Abstract: The technical field of metal plastic forming processes and equipment, and provides a device and method for forming shaft part by two-roller flexible skew rolling. The device comprises two skew rollers, a guiding plate, two guiding cylinders and an axial pushing device; the skew rollers can do same-direction rotation motion, radial feeding motion and tilt angle adjustment motion; the guiding plate is arranged between the two skew rollers and is used for limiting the radial movement of a blank; the two guiding cylinders are arranged on the two sides of the two skew rollers to limit swing of the blank; and the axial pushing device is arranged at one end of the blank and is used for applying axial pushing force to the blank, and the blank is rolled into a shaft part in a space defined by the skew rollers and the guiding plate.

Abstract: The rolling stand comprises four support columns (2), two conical rolling rolls with skewed rolling axes which are oblique to each other and are fixed to two roll cradles (6, 7), four jacks (24, 26) below the lower roll cradle (7) for exercising a preloading force on such a roll cradle. Four jacks (20, 21, 22, 23) are arranged above to exercise a preloading force on the upper roll cradle (6) during rolling. The stand also comprises four upper hydraulic capsules (((30, 32, 33, 40, 42, 43) and four lower hydraulic capsules (37, 46), 47) for exercising push forces and controlling the upper (6) and lower (7) roll cradles and the rolling position of the working rolls.

Abstract: A method for straightening a tube by using an asymmetric roll, which has different diameters D1 (exit side), D2 (entry side) at relative maximum diameter portions, left and right roll shoulder portions, as a straightening roll of a straightener, wherein the roll shoulder having a smaller diameter is disposed to be located on the tube entry side. The straightening roll used therefor comprises roll shoulders 3a and 3b and a roll barrel portion 4, in which D1>D2 and 0.004?(D1?D2)/d?0.2 (d: outer diameter of tube to be straightened) are satisfied. Further, an aspect of the invention may define radii of curvatures of entry-side and exit-side shoulder potions in a section of the roll cut along a plane including the roll central axis, or a curve representing an outer surface of the roll barrel portion.

Abstract: A roll-forming process for producing longitudinally toothed profiled bodies in a pot-shaped cylindrical workpiece in which, during a first rolling process (A), the pot-shaped cylindrical workpiece (1) is moved through a first rolling stage with a bottom (3) of the workpiece being rolled first. During at least one further rolling process (B, C), the workpiece (1) passes through at least one further rolling stage with an open end of the workpiece being rolled first.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and apparatuses for manufacturing dual-threaded bolts. The invention comprises utilize rolling dies having one die with coarse thread projections over a surface of the die and fine thread projections over another surface of the die. In some embodiments, the surfaces on which the coarse thread projections and the fine thread projections are located are distinct from one another, or in other embodiments a portion of the surfaces may overlap or be formed integrally within the other projections. In some embodiments a portion of, or all of, the coarse thread projections may be located on a first die section piece while a portion of, or all of, the fine thread projections may be located on separate second die section piece (e.g., an insert) that is operatively coupled to the first die section piece.

Abstract: A finishing station of variable structure includes two plates, joined integrally to each other and able to slide along two vertical shoulders which support a plurality of forming rollers mounted on shoes able to slide in radial guides formed in the plates. The shoes that support the forming rollers are moved by levers hinged to the plates and connected to each other by connecting rods, two of which are hinged to levers hinged to the plates and secured to the ground. A further forming roller, situated in the lower part of the plates, is preferably secured to the ground. In the inner part of the two forming rollers situated in the upper part of the finishing station a disc blade is formed to control the position of the edges of the bent strip of sheet metal during the finishing operation.

Abstract: A primary device that includes a heading sensor and a remote secondary device cooperate to calibrate the heading sensor. The secondary device cooperates by measuring its Earth relative position and transmitting the position to the primary device. The primary device calculates a true heading from the positions of both devices and subtracts the true heading from a measured heading to the secondary device to form a heading calibration angle. The process may be extended to calculate a pitch calibration angle.

