Abstract: A method for the drawing of a longitudinal workpiece wherein drawing forces required for the drawing are applied by means of at least a sprocket chain comprising link plates wherein the drawing forces are introduced from the workpiece via the link plates into the sprocket chain as a result of which the latter can be constructed lighter and apply greater drawing forces.

Abstract: In order to develop drawing machines for drawing a linear workpiece, the invention proposes a drawing machine with a caterpillar conveyor for drawing a linear workpiece through a drawing die, in which the caterpillar conveyor comprises a frame configured to be symmetrical with respect to the drawing plane.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the straightening of drawn round stock. In conventional straightening methods, the round stock to be straightened is transported through the straightener with the entrance and exit in alignment, being thus straightened. With this procedure, large pieces at the beginning and end of the round stock to be straightened are straightened in an unsatisfactory manner and must therefore often be cut off before further fabrication of the round stock. To remedy this disadvantage it is proposed that for instance the deviation from the straight entry line forcibly obtained in the straightener arc by deflection, is maintained as the exit direction from the arc. To this end each round stock receiving device is oriented or can be oriented behind an exit die at least by its receiving elements in such a way that the round stock leaving the exit die enters such receiving elements or the next die series without appreciable changes of direction.

Abstract: Device for centerless grinding of rotation-symmetrical surfaces on workpieces at a grinding station, including drive means for turning a workpiece about the axes of symmetry thereof during grinding, a support bar for supporting the workpiece during turning, a rotatable disc being perpendicular to and disposed on each side of the workpiece generating vibrations of operating frequencies at the grinding station during grinding, at least one of the discs being a grinding wheel operating under grinding pressure, mechanical bearing supports and feed means for the discs forming an oscillating system with the discs generating resonance frequencies, and rigid connecting means for forming a rigid linkage of forces between the bearing supports and for increasing the resonance frequencies of the oscillating system beyond the operating frequencies.

Abstract: Method for straightening elongated drawn round stock, which includes simultaneously advancing the stock in the longitudinal direction, rotating the stock about the longitudinal axis thereof and deflecting the stock from a straight line exceeding the yield point thereof in a straightening arc, and subjecting the surface of the stock to friction forces acting in the longitudinal direction during the deflection.

Abstract: Arc cutting device with a revolving electrode forming an intermittent arc includes a revolving narrow disc having a peripheral edge, part of which is electrically alive for forming the arc, and part of which is electrically dead for mechanically carrying away material that is to be removed from a cutting groove formed in a workpiece being cut by the arc.

Abstract: Optical scanner with a light beam reciprocated parallel to itself includes a stationary inlet for the light beam, an elongated first prism having a parallelogram shape disposed downstream from the stationary inlet in travel direction of the light beam, the first prism extending transversely to the light beam and having an inlet end through which the light beam is admitted to the first prism and twice reflected therein, the first prism having an outlet end from which the light beam leaves the first prism in a direction parallel to the direction in which it is admitted through the inlet end to the first prism, a second prism similar to the first prism having an inlet end disposed downstream of the outlet end of the first prism in travel direction of the light beam, the second prism having an outlet end determining respective location for the light beam leaving the scanner during a scanning operation, a first rotating carrier for the first prism having a mathematical rotary axis extending in the same direction a

Abstract: A carriage drawing machine for uniformly drawing and cutting-to-length drawn elongated material and having a main drive shaft with means for driving a drawing machine carriage so as to advance the elongated material, a severing device and means for coupling the severing device to the main shaft each time the elongated material is to be severed, the severing device including two cutters disposed in a common plane and eccentrically coupled to the main drive shaft, the cutters being rotatable in opposite directions and in synchronism with the advance of the elongated material during the severing operation, means defining between the two cutters a travel path for the elongated material being advanced, each of the cutters including a ring, a knife extending radially outwardly from each ring toward the travel path between the cutters, and means cooperating with the cutters for adjustably controlling the knives to follow the drawn material and to orient the knives perpendicularly to the direction in which the materi