Abstract: A tool, such as a tape measure, including a spring-based retraction system is shown. The spring-based retraction system is driven by a spiral spring, that has a variable preformed stress profile along the length of the spring.

Abstract: In a method for winding hot-rolled strip (1), comprising —a decoiler mandrel (4), —at least one first pressing device (7), —at least one second pressing device (8), wherein the hot-rolled strip (1) is pressed from the first pressing device (7) and the second pressing device (8) toward the decoiler mandrel (4), the hot-rolled strip (1) is pushed or pulled away from the decoiler mandrel (4) between the first pressing device (7) and the second pressing device (8), thereby subjecting the hot-rolled strip (1) to a prebending step. The invention further relates to a device for winding hot-rolled strip (1).

Abstract: A method of forming includes applying a stretching force along a linear axis of a work piece and forming the work piece while the stretching force is applied.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises a first working unit for unwinding a coil of conductor and providing straightened conductor, and a second working unit comprising a bending device arranged to bend the straightened conductor leaving the first working unit and a rotary table on which the bent conductor leaving the bending device is laid, whereby a set of turns is formed to make the superconductive coil. The rotary table is rotatably mounted about a stationary vertical axis. The bending device is mounted so as to be translatable both in a longitudinal direction coinciding with the direction of a longitudinal axis of the straightened conductor that is fed by the first working unit to the bending device and in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The first working unit is mounted so as to be translatable, along with the bending device, in the transverse direction only.

Abstract: A process is provided for making bulk textured material sheeting. As a continuous supply of flat material sheeting is fed, the sheeting is repeatedly impacted with toothed knives, each knife creating a row of raised and generally pointed structures on the sheeting to texture the sheeting.

Abstract: A hot strip for producing an electric steel sheet has the following alloy composition in weight %: C: 0.001 to 0.08 Al: 4.8 to 20 Si: 0.05 to 10 B: up to 0.1 Zr: up to 0.1 Cr: 0.1 to 4, remainder iron and melting related impurities.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming a single strand wire with improved flexibility and a stranded cable from a single strand wire. In one embodiment, the flexible single strand wire has a solid, single strand wire body and at least one helical groove formed on an outer circumferential surface of the wire body. The stranded cable includes a plurality of strands. In one embodiment, one of the strands has a planar surface that extends along a longitudinal axis of the cable body.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for rolling a substantially planar electric wire by more than one turn into a spiral shape. The apparatus includes an inner pressing member having an outer surface, an intermediate pressing member having radially inner and outer surfaces, and an outer pressing member having an inner surface. The inner and intermediate pressing members together press a first part of the electric wire between the outer surface of the inner pressing member and the inner surface of the intermediate pressing member, thereby plastically deforming the first part to extend along the outer surface of the inner pressing member. The intermediate and outer pressing members together press a second part of the electric wire between the outer surface of the intermediate pressing member and the inner surface of the outer pressing member, thereby plastically deforming the second part to extend along the outer surface of the intermediate pressing member.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for shaping a barrel spring made of a unitary ribbon of metallic glass that comprises calculating the theoretical shape to be given to said unitary ribbon of metallic glass so that each segment, once the spring is fitted in the barrel, is subjected to the maximum bending momentum, shaping said ribbon by imparting bends thereto characteristic of said free theoretical shape in order to take into account a potential reduction of the bends once the ribbon is released, relaxing the ribbon in order to set the shape thereof by heating the same, and cooling down said ribbon.

Abstract: A coiling device (1) for coiling or uncoiling a strip (2), has at least one coiler (5), an optional drive roll (7) associated with the coiler (5), and a control device (10) for the coiler (5) and the optional drive roll (7). The control device (10) operates the coiling device (1) in such a way that a current strip temperature and/or a current microstructure property of the strip is/are determined by taking measurements or calculating a model, the control device (10) determines a current desired torque value (MH,MR) from the actual value or a variable derived therefrom, and the control device (10) operates the coiler (5) and the optional drive roll (7) by the current desired torque value (MH,MR). The coiling device (1) has the advantage of improving the coiling quality as well as the strip quality in terms of the strip thickness and width.

Abstract: A purpose of the invention is to provide a spiral piece of steel having high mechanical strength and being capable of easily making smaller the pitch intervals of twisted portions (spiral blade portions) even without changing the twist angle, and also to provide an application product thereof and a method for manufacturing the spiral piece of steel.