Abstract: Incoming tubes are turned and fed into a pilger mill by use of a single gearbox using a rotating dual track drive system. The dual track system holds the incoming tube while tube reducing (metal tube forming) occurs by the pilger tooling. When the pilger tooling is free of the incoming tube product, the dual track drive moves the tube into the pilger tooling by feeding an incremental amount of tube product. The dual track drive also indexes the incoming tube at the correct time and at a pre-determined amount. Additionally, the gearbox sub-assembly bumps the tube at a pre-determined time while the tube is free from the tooling.

Abstract: A dynamic bearing manufacturing includes steps of: providing a bearing and a processing tool, the bearing having an axial hole, and the processing tool having at least one protruding pattern formed on an exterior wall of the processing tool; positioning the processing tool into the axial hole of the bearing; pressing the processing tool to contact with an inner wall of the bearing so as to transfer and print the protruding pattern of the processing tool onto the inner wall of the bearing; rotating the processing tool at a first rotation speed and driving the bearing to rotate at a second rotation speed; and forming at least one concave pattern on the inner wall of the bearing, and the at least one concave pattern being corresponding to the protruding pattern of the processing tool.

Abstract: A double-wall pipe includes an outer pipe, and an inner pipe disposed inside the outer pipe. An outer wall of the inner pipe has thereon a ridge portion, which defines a groove portion extending in a longitudinal direction of the inner pipe. The outer pipe and the inner pipe are bent to have a straight portion extending straightly, and a bend portion bent from the straight portion. In the straight portion, the outer pipe has an inside diameter that is larger than an outside diameter of an imaginary cylinder defined by an outer surface of the ridge portion of the inner pipe. Furthermore, the ridge portion of the inner pipe contacts an inside surface of the outer pipe to be readially squeezed and held by the outer pipe, in the bend portion. The double-wall pipe can be suitably used for a refrigerant cycle device.

Abstract: An effective thread number in the thread section which is disposed on the mouth section of the bottle is formed to be 2.2. That is, the thread section is formed such that the thread section 13 should serve effectively in the mouth section such that an interval between a start position and an end position should be 2.0 to 2.5. In the bottle can member 11 which has such a thread section, an outer diameter of the thread section which is formed on the mouth section is 28 to 38 mm. Also, the thickness of the mouth section is 0.25 to 0.4 mm. The thread section which has the effective thread number 2.0 to 2.5 is formed by eight-thread per inch pitch. By doing this, it is possible to put the cap desirably.

Abstract: A method for producing workpieces wherein a generally cylindrical preform (8) is formed by at least one pressure roller (7) into a finished workpiece (8.2). The method includes slidingly placing a portion of the preform (8) on at least a first mandrel (3, 4?) which is slidably mounted in parallel with the longitudinal axis (A) of the preform (8), aligning the mandrel (3, 4?) such that the surface (3b, 4b, 4b?) thereof disposed within the preform (8) substantially defines a negative profile of an inner surface to be formed in said preform (8), and performing a relative movement between the preform (8) and the pressure roller (7) in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis (A) while pressing the pressure roller (7) against the preform (8) such that material of the preform (8) is displaced by the pressure roller (7) in such a way that the mandrel (3, 4?) is moved by the displaced material.

Abstract: A workstation has a base, a conveying device, a driving assembly and a working device. The base is composed of multiple supporting frames. The conveying device is mounted on the base and has a rail, a moving base, a motor, a pushing rod and two rotating rods. The rotating rods are rotatably mounted on the base and are parallel with each other. Each rotating rod is composed of multiple connecting rods and multiple connecting elements. The connecting rods are combined with each other, and the connecting elements are mounted respectively between the connecting rods to connect adjacent connecting rods together. The driving assembly is mounted on the base to drive the rotating rods to rotate along a same direction. The working device is mounted on the base to process a manufacturing process to a worked object.

