Abstract: A drive assembly for a necker machine includes a plurality of motors, each motor including an output shaft, a plurality of drive wheel assemblies, each drive wheel assembly operatively coupled to an associated necker machine drive shaft, and a number of timing/drive belts operatively coupled to each drive wheel assembly.

Abstract: A control system for forming a tapered structure includes a sensor providing feedback for a machine for forming a tapered structure including at least three rolls having at least one bend roll and at least two guide rolls. The guide rolls may include rollette banks having a plurality of rollettes. The machine may also include an adjustment mechanism to position at least one of the rolls, where a diameter of the tapered structure being formed is controlled by relative positions of the rolls. The machine may also include a joining element to join edges of a stock of material together as it is rolled through the rolls to form the tapered structure. The control system may also include a controller to receive feedback from the sensor and to send a control signal based on the feedback to the adjustment mechanism for positioning at least one of the rolls.

Abstract: A metal workpiece indentation marking device, comprising a frame, a striking head, an automatic marking die, a gripper and a two-dimensional moving mechanism, wherein the top of the striking head is connected to the frame; the striking head can move up and down; the automatic marking die is fixedly disposed at the bottom of the striking head; a clamping jaw for clamping a metal workpiece is disposed at the top of the gripper; the gripper can move back and forth or left and right under the action of the two-dimensional moving mechanism, such that a position to be marked at the top of the metal workpiece can be located under the automatic marking die.

Abstract: A cooling bar (1) for cooling rolled material (5) being moved in a transport direction (3) and in particular for reducing temperature differences in the temperature of the rolled material (5) transversely to the direction of transport (3). The cooling bar (1) has several full jet nozzles (11) by means of which a coolant beam of a coolant with an approximately constant jet diameter can be distributed to the rolling stock (5) in the direction of distribution (15). A cooling device has at least two cooling bars (1) of that type. The cooling bars extend transversely to a transport direction, one behind the other. Each cooling bar has a respective different pattern of jet nozzles and selection of applicable pattern of jet nozzles in their respective bars selectively cools the rolled material transversely to the transport direction.

Abstract: A feed hopper for a material processing device, in particular for a crusher (10), having two side walls (21) and a rear wall of the hopper (22), wherein the side walls (21) are directly or indirectly coupled to a machine support (12.1) in a swiveling manner and can be converted from a set-up work position to a folded-down transport position and back, wherein a feed area is formed between the side walls (21), and wherein at least one of the side walls (21) is supported relative to the machine support (12.1) in the set-up work position by a supporting device (30). A support lever (31), which in the work position is supported directly or indirectly in relation to the machine support (12.1) by a detachable form-fit connection, wherein the form-fit connection prevents the side wall (21) from folding down, projects into the feed area in the folded-down transport position. In this way, a space-saving design is also achieved in the folded-down transport position.

Abstract: A hold device is attached to press tooling. The hold device includes a distance member attached to a holder, and a moving device attached to a first die unit. The holder is provided in a movable manner with respect to a punch in a press direction, and a pad is provided in a movable manner with respect to a die in the press direction. The distance member is pivotable between a home position in which the distance member does not come into contact with the second die and a preventive position in which the distance between the pad and the holder in the press direction is prevented from being equal to or less than a predetermined distance. As the holder moves relative to the punch in the first direction, the moving device causes the distance member to pivot from the home position toward the preventive position.

Abstract: Provided are a clamp jig for inhibiting an increase in the size of clamping equipment, and reducing the load during clamping by clamping after doing preliminary aligning of a segment end part; a stator manufacturing device; and a method for manufacturing a stator. The clamp jig 40 has a pair of clamp bodies 41, extended in a stator core radial direction, for clamping from both sides in the stator core circumferential direction the end part of an electric conductor, which is inserted in the stator core and welded; and a convex part 42 provided extending in the stator core axis direction at the bottom of the clamp body 41, the convex part being inserted between unwelded electric conductors.

Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a washer capable of suppressing reduction in a sliding area, which includes: a preparing step of preparing a panel-shaped member N; a cutting step of cutting the panel-shaped member N with a laser L2 to thereby obtain a longitudinal member N1; and a forming step of obtaining an arc-shaped washer by using the longitudinal member N1. The panel-shaped member N has an equal width to a longitudinal width of the longitudinal member N1. The cutting step is a step of cutting the panel-shaped member N from one end to the other end in a width direction to thereby obtain the longitudinal member N1 and the forming step is a step of deforming the longitudinal member N1 into an arc shape so that cut faces of the longitudinal member N1 form an outer peripheral face and an inner peripheral face.

Abstract: A pivoting pliers jaw (18) having a design including plates for manually actuated crimping pliers (1). The pivoting pliers jaw (18) which includes a supporting plate (23) at which on both sides pliers jaw plates (25) are held. The pliers jaw plates (25) form an accommodation for a die insert or support the accommodation. According to the invention the pivoting pliers jaw (18) is L-shaped. Bolts (27, 28) for mounting the pliers jaw plates (25) to the supporting plate (23) are arranged in a way such that a connecting axis of the longitudinal axes of the bolts (27, 28) have an orientation approximately perpendicular to a supporting plane (36) for the effective crimping force.

Abstract: A piercer plug with increased life and a method of manufacturing it are provided. The piercer plug 1 includes a tip portion 2 and a trunk portion 3 made of the same material as the tip portion 2 and continuous to the tip portion 2. The trunk portion 3 includes a cylindrical portion 5 having a hole used for attaching a bar. The tip portion 2 is harder than the cylindrical portion 5.