Abstract: Provided are a pipe bender which is capable of spiral pipe bending and a method for spiral pipe bending with radii of bend using the pipe bender. The pipe bender includes an XY sliding mechanism), which has a Y-axis movement means travelling back and forth and an X-axis movement means travelling from side to side; a turning table device for rotating a turning table provided on top thereof, the turning table device being placed on the XY sliding mechanism; a bender with a cylindrical shaft rotatably supported, the cylindrical shaft placed on the turning table and secured to a worm wheel; a center shaft passing through the hole of the cylindrical shaft and having a lower end secured to a bottom; and a bending roller provided on top of the cylindrical shaft rotatable about the center of a support roller and which is disposed adjacent to the support roller.

Abstract: A device for coiling thin metal strip, especially hot-rolled or cold-rolled thin steel strip, includes a drivable coiler mandrel which can be adjusted in diameter by expandable segments and can be adjusted to a coil inside diameter and to a diameter for detaching the finished coil. The device further includes an expansion adapter which can be inserted into the open eye of the coil and is mounted on a holder with a guide.

Abstract: A method for effecting a repair and/or strengthening of a pipe. The method comprises cleaning an affected area of a surface of the pipe to provide a cleaned surface of the pipe surface for an area requiring repair; applying a continuous strip around the pipe from a portion prior to the effected area and allowing the continuous strip to extend to a portion after the affected area. The continuous strip forms a spiral sleeve spaced from the pipe surface to provide an annular chamber between the pipe surface and the spiral sleeve.

Abstract: A method and a device for winding metal strip onto a mandrel to which the metal strip is fed by a driver encompassing a bottom and a top drive roller in a driver frame. In order to regulate the driver in such a way by measuring the strip tension, the longitudinal tensile strength applied to the metal strip by the driver to control the strip run through the driver is determined by means of a strip tension measuring device which is mounted on the driver frame, in a pivot located shortly behind the bottom drive roller, and can be swiveled into the metal strip from below. The strip tension measuring device is composed of a first lever arm and a second lever arm which is hingedly mounted at the front of the first lever arm and the forward end of which is provided with a roller.

Abstract: A coiler furnace having a heat-insulated enclosure delimiting a furnace interior, a strip coiling device includes a coiler drum having a slotted receiving opening for the hot-rolled strip in the furnace interior, A controlled rotational drive for a coiler shaft is located outside the furnace interior. An inlet and outlet opening to the enclosure for a hot-rolled strip. A strip guiding device between a roller table and the coiler drum. In order to avoid any winding errors, a feeding shield extends through the enclosure of the coiler furnace and is coupled to a displacement drive arranged outside the furnace interior. The displacement drive can be displaced between an insertion position and a withdrawal position of the shield. The feeding shield, in the insertion position, interacts with the strip guiding device to form a feed funnel, mounted upstream the slotted receiving opening on the coiler drum for the hot-rolled strip together.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for winding and unwinding rolled strip (WB) discharging from a mill train (WS), in which apparatus the rolled strip (WB) discharging from the mill train (WS) is introduced by a set of bending rolls (BR) into a winding chamber (WK) having a rotationally driven roller pair (RP) and is wound into a coil (WB), and the coil is then put onto a roller table (GR) and unwound from these rollers with the direction of rotation being reversed and the start of the strip is fed to a driver device (RT). The apparatus is improved by a supporting slide (TS) which can be pushed into the winding chamber (WK) and in whose side walls a pivoted lever (SH) is mounted, the free end of which carries a pressure roller (AR) which can be put onto the rolled strip coil and pushes the latter out of the winding chamber (WK) onto the adjoining roller table (GR).

Abstract: An inventive linear-spring forming apparatus has: a rotatable table (10) surrounding a quill (6) for guiding a linear material; a multiplicity of slide units (15) radially arranged on, and in the circumferential direction of, the rotatable table (10) at substantially equal angular intervals, each of the slide units (15) being slidable in the radial directions of the rotatable table; and a multiplicity of slide plates (33) arranged outside, and in the circumferential direction of, the rotatable table (10) at equal angular intervals, and aligned with the respective slide units (15) in radial directions such that each slide plate (33) can be driven by a servo-motor (M3) in the radially inward and outward directions, in such a way that a selected one of the slide plates (33) advances one of the associated slide unit (15) towards the axis of the quill at a right angle thereto until the tool mounted on the slide unit abuts against the linear material (41) fed from the leading end of the quill (6) to form a linear s

Abstract: The invention relates to a forming head (300) which shapes a raw material (6) to spirally seamed tube (2), whereby the internal profile of the forming head (300) is U-shaped, the forming head (300) has an inlet side and an outlet side and there are on the upper side of the legs (306, 308) of said U shape slide surfaces (312, 314) for the raw material (6) passing through said forming head (300).