Abstract: A production apparatus for a tapered steel pipe which holds the two ends of the steel pipe by shafts on carriers and moves it in the axial direction while rotating it to draw it to a taper by an intermediate working roll, wherein the shaft of the working roll is inclined 20 to 40 degrees with respect to the axis of the steel pipe and a roll caliber of the working roll is made an outwardly curved surface with little difference in roll peripheral speed; the face plate for mounting the working roll is positioned and supported with respect to the body by a hinge mechanism and is fastened to the body by fastening members; and the bearing of the working roll at the side close to the steel pipe is made smaller than the bearing at the side far from the steel pipe and the two bearings are connected by a tie-rod.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a seamless pipe, capable of preventing the carburization phenomenon that occurs in a manufacturing process of pipe and simplifying an elongation rolling process, is provided. In this method, after piercing in the piercing rolling process, rolling is performed without using an inside regulating tool in the elongation rolling process, or without performing the elongation rolling followed by reducing rolling in a reducing rolling process, and thickening is then performed by use of a cold mill or cold draw bench in a cold rolling process. According to this method, the trap of graphite fine particles in the inner and outer surfaces of the pipe that took place in the conventional elongation rolling process can be minimized to prevent the carburization of the pipe. The method of the present invention is effective, particularly as a measure for preventing the carburization of an ultra-low carbon stainless steel or high alloy steel.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for reducing the width of a plurality of longitudinal slots or other openings spaced circumferentially around a slotted tubular member. The invention includes a seaming roller positioned to contact the outer surface of the slotted tubular member for transverse movement across the plurality of slots, and adapted to apply a force onto the slotted tubular member so as to reduce the slot width. The width of the plurality of slots is detected and compared to a set value indicative of a desired end slot width and based on this comparison, an adjustor connected to the seaming roller, adjusts the force applied by the seaming roller to the plurality of slots. Each opening is adjusted by the seaming roller to have a profile with a width that throughout the length of the slot profile, varies no more than a given tolerance from the desired end slot width.

Abstract: A method to reduce the width of slots or openings in a pipe. The method involve determining the position of the slots relative to the surface of the pipe and determining the width of the slots. A signal is generated corresponding to the determined width and relative position of the slots and the signal is directed to a controller. The controller compares the determined width of the slots with a pre-determined value and identifies slots having widths greater than the pre-determined value. The exterior surface of the pipe adjacent to the slots having determined widths greater than the pre-determined value is treated through causing one or more compression tools to be moved to selectively contact the exterior surface of the pipe adjacent to the identified slots so as to selectively reduce the width of the slots.

Abstract: A method of reducing slot width in slotted tubular liners. A slotted tubular liner (1) is provided having an interior surface (3), an exterior surface (2) and a plurality of slots (4) extending between the interior surface and the exterior surface. One or more contoured rigid forming tools (7) are provided. Pressure is applied to either the interior surface (3) or the exterior surface (2) of the slotted tubular liner (1) with the contoured rigid forming tools (7). The contoured rigid forming tools are then moved in a sweep pattern traversing either the interior surface or the exterior surface of the slotted tubular liner, until plastic deformation narrows the width of the plurality of slots (4) to within desired tolerances. The method does not require the same precise positioning of previously known methods and, as such, provides a combination of increased output and lower cost.

Abstract: A cylindrical pipe which is excellent in heat transfer characteristic and has no accumulation of liquid, wherein a flat-shaped portion (2) along the pipe axis (L) is formed inside the cylindrical pipe (1) formed in corrugated shape. As a method for manufacturing said pipe, the present invention provides a pipe manufacturing method, wherein a thin-wall blank cylindrical pipe (P) is fed in increments of a prescribed distance, while being rotated at a definite speed, a roller die (85) being pressed against the outer periphery of the cylindrical pipe, the roller die being advanced and retracted in accordance with the feed of the cylindrical pipe, for forming a spiral corrugation such that the groove depth thereof is gradually increased, starting from the flat portion of the cylindrical pipe, and reaches a maximum in the portion opposed to the flat one.

Abstract: An exerciser includes a pair of frames each having a curved bottom surface for engaging with a supporting surface and for conducting swinging operations. A seat is secured between the frames for supporting a user and for elevating the user when the frames are swung relative to the supporting surface, against the weight of the users. A foot rest is resiliently coupled to the frames with one or more resilient members, for allowing users to move the foot rest away from the frames against the spring members, in order to exercise the lower muscle groups.

