Abstract:
A process is provided for manufacturing aluminum vehicle wheels by a casting process that is followed by processing including flow forming and heat treatment steps while one or more risers remain on the cast wheel blank. The process can include directing cooling fluid onto an exposed surface of the casting mold to enhance wheel strength. One-by-one transfer of wheel blanks can be practiced to avoid negative aspects of batch processing
Abstract:
An apparatus and a method for producing a one-part vehicle wheel are provided, in which a substantially disk-shaped, undercut-free pre-form is cast. Immediately after casting the pre-form is conveyed to a flow-forming machine, while maintaining a residual heat and is fixed therein. The circumferential area of the fixed pre-form is split and, by subsequent spinning and flow-forming, is constructed as an intermediate form with a rim, which already substantially has the wall thickness of the rim of the finished vehicle wheel. The intermediate form is cooled, sized, and undergoes a final end-working.
Abstract:
An apparatus and a method for producing a one-part vehicle wheel are provided, in which a substantially disk-shaped, undercut-free preform is cast. Immediately after casting the preform is conveyed to a flow-forming machine, whilst maintaining a residual heat and is fixed therein. The circumferential area of the fixed preform is split and by subsequent spinning and flow-forming is constructed as an intermediate form with a rim, which already substantially has the wall thickness of the rim of the finished vehicle wheel. The intermediate form is cooled, sized and undergoes a final end-working.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a light construction wheel of steel sheet which is produced by the cold working of a flat, one-piece circular steel sheet disc formed by the welding together of a first circular disc (1) and a second annular disc (3). In the light construction wheel the first circular disc (1) for the wheel disc/dish (1*) and the second annular disc (3) for the wheel rim (3*) are made from different uncoated or coated sheets which differ in thickness and/or strength of material in accordance with the local given strength requirements of the light construction wheel.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a vehicle wheel with a wheel body and a rim having at least one undercut. In order to provide a simple, inexpensive method for the manufacture of a weight-reduced vehicle wheel, according to the invention the construction of an undercut in the rim area is integrated into the manufacture thereof by a spinning process. A cast preform having a clearly defined construction, is fixed in a spinning machine where initial preshaping takes place, a rim bed with an inside rim horn is formed and then by splitting and forming a rectangular flange cast radially onto the wheel body, the undercut and an outside rim horn are constructed. Following a heat treatment, machining is carried out for the final rim construction.
Abstract:
The desired finished size of the rim of an aluminum wheel which has undergone a solution heat treatment is calibrated by positioning the wheel, at a first temperature substantially equal to the temperature of the wheel after removal thereof from the solution heat treatment, in a die. The die is heated to a second temperature lower than the first temperature. The wheel is cooled to a third temperature lower than the second temperature, such that the rim is caused to shrink tightly over the die to the desired finished size. The cooling is interrupted such that the rim is heated by heat from the die and thereby is expanded by an amount sufficient to enable the rim to be removed easily from the die.
Abstract:
Wheels, particularly for automotive vehicles, are made by first forming a disk-shaped blank, forging the same into a semifinished wheel having a hub and a wheel disk surrounding the hub and having a peripheral rim provided with a cylindrical circumferential edge face, and then mounting the semi-finished wheel in a machine. The edge face is thereupon engaged with at least one pressure roller and split under application of pressure in direction inwardly of the edge face and towards the hub to obtain two unfinished flanges. The unfinished flanges are rollingly deformed in opposite directions axially of the hub and to the desired configuration to thereby obtain two finished wheel flanges.