Abstract: A mandrel for winding sheet metal has a generally tubular mandrel body extending along and centered on an axis and formed at one end with a plurality of radially throughgoing and angularly spaced apertures each having a pair of closed and axially confronting end faces, a spreading bar extending axially inside the body and having a respective pivot adjacent each of the apertures, respective rigid links extending through the apertures and having inner ends carried on the respective pivots and outer ends projecting outside the body, and respective segments outside the body and each pivoted on the outer end of a respective one of the links. Respective pressure plates are operatively connected at the one end between the segments and the mandrel body.

Abstract: A net (11) is particularly suitable for a basket for pisciculture, which may be placed in sea or fresh water (16). The net (11) is made of a wire material (1), producible from individual spiral or similarly bent longitudinal elements, wherein adjacent threads (2, 3, 4, 5) are woven together. Said net is simple and economical to produce.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for rolling a substantially planar electric wire by more than one turn into a spiral shape. The apparatus includes an inner pressing member having an outer surface, an intermediate pressing member having radially inner and outer surfaces, and an outer pressing member having an inner surface. The inner and intermediate pressing members together press a first part of the electric wire between the outer surface of the inner pressing member and the inner surface of the intermediate pressing member, thereby plastically deforming the first part to extend along the outer surface of the inner pressing member. The intermediate and outer pressing members together press a second part of the electric wire between the outer surface of the intermediate pressing member and the inner surface of the outer pressing member, thereby plastically deforming the second part to extend along the outer surface of the intermediate pressing member.

Abstract: A method and an installation for constructing a layer (12) of armour strips around a tubular core (10) of a flexible pipe. The installation has a support wheel (14) of a plurality of armour strips (32, 34) having, respectively, two opposite faces (44, 46) and a plurality of pairs of guide members (20, 22). The pairs of guide members include upstream guide members (52, 54) and downstream guide members (56, 58) which sets of guide members extend along axes that are angularly offset from one another. The support wheel (14) has devices (78, 92) for adjusting the downstream guide members (56, 58) into a position such that the two opposite faces (44, 46) of the armour strip entering and leaving the downstream guide members (56, 58) are substantially perpendicular to the plane of flexing (Pf) defined by the entering and leaving armor strip.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for expanding the use of a coiling and uncoiling station (coilbox) located between the roughing train and the finishing train for rolled strip material in hot-rolling mills. The use of said coilbox is expanded by impinging the coil that is to be uncoiled with a pressing force (F) which acts in the direction of the roller table (4) and/or placing the coil in a depression of the roller table in order to process smaller coil weights in a spikeless coilbox, and/or by combining, in a chronological and weight-related manner, the active transfer and passive transfer of a coil from a first coiling station to a second coiling station in order to increase the throughput especially at average coil weights in a spikeless coilbox, and/or by supplying heat to the strip upstream or downstream of the spikeless coilbox and/or thermally insulating the strip or the coilbox in order to variably increase and homogenize the strip temperature.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a motor coil is to produce a coil to be used for a stator of a motor by automatically winding a flat rectangular conductive wire by use of a winding machine. This apparatus comprises: an uncoiler for feeding the conductive wire wound and accumulated on a bobbin to the winding machine; an inertia measuring device for measuring inertia of the uncoiler when feeding the conductive wire; chucks and for measuring a resistance value of the conductive wire; and an operating console for setting the winding condition of the rectangular wire to be wound by the winding machine based on the measured inertia and the measured resistance value. The operating console controls the winding machine based on the set winding condition to wind the conductive wire.

Abstract: An installation for processing material in strip form, such as a sealing strip that has been removed from a roll of material, comprises a rotary head, by means of which one end of the material in strip form can be grasped and on which said material in strip form can be wound, and guide means for guiding the material in strip form in the peripheral direction during winding. The guide means have a movable guide section that can be shifted between an open and a closed position, respectively, such that in the open position the wound-up material in strip found can be removed from the guide means.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for temporarily interrupting the passage of a long product between upstream and downstream paths in a rolling mill. Product passing along the upstream path is delivered onto a cylindrical drum. The drum is rotated in one direction to accumulate the product thereon in a series of windings. The direction of drum rotation is then reversed to unwind and deliver the accumulated product to the downstream path.

