With Use Of Means To Remove Product From Deflector Patents (Class 72/134)
  • Patent number: 10403782
    Abstract: A method for laser scribing of thin-films for the manufacture of solar cell panels comprises loading a workpiece with the transparent substrate facing downwards in an input station of a first machine; biasing a reference edge of the workpiece against a front and rear stopper associated with a linear drive; translating the workpiece back and forth between the input station and output station and firing two or more laser beams at a first frequency substantially vertically through a space between the input and output stations to pass through the transparent substrate of the workpiece to scribe parallel lines on the front electrodes with reference to the edge of the workpiece in contact with the front and rear stoppers; and indexing the two or more laser sources and repeating the back and forth translation of the work piece between the input and output stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Manufacturing Integration Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Kim Mone Kwong, Teck Keong Boh, Kok Yeow Lim, Han Yong Lam
  • Patent number: 8393190
    Abstract: A tube forming apparatus performs a forwardly rotating step in which a main roll is rotated forwardly with a pair of subsidiary rolls in a forming position during a move of a contact position between the main roll and a work from a first end of the work to a central portion of the work, a feeding step in which the main roll is rotated forwardly with the pair of subsidiary rolls in a retracted position during a move of the contact position between the main roll and the work from the central portion of the work to a second end of the work, and a reversely rotating step in which the main roll is rotated reversely during a move of the contact position between the main roll and the work from the second end of the work to the central portion of the work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Machine Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideshi Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20120198902
    Abstract: A metal sheet is formed by passing it between a pair of closely spaced shaped bodies fixedly mounted on driving shafts by intermediate pieces which limit the angular portion of the circumferences of the shaped bodies with which the sheet comes into contact. The configuration of the surfaces of the shaped bodies define the respective top and bottom surface configurations imparted to the sheet by being passed between the rotating shaped bodies with pressure, and, optionally, heat. The direction of rotation of the shaped bodies is reversed, without the application of pressure to the sheet, to bring the sheet back to a starting position for each repeated pass of the sheet through the shaped bodies thereby to progressively change thickness and/or shape of the sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: OSTSEESTAAL GMBH
    Inventor: Guenter Eilers
  • Patent number: 8024949
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for decelerating and temporarily accumulating a hot rolled product moving longitudinally along a first axis at a first velocity V1. The apparatus comprises a curved guide with an entry end aligned with the first axis to receive the product, and with an exit end spaced radially from the first axis and orientated to deliver the product in an exit direction transverse to the first axis. The curved guide is rotatable about the first axis in a direction opposite to the exit direction of the product and at a speed at which its exit end has a second velocity V2 lower than V1 and such that the product is delivered from the exit end as a helical formation of rings and at a third velocity V3 equal to V1?V2. A cylindrical drum is arranged to axially receive the helical formation of rings and to rotate about the first axis in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the curved guide and at a speed such that the product is unwound from the drum at the third velocity V3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventors: T. Michael Shore, Matthew Palfreman
  • Patent number: 7779663
    Abstract: A finished product receiving rack used in a corrugated metal sheet member fabrication system for receiving finished products in which two guardrails with protective members are arranged in parallel along the length of the rack body to guide delivering finished products in course and to prevent accidental injury to workers, and steering gears and guide screws are arranged on the rack body and rotatable by motors to move the guardrails and to further adjust the gap between the guardrails subject to the size of the finished products to be carried.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Inventor: Chun-Liang Chen
  • Patent number: 7043951
    Abstract: To provide a wire rod forming machine for which it is possible to increase the production speed above that of the prior art. In the ring-forming machine 10 of the present configuration, between the respective edges 42 and 51 of the moving die 40 and the fixed punch 50, a prescribed location of the belt-shaped wire rod 90 is sheared and the ring 91 is cut off from the belt-shaped wire rod 90. Then, by pushing the ring 91 that was cut off with the moving die 40, the ring is forcibly removed from the forming tools 31, 32 and 33. Therefore, the speed of removal of the ring 91 can be coupled to the acceleration of the manufacturing speed and increased, allowing the production speed to be improved compared to that of the prior art. In addition, since the ring 91 that is cut off from the belt-shaped wire rod 90, pushed by the moving die 40, moves to the end side of the shaft shaped chute 34 to be collected, transport to the next process becomes easy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignees: Minebea Co. Ltd, Asahi - Seiki Manf. Co.
