Abstract:
A rolling plant (R) for rolling tubes having a multi-stand rolling mill (5) with two or more rolls, in order to implement a controlled speed mandrel rolling process, comprises a hooking and releasing device (61) which is arranged in the inlet area of the rolling mill (5) to cooperate with the rear tang of the mandrel (31) and a hooking and releasing device (71) which is arranged in the outlet area of the rolling mill (5) to cooperate with the front tang of the mandrel (31) in coordinated manner with the first hooking and releasing device (61).
Abstract:
The manufacture of seamless tubes in which the process includes providing an assembly having a metal tube blank, and an elongate metal core of shape memory effect material which is surrounded and contacted by the tube blank with a minimal gap. The assembly is elongated by mechanical working thereof at an elevated temperature until the tube blank has been converted into a tube of desired dimensions. After the elongation step, the core is subjected to a treatment which results in the core being in a stretched condition throughout its length, and does not substantially stretch the tube. The core is removed from the tube, and subsequently subjected to drawing passes over a nondeformable mandrel thereby refining the precision of diametric and wall dimensions with improved ID and OD surface quality. There is also decoring and reinserting to improve final dimensions which results in the ability to fabricate smaller, longer tubes.
Abstract:
In press forming including ironing, an elastically deformable material is used for a part of ironing die contacting to the work material under a higher pressure than designed, for taking the formed product out from the die easily in a case that the ironing die and the formed product are very close in size to each other, and thereby improving the efficiency of production.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to an extraction device for use in continuous rolling mills for extracting tubes from retaining mandrels. The extraction device includes a frame having three pressure yielding rollers mounted therein. The rollers are normally retained in a fixed position for performing a final reduction on the tubes. However, if a mandrel on which the tube has been rolled accidentally enters the orifice defined by the three rollers, the rollers will yield to the excessive pressure and move away from the center of the frame by an amount corresponding to the maximum diameter of the tube containing the mandrel.
Abstract:
A linear induction motor having an elongated secondary or rotor member, and a cylindrical hollow primary or stator member having teeth formed as washers with energizable coils between the washers. The stator and coils concentrically surround the rotor member. The stator teeth have an inner washer or facing of a material having higher magnetic permeability and saturation properties than the stator to thereby provide composite stator teeth which do not magnetically saturate when high rotor forces are required for small diameter rotors. The motor has a particular utility in removing a workpiece from a die or other forming means.
Abstract:
Apparatus for forming a tubular metal blank into a tapered tube on a tapered mandrel comprising a die, means for pushing the tapered mandrel with the tubular metal blank thereabout in the forward direction through the die until the leading end of the mandrel and blank protrudes beyond the die whereafter the mandrel and blank are pulled in the forward direction through the die to complete the formation of the tapered tube on the tapered mandrel and means separate from said pushing means for withdrawing the mandrel in the reverse direction through the die. The withdrawing means preferably comprise flexible tension means, such as a flexible cable, together with a reel on which the flexible tension means are wound and means for turning the reel. The pushing means may comprise piston and cylinder means having a stroke only a fraction of the length of the madrel. The piston desirably has a longitudinal passage therethrough with the withdrawing means extending through the passage. The withdrawing means may comprise means stopping the movement of the mandrel in the forward direction when formation of the tapered tube on the tapered mandrel is completed whereupon the forward inertia of the tapered tube loosens it from the tapered mandrel. The withdrawing means may have stop means thereon which stop means engage the cylinder and thereby stop the forward movement of the mandrel. Also a method of forming a tubular metal blank into a tapered tube on a tapered mandrel comprising pushing the tapered mandrel with the tubular metal blank thereabout in the forward direction through a die until the leading end of the mandrel and blank protrudes beyond the die whereafter the mandrel and blank are pulled in the forward direction through the die to complete the formation of the tapered tube on the tapered mandrel, attaching flexible withdrawing means to the trailing end of the mandrel and by the flexible withdrawing means withdrawing the mandrel in the reverse direction through the die. The flexible withdrawing means are preferably attached to the trailing end of the mandrel before the mandrel and blank are pulled in the forward direction through the die. The withdrawing means desirably stop the movement of the mandrel in the forward direction when formation of the tapered tube on the tapered mandrel is complete whereupon the forward inertia of the tapered tube loosens it from the tapered mandrel.
Abstract:
A longitudinal, multi-stand rolling mill of the continuous, restrained type for rolling hollow bodies is described, which comprises a main rolling mill (2) and an extracting rolling mill (4) in line and downstream of the main rolling mill, at a distance from the main rolling mill larger than the maximum length of the hollow body and of the spindle, and in which the spindle is extracted at the outlet of the main rolling mill in the gap between said main rolling mill and extracting rolling mill, and is laterally unloaded.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method and a rolling mill for producing a seamless steel pipe in a continuous rolling process, where semi-finished material is first formed into a hollow block (8) in a rotary rolling mill, said block then being rolled in a multi-tooled continuous rolling mill (1) over a previously inserted mandrel (10) to form a tube blank (9), wherein the mandrel (10) receiving the hollow block and held by a mandrel holding and transporting device (5) disposed on the entry side is fed into the continuous rolling mill (1) and is transported back to the entry side after the tube blank has been rolled off of the mandrel (10) on an extracting rolling mill (4) connected downstream of the continuous rolling mill An aim of the invention is to allow high production rates at the same product quality, particularly at a low drop in the temperature of the tube blanks. The aim is achieved in that the mandrel (10) with the tube blank (9) is released by the entry-side mandrel holding and transporting device (5) after exiting the last tool (2.n) of the continuous rolling mill (1) and thus is transferred to an accompanying second mandrel holding and transporting device (6) connected downstream and held by the same until the tube blank (9) is rolled off by means of the extracting rolling mill (4).
Abstract:
In press forming including ironing, an elastically deformable material is used for a part of ironing die contacting to the work material under a higher pressure than designed, for taking the formed product out from the die easily in a case that the ironing die and the formed product are very close in size to each other, and thereby improving the efficiency of production.