Abstract:
A metal ring loading and unloading apparatus is capable of loading and unloading a metal ring quickly and highly accurately for increased efficiency. The metal ring loading and unloading apparatus has a moving unit 41 slidably movable along a rail 48 which extends from a loaded ring placement unit 8 to an unloaded ring placement unit 11. On the moving unit 41, there are mounted a loaded ring delivering unit 9 for holding and delivering a metal ring W on the loaded ring placement unit 8 and an unloaded ring delivering unit 10 for removing the metal ring W from support rollers 3, 4 and delivering the metal ring W to the unloaded ring placement unit 11. The loaded ring placement unit 8 has a pressing unit for radially pressing the metal ring W to deform the metal ring W into a substantially elliptical shape. The loaded ring delivering unit 9 has a loaded ring gripping unit 26 for gripping the metal ring W deformed by the pressing unit. The unloaded ring delivering unit 10 has an unloaded ring gripping unit 53 for gripping the metal ring W under its own recovering resiliency produced when the support rollers 3, 4 move toward each other. The unloaded ring placement unit 11 has a releasing unit for releasing the metal ring W from the unloaded ring gripping unit 53.
Abstract:
An apparatus for correcting the circumferential length of a metal ring has a drive roller 2 and a driven roller 3 positionable closely to each other for training a metal ring W therearound, and a correcting roller 4 disposed between the drive roller 2 and the driven roller 3. The apparatus also has a first displacement applying unit for displacing the drive roller 2 and the driven roller 3 away from each other when the metal ring W is trained around the drive roller 2, the driven roller 3, and the correcting roller 4. The apparatus further includes spacers 21, 22 for spacing the drive roller 2 and the driven roller 3 a predetermined distance from each other when the drive roller 2 and the driven roller 3 are released from being displaced, a second displacement applying unit 27 for displacing the correcting roller 4 in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the drive roller 2 and the driven roller 3 are displaced and also to extend the metal ring W, thereby to correct the circumferential length of the metal ring W, and a third displacement applying unit 91 for displacing the drive roller 2 and the driven roller 3 toward each other when the drive roller 2, the driven roller 3, and the correcting roller 4 are released from being displaced by the first and second displacement applying units 10, 27.
Abstract:
A rolling apparatus is capable of rolling a metal ring to an accurate circumferential length and preventing the metal ring from dropping off. The rolling apparatus includes a metal ring support assembly having tension rollers 2a, 2b for supporting a metal ring W, a rolling roller 5 for rolling the metal ring W, a rolling assembly for pressing the rolling roller 5 against the metal ring W, a tension applying assembly having a tension cylinder 23 engaging tension roller support members 8, 10, 25, on which one of the tension rollers 2b is rotatably supported, for displacing the tension roller 2b to apply tension to the metal ring W, and a rolling processing completing assembly 27 for detecting a completion of rolling of the metal ring W and inactivating the rolling assembly and the tension applying assembly. The rolling assembly has a first resilient member 18 interposed between the rolling cylinder 14 and its piston rod 15. The tension applying assembly has a second resilient member 28 interposed between a piston rod 24 of the tension cylinder 23 and the tension roller support member 25.
Abstract:
A circular-shaped metal structure is fabricated by plastic-working and has a wall thickness in the range of 0.03 mm to 0.09 mm both inclusive. A film composed of one of (a) silicon and fluorocarbon resin and (b) copper is coated on a surface of the circular-shaped metal structure.
Abstract:
An apparatus for correcting the circumferential length of a metal ring has a drive roller 2 and a driven roller 3 positionable closely to each other for training a metal ring W therearound, and a correcting roller 4 disposed between the drive roller 2 and the driven roller 3. The apparatus also has a first displacement applying unit for displacing the drive roller 2 and the driven roller 3 away from each other when the metal ring W is trained around the drive roller 2, the driven roller 3, and the correcting roller 4. The apparatus further includes spacers 21, 22 for spacing the drive roller 2 and the driven roller 3 a predetermined distance from each other when the drive roller 2 and the driven roller 3 are released from being displaced, a second displacement applying unit 27 for displacing the correcting roller 4 in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the drive roller 2 and the driven roller 3 are displaced and also to extend the metal ring W, thereby to correct the circumferential length of the metal ring W, and a third displacement applying unit 91 for displacing the drive roller 2 and the driven roller 3 toward each other when the drive roller 2, the driven roller 3, and the correcting roller 4 are released from being displaced by the first and second displacement applying units 10, 27.
Abstract:
A method of fabricating a circular-shaped metal structure includes the steps of (a) rotating a pipe around an axis thereof, the pipe being composed of a plastic-workable metal, (b) moving a jig towards the pipe in a direction perpendicular to the axis until the jig makes contact with an outer surface of the pipe, and compressing the jig onto the pipe, (c) moving the jig in a direction in parallel with the axis with the jig being compressed onto the pipe while the pipe is kept rotated, (d) measuring a thickness of a wall of the pipe during the step (c), and (e) adjusting a pressure with which the jig is compressed onto the pipe, in accordance with the thickness measured in the step (d).
Abstract:
A method of fabricating a circular-shaped metal structure, includes the steps of (a) rotating a pipe around an axis thereof, the pipe being composed of a plastic-workable metal, and (b) applying drawing to an outer wall of the pipe with the pipe being kept rotated, to reduce a wall thickness of the pipe and lengthen a wall of the pipe. A resultant circular-shaped metal structure fabricated by the method could have a thickness equal to or smaller than 0.09 mm.
Abstract:
Elements with heads confronting each other are blanked out of two opposite sides of an elongate metal sheet. The differences between thicknesses of the elements at a measurement point at or nearly at necks of the elements and measurement points at ears of the elements are averaged, and a distance between corners of the metal sheet and a counter load of counter punches are established in order to keep the averages in an allowable range. When elements are blanked out of the metal sheet with the distance and the counter load thus established, even if the metal sheet is laterally displaced out of position, a belt assembly made up of the elements blanked out of the two opposite sides of the metal sheet and mixed at a ratio of about 1 to 1 poses no problems because variations in the thicknesses of the elements blanked out of one of the two opposite sides of the metal sheet and variations in the thicknesses of the elements blanked out of the other of the two opposite sides of the metal sheet cancel each other.
Abstract:
A high strength steel belt having an excellent flatness and a duplex structure of austenite and martensite has been prepared by a process which comprises providing a cold rolled or cold rolled and annealed strip of a martensitic structure from low carbon martensitic stainless steel containing from 10 to 17% by weight of Cr and having a carbon content of not exceeding 0.15% by weight, connecting ends of the strip or ends of a plate cut from said strip to provide an endless belt, causing the endless belt to circularly move between rolls under tension and to pass through a heating furnace where the belt is heated to a temperature within a range from (As point of the steel+30.degree. C.) to Af point of the steel and not higher than 900.degree. C. so that a part of the martensitic phase may be changed to a reversed austenitic phase and a desired surface flatness may be obtained after cooling.
Abstract:
A method is disclosed for obtaining an exact fitting of a plurality of endless metal bands one into the other so as to form a belt package. Each endless belt is obtained as a section from a thin seamless tubing or by welding against each other the ends of a metal strip. Though the closed bands may be shaped with different diameters they will only fit around each other with some play. According to the new method the package is arranged on an expansible template which is then expanded to an extent by which each of the bands is elongated and any play between them is removed and the package is exposed to a tempering treatment preferably when the package is still under tension on the template. The bands are preferably elongated to a degree within the limit of elasticity and belt packages with mutual identical dimensions are obtained by simultaneously treating them side by side in equally dimensioned parts of one template.