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Shigeo Nishimura, Eiichi Kobayashi, Kazunori Sawayama
  • Patent number: 6948348
    Abstract: A spring coil assembly having a first row of coils arranged in a first spacing pattern and a second row of coils adjacent the first row and arranged in a second spacing pattern that is different from the first spacing pattern. The spring coil assembly can be assembled using an apparatus comprising a main conveyor adapted to convey a plurality of coils along an axis, an assembler which is operable to intertwine a plurality of coils into a spring coil assembly, and a transfer station operable to move a plurality of coils from the main conveyor into the assembler. The transfer station includes a plurality of pusher arms each of which include a gripper which is operable to grasp an individual coil, a carriage supporting the gripper arms and means for shifting the carriage axially relative to the axis so that a plurality of coils carried by the gripper arms are displaced in the direction of travel of the conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Frank L. Wells Company
    Inventors: David Scott Wells, George M. Chembakassery, Michael E. Andrea
  • Patent number: 6758078
    Abstract: A spring coil assembly having a first row of coils arranged in a first spacing pattern and a second row of coils adjacent the first row and arranged in a second spacing pattern that is different from the first spacing pattern. The spring coil assembly can be assembled using an apparatus comprising a main conveyor adapted to convey a plurality of coils along an axis, an assembler which is operable to intertwine a plurality of coils into a spring coil assembly, and a transfer station operable to move a plurality of coils from the main conveyor into the assembler. The transfer station includes a plurality of pusher arms each of which include a gripper which is operable to grasp an individual coil, a carriage supporting the gripper arms and means for shifting the carriage axially relative to the axis so that a plurality of coils carried by the gripper arms are displaced in the direction of travel of the conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Frank L. Wells Company
    Inventors: David Scott Wells, George M. Chembakassery, Michael E. Andrea
  • Patent number: 6494353
    Abstract: A supply of continuous thin wall tubing which is drawn by a pair of opposed conveyor belts frictionally engaging the outside surfaces of the tubing first through a tube straightening device before the tube walls become engaged with the aforesaid conveyor belts so that straightened tubing is always subjected to engagement with the surfaces on the conveyor belts. The conveyor belts effect a longitudinal driving movement of the tubing into and through a tube cutting device and thence into a tube length control for accurately positioning the tube relative to the tube cutters in the tube cutting device and before the tube is cut. Once the tube length detection circuitry in the tube length control has been satisfied by the positioning of the tubing, the tube cutters in the tube cutting device is activated to sever the tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Burr Oak Tool and Guage Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Derrick S. Small, Eric Nielson, Arthur E. Givens, Sean Peterson, Douglas L. Sagarsee
  • Patent number: 6430982
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a coil spring forming head which is periodically operative to at least partially form coil springs having a plurality of coils and which includes a wire feed advancing mechanism operative to feed the wire which is formed into coil springs, a pitch control mechanism operative to control the diameter of the coils of the coil springs being formed, a diameter control mechanism operative to control the pitch of the coils of the coil springs being formed, and a control including a storage area containing instructions for operation of the wire feed advancing mechanism, the pitch control mechanism, and the diameter control mechanism, a wire feed controller connected to the wire feed advancing mechanism to control operation thereof, a pitch controller connected to the pitch control mechanism to control operation thereof, a diameter controller connected the diameter control mechanism to control operation thereof, and a programmable switching device connected to the wire feed controller, to the pitch
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Inventors: Michael E. Andrea, Stuart C. Hamill, Wayne D. Jaworski, Horst F. Wentzek
  • Patent number: 6402074
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for receiving a helical formation of rings of hot rolled steel rod emerging from a laying head, and for depositing the rings on a conveyor for continued transport away from the laying head. The apparatus operates to engage and propel lower portions of the rings towards the conveyor at a first rate of travel, while engaging and propelling upper portions of the rings towards the conveyor at a second rate of travel. The first and second rates of travel are different and selected to cause the rings to topple onto the conveyor in an overlapping offset pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventors: T. Michael Shore, Melicher Puchovsky, Harold E. Woodrow