Abstract: A rolling mill, especially an inclined roll or Diescher roll mill. Its stand is formed by a pair of portal frames on a cast plate on a foundation spaced apart by cassettes holding the upper and lower roll units and tie rods securing the portal frames against one another and the cassettes. The tie rods are spaced apart vertically or horizontally on the portal frames.

Abstract: A rolling mill, especially an inclined roll or Diescher roll mill 3 its stand formed by a pair of portal frames on a foundation spaced apart by cassettes holding the upper and lower roll units and tie rods securing the portal frames against one another and the cassettes. The tie rods are spaced apart vertically or horizontally on the portal frames.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a shaft with a larger diameter flange, particularly for a cone gear, a round stock as the workpiece being rotated about its longitudinal axis relative to at least one spinning roll and is axially compressed and the material occurring during axial upsetting is formed to the larger diameter flange under the action of the at least one spinning roll. The invention also relates to a cone gear.

Abstract: The disk roll exchanging apparatus of the present invention includes a pair of disk frames 6 which support disk rolls 3 and which are capable of swinging open, a disk roll lifting device 12 for mounting the disk roll to and demounting it from the opened disk frames, and a horizontally moving device 18 for carrying and horizontally moving the disk roll lifting device, thereby allowing the disk roll to be mounted to and demounted from the opened disk frame. According to the exchanging method of the present, a pair of disk frames 6 that support disk rolls 3 are swung open sideways and are fixed at the open positions. Thereafter, a disk roll lifting device 12 carried on a horizontally moving device 18 is transferred to a disk roll engaging/disengaging position, and subsequently, the disk roll is lowered while releasing the disk roll from the disk frame, to thereby fixedly support the disk roll by the disk roll lifting device. The disk roll lifting device is then moved away from the disk roll exchange position.

Abstract: A device for guiding a rotating hollow blank emerging from a cross-rolling mill, especially an Assel mill, which device includes at least two tubular guide rollers that extend over the length of the hollow blank and are arranged next to each other below the delivery plane and parallel to the delivery direction of the hollow blank. The guide rollers are supported by support rollers arranged below the guide rollers. The speed of the guide rollers and the support rollers is synchronized with the delivery speed of the hollow blank. The guide rollers are adjustably mounted on inclined guide blocks. A plurality of upper guide rollers are pivotably mounted so as to be able to contact the outer surface of the hollow blank. Disk type rollers are arranged between the guide rollers to lift the hollow blank away from the guide rollers for ejection from the cross-rolling mill.

Abstract: Process and device for influencing the profile of a rolled strip in a roll stand by affecting the camber of the rolls, i.e., the surface geometry of the rolls in the longitudinal direction of the rolls. The camber of the rolls is affected by influencing the temperature profile of the rolls or their surface in the longitudinal direction of the rolls. In one embodiment, the temperature profile of the surfaces of the rolls is controlled by cooling the surfaces of the rolls.

Abstract: A two-high cross rolling mill with driven rolls situated one above the other and a pair of rotatably driven guide disks which are supported in rockers which are swivelable around vertical axles and can be adjusted transversely to the swivel axis of the rockers. To optimize the adjusting time and adjusting accuracy, each of the two bearing members of each guide disk is arranged in a vertically adjustable chock so as to be swivelable around a horizontal axis extending transversely to the rolling direction. Each chock is fastened in turn in a clampable manner in a bearing slide which is adjustable in the direction of these swivel axes in horizontal planes and arranged in each instance in fitted guides which are guided in the rockers so as to be displaceable parallel to the rolling direction independently from one another.

Abstract: Pre-reduction equipment for guiding a pipe blank and reducing its end before it enters an "Assel" rolling mill, which is disposed immediately downstream from the pre-reduction equipment and consists of several freely rotatable rollers, which are disposed uniformly distributed about the pipe blank and can be set concentrically against the pipe blank and the setting motion of which can be controlled as a function of the determined position of the pipe blank. In order to make it reliably possible to initially roll particularly short pipe blanks with simple means, it is proposed that, for the initial rolling of short pipe blanks, the blanks are introduced into the "Assel" rolling mill by moving the pre-reduction equipment with the rollers clamping the pipe blank and, during the initial rolling in the "Assel" rolling mill, can be rotatably guided in lunette fashion by the rollers of the pre-reduction equipment.