Abstract: The invention relates to a reel mandrel (1) for winding sheet metal, in particular rolled hot strip, comprising a mandrel body (2) preferably configured as hollow-cylindrical, a spreading bar (3) which can be adjusted relative to the mandrel body (2) in the axial direction (A) and a number of segments (4) which are radially adjustable by axial movement of the spreading bar (3) relative to the mandrel body (2), wherein a number of links (5) pivoted on the spreading bar (3) and the segments (4) are arranged between the spreading bar (3) and the segments (4). In order to make such a reel mandrel suitable for winding high-strength and super high-strength materials, the invention provides that in the mounted state of the reel mandrel (1), at least a number of links (5) pass through recesses (6) in the mandrel body (2) which are inserted in the mandrel body (2) such that this is at least free from recesses (6) at its axial ends (7).

Abstract: An endovascular prosthesis is described, in the shape of a cylindrical spiral, and comprising: one or more multiple elements each of which with a sinusoidal shape composed of first sections with a substantially rectilinear development (peaks), defining corresponding levels, and being connected to one another through second sections with a substantially rectilinear development (connection segments); the peaks (1, 2) and the connection segments (3) have an orientation that substantially follows the natural orientation of the elastic fibres of the artery.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for winding metal strips (13) onto a coiling mandrel (4) which is disposed in a coiler shaft (3) and to which the metal strip is fed by a driver (2) encompassing a bottom and a top drive roller (6, 7) in a driver frame (5). A bench (11) is provided below the metal strip (13) for guiding purposes while a strip switch (17) and a swiveling shaft flap (19) are arranged above the metal strip, the shaft flap (19) adjoining the strip switch (17) to the vicinity of the coiling mandrel.

Abstract: A spring-forming control system and its control method for a spring forming machine in which the spring-forming control system uses a host computer to provide graphical spring parameter setting, program modification, and dragline-method program modification graphical interfaces that are selectively switchable on a display monitor. After setting of spring processing parameters through the spring parameter setting interface, a trial production is done subject to a spring parameter auto-generation software built in the spring-forming control system, and then the production is started if the trial meets the requirements, or the spring processing parameters are modified through the spring parameter setting interface, program modification interface, or dragline-method program modification interface if the trial does not meet the requirements, and then a further trial production is performed till the shaped spring meets the requirements.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a coil spring. In the apparatus, a body is provided and a pair of machining units are disposed on the body to oppose each other at one end thereof. In each of the machining units, a mandrel is disposed in an upper central part of the body. The mandrel is rotatably configured to wind a coil spring material around an outer circumference thereof. A first motor is disposed at the other end of the machining unit to provide a driving force for rotating the mandrel. Also, a guide roller part is disposed movable along a length direction of the mandrel to guide the coil spring material to be wound around the mandrel. Two coil spring materials produced from a furnace are wound around the mandrels, respectively to produce two coil springs through one process.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming at least one end turn and one slot segment of a coil for a stator of a dynamoelectric machine includes the utilization of a plurality of forming dies. Each forming die includes two lateral surfaces extending from a base and an end turn surface disposed substantially between and connecting the two lateral surfaces. Each forming die is disposed and pivotable into an arrangement where at least one lateral surface of a first forming die is substantially adjacent and parallel to at least one lateral surface of a second forming die, a slot segment thereby formable between lateral surfaces of adjacent forming dies and an end turn is at least partially formable between an end turn surface and a base of adjacent forming dies.

Abstract: A coil forming method, a coil forming die assembly and a coil manufactured by the coil forming method are disclosed. The coil forming method comprises conducting preliminary forming work on a coil under a linear state before conducting bending work on the coil. The preliminary forming work including conducting compression work on the coil under the linear state to compress the coil in a region covering a rounded corner portion formed when bending work is conducted to decrease a dimension of the coil in a widthwise direction. The dimension of the coil is decreased in the widthwise direction by the nearly same dimension as that of the coil bulged in the widthwise direction when bending work is conducted in the absence of the preliminary forming work. This prevents the occurrence of bulging of the coil during bending work with an increase in lamination factor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for winding a band into a coil on a chuck driven into rotation around its axis, by means of a winding assembly including a roll (3) for applying the band (1), by an internal face (11), to the chuck (2) means (62) for pushing the roll (3) towards the chuck (2) and a bending plate (4) having a curved face (40) for guiding the band (1) along the external face (20) of the chuck (2).