  • Publication number: 20010020662
    Abstract: A laying apparatus for forming rings of a rod-shaped rolled strand has at least part of the cantilevered portion of the lying apparatus cantilevered from the main bearing composed of a material lighter than steel to reduce gravitational sag and increase the resonant frequency, thereby increasing the speed of the strand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Publication date: September 13, 2001
    Applicant: SMS DEMAG AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Georg Rebel, Rudiger Grimmel, Peter Haak
  • Patent number: 6119500
    Abstract: The method and apparatus of the present invention is a rolling mill having rolls with inverse symmetrical profiles and a method of using the same. An inverse symmetrical profile is a profile in which the right and left sides of a roll, with respect to the roll center line, have the profiles that are described by the same polynomial function but with opposite signs. A family of metal strip profiles can be created by the method and apparatus of the present invention wherein the family of strip profiles created prior to roll shifting are strip profiles expressed by polynomial functions having terms of the n.sup.th order, where n is preferably 1-5 inclusive, and the family of strip profiles produced by shifting at least one upper roll having an inverse symmetrical profile and at least one lower roll having an inverse symmetrical profile are strip profiles expressed by polynomial functions having terms of the (n-1).sup.th order, where n is preferably 1-5, inclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignees: Danieli Corporation, International Rolling Mill Consultants, Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir B. Ginzburg, Roy J. Issa
  • Patent number: 5950473
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a coil spring forming machine and transfer conveyor assembly comprising a transfer conveyor operable through a succession of operational cycles and including and endless conveyor assembly and a conveyor drive servo-motor drivingly connected to the conveyor assembly and operative, upon each energization thereof, to drive the conveyor assembly through one operational cycle. A control system operative to automatically and non-selectively cause energization of the conveyor drive servo-motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Frank L. Wells Company
    Inventors: Michael E. Andrea, Stuart C. Hamill, Wayne D. Jaworski, Horst F. Wentzek
  • Patent number: 5918493
    Abstract: A contour measuring devices for measuring the contour of hot-strip rolls installed in a roll stand during a rolling process includes a plurality of distance sensors that extend along the length of the hot-strip roll in a perpendicular and non-contacting manner and, in this manner. Each distance sensor has a measurement head oriented towards the hot-strip roll. The plurality of distance sensors are positioned separate from and lateral to each other on and along a longitudinal support. The longitudinal support is comprised of a double shell tube that cools the design sensors with an inner tube that conducts a coolant, a shell tube that surrounds the inner tube, and an annular space located therebetween. The inner tube is fixed at its opposite ends in a position relative to the shell tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Assignee: Mannesmann Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Horst Cerv
  • Patent number: 5901596
    Abstract: A tube bending apparatus having a base and a bend arbor thereon and an X-axis extending spindle selectively rotatably mounted on the base for movement along the X-axis and for lateral movement in orthogonal Y-axis and Z-axis directions. The spindle has a clamping mechanism on the distal end thereof. A tube bend effecting arm is hinged relative to the bend arbor and is swingable about a bend axis. An elongate track is provided laterally offset from the base and extends continuously in a direction parallel to the X-axis. A tube loader is mounted on and for movement along the elongate track. The tube loader includes a feed mechanism for sequentially feeding one tube at a time to a specified position axially aligned with the spindle when in either of the first and second locations of the tube loader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Burr Oak Tool and Gauge Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger L. Tetzloff, Michael T. Morris
  • Patent number: 5890386
    Abstract: A process and a roll bending machine for bending plates. The plate to be bent is made to pass between upper and lower gripping rolls parallely arranged between each other; at least one of these rolls is connected to a drive motor for rotation. One of the rolls is upwardly movable to exert a required working pressure on the plate, and it is adjustably urged against the other roll in at least one intermediate position of its length till causing a deflection of both the rolls in the same direction, making one roll to assume an arch shaped configuration substantially conforming to the configuration of the other roll, in such a way to generate an homogenous bending pressure for the entire width of the plate which is thus bent with a substantially constant bending degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Promau S.R.L.
