Abstract:
A system for producing metal articles. The system includes a coil line system, a contour cutting machine and/or a three axis transfer system incorporated into the coil line system, and first and optional second control computers. The coil line system includes a cradle, an IRS unit/FBS unit, the contour cutting machine, the three axis transfer system, if present, having an operatively connected gripper gantry, a first roll-former, an optional second roll-former, a cleat former/ear bender, a transverse duct connector/transverse duct flange former, an optional insulation system, and a brake system including a brake machine having an operatively connected gripper gantry. The contour cutting machine is operatively connected to the first and optional second, if present, control computers and includes an operatively connected gripper gantry and cutting gantry, and a bed modified to have a pair of reliefs.
Abstract:
The invention provides a high-carbon steel pipe having superior cold workability and induction hardenability, and a method of producing the steel pipe. The method comprises the steps of heating or soaking a base steel pipe having a composition containing C: 0.3 to 0.8%, Si: not more than 2%, and Mn: not more than 3%, and then carrying out reducing rolling on the base steel pipe at least in the temperature range of (Ac1, transformation point −50° C.) to Ac1, transformation point with an accumulated reduction in diameter of not less than 30%. A structure in which the grain size of cementite is not greater than 1.0 &mgr;m is obtained, thus resulting in improved cold workability and induction hardenability.
Abstract:
A method of reducing slot width in slotted tubular liners. A slotted tubular liner (1) is provided having an interior surface (3), an exterior surface (2) and a plurality of slots (4) extending between the interior surface and the exterior surface. One or more contoured rigid forming tools (7) are provided. Pressure is applied to either the interior surface (3) or the exterior surface(2) of the slotted tubular liner (1) with the contoured rigid forming tools (7). The contoured rigid forming tools are then moved in a sweep pattern traversing either the interior surface or the exterior surface of the slotted tubular liner, until plastic deformation narrows the width of the plurality of slots (4) to within desired tolerances. The method does not require the same precise positioning of previously known methods and, as such, provides a combination of increased output and lower cost.
Abstract:
A ribbon of colour A metal is combined with a thin layer of soldering alloy, bent and soldered to form a tube, it is then filled with a core of colour B metal. The compound is then drawn and/or laminated until it is transformed into a long ribbon or into a wire, externally of colour A and internally of colour B. The filled ribbon or wire is wrapped like a solenoid around a deformable support, like a metal mesh and stamped into the desired shape. The resulting two faced element is then ground in order to remove, all along a strip and following a line or in dots, the superficial part of colour A until the core of colour B is revealed. The bi-coloured long element is then treated like a single body and allows the realisation of precious bi-coloured ornamental items.
Abstract:
A multi-layered heat resistant metal tube is disclosed. This tube has excellent anti-coking characteristics and is suitable for use under the conditions where carbon tends to deposit and accumulate thereon due to contacting with hydrocarbons at a high temperature. The tube is made by forming weld-mounted overlaid layer of a Cr—Ni—Mo alloy by building-up welding over the inner surface and/or the outer surface of a substrate tube made of a heat resistant metal. The Cr—Ni—Mo alloy consists essentially of, by weight %, Cr: 36-49 wt %, Ni: 35-63 wt % and Mo: 0.5-5 wt %. Building-up welding is preferably carried out by PPW (Plasma Powder Welding) in which the filler metal is supplied in the form of powder.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a structural member (1), especially a vehicle assembly member serving to absorb collision energy and forces by direct or indirect collision impact, for the purpose of obtaining a deformation body which is processed from an extruded blank. The post-processing of the blank is provided without supplementing further parts, and the blank can be given various geometrical designs for variation of stiffness and energy absorbing properties of the finished structural member. There is provided a substantially extruded blank (1) having a first yoke portion (2) and one or more leg portions (3A, 3B) protruding from the yoke portions; and in the area between the yoke portion (2) and the leg portions (3A, 3B), there is effected a cutting along a certain extension, such that in a leg zone (3Z) extending from the bottom of the cutting (4a, 4b, 5a, 5b) and outwardly along a leg portion there is effected a bending for providing one or more reinforcing collision corners (6a-6d).
Abstract:
There is disclosed herein a method for forming a manifold for a heat exchanger. The method includes the steps of the forming a generally planar sheet of material into a generally cylindrical member having a seam along the longitudinal length thereof. The method further includes forming a plurality of tube receiving slots in the cylindrical member and applying a pressure against the seam so as to flatten the seam.
Abstract:
An improvement is accomplished in apparatus for the continuous production of tubing from tubing stock, and like, elongated, closed structures from appropriate stocks. The apparatus includes welding means for continuously welding the tubing stock to form the tubing, with the welding occurring at a welding station. Downstream of the welding station are stations for the further processing of the tubing after welding, which generate conditions adverse to interior coatings. In apparatus as described, the improvement comprises several inventive features. A spray head provides for spraying of coating, and fits within the tubing. An elongated, flexible lance locates the spraying means downstream of the processing stations which generate adverse interior coating conditions, by introduction of the spray head into the tubing interior upstream of the welding station, and after introduction, movement of the spray head into the desired downstream position. The lance extends from the point of introduction to the properly located spraying means through the tubing. A coating supply lumen extends along the lance and supplies coating material under pressure to the spray head. Finally, a cooling jacket extends along the lance from the point of introduction to the spray head, and cools the supplied coating material to protect against high temperature damage. Because of the apparatus as described, environmentally friendly, waterbased paints and coatings may be successfully applied to the tubing interior. As most preferred, the lance, coating supply, and cooling jacket together take the form of three concentric layers of hose, with the coating material supplied through the innermost hose. The middle hose supplies cooling water, and the outer hose accomplishes water return.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a process for the production of a tubular zircaloy 2 blank which is internally clad with zirconium for use in producing composite cladding tubes for nuclear fuel. The internal zirconium cladding is rendered suitable for ultrasound monitoring of its thickness by an appropriate thermomechanical treatment which takes place during one or more of the production steps for said blank. The aim is to adjust the grain size to an ASTM index of between 9 and 12 for the zircaloy 2 and between 6 and 10 for the unalloyed zirconium, retaining a grain size difference between the zircaloy 2 and the unalloyed zirconium of at least 2 ASTM index numbers.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of producing a welded steel tube with excellent inner surface corrosion resistance, in which at least one surface of a steel strip is coated with a first plate layer made of at least one of nickel, cobalt and alloys based on the metals, the plated steel strip is formed into a welded tube with the plated surface being inside, a film-forming material of at least one of tin and tin-based alloys is inserted into the inside of the welded tube and is then heat-treated at a temperature not lower than the melting point of the film-forming material by passing the tube through a continuous heating furnace having a non-oxidizing gas atmosphere therein so that the film forming material as inserted into the welded tube is fused and spread over the first plate layer to form a second plate layer thereon, and the tube is finally cooled. The welded steel tube of the present invention is free from cracks, pin holes, overplated spots and peeling of the plate layer and therefore has excellent corrosion resistance.