Huth Ben Pearson Supports Manufacturers: Bending and End Forming Machines

By Kenneth Murray, President, Huth Ben Pearson International, LLC

Huth Ben Pearson International manufactures a full line of pipe bending and end forming machines that help manufacturers and fabricators who work with tube and pipe. They also make the associated tooling, as well as a number of accessories that make working with tube and pipe easier and more profitable.

Huth’s equipment, tooling, and accessories are made in Hartford, Wis. Their pipe benders feature rugged I-beam construction. The equipment is tough, often lasting for decades, and versatile, capable of working with tube, pipe, conduit, square tubing, rectangular tubing, and flat stock.

Huth Ben Pearson has been supplying pipe benders and end formers around the world for over 50 years. Many manufacturers and fabricators use Huth equipment for roll bars, panels, gates, metal structural buildings, tent frames, playground equipment, and applications specific to their processes and incoming jobs. Huth has been working with trailer manufacturers for decades. The simplicity and durability of Huth equipment has kept machines operating in member’s plants for that entire time frame.

The workhorse bending machine for manufacturers like NATM members are the fabrication benders, models 2650 and 2660. These benders were designed for rugged manufacturing conditions and long duty cycles of multiple shift operations. They are perfect for manufacturing structures and frames such as trailer frames, building frames, carports, sporting equipment, and agriculture applications like feed rings, fencing and gates, panels and saddle racks, lawn furniture, and greenhouses.

These machines can bend square, round, and rectangular pipe and tubing, and even solid bar. They are able to handle schedule/ thick wall pipe with ease. The fabrication benders are powered by a seven and a half hp motor, and there is a choice of two different hydraulic cylinders: model 2650 has a five-inch hydraulic cylinder with 58,000 lbs. of bending force while the model 2660 comes with a six-inch cylinder with 85,000 lbs. of bending force.

Huth benders can be round, rectangular, and square tubing easily.

These new fabrication benders are designed for hours of nonstop production. The increased flow capacity and ten-gallon hydraulic fluid reservoir allows them to run cool and continuously through multiple shifts. All Huth Ben Pearson benders are priced very reasonably and have a small footprint, perfect for today’s lean plant environment.

Huth is also known for high quality end forming machines and tooling. Their portable model 1673 expander, reducer, and swaging machine is the industry’s most versatile. It accomplishes expansions and reductions for tubing, as well as pipes up to Schedule 40. It will do reductions on outside diameters up to three inches, and expand up to five and half inches. Mounted on its own easy-wheeling cart, it allows operators to work anywhere.

Huth’s 1674 and 1674V dual headed expanders make large tube and pipe expansions quicker and easier than ever. The 1674V has two expanding cylinders mounted vertically and gives operators expanion range from one and a half inches all the way to 12 inches. The vertical orientation has two benefits. The first is that fabricators can use gravity to hold the part against the expander head. The second is that larger segment sets can be used to get wider expansions. As with all Huth Expander machines, it features Huth’s Accu-Sizer™ system for quick, precise expanding.

Known for its high quality, Huth tooling is machined to specific tolerances and is heat carburized to assure an extra-long working life. Most common tooling is kept in stock for immediate availability. Huth also offers quick turn around with custom tooling requests.

Huth Ben Pearson International is proud to be associated with the NATM and its members. For more information visit, www.HuthBenders.com or call (800) 558-7808.