    Inventor: Orazio Maria Davi
  • Patent number: 5775154
    Abstract: A method for adjusting the roll gap in strip rolling mills including a roll stand equipped with hydraulic adjusting devices on the drive side as well as on the operator side, wherein the positions of the rolls in a roll stand are adjustable by means of the hydraulic adjusting devices. Prior to the beginning of rolling, the stand is calibrated in a reproducible state. For any changes of the stand geometry and/or the force proportions in the stand, position changes of the adjusting devices corresponding to and resulting from these changes are determined. Changes in the stand geometry and/or the force proportions adjusted or occurring during the rolling operation are regulated by utilizing the difference between the determined corresponding adjusting positions on the drive side and the operator side and by controlling the adjustment toward zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: SMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Klaus-Dieter Haberkamm
  • Patent number: 5768927
    Abstract: A work roll crossing type rolling mill has back-up rolls arranged in such a manner that their axes are not inclined in a horizontal plane. Work rolls are constructed in such a manner that their axes can be inclined in a horizontal plane relative to the backup rolls such that the axes of the work rolls cross the axes of the back-up rolls and such that the axes of the work rolls cross each other. A lubricant supply device is provided for supplying a lubricant between each work roll and each back-up roll combination to greatly reduce the thrust exerted to the work rolls, whereby the rolling mill is given an excellent ability of controlling the crown of the material to be rolled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kajiwara, Tokuji Sugiyama, Yoshio Takakura, Takao Sakanaka, Yasutsugu Yoshimura, Ken-ichi Yasuda, Shinichi Kaga
  • Patent number: 5735154
    Abstract: A method of controlling the passage of rolling stock through a continuous mill train of successive roll stands comprising rolling shafts supporting the rolls, a rolling-mill drive preceding the rolling shafts, and individual electric motor drives having a steplessly variable rotary speed connected to the rolling-mill drive to apply torque to the rolling shafts, which comprises the steps of (a) measuring a reaction force on a machine part of a respective one of the stands to obtain a physical parameter changing in dependence on the torque before and after an initial pass of a stand succeeding the one stand, and (b) controlling the rotational speed of the individual electric motor drive for the succeeding one stand in dependence on any change of the measured physical parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: GFM GmbH
    Inventor: Otto Hein
  • Patent number: 5724846
    Abstract: A method of preventing roll chatter in a stand of a rolling mill during the process of directing a strip of material through the mill. The method comprises the step of introducing into the stand a low power vibration component that prevents the rolls in the stand from vertically oscillating in any generally large, uncontrollable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Aluminum Company of America
    Inventors: Albert C. Wang, K. Wing Chang, L. Duane Dunlap, Jing Luo, D. Frederick Stewart, Michael L. Barry, Terry C. Lee
  • Patent number: 5647238
    Abstract: To suppress the influence of roll eccentricities on a feedback control of a rolling-stock thickness in the thickness control, it is generally known to provide an insensitive dead zone for signal fluctuations caused by the roll eccentricities, and for the zone width of this insensitive dead zone to be varied relative to the magnitude of the signal fluctuations. To prevent actual thickness fluctuation in the rolling stock from leading to a widening of the dead zone, it is provided for the signal fluctuations drawn upon to vary the zone width (x) to be filtered by one or more band-pass filters (26, 27), whose mid-frequencies correspond to the fundamental frequency (.omega.) and, in some instances, to the first or further harmonic component frequencies (2.omega.) of the roll eccentricities (.DELTA.R).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Siegbert Steidl, Clemens Jungkunz, Klaus Berger
  • Patent number: 5560238
    Abstract: A thread rolling machine in which the dies are monitored for a mismatch condition by a proximity sensor responsive to displacement of the moveable die in a direction parallel to the axis of the workpiece. This displacement, which occurs when a mismatch condition exists, is permitted by the running clearances in the slide carrying the moveable die. When more than a negligible displacement occurs, corrective action can be taken to reject out of specification workpieces and to adjust the relative positions of the dies to maintain them in a matched condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Assignee: The National Machinery Company
    Inventors: Gene E. Allebach, Dennis N. Roush
  • Patent number: 5560237
