Abstract:
A frame construction for the curved roll-rack of a continuouscasting apparatus, and a method of assembling the rack. The frame is formed of lower, middle and upper sections assembled in aligned end-to-end relation. Each section is pivotally mounted at its exit end and supported on base members at its entry end. The side plates of the sections carry reference pins cooperable with specially designed gauges for accurately positioning roll clusters on the sections, the sections with respect to each other, the base members with respect to the sections, and a bending-roll unit at the entry end of the roll-rack.
Abstract:
A device for guiding a bar of a cutter of a peeling machine which has a cutter, plural guide rollers provided behind the cutter, plural links for supporting the guide rollers, plural rods connected through rods to the links, and plural connectors connected at the ends to the first rods; which device has a cylinder composed of the case of the cutter and a sleeve, a piston slidably inserted into the cylinder, an air supply port for supplying compressed air from source of compressed air into the cylinder for acting the piston, said connectors being integrally and rotatably connected axially to the piston, a stopper rotatably connected to the end of the piston, a nut fixed to the end of the connector, a rotary stopper of the nut, an adjusting nut screwed to the case of the cutter for adjusting the stopping position of the stopper. Thus, the work to be cut by the device may be always maintained at correct position at the center of the cutters.
Abstract:
A straightening machine for tubular or rod-like workpieces has concave straightening rolls which treat successive workpieces while such workpieces move lengthwise and rotate about their own axes. The feeding unit which advances workpieces into the range of the straightening rolls employs a pair of driven concave advancing rollers whose axes are inclined with reference to the axis of a workpiece between their concave surfaces. The advancing rollers can move successive workpieces at a higher speed so that the leading end of the workpiece between the advancing rollers catches up with the trailing end of the preceding workpiece which is being treated by the straightening rolls, and thereupon at a lower speed which corresponds to the speed of lengthwise transport of the workpiece at the straightening station. The speed of workpieces which are being transported by the advancing rollers can be varied by changing the inclination of the axes of rollers with reference to the axis of the advanced workpiece or by changing the operating speeds of series-connected hydraulic motors which rotate the advancing rollers.
Abstract:
A DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING AN ELONGATED WORK PIECE SUCH AS TUBES OR RODS WITH CIRCULAR OR ANNULAR SECTION DURING TREATMENT THEREOF AND GIVING THE WORK PIECE A ROTATIONAL FEEDING MOVEMENT AS WELL AS A LONGITUDINAL FEEDING MOVEMENT WITH THE SPEED OF THE LONGITUDINAL MOVEMENT BEING VERY SLOW AS COMPARED WITH THE ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT OF THE WORKPIECE.
Abstract:
An automatic bar feeder for a centerless grinder having conventional adjustable bar-supporting rollers (68) carried by a long vertically adjustable horizontal guide tube (28), a feed ramp (14), an escapement shaft (17), a plurality of long narrow load arms (30) on said shaft having long adjusting slots (32) for mounting adjustable bar-engaging stops (31), adjustable escapement plates (18) on said shaft to lift one bar only from the ramp to the load arms, a high-speed pneumatic cylinder (69) for turning the escapement shaft rapidly to cause the escapement plates to throw the lowermost bar (W) on the ramp outwardly at a high speed such that it clears the nearest roller (68) and engages the stops (31) before the arms are lowered below said rollers (68), hydraulic cylinder means (165) for retarding and controlling the speed of lowering of the arms near the end of the stroke of said cylinder, a skewed motor-driven drive wheel (92) for engaging the bar to feed it into the grinder (B), and means (94) for swinging the drive wheel vertically.