Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a manufacturing method, process, machine, and/or system for continuously consolidating granular materials, creating new alloys and/or composites, and/or modifying and/or refining material microstructure, by using plastic deformation of feedstock(s) provided in various structural forms. Materials produced during this process can be fabricated directly and/or in forms such as, e.g., wires, rods, tubes, sheets, plate and/or channels, etc.

Abstract: A laser shock and supersonic vibration extrusion co-strengthening device and method. The device comprises a laser assembly, a vibration assembly, a hydraulic assembly and a connecting assembly.

Abstract: Provided is a device for manufacturing a bent pipe, the device being capable of reducing buckling. The device including: an inner core metal arranged inside a first pipe; and a bending mold to bend the first pipe. The inner core metal includes: an inner core metal body; a first inner movable portion coupled to the inner core metal body and swingable around a first rocking shaft orthogonal to a central axis of the inner core metal body; and a second inner movable portion coupled to the first inner movable portion and swingable around a second rocking shaft parallel to the first rocking shaft. The first inner movable portion has an enlarging diameter portion enlarged in diameter toward the second inner movable portion. The bending mold causes an inner surface of the first pipe to press the first inner movable portion and the second inner movable portion.

Abstract: Provided is a thin, narrow tube for use in a biodegradable medical device formed from a round tube made of a magnesium material as the base material, in which a desired outer diameter and an inner diameter are provided with good precision over the entire region in a longitudinal direction and a circumferential direction, and the length of biodegradation time can be controlled without changing a material composition. The thin, narrow tube is a thin, narrow tube of a biodegradable medical device, in which the thin, narrow tube is a round tube made of crystals containing magnesium (Mg) having a hexagonal crystal structure, and when the crystals forming the round tube are viewed in a round tube axis direction of the round tube, a hexagonal basal plane (0001) is oriented at a predetermined inclination angle with respect to a circumferential direction perpendicular to a radial direction (a direction from an inner surface to an outer surface) of the round tube.

Abstract: A method of producing a bimetallic tubular component includes providing a first tubular workpiece having an inner diameter and a second tubular workpiece having an outer diameter. The first and second tubular workpieces have dissimilar cold-working processing parameters. The method further includes diffusion bonding the inner diameter of the first tubular workpiece to the outer diameter of the second tubular workpiece, and flowforming the diffusion bonded tubular workpieces to form the bimetallic tubular component.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus of manufacturing a seamless pipe. The apparatus includes a container receiving a work therein, a stem pressing one end of the work within the container, a die installed in a direction opposite to the stem, and having an extrusion hole comprised of a plurality of ports, a rotation member installed on a front end of the die, having a stirring tip inserted into a joint surface formed by abutting a plurality of metal pieces to each other on one surface, and rotating to perform a friction stir bonding in a state in which the one surface contacts the joint surface, and a correction mold including a metal pipe discharging path receiving a metal pipe manufactured by the friction stir bonding and discharging the metal pipe to an outside.

Abstract: The invention relates to a drawing die arrangement having a drawing tool that acts on an elongated workpiece, and having a drawing tool support on which the drawing tool is mounted, counteracting the drawing tool, in which support a measurement device that measures the mass distribution of the workpiece material is disposed on the drawing tool, wherein a coupling medium circulated between the measurement device and the drawing tool is provided. Furthermore, the invention relates to a workpiece guide and to a drawing system.

Abstract: A process for producing a metal hollow body comprising a first axial portion with a first cross-sectional area and a second axial portion with a second cross-sectional area, and in which the two axial portions are connected to one another by means of a shape transition running in the axial direction, the method includes producing a preform body having at least one transition region which extends in the axial direction and is arranged between the first and second axial portions, wherein, in the transition region, the cross-sectional area of the preform body continuously changes from the cross-sectional area of the first axial portion into the cross-sectional area of the second axial portion, accommodating the preform body in a die, a shaping mandrel into the preform body, and axially moving the shaping mandrel to upset the preform body in the die into the final shape of the hollow body.

