel workpiece...

Method for manufacturing a bent member

Method for induction bend forming a compression-resistant pipe havi...

Machine and method of bending a longitudinal cylindrical pipe

Method for automatically bending spacer elements for insulating gla...

Method for manufacturing a worked member using an induction heating...

Method for manufacturing bent member, and hot-bending apparatus for...

Value stream process for forming vehicle rails from extruded alumin...

Joining structure for member in vehicle body

High frequency induction heating apparatus and processing apparatus

Induction heating coil, and an apparatus and method for manufacturi...

Method and apparatus for manufacturing a bent member

Pipe manipulator

Method and system for radially expanding a tubular element

Method and apparatus for manufacturing a bent member

Shaping apparatus and method of shaping a workpiece

Stabilizer and method for manufacturing the stabilizer

Bent member and an apparatus and method for its manufacture

Bending apparatus

Bending apparatus

Bent metal member and a method for its manufacture

Boronized laying pipe

Method of manufacturing a bent product and an apparatus and a conti...

Method for bending tubular articles with a relative ratio of the be...

Intrados induction heating for tight radius rotary draw bend

Table bender controller

Procedure for producing coil-forming tubes in an inert enviroment

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

COOLING DEVICE AND COOLING METHOD

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMEDYING A NON-CONFORMING FEATURE OF AN A...

TUBULAR MEMBER DEFORMATION PROCESS

VEHICLE UNDERBODY PART MATERIAL, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING VEHICLE U...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING HOT INDUCTION PIPE BENDS WITH HOM...

DIFFERENTIAL TEMPERATURE PUSH BENDING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TUBE WI...

HEAT TREATMENT APPARATUS, HEAT TREATMENT METHOD FOR STEEL WORKPIECE...

METHOD FOR INDUCTION BEND FORMING OF A COMPRESSION-RESISTANT PIPE H...

METHOD FOR INDUCTION BEND FORMING A COMPRESSION-RESISTANT PIPE HAVI...

MACHINE AND METHOD OF BENDING A LONGITUDINAL CYLINDRICAL PIPE

JOINING STRUCTURE FOR MEMBER IN VEHICLE BODY

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING A BENT MEMBER

METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY BENDING SPACER ELEMENTS FOR INSULATING GLA...

INDUCTION HEATING COIL, AND AN APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURI...

HIGH FREQUENCY INDUCTION HEATING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING APPARATUS

THREE-DIMENSIONALLY BENDING MACHINE, BENDING EQUIPMENT LINE, AND BE...

BENDING MACHINE FOR CREATING BENDS TO THE LEFT AND RIGHT

BENT METAL MEMBER AND A METHOD FOR ITS MANUFACTURE

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RADIALLY EXPANDING A TUBULAR ELEMENT

SHAPING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SHAPING A WORKPIECE

BORONIZED LAYING PIPE

BENT MEMBER AND AN APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ITS MANUFACTURE

STABILIZER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE STABILIZER

PIPE MANIPULATOR

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING A BENT MEMBER

BENDING APPARATUS

BENDING APPARATUS

BORONIZED LAYING PIPE

BENT METAL MEMBER AND A METHOD FOR ITS MANUFACTURE

DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BENDING PIPES