Abstract: A vertical piercer/elongator mill includes a mill housing having a base, an open top and an open interior defined by a plurality of vertically extending mill posts and interconnecting side portions. A cylindrically shaped bottom cradle supports a rotatable bottom roll and is fitted in the mill housing through the open top thereof to assume an operable position within the open interior of the housing. A cylindrically shaped top cradle supports a rotatable top roll and is also received within the open interior of the mill housing through the open top of the housing. Vertical adjustment apparatus in the form of screw jacks and balance cylinders are associated with the upper and lower cradles to provide vertical movement of the cradles within the mill housing to establish a selected rolling gorge.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for manufacturing a hydrodynamic groove bearing formed with pumping grooves. The device comprises a hard pin around which, or a hard sleeve in which, a cage is arranged which has one or more annular patterns of holes which are concentric with the pin or sleeve and which are engaged by hard balls which project from both sides of the cage. The pin or sleeve and the cage can be translated and rotated relative to each other, the balls bearing against a bearing surface of the pin or sleeve. The bearing surface is constituted by a groove bottom of a continuous groove which is concentric with the pin or sleeve, the groove bottom extending in longitudinal sectional planes of the pin or sleeve as an arc of a circle whose radius is at least equal to the radius of the balls.

Abstract: A seamless tube mill comprises two disk rolls mounted to be driven in rotation on substantially parallel axes which axes are perpendicular to guide the workpiece along the pass line which rolls may be rotated away from the pass line to enable removal and replacement thereof without disconnecting and realigning the input shafts thereto.

Abstract: A two-high inclined-roll mill for the piercing and stretching of a solid and hollow work piece along a rolling axis includes a roll housing composed of two detachable housing halves; two rolls defining therebetween a feed angle are displaceably mounted each in one housing half; the housing halves are connected for relative movement towards each other around a common axis which perpendicularly intersects the rolling axis so as to effect adjustment of the feed angle of the rolls.

Abstract: An adjustable guide for suppporting an elongated, generally cylindrical member having an axis that substantially coincides with a pass line of a metal working machine, said guide comprising a support stand which is stationary relative to said pass line and at least three radially adjustable guide shoes preferably having concave inner surfaces circumscribed about said cylindrical member pivotably mounted on said support stand such that said guide provides substantially continuous 360.degree. containment of said cylindrical member.

Abstract: The process according to the invention relates to the production of grooves such as helical threads on the wall of tubes composed of ductile or plastic materials without removal of matter.It involves using a knurling tool (11) of radius (R.sub.1) which is freely rotatable about an axis (X.sub.3). This axis covers, in the direction indicated by the arrow F2, a determined closed curve (12) which, in the figure, is a circumference of radius (R2) and of axis (X.sub.4).The enveloping curve of the path of the shaping edge (15) of the knurling tool has a region of intersection (13) with the wall of revolution (10) of axis (X.sub.2). The diameter of the knurling tool is greater than the diameter of the circumference (12). A helical thread is obtained by moving the wall of revolution (10) in relative manner along its axis (X.sub.2) relative to the knurling tool (11).

Abstract: A process and machine for fabricating a rotation body having different diameters along the length thereof is disclosed, in which a blank is rotated and worked between two pressure zones to apply thereto a local pressure exceeding the flow limit of the blank material whereby circularly extending impressions of the different diameters are worked into the blank, the pressure zones crossing each other. The pressure zones are displaced relative to each other while applying the local pressure, the displacement motion having a component extending in the longitudinal direction of at least one of the pressure zones and the points of intersection of the crossing pressure zones forming a geometric line, and the blank is displaced in dependence on this line and on the different diameters to be produced.