Abstract: In a method of making a tubular body, material is pressed through a die of a forming tool into a first mold cavity disposed in downstream relationship to the die to produce a first end piece. A mandrel is then moved in a direction of the die to thereby displace the mold cavity in the same direction and to extrude a tubular center piece to adjoin the first end piece. The mandrel is then replaced by a mold having a second mold cavity to mold a second end piece to adjoin the center piece.

Abstract: A friction-stir mandrel includes a textured end portion integral with a body portion. The textured end portion is configured to friction-stir process a starting material forced across the textured end portion and through a die in a plasticized state to form a pipe. A pipe can be formed by forcing a starting material across a textured end of the mandrel and through a die in a plasticized state, so that the textured end of the mandrel breaks up existing grains of the starting material. The pipe is formed from material that is forced through the die. The friction-stir mandrel can be used with porthole die friction-stir extrusion, seamless tube friction-stir extrusion, and tube friction-stir drawing processes to provide tubing in which the grains are broken up by the textured portion of the friction-stir mandrel. The textured portion can include features, such as threads, ridges, studs, protrusions, and the like.

Abstract: A method for forming hollow profiles is disclosed. In one exemplary method, a hollow profile is guided through a die in a processing direction and fixed by a mandrel such that at the die, the hollow profile has a material flow velocity in this processing direction (2), in which the method the mandrel has a drawing velocity in the processing direction that is greater than the material flow velocity.

Abstract: There is provided a production method of an internally ribbed steel tube, capable of forming spiral ribs stably so as to reduce troubles at the time of cold drawing for forming the spiral ribs of the steel tube. In this production method, the spiral ribs can be formed stably so as to reduce troubles at the time of cold drawing for forming the spiral ribs by straightening bends of a blank tube before the cold drawing for forming the spiral ribs, by optimizing the direction of the spiral rib formation after the bend straightening, and by correcting the drawing schedule depending on the blank tube. The obtained internally ribbed steel tube is well applicable to an increased capacity and a higher temperature/higher pressure operation of a boiler because the steel tube is provided with high formability and excellent quality as a boiler steel tube.

Abstract: In an arrangement for bending tubular workpieces, in which a workpiece is supplied to a bending head for bending and is supported from the inside during the bending process in the bending region by means of a mandrel introduced into the workpiece, with the mandrel comprising a mandrel element and a traveler, sitting movably in the workpiece and the traveler being longitudinally displaceable in the workpiece by means of a feed device (14), the traveler is produced from a magnetizable material and the feed device comprises a magnetic device which is applied to a position corresponding to the position of the traveler outside of the workpiece, with a positive magnetic engagement being formed between the magnetic device and the traveler, with the traveler being displaceable in the workpiece via the magnetic device.

Abstract: There is provided a production method capable of forming spiral ribs stably by reducing troubles at the time of cold drawing for forming the spiral ribs on an internally ribbed steel tube. When the internally ribbed steel tube on which a plurality of stripes of spiral ribs are formed in the tube axis direction is manufactured by inserting a plug on which a plurality of stripes of spiral grooves are formed on the outer peripheral surface thereof into the tube to be worked subjected to chemical treatment and then performing cold drawing, drawing is performed with the plug preheated to 50 to 200° C., thus forming the spiral ribs on the internal surface of a blank tube. The chemical treatment preferably includes a pickling step of removing oxided scale and rust on the tube surface, a step of forming a zinc phosphate coat on the neutralized tube surface, and a step of forming a lubricating layer on the zinc phosphate coat.

Abstract: A method of producing an ultrathin-wall metal tube by a cold drawing method includes a diameter-expanding drawing method, in which an entry solid die, the diameter of which increases, remains constant or decreases from the engaging entry side toward the finishing exit side, and a delivery solid die, the diameter of which decreases at least in the vicinity of the engaging entry, are arranged in series and in an abutting relation on the same pass line. A tapered plug, the diameter of which increases from the engaging entry side toward the finishing exit side, floats along the pass line, whereby in the entry solid die region, the wall thickness is reduced while the mid-wall diameter of a hollow shell is being expanded between the solid die and the plug, and in the delivery solid die region, the tapered plug floats by performing reduction working of the outside diameter.