Abstract: Coiling device (10) and relative coiling method for rolled or drawn long products, comprising a mandrel (11), arranged cantilevered and rotatable with respect to a central longitudinal axis (X), and on which the long products are wound in adjacent and superimposed spirals (33), in order to form a compact coil (31) having the geometric shape of a circular ring with lateral flanks substantially orthogonal, or very angled, with respect to the central longitudinal axis (X). The mandrel (11) comprises a flange (12) substantially orthogonal, or very angled, with respect to the central longitudinal axis (X) which defines a first lateral flank of the coil (31). The mandrel (11) also comprises first arm elements (13) which define the cylindrical surface of the core that forms the coil (31), and second arm elements (14), opposite the flange (12), which define a second flank of the coil. The first and the second arm elements (13,14) are mobile between a first coil-forming position and a second coil-removal position.

Abstract: Steel strip issues continuously from a downstream end of a rolling line and can be wound up there on a coiler. An inspection table downstream of the rolling line has a surface aligned with the downstream end and the strip emerging therefrom. The coiler is below a plane of the table surface. During normal rolling the strip is deflected downward to the coiler and reeled up. For inspection of the strip, the strip is cut transversely to produce a new leading end and is fed starting at this end toward the table without substantial deflection. Then the strip is cut again upstream of the new leading end to form a strip sample separate from the strip emerging from the rolling line, which sample is fed to the table and arrested and inspected while strip emerging from the line is deflected back down to the coiler to continue coiling it up.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of rolling a strip-shaped in-process stock, in particular a metal strip, with which, a metal strip (3) is unwound from a coil (2, 7) held on an unwinding reel (1, 6), is fed into a reversing rolling mill (8), is rolled, and is wound-up onto a winding-up reel (9) to form a coil (10), wherein the metal strip (3) is reversibly conveyed from the unwinding reel (1, 6) to the winding-up reel (9) until a set thickness is reached and, with each passing of the reversing rolling mill (8), is subjected to a reduction of thickness, and wherein an end of the metal strip (3) of a first coil is welded to a beginning of the metal strip (3) of the second coil, and the metal strip (3) of the first coil is temporarily stored in a strip store during a welding process, and finally, the in-process stock consisting of two lengths is reversibly rolled to a final dimension, and an additional length is welded to the end of the in-process stock before the last pass.

Abstract: A method for coiling thin metal strip, especially hot-rolled or cold-rolled thin steel strip, on a coiler mandrel which is adjusted in diameter. At the beginning, the inner windings of the coil are coiled on the adjusted coiler mandrel diameter and, after the final winding of the coil, the coiler mandrel is pulled out or the coil is taken off. At least the first inner winding is joined over a large area with the second inner winding by introducing adhesives, fillers, pieces of metal, bonding agents, or the like into an angular space between the inner windings.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coil box, which is mounted between a roughing rolling train and a finishing rolling train, for metal pre-strips, in particular steel strips, which are hot wound to form coils and are protected against further cooling in the vicinity of a winding and/or unwinding station (6) by means of heat-shield devices (7) on the front faces (5a; 5b) of the coils. The aim of the invention is to universally configure said coil box. To achieve this, the heat-shield devices (7) are configured from lateral walls (8; 8b) that can be pivoted to rest against the front faces (5a; 5b) of the coils and a pair of opposing heat-shield devices (7) can be aligned in parallel to different coil widths (5c).

Abstract: A tube is bent having a curved portion with a variable radius extending between first and second ends. The curved portion includes a circular arc portion with a constant radius and a clothoid transition portion with a variable radius. The circular arc portion extends from the first end toward a point of integration. At the point of integration, the circular arc portion merges with the transition portion. The transition portion extends from the point of integration to the second end. As the transition portion extends from the point of integration, its radius of curvature increases over its arc length, thereby, improving the quality of the bent tube by gradually bending the tube over a longer distance, thereby reducing local stresses on the bent portion of the tube.

