Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a large basically spherical vessel from plane aluminum plates having a thickness in the range from about 20 mm to about 70 mm, comprises (a) forming at least first and second plane plate assemblies by downhand welding together plane plates controlled by a welding device including an adjustably lockable portal, (b) cutting each welded plane plate assembly to a peripheral shape that fits into the structural pattern of the vessel except for an allowance for machining in step (d), (c) bending each plate assembly to part-spherical configuration, (d) machining respective edges of the first and second bent plate assemblies to a profile suitable for welding in step (e), and (e) downhand welding the first and second plate assemblies together along the machined edges using a manipulator device that includes a tiltable support.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a container for holding pressurized fluids is described. Firstly, drill a first axial blind bore into a first end of a first piece of bar stock. Secondly, drill a second axial blind bore into a first end of a second piece of bar stock. Thirdly, weld the first end of the first piece of bar stock to the first end of the second piece of bar stock. This forms a container in which the first axial blind bore and the second axial blind bore cumulatively form an interior cavity. Following the teachings of the described method gas cylinders have been manufactured that can withstand pressure levels of 1800 pounds per square inch.
Abstract:
An arrangement for butt-welding cylindrical sections of large, thin-wall tanks includes a rotatable mandrel with side-by-side sets of radial position adjusters. Each set of adjusters bears on one of the tank sections adjacent the seam, to prevent the sections from sagging out-of-round. The mandrel rotates relative to the welder, so that a continuous seam is formed. A purge chamber is fixed in position behind the seam at the weld head, and is flushed with inert gas. The purge chamber includes a two-sided structure which is contiguous with the cylindrical sections and a circumferential vane to form an open-ended tube-like structure, through which the radial position adjusters pass as the mandrel and cylindrical workpiece sections rotate. The tube-like structure is formed into a chamber by a plurality of movable gates which are controlled to maintain a seal while allowing adjusters to progress through the purge chamber.
Abstract:
A method of making a welded can body wherein the opposite marginal edge portions of a metallic blank are overlapped to form a can body preform with an overlapped portion, and then the overlapped portion is electric-resistance mash-seam welded by using a pair of wire electrodes abutting on both the surfaces of the overlapped portion. At least one of the pair of the wire electrodes is formed with a flat main portion and a marginal projection including a slope contiguous to the flat main portion on the surface thereof, which surface is adapted to abut on the surface of the overlapped portion. The overlapped portion of the can body preform is fed in between the pair of wire electrodes such that the edge face of one of the marginal edge portions may be positioned on an area of the flat main surface portion in the vicinity of the slope or be positioned on the slope, allowing the marginal edge beside the edge face to flow outwardly in the circumferential direction of the can body preform along the slope during the welding.
Abstract:
A method of producing a metal can or similar object by drawing and ironing wherein subsequent to the drawing process the edge of the can or object is cut to size, while the can or object is rotated about its longitudinal axis, by means of a laser beam whereby the deformation properties of the edge are improved.
Abstract:
Container closure spout construction, e.g. for incorporation in a metal drum container, including a container wall portion having a spout aperture, and a closure spout member having a peripheral substantially transversely extending flange portion and, preferably integral therewith, an intermediate substantially axially extending tubular, e.g. internally threaded central hollow cylindrical, portion defining a closure spout opening within the flange portion and adapted to receive removably a cooperating closure element such as a plug or cap thereat, in which the spout member is disposed at the spout aperture in engagement with the adjacent marginal portion of the container wall portion thereat, and a high energy concentration beam, e.g. laser beam, produced weld seam, preferably continuously, interconnects the spout member with the container wall portion along such adjacent marginal portion;the weld seam preferably being provided by subjecting the site of interconnection of the component, e.g. metal, parts to the operative locally confined heat fusion action of a laser beam or electron beam sufficient to form a corresponding, e.g. metal, weld seam bond thereat.
Abstract:
This disclosure relates to a dampener for suppressing the normal electrode bounce which occurs when lapped portions to be welded move in between a pair of roller electrodes and force the electrodes apart. The dampener is particularly constructed to be operable primarily at the time the lapped portions move in between the electrodes.