Abstract: A steel pipe drawing apparatus, which can manufacture a drawn steel pipe which is a long object with high accuracy and at high speed as well as improves dimensional accuracy of respective thick-wall portions and cutting positions of the drawn steel pipe, is realized. When a stepped drawn steel pipe is manufactured by moving a die and a plug relatively in the same direction as a steel pipe drawing direction and in an opposite direction thereto, a first hydraulic cylinder moves the die relatively in a direction corresponding to the steel pipe drawing direction, and a second hydraulic cylinder moves the plug relatively in a direction opposite to a moving direction of the die. At this time, a position detecting sensor detects a stroke position of the second hydraulic cylinder, and a computer receives positional information detected by the position detecting sensor and controls a moving velocity of the second hydraulic cylinder.

Abstract: A method for forming a tubular structural member includes the steps of cold forming a tube blank to have a longitudinally variable but circumferentially constant wall thickness (t1, t2, t3) and forming the blank into the desired structural member. Preferably, the forming step involves hydroforming.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the invention provides a method for producing an ultra thin wall metallic tube by cold working method with significant wall thickness reduction. In a method for producing the metallic tube with a cold pilger mill according to the invention, cold rolling is performed while tube diameters are being expanded using rolls having tapered groove dies whose calibers increase from an engaging entry side toward a finishing exit side. In a method for producing the metallic tube with a drawing machine according to the invention, cold drawing is performed while the tube diameters are being expanded using a solid die whose calibers increase from an engaging entry side toward a finishing exit side and a plug of a tapered mandrel bar whose diameters increase from an entry side of the die toward an exit side. In the metallic tube producing method, a maximum diameter of the plug or tapered mandrel bar may be larger than an outside diameter of the mother tube.

Abstract: A plug 1 includes a first columnar portion 20, a tapered portion 30, and a second columnar portion 40. The first columnar portion 20 has an outside diameter D1. The second columnar portion 40 has an outside diameter D2 which is larger than the outside diameter D1. The tapered portion 30 is formed between the first columnar portion 20 and the second columnar portion 40. The tapered portion 30 has a tapered surface 31 provided with an outside diameter which is gradually increased from the first columnar portion 20 to the second columnar portion 40, and an axial direction length L. The outside diameters D1 and D2, and the axial direction length L meet the following expressions (1) to (4): 0.25???2.00??(1), 0.06?L/D2?0.8??(2), L/D2?0.3×?+0.575??(3), and L/D2?0.1×???(4) where ?=(D2?D1)/D1×100. Therefore, the cold drawing plug according to the present invention can reduce the tensile residual stress on the outer surface of a metal pipe after the cold drawing.

Abstract: A device 10 for drawing a tubular workpiece is provided with a drawing die 20 and a drawing plug 30. The drawing die 20 includes a first curved surface section 1C from which the workpiece 40 is detached while being reduced in diameter, a die bearing section 2B arranged radially inward of and downstream of a workpiece separation point K of the first curved surface section 1C, and a guide section 2D having a second curved surface section 2C which smoothly continues to an upstream end of the die bearing section 2B and configured to again come into contact with the workpiece 40 detached from the first curved bearing section 1C to guide the workpiece to the die bearing section 2B while reducing a diameter of the workpiece 40. The drawing plug 30 has a plug bearing section 3B shorter than a length L4 of the die bearing section 2B. The plug bearing section 3B is arranged at a position corresponding to the die bearing section 2B.

Abstract: Proposed is a method of producing an ultrathin-wall metal tube by a cold drawing method capable of drastically expanding an available size range toward much thinner side with respect to wall thickness of metal tubes.

Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a hollow stabilizer, a pipe compressing step of compressing an electroseamed pipe in a temperature range of a hot state or a warm state so as to make a rate of a thickness with respect to an outer diameter between 18 and 35% is performed, and a forming step of forming the compressed electroseamed pipe in a stabilizer shape in a cold state is executed. Next, a step of applying a heat treatment to a half-finished stabilizer is performed, a shot peening step of impacting a shot on the half-finished stabilizer is performed, and a step of coating the half-finished stabilizer is performed.

Abstract: A mechanical process to reduce and/or reform the mass of a tube (either metallic or of some other material) to specified dimensions, by any or all of the following means: thinning the wall of the tube, reducing the diameter of the tube, and elongation of the tube. The tube is operated on by a ball and a die having interior areas including: an initial entry with reduction angle, a wall reduction chamber, a final reduction angle, a land/bearing, and an exit relief ending in an area with a reverse taper. The tube has an outside diameter larger than the wall reduction chamber (in the raw material starting size) with a wall thickness somewhat larger than the gap between the outside diameter of the ball, and the inside diameter of the wall reduction chamber. The tube is pulled, pushed or drawn between the die and the ball, reducing its dimensions.

Abstract: In a method of producing an ultra thin wall metallic tube by a cold drawing process in which a drawing machine is used, a wall thickness of the metallic tube is reduced to perform drawing while a tube-wall centerline diameter of a tube material is expanded, using a solid die which gradually increases in diameter from its engaging inlet side toward its work-ending outlet side and a plug or a tapered mandrel bar which gradually increases in diameter over a corresponding distance from the engaging inlet side of the solid die toward the work-ending outlet side of the solid die, whereby the wall thickness can dramatically be reduced.

Abstract: There is provided a production method of an internally ribbed steel tube, capable of forming spiral ribs stably so as to reduce troubles at the time of cold drawing for forming the spiral ribs of the steel tube. In this production method, the spiral ribs can be formed stably so as to reduce troubles at the time of cold drawing for forming the spiral ribs by straightening bends of a blank tube before the cold drawing for forming the spiral ribs, by optimizing the direction of the spiral rib formation after the bend straightening, and by correcting the drawing schedule depending on the blank tube. The obtained internally ribbed steel tube is well applicable to an increased capacity and a higher temperature/higher pressure operation of a boiler because the steel tube is provided with high formability and excellent quality as a boiler steel tube.

Abstract: A plug 1 includes a first columnar portion 20, a tapered portion 30, and a second columnar portion 40. The first columnar portion 20 has an outside diameter D1. The second columnar portion 40 has an outside diameter D2 which is larger than the outside diameter D1. The tapered portion 30 is formed between the first columnar portion 20 and the second columnar portion 40. The tapered portion 30 has a tapered surface 31 provided with an outside diameter which is gradually increased from the first columnar portion 20 to the second columnar portion 40, and an axial direction length L. The outside diameters D1 and D2, and the axial direction length L meet the following expressions (1) to (4): 0.25???2.00??(1), 0.06?L/D2?0.8??(2), L/D2?0.3×?+0.575??(3), and L/D2?0.1×???(4) where ?=(D2?D1)/D1×100. Therefore, the cold drawing plug according to the present invention can reduce the tensile residual stress on the outer surface of a metal pipe after the cold drawing.

Abstract: A method for forming a component includes forming a workpiece into a hollow preform cylinder concentric with an axis and including an inner surface that extends along the axis, placing within the preform cylinder a mandrel having an outer surface, flow-forming the inner surface and the outer surface of the preform cylinder such that the inner surface of the cylinder conforms to at least a portion of the outer surface of the mandrel, and cutting the flow formed cylinder transversely with respect to the axis into segments, each segment having an axial length.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a one piece axle tube housing with an integral spindle includes providing a tube blank, providing the blank with a region of increased thickness, inserting a mandrel having a reduced diameter profile, passing a reducing die over the tube to conform the tube to the shape of the mandrel; and extraction of the mandrel from the tube to cause outward deformation of the tube at specific locations. A further swaging step may be used to form the final spindle structure.