Abstract: A method for operating a fine blanking system comprises at least one fine blanking press having a first press unit, a second press unit, and one or more sensors. The method comprises obtaining parameter data from the one or more sensors for at least one of the first press unit, the second press unit, and another component of the fine blanking system during a first fine blanking process step. Adjustments are determined for control parameters of at least one of the first press unit, the second press unit, and the other component based on the parameter data. The adjustments are applied to the control parameters in a second fine blanking process step subsequent to the first fine blanking process step.

Abstract: A tying machine disclosed herein includes a feed mechanism. The feed mechanism includes a feed roller that feeds a tying string; a feed motor that rotates the feed roller; a cover disposed between the feed roller and the feed motor, and including a through hole; and a suppression member that suppresses movement of dust from a feed roller side to a feed motor side via the through hole. Another tying machine disclosed herein includes a reel on which a tying string is wound; a brake member that engages with the reel to brake the reel; and an actuator that drives the brake member. The brake member is interposed between the reel and the actuator. Yet another tying machine disclosed herein includes a housing; a reel on which a tying string is wound; a magnet that rotates integrally with the reel; and a magnetic sensor attached to the housing.

Abstract: Machine for bending metal products (B) includes a drawing unit (11) configured to feed at least one metal product (B) along an axis of feed (D) and toward a bending unit (12) and a shearing unit (14) configured to shear the metal product (B). The bending unit (12) is mounted on a translating platform (13) able to be translated in a direction of translation (T) transverse to the axis of feed (D), and at least one part of the shearing unit (14) is mounted on the translating platform.

Abstract: A deep-drawing tool for deep drawing blanks which are punched out of sheet material that is painted or coated with film material, in order to obtain flangeless molded blanks, includes a drawing bell, a drawing core, a blank holder, a force transmission device, a drawing cushion for applying a spring force to the blank holder by the force transmission device, and a drive which, after the drawing bell reaches a predetermined position in downward movement thereof, drives the force transmission device to perform a movement which precedes movement of the drawing bell.

Abstract: One or more hollow billets are loaded onto an elongate mandrel bar for extrusion. The billets are transported along the mandrel bar to a rotating die. The billets are transported through fluid clamps, which engage the mandrel bar and provide cooling fluid to the mandrel bar tip, and through mandrel grips, which engage the mandrel bar and prevent the mandrel bar from rotating. One or more press-rams advance the billets through a centering insert and into the rotating die. A quench assembly is provided at an extrusion end of the extrusion press to quench the extruded material. A programmable logic controller may be provided to control, at least in part, operations of the extrusion press system.

Abstract: A hydraulic forming machine, including a body provided with a feed inlet penetrating a first mounting surface, a cutting mechanism, a forming die, an ejector arranged on the forming die, and a driving mechanism. The forming die includes a movable die and a fixed die matched with each other. The cutting mechanism and the fixed die are provided on the first mounting surface of the body and respectively at two sides of the discharge end of the feed inlet. The movable die is arranged on the driving mechanism and driven by the driving mechanism to move close to or away from the fixed die in a direction perpendicular to the first mounting surface. The cutting mechanism is configured to cut a blank at an output end of the conveying inlet. The blank cut by the cutting mechanism is extruded between the fixed die and the movable die.

Abstract: One or more hollow billets are loaded onto an elongate mandrel bar for extrusion. The billets are transported along the mandrel bar to a rotating die. The billets are transported through fluid clamps, which engage the mandrel bar and provide cooling fluid to the mandrel bar tip, and through mandrel grips, which engage the mandrel bar and prevent the mandrel bar from rotating. One or more press-rams advance the billets through a centering insert and into the rotating die. A quench assembly is provided at an extrusion end of the extrusion press to quench the extruded material. A programmable logic controller may be provided to control, at least in part, operations of the extrusion press system.

Abstract: An apparatus configured to twist a first wire about a second wire is presented herein. The apparatus includes a securing mechanism configured to secure ends of the first wire and the second wire. The first wire is arranged parallel to the second wire along a longitudinal axis. The apparatus also includes a gripping mechanism configured to grip central portions of the first and second wires such that inner surfaces of the central portions of the first and second wires are in contact with one another and a rotating mechanism configured to rotate the gripping mechanism, thereby twisting the first and second wires about one another. A method of twisting a first wire about a second wire is also presented herein.

Abstract: A bale processor with extended bale capacity and a kit for extending a bale capacity of a bale processor is disclosed. The extended bale capacity is provided by a bale holder mechanically coupled to the frame the bale processor. When in use, the bale holder is capable of supporting an additional bale in an intermediary position between a first bale above a disintegration rotor of the bale processor and a second bale supported by a bale carrier of the bale processor. The kit comprises an intermediary bale holder and a support frame mechanically mountable to a back section of a bale processor.

Abstract: A spinning method includes supporting a supported portion of a cylindrical work by a work supporting portion; pressing a first roller of a spinning head against a processed portion of the work while revolving the first roller; and performing a forming process that points a tube axis of the processed portion of the work in a given direction by pressing the first roller and a second roller in which a plane of revolution thereof is provided in a different position, in a rotational axis direction of a spindle of the spinning head, than a plane of revolution of the first roller, while revolving the first roller and the second roller, and moving the work supporting portion relative to the spinning head or moving the spinning head relative to the work supporting portion, while the first roller and the second roller work in cooperation with each other to retain the work.