    Abstract: To eliminate a vertically asymmetrical deflection, a rolling mill comprises a device for measuring horizontal deflections of upper and lower work rolls 2, 3 during rolling, a device for comparing values measured on the upper and lower sides and calculating the difference therebetween, and a horizontal deflection controller four determining whether the difference exceeds a predetermined range or not and imparting a horizontal bending to at least one of the work rolls. To eliminate a transversely asymmetrical deflection, a rolling mill comprises a device for measuring horizontal deflections of at least one of the work rolls at axially spaced positions during rolling, a device for comparing values measured on at the axially spaced positions and calculating the difference therebetween, and a horizontal deflection controller for determining whether the difference exceeds a predetermined range or not and imparting a horizontal bending to the one work roll at least one of the axially spaced positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Inventors: Kenichi Yasuda, Yukio Hirama, Kenjiro Narita, Koji Satou, Yoshio Takakura, Hiroyuki Shiraiwa
  • Patent number: 5553469
    Abstract: A method of controlling thermally alterable profiles of working rolls during hot rolling of strips having different width includes providing cover shells for the working roll, determining a position of edges of the rolling strip on the working roll, determining a position of thermally isolating cover shells, which cover longitudinal portions of the working roll in a region of the strip edges for influencing a temperature gradient of the working roll, and displacing the cover shells to selectively cover a longitudinal region of the working roll in a strip edge-contact region of the working roll with the rolling strip, and a longitudinal region of the working roll which does not contact the rolling strip during strip rolling. The cover shells and a mechanism for displacing the cover shells are parts of an arrangement for effecting the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: SMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: J urgen Seidel
  • Patent number: 5522245
    Abstract: A metal ring producing device comprises a rigid roller and a resilient roller. The resilient roller has an outer cylindrical portion covered with an elastic annular member. The resilient roller is positioned near the rigid roller so that a metal plate member can be inserted between the resilient and rigid rollers. The resilient roller is rotated in a given direction. The elastic annular member is formed with equally spaced recesses. Each recess has a concave bottom surface which is shaped in conformity with an outer surface of the metal ring produced around the rigid roller. A ring removing mechanism is further employed which pushes one end of the metal ring and thus thrusts the metal ring off the rigid roller when the resilient roller stops at a position wherein one of the recesses is registered with the rigid roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Assignee: Calsonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kimio Nozaki, Mutuo Yomoda
  • Patent number: 5501091
    Abstract: In a method of elongating a metal tube by means of a mandrel mill, a tapered mandrel bar is inserted into a hollow piece and the feeding speed of the mandrel bar is controlled so as to change the length by which the mandrel bar projects beyond the delivery end of the final stand of the mandrel mill at the point of time when the leading end of the hollow shell is gripped by the rolls in the final stand. As a result, the wall thickness of the hollow shell is altered to permit the rolling of hollow shells of many sizes with different wall thicknesses using a single mandrel bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Chihiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 5319833
    Abstract: Apparatus for producing coils of spring steel material comprising an unwinding station, a cutting station, a winding spindle which contains angled gripping wires on its peripheral surface and conveying means for conveying the spring steel material from the cutting station to the winding spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: Stop-Choc Schwingungstechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Kohl, Jorg Weinschenk, Martin Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 5111678
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming an electric resistance heating coil of desired resistance that involves forming a straight helical coil and centering the formed coil for transfer to a first folding station for holding the straight helical coil into a U-shaped helical coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1992
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur Evans, John R. McManus
  • Patent number: 5025648
    Abstract: A coiled spring making apparatus is provided, including a coiling section for forming coiled springs and a progressive forming section for progressively feeding the coiled springs formed at the coiling section to a plurality of stages on which the coiled springs are held and successively formed into the desired shape. The coiling section is of a bending die system of coiling section at which the coiled springs are formed with their axes kept vertical, and is mounted on a movable table which is movable to any position horizontally or transversely with respect to the progressive forming section and fixed there.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Assignee: MEC Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeji Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 5001918