Abstract: In order to allow a more targeted intervention in a drawing procedure, in particular on a linear drawing device, the invention proposes a linear drawing machine for the linear drawing of a workpiece through a drawing ring, a drawing unit, in which one or more drawing tools grasp the workpiece and draw it linearly in the drawing direction, being situated behind the drawing ring, the linear drawing device being distinguished in particular by a drawing ring which is situated fixed in relation to the drawing direction during the drawing procedure, preferably perpendicularly, and by a workpiece guide situated in front of the drawing ring in the drawing direction, which is displaceable perpendicular to the drawing direction.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing hollow shafts having end portions of greater wall thickness and at least one intermediate portion of reduced wall thickness, from a tube having constant wall thickness. The method includes providing a mandrel having diameters stepped over its length, with a first longitudinal section having a smallest diameter and at least one further longitudinal section having a further larger diameter. Reducing the external diameter of a first portion of the tube over the first longitudinal section of the mandrel to produce the first end portion. Reducing the external diameter of a middle portion of the tube over the at least one further longitudinal section of the mandrel to produce the at least one intermediate portion. Reducing the external diameter of a further portion of the tube over the first longitudinal section of the mandrel to produce the second end portion.

Abstract: A method of forming a plurality of protrusions on the inner surface of a tube to reduce tube side resistance and improve overall heat transfer performance. The method includes cutting through ridges on the inner surface of the tube to create ridge layers and lifting the ridge layers to form the protrusions. In this way, the protrusions are formed without removal of metal from the inner surface of the tube, thereby eliminating debris which can damage the equipment in which the tubes are used.

Abstract: A method of providing boiler tubes with a variably ribbed interior surface. A suitably dimensioned spindle with a channel having a desired pattern on the exterior surface of the spindle is wrapped by a wire-like member in the channel so as to form thereon a reverse image of the desired, patterned tube ribbing. A brazing metal paste is applied on the exterior surface of the wire-like member and the spindle is inserted into a tube to be ribbed. The wire-like member is released from the spindle to allow the wire-like member to conform to the inner surface of the tube, and the tube is heated to the melting temperature of the brazing metal paste so that the wire-like member bonds to the inner surface of the tube, and the metal tube is then cooled.

Abstract: In a method of producing an ultra thin wall metallic tube by a cold drawing process in which a drawing machine is used, a wall thickness of the metallic tube is reduced to perform drawing while a tube-wall centerline diameter of a tube material is expanded, using a solid die which gradually increases in diameter from its engaging inlet side toward its work-ending outlet side and a plug or a tapered mandrel bar which gradually increases in diameter over a corresponding distance from the engaging inlet side of the solid die toward the work-ending outlet side of the solid die, whereby the wall thickness can dramatically be reduced.

Abstract: A production apparatus for bending a multi-channel tube having an outer tube and a partition partitioning an interior of the outer tube into two or more channel holes is provided with a bending mold configured to bend the multi-channel tube in a bend radius; a pressure mold configured to press the multi-channel tube toward the bending mold; a chuck portion configured to hold and draw the multi-channel tube along the bending mold; and mandrels respectively inserted into the channel holes, each of the mandrels including; a mandrel body configured to support inner surfaces of each channel hole; a support device rotatably and movably supporting the mandrel body.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a one-piece axle tube housing with localized sections of increased wall thickness includes providing a tube blank, inserting a mandrel having a reduced diameter profile, passing the tube through an extrusion die to conform the tube to the shape of the mandrel; and extraction of the mandrel from the tube to cause outward deformation of the tube at specific locations. A further reducing step may be used to form the final desired profile, including reduced inner and outer diameters along sections of the axle tube housing.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the invention provides a method for producing an ultra thin wall metallic tube by cold working method with significant wall thickness reduction. In a method for producing the metallic tube with a cold pilger mill according to the invention, cold rolling is performed while tube diameters are being expanded using rolls having tapered groove dies whose calibers increase from an engaging entry side toward a finishing exit side. In a method for producing the metallic tube with a drawing machine according to the invention, cold drawing is performed while the tube diameters are being expanded using a solid die whose calibers increase from an engaging entry side toward a finishing exit side and a plug of a tapered mandrel bar whose diameters increase from an entry side of the die toward an exit side. In the metallic tube producing method, a maximum diameter of the plug or tapered mandrel bar may be larger than an outside diameter of the mother tube.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing hollow shafts having end portions of greater wall thickness and at least one intermediate portion of reduced wall thickness, from a tube having constant wall thickness. The method includes providing a mandrel having diameters stepped over its length, with a first longitudinal section having a smallest diameter and at least one further longitudinal section having a further larger diameter. Reducing the external diameter of a first portion of the tube over the first longitudinal section of the mandrel to produce the first end portion. Reducing the external diameter of a middle portion of the tube over the at least one further longitudinal section of the mandrel to produce the at least one intermediate portion. Reducing the external diameter of a further portion of the tube over the first longitudinal section of the mandrel to produce the second end portion.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a hollow metal ball bat includes forming a shell into a tubular shape using a pilger mill. The wall thickness of the tube shell is reduced by drawing the tube shell with the draw bench. A handle section and a taper section are created using the pilger mill. The handle is drawn through a draw bench, and the handle and taper sections are swaged.

