Abstract:
Large, heavy-duty, seamless high-pressure resistant ferrous-metal welding necks and other substantially thick-walled cylindrical articles are forged in such manner as to obtain greatly improved quality, dimensionally, metallurgically and otherwise, by the use in sequence of a certain combination of metal-forging elements; which includes a vertically disposed cylindrical female forging die member provided at its bottom with a removable disc and a surrounding circular forging kinfe; an annular metal-working and metal-displacing ring having an external diameter which is slightly less than the bore of the cylindrical female forging die member; a metal-working and metal-displacing disc which interfits with the annular metal-working and metal-displacing ring; a first round forging press follower of a diameter which is adequate to entirely cover the metal-working and metal-displacing disc and a substantial portion of the annular metal-working and metal-displacing ring; a second round forging press follower of a diameter which is slightly less than the internal diameter of the annular metal-working and metal-displacing ring.
Abstract:
AN APPARATUS AND METHOD OF FORMING TUBULAR ARTICLES FROM A SOLID SLUG. A FIRST SOLID SLUG IS PLACED ONTO AN OPENENDED DIE BORE AND FORCED ONTO A PIERCING PUNCH DISPOSED WITHIN ONE END OF THE DIE BORE TO FORM A TUBULAR FINISHED PART. THE SLUG IS FORCED ONTO THE PIERCING PUNCH BY A RECIPROCABLE FORGING PUNCH DISPOSED IN THE OTHER END OF THE DIE BORE. IN ADDITION TO THE FIRST SLUG IN PROCESS, THERE IS AT LEAST ONE INTERMEDIATE OR SECOND SLUG DISPOSED IN THE DIE BORE BETWEEN THE PIERCING PUNCH AND THE FORGING PUNCH. THE SECOND SLUG IS PARTIALLY PIECED AS WELL AS RADIALLY EXPANDED WHILE ACTING AS A DEFORMABLE FORGING PUNCH WHEN ADVANCING THE FIRST SLUG. DIRECT LAMINAR METAL GRAIN FLOW IS EFFECTED IN THE TRANSITION FROM SLUG TO FINISHED PART. EACH SLUG HAS A CONE-SHAPED INDENT ON ITS END ADJACENT THE FORGING PUNCH, SUCH INDENT BEING POSITIONED ON THE SLUG LONGITUDINAL AXIS TO EFFECT A CLEAN OPENING THROUGH THE BACK OF THE SLUG BY THE PIERCING PUNCH SUCH THAT THE PIERCING PUNCH DOES NOT CARRY A THIN SKIN OF METAL INTO THE SECOND SLUG.