Custom Stainless Steel Wire Forming T-body Clip by Spring Machine

Product Introduction

This is a 304 stainless steel wire clip, using a spring machine for its formation allows for precise shaping of the wire according to specific design requirements. The wire diameter is neither circle nor ellipse. It is custom-made and precisely drawn material.

Material and process

This clip is made from 304 stainless steel by wire forming.  It is designed to meet the unique specifications of a particular client or automotive application. The customer send their exact needs, such as the clip's size, shape, load - bearing capacity, and the specific location and function. For example, different models may require T-body clips of varying lengths or with different angles to fit precisely into their body structures.

Here is the clip sketch:

The difficulty of this project lies in the fact that we need to customize the wire material that meets the specifications according to the drawings provided by the customer. This kind of wire material is neither a standard cylindrical shape nor an elliptical shape. 

Here is the shaped material:

Shape the wire into such a special cross-section demands extremely high precision in engineering calculations. Also, during the production process, controlling the stress distribution of the wire to ensure its mechanical properties meet the standards while achieving the non-standard shape is quite challenging. The spring machine is a good choice to form the wire material.

The wire is fed through a rotating mandrel while forming rolls apply pressure to create coils with precise pitch and diameter. Wire is bent around a mandrel and twisted to form clip at specific angles. It requires custom tooling and multi-axis coordination to form irregular cross-sections.

Here is the finished T-body clip:

Packing

Before packaging these T-body clips, we inspected their critical dimensions. The qualified ones were packaged, they are packed into cartons, which are then palletized. Palletizing the cartons with secure strapping ensures stable stacking during transportation, reducing shifting and damage in transit. This attention to detail in both inspection and packaging guarantees the clips arrive in optimal condition, ready for assembly or further processing.