Abstract: A method for draw forming a desired contour to the outer diameter of a tubular work piece provides that the selected work piece have a wall thickness uniform throughout its length. The outer diameter of selected work piece is reduced along essentially only a part of the starting metal blank by drawing the metal blank only partly through a die or only partly through each one of a succession of dies. The resulting drawn reduced diameter will have essentially the same wall thickness as the starting blank. If a thinner wall thickness is desired on the reduced outside diameter, an internal mandrel can be inserted in the starting tube, which will work with the draw die to decrease the resulting wall thickness of the drawn tube to an amount less than the starting tube. The workpiece recovered after the drawing method is useful for producing an automotive fuel tank filler tube or an automotive instrument panel support beam.

Abstract: A plug tool for forming internally helically ribbed tube comprises a plug body for being rotatably disposed in a die orifice of a drawing die. The plug body has a central longitudinal axis, a plurality of external grooves equally spaced about the axis and a plurality of external lands in alternating arrangement with the grooves. The grooves extend along the plug body at a helix angle to the axis. Each groove has a normal cross-section defined by a root surface and opposing flank surfaces extending angularly outwardly from the root surface to adjacent land surfaces. The flank surfaces extend angularly outwardly from the root surface in opposite directions at different angles from one another.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an internal grooved tube according to the present invention includes the steps of inserting a grooved plug into a blank tube rotatably, and then pressing the blank tube against the outside surface of the grooved tube with several balls revolving both around the circumference of the blank tube and on its axis in location of the grooved plug inserted, while drawing out the blank tube longitudinally in one direction, wherein the number of balls is limited to 2 to 3. A lead angle ? of the grooves to the tube axis is preferably limited to 26 to 45 degrees.