    Abstract: A method for making blanks of a profile varying lengthwise, such as few-leaf springs involves placing a heated billet (1) on a sizing former (2) and feeding it to a deformation zone for forming a product of a preset profile which is carried out from the middle part (3) of the billet simultaneously towards its ends (4,5) thereof to form its runs by drawing or rolling. In an apparatus for carrying out this method, a forming means is provided with a constant-size groove (6) so that the billet runs are formed simultaneously during passage therethrough, or has a pair of carriages supporting non-driven rolls and moving in the opposite directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1991
    Inventors: Alexandr V. Stepanenko, Vladimir A. Korol, Georgy A. Isaevich, Alexandr P. Grechenko, Sergei S. Benedis, Stanislav S. Poplavsky, Igor M. Shimanovich, Vitaly L. Markhasin
  • Patent number: 4989435
    Abstract: A curved pipe manufacturing method comprises the steps of providing a fixed die having a curved cavity, an entrance opening and an exit opening contained therein, the curved cavity being formed in a circular arc and extending from the entrance opening to the exit opening, providing a movable block having a curved mandrel attached to one side thereof and an ejecting rod on the side thereof opposite to the curved mandrel, inserting the curved mandrel into the curved cavity of the fixed die through the exit opening therein and forming a curved annular chamber inside the cavity, pressing a work with a presser rod through the entrance opening into the curved annular chamber to form a curved pipe, providing a stopper through hole adjacent to the exit opening of the fixed die so that the through hole of the stopper is positioned in a turning track of the mandrel and restrains the tip end of the curved pipe, moving the movable block so as to remove only the mandrel from the exit opening while the curved pipe is restr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Asahi Kinzoku Hogyosho
    Inventor: Toshio Kaneko
  • Patent number: 4982588
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming an electric resistance heating coil of desired resistance that involves forming a helical coil and supporting the helical coil during forming in a vibrating through to prevent compression of the forming coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1991
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Lisa Hayes, Arthur Evans
  • Patent number: 4981029
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming an electric resistance heating coil of desired resistance that involves forming a straight end or pigtail at the ends of the coil whereby electrical connectors can be connected to the aligned pigtails and end insulators can separate the electrical connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1991
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventor: Arthur Evans
  • Patent number: 4955217
    Abstract: A wire coiling arrangement includes a rotatable wire coiling mandrel (34) which incorporates a wire receiving slot (33) which extends axially rearwardly from a forward end of the mandrel and which has a slot mouth or entrance (40) facing towards the front end of the mandrel. A coil ejection arrangement (43-46) is arranged for movement along the mandrel (34), between a withdrawn wire coiling position and a forwardly located coil ejection position, such as to push a coil wound on the mandrel axially therefrom. The coil ejection arrangement also carries wire guides (42) which in one setting position of the ejection arragement form a continuation of the slot mouth (40) which widens outwardly from the forward end of the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignee: Sunds Defibrator AB
    Inventors: Erich Guggenberger, Ebbe Hoden
  • Patent number: 4918962
    Abstract: Apparatus for forming edgewise wound cores from a generally thin strip of ferromagnetic material has a mechanism for edgewise deforming the strip into a plurality of helical convolutions which are received in an axial stack thereof on an arbor. The arbor is movable through an opening in a carriage to deposit the axial stack on the carriage, and the axial stack is displaced from the carriage onto a conveyor when the carriage is moved into a position remote from the arbor and adjacent the conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Harold L. Fritzsche
  • Patent number: 4913370
    Abstract: Described is a coil collecting station for wire-rod mill trains with a coil collecting chamber consisting of a pre-collector, collecting pin and limiting cage, in which at least two collecting pins can be brought alternatively into a loading and/or discharging position by means of swing movements. The enveloping diameter of the collecting pin in the loading position is variable with respect to its diameter in its discharging position for a wire coil wound up thereon. For this purpose, said collecting pin consists of a plurality of pin rods, some of which being fixed and the other ones being supported radially movably with respect to said fixed pin rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1990
    Assignee: Duetsche Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Muller, Dieter Figge
  • Patent number: 4876872