Abstract: A rolling flat cutter having finishing blades corresponding to corrugation of a product to be obtained by working a tubular or cylindrical workpiece, and a method of rolling by the flat cutter. When the workpiece is worked, a pair of flat cutters are disposed such that the finishing blades face each other, and the cutters are moved rectilinearly in opposite directions perpendicular to a direction in which the finishing blades extend so that the corrugation is formed on a periphery of the workpiece from an end to the other in an axial direction thereof. As to the rolling flat cutter, a flat cutter is used which comprises a rectangular cutter body, a triangular blade base formed as a higher step on one side of a plane of the cutter body along a straight line parallel with a diagonal of the plane, and the finishing blades are formed on the blade base.

Abstract: A machine (10) disclosed incorporates spline rolling apparatus (12) having a pair of racks (30) of a construction that permits precise rolling of coarse pitch splines (45). Each rack (30) includes a toothed forming face (32) and a flat base surface (58) as well as a flat side support surface (60) that cooperatively provide accurate location of the rack during the spline rolling. Teeth (56) spaced along the toothed forming face have tapered ends such that a rotatably supported workpiece (14) which is moved axially between the racks (30) during reciprocal driving thereof is progressively formed with the coarse pitch splines (45) without excessively loading the teeth. Both straight and curved tapers are disclosed, preferably on both ends of each tooth, and the teeth are disclosed as being both perpendicular to the direction of the rack to roll straight splines as well as angularly with respect thereto to roll helical splines.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for controlling a rolling mill having oblique rolls which is used for rolling metal rods or tubes, and to the rolling mill for carrying out the process. The rolling mill according to the invention comprises at least three rolls distributed round the rolling axis, each of the rolls having a profile generated by revolution of decreasing cross-section, the roll axes not intersecting the rolling axis, and each of the rolls exerting on the product a pressure which permits helicoidal rolling to be carried out. The process involves controlling the forward feed while keeping the angle of inclination of each of the axes of revolution of the rolls constant relative to a secant straight line, the so-called control axis, which is a straight line perpendicular to the rolling axis and intersecting said rolling axis and which traverses the zone of contact between the roll and the product to be rolled.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for rolling a cylindrical blank in pressed contact with shaped rolling or die faces of rolling dies to generate, on the periphery of the blank, plural teeth corresponding to a profile of the die faces of the dies. The blank is rolled bidirectionally on the die faces of the dies, first in one of opposite directions and subsequently in the other direction. The blank is fed along its axis of rolling while it is rolled bidirectionally, to push the same between the dies for axially progressive rolling engagement thereof with the die faces. The rolling dies may be of reciprocating flat type or rotating cylindrical type. The feeding motion of the blank may be temporarily stopped upon a temporary stop of the rolling movements of the blank at the end of a first movement thereof in one of the opposite directions.

Abstract: In order to increase output of pipe straightening devices, there is provided a driving unit between a preparatory station for the pipes and a feeding station which advances the pipes from the preparatory station in axial direction one after the other in the feeding station. The feeding station includes a succession of rotation symmetrical guiding elements supported for rotation about axes which extend parallel to the feeding path for the pipes. The guiding bodies prevent striking of unbalanced pipes against the feeding unit and permit axial feeding of the pipes in a straightening station.

Abstract: A deforming tool having two members of which one is made as a cylindrical roll, whereas the working surface of the other member is made curvilinear. A rod of microwire is fed into a gap between their working surfaces. A rotation drive and a drive for a reciprocating movement are mechanically coupled with the cylindrical roll.

Abstract: The invention relates to the rolling and drawing of metals. The microwire manufacturing method according to the invention is characterized in that a microwire blank (1) is rolled during the drawing process in opposite directions relative to the drawing axis (B--B). The blank (1) is rolled over the same distance equal to at least one half of its circumference. The method is carried out with the aid of a device comprising a body (3), a die (4) and a mechanism for drawing wire through the die (4). The die (4) is composed of two parts (5 and 6) which interact with the blank (1) as the latter is drawn between them. Each of the die parts (5 and 6) has a working surface (8). According to the invention, the parts (5 and 6) of the die (4) are secured in the body (3) so that they can be set in synchronized reciprocating motion in parallel planes. The working surfaces (8) of both parts ( 5 and 6) of the die (4) are flat and parallel with each other and the drawing axis (B--B).