Abstract: A method of elongating a tube (10) by way of a drawing ring (13), wherein, when elongating the tube (10), tensile forces are applied to an elongated tube portion (22) which has already passed through the effective drawing ring cross-section and that pressure forces are applied to a tube blank portion (11) which has not yet passed through the effective drawing ring cross-section, wherein the tensile forces are applied by a mandrel (16) which is positioned in the tube and which is connected to a front tube end in a form-fitting or force-locking way.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing an end connection by which a tube of variable wall thickness can be formed by being drawn between a die and a mandrel. The end of tubular stock is reduced and its wall thickness increased by being extruded into the space between a reducing die and a mandrel located within the tube, the mandrel having a plug that forms the inner surface of the formed tube as the mandrel and die are retraced from the end. A screw thread is formed on the inner surface of the formed tube and is engaged by a screw thread on a pull pin adapted for attachment to an actuating cylinder that applies a force tending to pull the tube through the die and mandrel.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a hollow stabilizer comprises a primary pipe manufacturing process for subjecting a seam-welded pipe to hot reduction working, thereby obtaining a primary pipe, and winding the primary pipe in a coil, a cold drawing process for subjecting the primary pipe to cold drawing so that the rate of reduction in area is not lower than 30%, thereby obtaining a thick-walled pipe having a wall thickness ratio of 0.20 to 0.27 higher than that of the seam-welded pipe and tensile strength of 800 N/mm2 to 1,000 N/mm2 is obtained, an internal shot peening process to be carried out as required, a bending process for bending the thick-walled pipe into a desired stabilizer shape in a cold state, an annealing process for subjecting the pipe to stress relieving annealing at a temperature of 300° C. to 450° C., after the bending process, and a shot peening process for shot-peening the annealed pipe.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for continuously drawing an elongated stock permit plural types of drawings within a narrower area, by a series of automated steps and permit easy adjustment of the distance between a front end position of a plug and an outlet position of a die. A holding member with plural types of dies is mounted at a central position relative to reciprocation of an elongated stock. When the elongated stock is to be moved from one side to the opposite side of the die holding member, it is passed through an elongated stock passage, not through the dies, while when the elongated stock is to be moved from the opposite side to the one side of the die holding member, it is passed through one of the plural dies. The elongated stock is reciprocated plural times between the one side and the opposite side of the die holding member and the die holding member is moved at each passage of the elongated stock through a die to change the type of die.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a thick walled Moineau-style stator entails drawing a thick walled tube through rotatable internal and external dies to form a helical outer profile including crests and through on the tube. The tube initially has one end with a diameter smaller than the others, with the smaller diameter end being inserted between the inner and outer dies, where it is seized and drawn through the dies.

Abstract: A process for preparing the end of a pipe for drawing over a drawing mandrel, including the following steps: (a) inserting a preforming mandrel into an end of the pipe, the preforming mandrel having a first section having a diameter which is substantially smaller than the inside diameter of the pipe to be drawn, a third section having a diameter which is substantially the same as the inside diameter of the pipe to be drawn, and a second section between the first section and the third section, the second section tapering from the diameter of the third section to the diameter of the first section; (b) rolling the pipe with a set of non-driven rolls while the rolls revolve around the pipe and move axially from the first section of the mandrel to the second section of the mandrel and radially inward to from a constriction in the pipe; (c) rolling the pipe with the rolls while the rolls revolve around the pipe and move axially over the second section of the mandrel toward the third section of the preforming mandre

Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus for manufacturing an internal grooved tube, in which has a rotary die and a working head having a plurality of balls retained inside in such a way as to rotate with play are provided along the drawing direction of a metal blank tube in order and in such a way as to rotate separately, which is constructed in such a way that multiple grooves are formed in the internal surface of the metal blank tube by pressing the metal blank tube where a plug and a grooved plug rotatably coupled to the plug are inserted against the outer surface of the grooved plug as the metal blank tube is put through the rotary die and the working head and drawn, and which has lubricating-oil feeding units and separatedly provided at upstream sides of the rotary die and the working head.

Abstract: In a method of making a pipe of different wall thickness, a mandrel with at least one outer recessed axial section is inserted into a tubular blank. Subsequently a drawing die, having an inner diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the tubular blank, is pushed over the tubular blank while the pipe is held in place with respect to the mandrel in drawing direction, thereby pressing a wall portion of the blank into the recessed axial section of the die to form a pipe with a wall portion of greater wall thickness. As the mandrel is then withdrawn from the pipe, the wall portion of greater wall thickness of the pipe is pressed radially outwards.

Abstract: A golf club 20 includes a shaft 22 having a club head 32 secured to a tip end section 24 thereof and a grip 34 secured to a butt end section 26 thereof. A central section 28 of the shaft 22 is formed with a plurality of segments 44 which are of successively smaller diameters between the butt end section 26 and the tip end section 24. The wall of the tip end section 24 has portions which are of a prescribed thickness. The wall of the butt end section 26 has portions which are of a thickness less than the prescribed thickness. The wall of the central section 28 has portions which are of a thickness less than the thickness of the portion of the wall of the butt end section 26.