July 15, 2008

A thin walled body is deformed in a process in which the body is gripped securely in a holding station and, whilst gripped in the holding station, tooling engages to deform the peripheral wall of the body at a predetermined wall zone. The tooling is provided at a tooling station which is adjacent the holding station during deformation. The predetermined wall zone is co-aligned with the tooling by rotation of the body about an axis prior to securing at the holding station.

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July 15, 2008

11/314,630

December 21, 2005

72/17.3   72/15.2 72/379.4 72/422 72/715

B21D   55/00   (20060101)  

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS The present application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/182,643, filed Sep. 30, 2002, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,003,999, which is related to PCT Application No. PCT/GB01/00526, filed Feb. 9, 2001, G.B. Application No. 0003033.8, filed Feb. 10, 2000, and G.B. Application No. 0026325.1, filed Oct. 27, 2000, all of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.

Feb 10, 2000 [GB] 0003033.8 Oct 27, 2000 [GB] 0026325.1

72/15.2   72/15.3   72/17.3   72/94   72/105   72/348   72/379.4   72/405.03   72/414   72/422   72/715   72/419   72/420   413/69   101/3.1   11/4   414/757