Abstract:
An irregular tube straightener is disclosed, which comprises a machine frame, upper and lower pulley blocks which are configured on the front side of the machine frame and work together to reshape the irregular tube, and an adjusting device mounted on the machine frame and used to adjust the size of the gap between the upper pulley block and the lower pulley block. The adjusting device comprises an adjusting screw rod mounted on the machine frame, a handle fixed on the upper end of the adjusting screw rod, a lifting and lowering seat configured on the back side of the machine frame, and a threaded bushing fixed inside the lifting and lowering seat. The threaded section on the lower end of the adjusting screw rod is spirally fitted inside the threaded bushing. The upper pulley block comprises at least two upper pulleys.
Abstract:
A hand-held tool for straightening tubing such as brake fluid lines in vehicles, the tool provides a housing having an outer covering, internally thereof, a series of sets of rollers, that are adjustable radially, supported by end frames, and intermediate the rollers and the outer covering is an adjuster ring, shiftable longitudinally within the housing, operatively associated with the rollers, such that when the adjuster ring is pulled outwardly, longitudinally, from the tool housing, the rollers shift radially outwardly, for accommodating larger tubing, and when the adjuster ring is pushed inwardly of the housing, the rollers are forced inwardly against smaller diameter tubing, in preparation for its straightening. A sector of the tool, usually along a quadrant, is opened from one end to the other of the tool, so as to allow the tool to be applied to the tubing to be straightened, anywhere along its length, and not only at its ends.
Abstract:
A method for straightening a tube by using an asymmetric roll, which has different diameters D1 (exit side), D2 (entry side) at relative maximum diameter portions, left and right roll shoulder portions, as a straightening roll of a straightener, wherein the roll shoulder having a smaller diameter is disposed to be located on the tube entry side. The straightening roll used therefor comprises roll shoulders 3a and 3b and a roll barrel portion 4, in which D1>D2 and 0.004≦(D1−D2)/d≦0.2 (d: outer diameter of tube to be straightened) are satisfied. Further, an aspect of the invention may define radii of curvatures of entry-side and exit-side shoulder potions in a section of the roll cut along a plane including the roll central axis, or a curve representing an outer surface of the roll barrel portion.
Abstract:
Cold finished seamless steel tubes are made such that the residual stress F to be generated at the stage of the correction process after cold working is controlled to be 30 MPa or more and the scattering thereof is 30 MPa or less, when measured by Crampton method. Further, by adjusting the average grain size of spheroidized carbides, the dimensional change which emerges in lathe turning of the outside and inside diameter of relevant steel tubes due to the residual strain can be suppressed, and the strict roundness as well as the excellent machinability can be secured at the final processing stage of the work pieces for bearing parts. Consequently, steel tubes with high dimensional accuracy and less dimensional change at the final steps such as lathe turning, heat treatment and the like, can be made for use as bearing parts.
Abstract:
A system and method for detecting the exact position of the contoured, cross rolls in a multiple roll rotary straightener including provision of selected transverse and axial surfaces on the roll frames themselves and means for detecting the exact position of these surfaces whereby the rotary straightener can be returned to a preselected operating condition.
Abstract:
In order to increase output of pipe straightening devices, there is provided a driving unit between a preparatory station for the pipes and a feeding station which advances the pipes from the preparatory station in axial direction one after the other in the feeding station. The feeding station includes a succession of rotation symmetrical guiding elements supported for rotation about axes which extend parallel to the feeding path for the pipes. The guiding bodies prevent striking of unbalanced pipes against the feeding unit and permit axial feeding of the pipes in a straightening station.
Abstract:
The hollow tubular member or blank which is to serve as a sleeve for a corroded tube of the steam generator of a nuclear reactor plant and which is too long to be manipulated under the tube sheet of the reactor, is prebent into a shape such that it can be manipulated and is then progressively straightened under the tube sheet as it is progressively inserted into the tube. The straightener includes a plurality of grooved rolls mounted staggered and rotatable in a train. Each roll forms a channel engaging half of the periphery of the member. The contour of the engaging surface of each roll is the same as the contour of the member over half of its peripheral surface so that each roll mates with the member over half of its peripheral surface. The rolls are in frictional engagement with the member and advance the member while bending it so that the material of the member is stressed beyond its elastic limit oppositely to the stress beyond the elastic limit, which produced the bending, sufficiently to straighten the hollow member.
Abstract:
The invention relates to rolls of a skewed-roll machine. The rolls include a back-up roll and a pressure roll, having their axes extending at an angle to each other and at an angle to the trueing axis. The back-up roll has a biconcave profile, the portions of this roll, adjoining its ends, having the same hyperboloidal concavity with the degree of curvature providing for the engagement of the roll with the narrow central portion of the article being trued. The central portion of the back-up roll has hyperboloidal concavity with a degree of curvature to perform the trueing by bending the thickened end portion of the article being trued. The other roll, i.e. the pressure one, has a convexo-concave profile with similar hyperboloidal concave portions adjoining its ends, providing for the engagement of the roll with the thickened end of the article being trued, the roll further having a convex central portion as a projecting strip of a curvilinear profile, with a radial projection having a height ensuring a bending torque which, at the bending of the narrow central portion of the article being trued is short of the maximum permissible value of the bending torque but is not short of the minimum permissible bending torque required for trueing the thickened end of the article being trued, provided that the plastic torque of the bending resistance of the cross-section of the thickened end portion of the article being trued exceeds the plastic torque of the bending resistance of the cross-section of the narrow portion by not more than 10%.
Abstract:
A tube expander having a stop collar for limiting advance of a received tube end to a predetermined axial location relative to the expander rollers and their supporting cage. The collar is comprised of a plurality of individual L-shaped wire fingers circumferentially displaced about the cage. Each finger is spring biased radially inward against the cage periphery transversely to the path of tube advance. By this arrangement, the fingers are maintained in surface tracking relation against the rotating cage for collectively acting as a barrier against further advance by the tube end.
Abstract:
Round bar straightener-polisher machine of the type which has a pair of rotary rollers the lower of which is fixed while the upper of which moves at will in a vertical direction so as to determine the distance between the rollers, which distance will be occupied by the bar to be treated. On each side of the bar are corresponding lateral guides, also movable at will according to the gage of the bar, in order to avoid horizontal movement thereof. The movement of the upper roller and that of the lateral guides is controlled by a single control, for which two symetrically arranged tables which solidly support the corresponding lateral guides, turn with the center in its lower part, this turning being caused by movement of the frame of the upper roller, which transmits its movement to two yokes, one for each table and guide, each yoke being linked to a lever solidly connected to a horizontal shaft, which has respective heel-pieces or projections at its opposite ends, articulately coupled to corresponding lugs, fixed to each table. At the anterior end of one of the guides and at the posterior end of the other guide, successive small rollers, whose active areas are always in the same plane as the edges facing the lateral guides, are provided.