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公开(公告)号:US3612812A
公开(公告)日:1971-10-12
申请号:US3612812D
申请日:1970-07-27
发明人: WACKER HANS , WOLFINGER ERWIN
CPC分类号: B21K1/62 , B23K11/0013 , Y10T29/49211
摘要: A machine for making trimetal contacts having a body of relatively low cost metal, such as copper, and contact surfaces of an expensive metal such as silver, the machine including a plate rotatable in a vertical plane carrying a plurality of matrices spaced equally about its circumference, and means to position each matrix successively to a plurality of work stations, a first work station to receive the end of a copper wire to a predetermined depth in the matrix at that work station, the matrix cooperating with a first stationary guide-forming countershear means through which the copper wire is fed, to shear the end of the copper wire to form the body of a workpiece, and to carry the severed piece to a second work station when the rotatable plate is indexed to the next station where the end of the short workpiece body is contacted by the end of a silver wire in a first welding chamber where an electric welding current is passed through the contacting surfaces to weld the silver wire to the copper workpiece. The silver wire is then advanced until the weld, and a predetermined length of silver wire enters the matrix which cooperates with a second stationary guide-forming countershear means to shear the silver wire adjacent the weld as the matrix is moved to carry the workpiece to the next successive work station where the second end of the copper body of the now bimetal workpiece is contacted by a second silver wire in a welding chamber positioned on the other side of the rotatable plate from said first welding chamber and the silver wire is welded to the copper of the workpiece, the second silver wire is then advanced into the matrix a predetermined distance and the matrix, in cooperation with a third fixed guide, shears the second silver wire as the plate carries the workpiece forward to a final station where the now trimetal workpiece is simultaneously shaped by upsetting, and ejected from the matrix.