Abstract: A skew rolling mill for tubes is provided having a stand upright in two parts laterally separable along a vertical parting line, one part being fixed and the other movable horizontally transverse to the pass line of the mill, a pair of driven skew rolls journaled adjacent one another and inclined to the pass line, and a pair of driven guide discs journalled in the stand upright to be disposed in a vertical plane, one above and one below the pass line, the rolls and clamps being removable toward the vertical parting line and tie rods subject to pre-stress by hydraulically movable nuts.

Abstract: A method and device for rolling tube to a smaller diameter, with which at least one area of the outside of the tube is brought into contact with at least one roll rotatable around its axis, whereby this roll and the tube are brought into a relative movement with respect to each other. The contact surface of the roll and tube, considered between two planes spaced in a longitudinal direction of the tube, lies at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the tube.The contact surfaces of the rotatable rolls with the deformed tube follow one or more spaced spirals with conically rolled tube or one or more helical lines with cylindrical rolled tube. The position of the effective roll surfaces is adjustable with respect to the longitudinal axis and the transverse axis of the tube, and the contact area with the one or more rolls is heated to the roll temperature before the rolling.

Abstract: Skewed-axis cylindrical-die rolling system for the production of continuously threaded rod and similar continuous helical forms using two driven forming dies and an annular formed support roller which supports the part being formed a controlled distance below the line of centers of the forming dies.

Abstract: In an apparatus for changing the rolling mill rolls and/or disk shoes of a steel pipe rolling mill, the top and bottom rolls vertically movably mounted in the housing are individually placed on a supporting bed positioned below the bottom rolling roll and moved in and out of the mill by way of rails laid in the lower part of the housing, and each of the disk shoes is mounted on a supporting arm which is movable vertically and rotatable thereby making it possible to change the disk shoes even during the operation.

Abstract: An approximately shaped or formed gear is fabricated in any desired way and is then corrected by means of substantially ring-shaped rolls or rolling tools performing striking or hammering operations in the tooth gaps of such gear. The rolls rotate in a planetary fashion in revolving rolling or roller heads. Such rolling heads are advanced to a maximum radial penetration depth of the rolls which is governed by a stop and are then retracted, if necessary. The advance or feed is preferably performed by a hydraulic drive, the pressure of which is regulated electro-hydraulically by means of a template or the like. The hydraulic drive acts against the action of a spring. The approximately formed teeth, which are thus rolled in an overlapping manner, are produced by the addition of material per tooth flank. Preferably, such material addition amounts to at least twice or three-fold the summation pitch error according to DIN 3960 to 3962 (German Industrial Standard 3960 to 3962).

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for changing the rolling-mill rolls and disk shoes of steel pipe rolling mills. The apparatus comprises mechanisms for raising and lowering a top and bottom cradle each holding a roll of a rolling mill and a carriage disposed below the bottom cradle and movable transversely, whereby the cradles are moved in and out of the rolling mill housing transversely by the carriage, and a plurality of holding devices each rotatable about a fixed shaft are selectively positioned opposite to a pair of chocks holding a pair of disk shoes for movement in parallel motion thereby changing the disk shoes.

Abstract: Apparatus for making a spindle-type body with at least one eccentric zone from a semi-product of circular cross-section by gradually radially displacing the eccentric zone of the semi-product to bring its eccentricity from zero to the desired value. The apparatus includes a multi-part die with shaping jaws providing a semi-product shaping passage therein, the semi-product being thrust axially into the die while the semi-product and the die rotate relatively to each other.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a seamless pipe, capable of preventing the carburization phenomenon that occurs in a manufacturing process of pipe and simplifying an elongation rolling process, is provided. In this method, after piercing in the piercing rolling process, rolling is performed without using an inside regulating tool in the elongation rolling process, or without performing the elongation rolling followed by reducing rolling in a reducing rolling process, and thickening reducing the wall thickness is then performed by use of a cold mill or cold draw bench in a cold rolling process. According to this method, the trap of graphite fine particles in the inner and outer surfaces of the pipe that took place in the conventional elongation rolling process can be minimized to prevent the carburization of the pipe. The method of the present invention is effective, particularly as a measure for preventing the carburization of an ultra-low carbon stainless steel or high alloy steel.