Abstract: In a method of making a seamless hot-finished steel pipe a billet heated to a shaping temperature is pierced by a first shaping to a thick-walled hollow ingot which subsequently undergoes a radial forging process using an internal tool inserted in the hollow ingot and at least two forging jaws of a forging machine. The forging jaws act on the outer surface area of the hollow ingot, wherein the hollow ingot is turned and axially advanced in a clocked manner in the idle stroke phase of the forging jaws.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 25, 2005
Date of Patent:
May 1, 2012
Assignee:
V & M Deutschland GmbH
Inventors:
Christoph Prasser, Rolf Kümmerling, Stefan Wiedenmaier, Pierre Lefebvre, Rupert Wieser, Robert Koppensteiner