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a curved pipe manufacturing method comprising the steps of: inserting a curved mandrel into a curved cavity of a fixed die having an entrance opening and an exit opening, the curved mandrel being attached to the distal end of an ejecting rod; forming a curved pipe by pressing a work, with a present rod through the entrance opening of the curved cavity into a curved annular chamber defined by the surfaces of the curved cavity and the mandrel; turning the movable block in one direction so that an ejecting rod attached at its base end with the movable block and concentrically integrated with the mandrel, ejects the mandrel together with the curved pipe from the entrance opening of the fixed die; advancing a movable chuck provided outside the entrance opening for chucking only the curved pipe; turning the movable block to another direction opposite to the one direction so as to return only the mandrel into the curved cavity of the fixed die; and retracting the movable chuck fo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Asahi Kinzoku Kogyosho
    Inventor: Toshio Kaneko
  • Patent number: 4875353
    Abstract: A curved pipe manufacturing method comprises the steps of: inserting a curved mandrel into a curved cavity of a fixed die having an entrance opening and an exit opening through the exit opening thereof, said cavity being formed in a circular arc and extending from the entrance opening to the exit opening thereof, said curved mandrel being attached to one side of a movable block; forming a curved pipe by pressing a work, with a presser rod through the entrance opening of the curved cavity into a curved space defined by the surface of the curved cavity and the mandrel; turning the movable block for extracting completely the curved pipe together with the mandrel from the exit opening of the curved cavity; inserting a retaining pin into a groove provided in the movable block for retaining a tip end of the curved pipe; and further turning the movable block so as to turn the mandrel while the curved pipe is restrained by the retaining pin so that the curved pipe is separated from the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Asahi Kinzoku Kogyosho
    Inventor: Toshio Kaneko
  • Patent number: 4768364
    Abstract: A continuous-acting take-up, coiling, cut-off and spooling machine is adapted for use with continuously producing metal casting equipment that casts metal rod or strip stock at a constant rate, and which produces the cast rod or strip stock at a relatively constant velocity. The machine coils, cuts-off, temporarily accumulates and spools or packages determinate lengths of the rod or strip stock formed by the casting apparatus. Driven rollers receive the leading end of the rod or strip stock. The rod or strip stock is cut to predetermined, desired lengths while still in motion so as to not disturb the feed velocity. Free-wheeling rollers forcibly impart a slight curvature and simultaneous axial displacement to the rod or strip stock along its length, forming coils or convolutions of helical configuration, which are deposited by gravity, over a turnably driven reel carried on a tiltable turntable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignee: Wyrepak Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph J. Kovaleski, Gordon L. Bauer
  • Patent number: 4759206
    Abstract: A curved pipe manufacturing method comprising steps of inserting a mandrel attached to one side of a movable block so as to be inserted into and to be pulled out from a curved cavity of a circular arc formed in a fixed die and having an entrance and an exit into the curved cavity through the exit thereof, forming a curved pipe by pressing a work, namely, a straight pipe, with a pressing rod through the entrance of the curved cavity into a curved space defined by the surface of the curved cavity and the mandrel in the shape of a curved pipe to be manufactured, turning the movable block to retract the mandrel slightly relative to a curved portion of the work after pressing the work into the curved space by a predetermined length to mitigate the pressure of contact of the curved portion of the work with the mandrel, restarting pressing the work into the curved space to complete a curved pipe, turning the movable block to pull out the mandrel from the curved pipe formed in the curved space, and further turning th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Asahi Kinzoku Kogyosho
    Inventor: Toshio Kaneko
  • Patent number: 4726209
    Abstract: A method of continuously forming edgewise wound cores from a strip of generally thin ferromagnetic material at at least one operation station therefor having a means for receiving the cores. The receiving means includes a pair of separable means adapted for association with each other and separation, and a set of supporting means is operable generally in one of the separable means for movement between retracted and protracted positions, respectively. In the practice of this method, the continuous strip is deformed generally edgewise thereof into a plurality of helical convolutions at the at least one operation station. The separable means are separated from each other, and thereby the operation of the supporting means toward the protracted positions thereof is effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1988
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Gustave F. Wiedemann
  • Patent number: 4643012