Abstract: A tube bending apparatus adapted for the noncircular bending of a tube includes a modified bend die, a modified wiper die, a translatable and pivotable element and an actuator. The bend die presents a noncircular bending profile having a linearly or nonlinearly increasing radius of curvature. The wiper die is configured to accommodate the maximum radius presented by the profile, and the element and actuator present an inclined rack and pinion configuration. The bend die presents an involute of a circle having a radius equal to the product of the radius of the pinion and the sine of the angle of inclination, so that the bend die engages the tube at a fixed point in space during bending.

Abstract: The aim of the invention is to configure a device for winding and unwinding partly rolled products, in a way that ensures the smallest possible accumulation of scrap. To achieve this, a roller (20, 20?, 20?) whose position is controlled and which runs on the periphery of the coil is used during the transfer of the coils from the winding station to the unwinding station. The vertical adjustment of said roller ensures that the coil is completely unwound, even with a diminishing coil diameter.

Abstract: A wire-stranded hollow coil body (1) has a multitude of coil line elements (2) stranded along a predetermined circular line to form a flexible wire tube having a central axial hollow portion (3), the flexible wire tube is stranded under a strand-turn resistant load and heat treated to remove a residual stress upon formation so as to provide a high rotation-following capability and a high straightness. Further, a method provides a way to strand the coil line elements (2) under a strand-turn resistant load while heat treating the coil line elements (2).

Abstract: The invention relates to a plurality of methods and devices which are used to wind a thin metal strip (1), especially a hot rolled or cold rolled thin steel strip, onto a winding mandrel (3a), the diameter thereof being adjusted. To begin with, the coil en inner windings (12,18) are wound onto the adjusted diameter of the winding mandrel, and after the coil (11) has been wound, the winding mandrel (3a) is removed or the coil (11) taken off. According to a first method, in order to prevent individual windings (12,18) from detaching themselves in the eye of the coil (15) due to stiffening of windings, at least one profiled rise or profiled cavity is pressed into one inner winding or a plurality of adjacent inner windings (12,18) on the circumference during rotation of the coil.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a portable platform (10) for use in gasket manufacture, comprising a shaft connected to a motor and can receive at least one mandrel, and a surface to receive at least one molding tool, the mandrel being activated by the motor to turn in relation to the platform (10) and to the tool, and to move gasket-forming elements, such as metallic or non-metallic strips, among others, to be processed by the tool. Moreover, as much the mandrel as with the tool are replaceable respectively between mandrels and tools with different characteristics. Thus, the same platform (10) may produce different types of gaskets, and, consequently, speed up and facilitate the gasket replacement process.

Abstract: An improved silicon steel sheet has two lateral ends each having a side edge narrower than the width of the silicon sheet. The side edge has two end points linking respectively to two lateral sides of the silicon steel sheet to form two symmetrical slant edges for reducing tension area of the silicon steel sheet at the side edge. The slant edges and the side edges form two solder zones to anchor the silicon steel sheet for soldering at the initial winding stage and after the winding is completed.

Abstract: A wire condenser element bending method and a wire condenser element bending apparatus bend two wire condenser elements by pressing the wire condenser elements against a bending roller to form two scroll wire condensers simultaneously. Inner edge parts of the wire condenser elements are held by holding devices at diametrically opposite positions on the outer circumference of the bending roller. Pressure rollers press the two wire condenser elements against the bending roller while the bending roller is rotated to form two scroll wire condensers simultaneously. Each wire condenser element serves as a separator for separating layers of the other wire condenser element.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a honeycomb body from a stack having a plurality of at least partially structured sheet metal layers forming a plurality of channels through which a fluid can pass, including a mould having an internal shape substantially corresponding to an external shape of a honeycomb body to be produced, a wrapping device for holding a stack at least partially structured sheet metal layers at a central region thereof, the wrapping device being pivotally disposed about an axis for wrapping the stack, and a holding device having positioning elements at least partially insertable into channels formed in the central region of the stack for maintaining a structural configuration in the central region of the stack during a wrapping of the stack.

Abstract: A looper for thick metal strip has a large-diameter outer basket centered on an upright axis and a small-diameter inner basket axially above the outer basket and centered on an upright axis. The strip is fed on edge and generally tangentially into the outer basket to form therein a large-diameter spiral having an inner end. Then the strip is fed upward from the spiral inner end around the inner basket and is finally pulled tangentially from the inner basket. The strip is straightened generally as it leaves the inner basket.