Abstract:
An apparatus for manufacturing extruded coiled tubes for medical purposes is provided which includes rotary shafts protruding from a spindle, each rotary shaft being coupled to a respective flexible shaft resting on a series of supporting elements substantially equidistant to each other and supported by a main central shaft; at least an extrusion head to extrude a ribbon, and at least an extrusion head to extrude a rib; the ribbon and the rib being co-extruded, side by side, and being wound on an ideal surface formed by the external surfaces of the flexible shafts. The apparatus is characterized in that for changing the pitch with which the rib is wound on a base tubular element, formed on its turn by the winding coil of the ribbon, at least two twisting bars operated by a crank are used to rotate the supporting elements with a pre-defined angle.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method are provided for replacing a creel in a fiber placement machine, by sequentially moving replaceable creels into place on the fiber placement machine, via tracks and/or guide rails, as one or more spools in a previously operating creel are exhausted, and removing the creel having the one or more exhausted spools, to thereby allow fiber placement to continue from the replacement creel while the creel having one or more exhausted spools of material is replenished. An auto-splice apparatus and method are incorporated into the replaceable creel and fiber placement machine, for assisting in the exchange of replaceable creels.
Abstract:
A flexible double-walled plastic tubing product includes a helically wound support bead between inner and outer walls, and an helically wrapped electrical resistance heating conductor is disposed adjacent to the inner wall in good heat transfer relation to fluid flow within the tubing product. Fluid flow within the tubing product is insulated against heat loss to ambient by the helical support bead and a trapped "dead-air" space between the walls of the tubing product. Apparatus and method for making the tubing product are disclosed.
Abstract:
An apparatus for producing a corrugated tube contains a roller assembly composed of plural rollers having plural convexed rings, respective convexed rings forming a helix as a whole so as to substantially form a single rotating shaft body, and a synthetic resin supplier for supplying a strip of synthetic resin onto the roller assembly. The pitches between the convexed rings, and the diameters and the widths of the convexed rings are so constructed as to be gradually decreased in accordance with the contraction percentage of the synthetic resin. The apparatus is provided with a follower ring on a roller valley portion between the convexed rings, the follower ring being rotatable in response to circumferential speed of the apex of the convexed ring.
Abstract:
A grooved, void-volume belt for use on a long nip press for dewatering a fibrous web may be manufactured by winding a grooved strip or ribbon of polymeric material onto a standard LNP belt in the form of a closed helix, and by attaching the grooved strip to the belt by suitable means. The strip may be extruded from a polymeric material, such as polyurethane, and is provided with at least one longitudinal groove. The method enables one to manufacture a grooved, void-volume belt without the prior necessity of coating both sides of a base fabric with a polymeric material, and of cutting grooves in the coating on the outer side of the belt.
Abstract:
A machine winds tubes from strip (41) of the type having side flanges (43) with intermediate flanges (44) between, the strip (41) being fed into an annular space (21) between a cylindrical outer sleeve (18) fixed to a base plate (10) and a cylindrical driven core (20) rotatable coaxially within the sleeve (18). A series of pressure rollers (37) are mounted along a helical path on the sleeve (18), each entering the annular space (21) by way of an opening (37) in the sleeve, one such opening (37) being an inlet opening for the strip (41). The rollers (37) press the strip (41) into frictional engagement with the rotating core (20) and guide it to form a helix with closely adjacent convolutions. Also fed into the annular space (21) is a longitudinally recessed locking strip (47) which the rollers (37) press into locking engagement with the adjacent side flanges (43) of successive convolutions of the helically wound strip (41).
Abstract:
An apparatus for manufacturing a resin tube comprising: (a) a support means; (b) a central support by the support means and extending therefrom; (c) a pair of operating means supported by the central shaft at two separate positions; (d) a plurality of rotatable forming rolls each supported by the operating means at both ends thereof in such a manner that the rotatable forming rolls are arranged circularly around the central shaft and that a cylindrical envelope formed by the rotatable forming rolls has a radius changeable by operation of the operating means; and (e) a plurality of flexible link means each connected between one end of each rotatable forming roll and a driving means for simultaneously rotating the rotatable forming rolls in the same direction at any radius of the envelope. Because of this structure, the apparatus can manufacture a resin tube of any size simply by operating the operating means.
Abstract:
A method for forming a corrugated tube having a smooth inner wall surface and a corrugated outer wall are provided. A first strip of resin material is wrapped around first portions of rollers arranged in a circular array and is helically wrapped around the first portions of the rollers each having equally spaced ridges therearound to form the corrugated outer wall. A second strip of resin material is fed from the interior of second portions of rollers arranged in a circular array onto the inner surface of the outer wall being manufactured and bonded thereto. The second strip bonded to the outer all is wrapped around the second portions of the rollers each having a smooth surface to form the smooth inner wall.
Abstract:
An apparatus for forming flexible tubing wherein the apparatus provides a tube-forming mandrel adapted to form a continuous, reinforced, flexible tube from an indefinite length of a tape or ribbon of flexible material, together with an indefinite length of wire, which are wound and bonded together to form the tube. The mandrel includes a plurality of angularly disposed cylindrical rollers which are rotatably positioned adjacent each other, each roller being fixed at a given angular displacement with respect to the other and to the central axis of the mandrel, in order to establish the fixed skewed arrangement of a plurality of annular grooves formed in each roller, so as to allow the forming tube to advance axially along the rollers. The rollers are journaled at one end to a support plate and at the opposite end to a truss plate, the support plate and the truss plate being fixedly connected together by a centrally positioned mainstay, so as to establish the fixed skewed arrangement of the rollers and their associated annular grooves.
Abstract:
A method and an apparatus for producing a tube from a strip of synthetic resin and/or unvulcanized rubber incorporating a vulcanizing agent by winding the strip on a former supported by a frame in the manner of a cantilever to shape the strip into a tubular body and heating the tubular body on the former by a heater while sending out the tubular body toward the free end of the former.