    Abstract: Apparatus for forming edgewise wound cores from a continuous strip of generally thin ferromagnetic material has means operable generally for deforming the continuous strip into a plurality of generally helical convolutions thereof, and means is arranged for receiving the deformed helical convolutions from the deforming means and for accumulating the deformed helical convolutions into a generally axial stack thereof. The receiving and accumulating means includes a pair of relatively movable means associated with each other and operable generally for separation, and a set of means operable in one of said relatively movable means toward a preselected position for supporting at least some of the deformed helical convolutions received on said one relatively movable means when the other of said relatively movable means is separated therefrom, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1987
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Gustave F. Wiedemann
  • Patent number: 4331015
    Abstract: A tube bending machine comprises a tube bending mechanism per se for bending a front portion of a tube inserted therein and fluid operated units for moving a mandrel in axial direction into the tube to be bent and for withdrawing the mandrel through a rear end of the tube after bending. A tube magazine is located to one side of the bending mechanism and a tube depositing station for receiving the bent tube is located at the other side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1982
    Assignee: Benteler-Werke AG
    Inventors: Hubertus Benteler, Wolfgang Streubel, Egon Olszewski
  • Patent number: 4311031
    Abstract: A pipe bending machine has a pipe bending mechanism which receives lengths of pipe to be bent from a pipe magazine located laterally of one side of the mechanism. A pipe transfer device is interposed between the bending mechanism and the magazine and transports pipe length from the magazine to the bending mechanism, for which purpose it is so constructed that it can pivot in a plurality of mutually inclined planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1982
    Inventor: Rigobert Schwarze
  • Patent number: 4090383
    Abstract: There is disclosed a device for extracting the end portion of wire rod from a laying guide of an Edenborn coiler arranged downstream of a wire rod rolling mill. The device includes an extractor cylinder idly supported by the laying cone of the coiler so as to be substantially stationary during rotation of the coiler or to slightly rotate in a direction opposite to that of the coiler. The cylinder has a diameter slightly smaller than that of the formed coils and a length such as to comprise at least one turn of the deposited coils. When the end portion of the wire rod has leaved the rolling mill and is no more dragged by pinch rollers or the like at the output of the rolling mill, the speed thereof decreases due to friction against the walls of the output guide located between the rolling mill and the coiler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1978
    Inventor: Giulio Properzi
  • Patent number: 4077244
    Abstract: An apparatus for continuously winding a rectangular wire, or a strip metal comprising a coil former consisting of upper and lower former members adapted to cooperate with each other for clamping the strip metal and arranged to be rotatable independently of each other, an arm for clamping and bending the strip metal to shape same to the profile of the coil former, a cutting blade secured to the upper former member and adapted to cut protrusion on the strip metal upon rotation of the upper former member, which protrusions result from the bending of the strip metal, and an extraction cylinder for clamping and extracting the bent strip metal from the coil former.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1978
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Umehara, Hidetoshi Takeshita
  • Patent number: 3996778
    Abstract: A loader and unloader for a plate roll machine has an extensible boom extending generally horizontally over the plate rolls of the machine from a stationary support frame to which the boom is pivoted at one end for vertical movement over the rolls. The boom telescopes through the action of a hydraulic cylinder from a retracted position in which the free end of the boom overlies the plate rolls to an extended position in which such free end extends outwardly beyond the plate rolls. Additional fluid cylinders pivot the boom vertically. A plate support carriage is pivoted to the free end of the boom for fore-and-aft tilting movement. The carriage has one or more rollers extending lengthwise of the boom for engaging and supporting a rolled plate at its upper inside surface. The boom is retracted and positioned vertically for supporting the plate as it is rolled in the plate rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1976
    Assignee: Steel Structures, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles H. Sparks
  • Patent number: 3952569
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for winding long rod-like material, such as tubes, into coils by continuously coiling the material and depositing it into a rotating coiler adapted to collect a selected coil of material and then eject it into a delivery receptacle rotating in substantial synchronism with the coiler, stopping the delivery receptacle for removal of the ejected coil and then reaccelerating the delivery receptacle to substantially the speed of the coiler for receipt of the next completed coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1976
    Assignee: Firma Friedrich Kocks
    Inventor: Gunter Lauterjung