Abstract:
A forging press includes a forging chamber into which a forging cylinder can be pressed. The forging cylinder is integral with a main piston arranged in a working cylinder to which pressure fluid can be supplied. The forging piston is slidable within an annular member which is fixed in an axially slidable sleeve, and which can be moved by pressure fluid supplied to either end thereof. Within the main piston is a pressure-equalizing chamber, into which fits a stationary back-pressure piston. Passages are provided connecting the pressure equalizing chamber with the forging chamber. The cross-section of the back-pressure piston is less than that of the forging piston. In the bottom part of the forging chamber there is arranged a groove which connects with a discharge passage. When pressure fluid is applied to the sleeve, it moves downwardly and the annular member engages the bottom of the forging chamber and closes the outlet groove so as to prevent the escape of fluid therefrom. Pressure in the main cylinder then pushes down the forging piston. As the cross-section area of the back-pressure piston is smaller than that of the forging piston, the increase in volume of the pressure-equalizing chamber will not be as great as the decrease in volume of the forging chamber. This in turn leads to an increase in pressure in both chambers. The relation between the cross-section areas of the back-pressure piston and the forging piston is chosen so that a suitable pressure increase is obtained in the chambers.
Abstract:
In the hydrostatic extrusion of compound billets, in which the billet is formed of a core of one material and a casing surrounding the core of another material, and in which a gap is left during the assembly of the billet to allow for deformation of the casing, the core is provided with a point and the casing has an inwardly directed conical flange within which the point of the core rests. At the back end, the core is provided with a sealing device for preventing the entry of fluid into the space between the core and the casing. In order to prevent the compression of the air in the space between the core and the casing, the core is provided at its front end with passages which open into the point of the core and which communicate with the space between the core and the casing, providing an air escape arrangement.
Abstract:
A container for manufacturing an alkali product by introducing powder into the container and sintering the container under pressure to form a solid body in a pressure furnace where it is subjected to high temperature and all-sided pressure, includes a pair of plates which at their outer parts form a forming space and at their center part form a disc-shaped central portion having a central opening and an annular wrinkle, and a discshaped gap extending between the central opening and the forming space through which powder introduced through the central opening may pass into the forming space under the action of centrifugal force.
Abstract:
A thyristor rectifier for high voltage includes a number of series-connected thyristors with a control device for each thyristor and a control circuit for the whole rectifier connected to the control devices. There is a control pulse emitter in each control device which emits an indicating pulse when the voltage over the corresponding thyristor in the conducting direction amounts to a certain value. A protection device is provided which emits a signal for the whole rectifier through a control pulse transmitter if a voltage grows in the conducting direction of the rectifier at a time when only an insufficient number of thyristors have regained their blocking ability. This protection device includes a memory circuit and a counter to register the indicating pulses from the emitters of the control devices and an output circuit connected between the counter and the control pulse transmitter which emits a signal for ignition of the whole thyristor in dependence on a predetermined number of indicating pulses.
Abstract:
A tilting arc furnace has a roof through which liftable electrodes are passed and to which furnace material charging tubes are applied, both the electrodes and the charging tubes requiring to be removed free from the roof to permit tilting of the furnace. The electrodes have lifting arms and the tubes pass through the arms and above the arms have carriers which during the lifting action of the arms, are engaged by the arms so that the tubes are simultaneously lifted, both the electrodes and tubes lifting free from the furnace roof for tilting of the furnace.
Abstract:
For the automatic control of batching when casting from a heatretaining furnace or ladle, an arrangement is provided for tapping the ladle in batches into a batching ladle. An arrangement is provided for weighing the batching ladle and the output signal of the weighing arrangement is fed to a deriving device which gives an output signal dependent on the melt flow. The output signal of the deriving device is fed to a comparison device along with a signal representing a desired value. A control device for the tapping of the furnace is combined with the output signal of the comparison device to terminate tapping when a predetermined quantity of melt has been tapped.
Abstract:
A converter station is composed of two parallel static converters each provided with a control system including a current regulator which is adjusted in accordance with a predetermined load distribution over the two converters. Each of the control systems is provided with an upper and a lower limit value emitter for the control angle. In order to equalize the load distribution between the static converters in the event of a commutation fault in one of them, current sensitive and comparing members are provided which sense the current distribution between the converters. These members emit a signal in the least loaded static converter to the lower limit value emitter in the same static converter for temporarily reducing the lower limit value for the control angle, in response to deviation from the normal current distribution exceeding a certain value.
Abstract:
For measuring the delay angle in a static converter, a rampfunction generator is provided for each rectifier phase connected to the alternating current network. The ramp-function generator includes a timing device responsive to passage through zero of the commutation voltage derived from the network, and a connecting member which connects the ramp-function generator to a sensing and holding circuit. The connecting member is controlled by the control pulse device of the converter so that the signal stored in the sensing and holding circuit at any moment corresponds to the delay angle for the rectifier last ignited.
Abstract:
An arrangement for determining moisture content, surface weight or other properties of travelling paper webs includes two detectors, at least one of which is arranged stationarily at one side of the path of the web, along with a comparison device to which the detectors are connected. Light is supplied to the fixed detector by a stationary mirror, and to the other detector by a mirror system which is movable across the web.
Abstract:
For cutting in sequence from a strip of sheet metal all the plates of a transformer core which are interleaved with separate yoke and leg plates, a number of shears are placed obliquely in relation to the feeding direction of the metal strip to cut off plates from the metal strip, along with a number of punches to make notches in the yoke plates for connection of the central leg to the yoke. A number of stops movable into and out of the path of the strip are provided to stop the strip in proper position before each cutting step.