公开(公告)号：US20240238908A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-18

申请号：US18413550

申请日：2024-01-16

申请人： NUCOR TOWERS & STRUCTURES INC

发明人： Paul W. Johnson, III ,  Robert A. Robinson ,  Travis Marshall Fuhrman ,  Gregory Earl Noll ,  Jaroslav Tyman ,  Brent Eugene Boxall ,  Mell Tex Sammons ,  Michele Di Tullio ,  Nicola Di Tullio

IPC分类号： B23K31/02 ,  B23K9/02 ,  B23K37/02

CPC分类号： B23K31/02 ,  B23K9/02 ,  B23K37/0252

摘要： A pole manufacturing line with a shell forming apparatus in which material blanks (e.g., steel plates, sheets, or the like, other metals, composites, or other material) are cut into one or more shell blanks (e.g., different sizes for different types of poles), and the shell blanks are shaped into shaped shells (e.g., a single shell, half shells, tri-shell, quad shells, or the like). The pole manufacturing line has a shell assembly apparatus in which shells are supplied to a welding apparatus to create longitudinal seam welds in the shaped shells to form the poles, the poles are transported to one or more cells for straightening the pole, trimming the pole length, preparing the pole for components (e.g., base, flanges, supports, or other hardware) and welding the components to the pole.