Patents Assigned to SMS Eumuco GmbH
  • Patent number: 8011219
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for adjusting the position of a mandrel (10), which is situated in a hydraulic punch consisting of a cylinder and a ram that form a mandrel cylinder (8), in an extrusion press for producing pipes (2), which are extruded from blocks (4) that are loaded into a receiving device (5) situated upstream of the extrusion press (3) and are punched using the mandrel (10). The invention is characterised in that the mandrel cylinder (8) is driven directly by pumps (11), which are set for a pre-calculated throughput that is dependent on the press speed, and that an additional throughput is added to the pre-calculated pump throughput. To adjust the position of the mandrel (10), a control valve (16) that acts on the ring side (12) of the mandrel (8) is connected to a tank (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: SMS Eumuco GmbH
    Inventors: Ewald Hagen, Arnold Schwippe, Andreas Wershofen
  • Patent number: 7946145
    Abstract: In a method for blowing out and/or for spraying dies (3, 5), arranged at the top and/or bottom, of forging presses, in particular drop forging presses, comprising automatic workpiece transport by means of a transport lifting beam (8) provided with gripping devices (9) and comprising a mechanical blow-out and spray device (11; 10) which is introduced into the tool space (1) of the forging press and is withdrawn again from the latter, a spray lifting beam (11) provided with spray devices (10) is moved into the tool space (1) synchronously with the lifting and removal movement of the transport lifting beam (8), but independently of the latter, while the transport lifting beam (8) lifts a workpiece (6) produced in a preceding forging operation and removes it from the tool space (1), wherein the spray devices (10) are actuated within the tool space and the forging dies (3, 5) are lubricated and/or cooled close to the contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: SMS Eumuco GmbH
    Inventor: Norbert Gober
  • Patent number: 7815830
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for extruding curved extruded profiles. The extruded profile is formed in a matrix mounted upstream in a counter beam of an extruder system and is subsequently curved or bent due to the effect of external forces and separated, supported and arranged into partial lengths in the extrusion flow by means of a separating robot connected to a higher control mechanism and is discharged to a storage area with the aid of a handling robot. The handling robot is coupled to the separating robot by means of the control mechanism and, like the separating robot, is moved into a starting position in front of the extrusion press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: SMS Eumuco GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Ohlberg, Markus König, James Camp, Wilfried Geven, Uwe Muschalik
  • Patent number: 7779662
    Abstract: The invention relates to an extruder and pipe extruder (1), comprising a press frame (3) consisting of a cylinder bar and a counter bar (2) connected thereto, wherein a linear displaceable receiver carriage (5) is arranged, said carriage consisting of a receiver holder (6) which concentrically encompasses a block receiving element (7) and transports a block, which is charged with a charging device and which is to be pressed in a press position in front of a die associated with the counter bar (2), wherein the receiver holder (6) is maintained therein in a self-supporting manner in relation to the receiver carriage by means of air (2). The receiver holder (6) is provided with carrier webs (13) which are arranged on two sides in the middle of the press (12) and which project in a diametrically outward manner, being suspended in the recesses (14) of retaining blocks (15) of the receiver carriage (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: SMS Eumuco GmbH
    Inventor: Uwe Muschalik
  • Patent number: 7448245
    Abstract: Disclosed is an extruding press (1) for billets and tubes, comprising a press frame (2) which is composed of a cylinder-type bar (3) and an opposite bar (6) that is connected thereto. A movable running bar (6) and a movable receiving device (7) are disposed within said press frame (2), the receiving device (7) displacing a block (9) that is introduced with the aid of a charging apparatus and is to be pressed in front of the opposite bar (5) encompassing a matrix. A multifunctional robot (12) which can be moved on a linear guide (11), acts independently of the movements of the press, and is equipped with a receptacle head (13) is assigned to the press frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: SMS Eumuco GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Muschalik, Valentin Gala, Wilfried Geven
  • Patent number: 7421874
    Abstract: A press cylinder for an extrusion press having a cylinder beam has a cylinder housing fixed on the beam and a piston shiftable along an axis in opposite forward and rearward directions in the housing and defining with a rear end of the housing a pressurizable cylinder chamber. A rod projecting axially rearwardly through the rear wall of the housing is formed with an axially extending bore. A connection block is fixed on the housing rearward of the piston. An axially extending tube in the bore fixed to the block is surrounded by an axially extending sleeve forming with the tube an annular gap, forming with an inner surface of the bore an annular compartment, and also fixed to the block. This is formed with respective passages opening into the tube and into the annular gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: SMS Eumuco GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Hermann Claasen, Uwe Muschalik
  • Publication number: 20070170614
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for extruding curved extruded profiles. The extruded profile (9) is formed in a matrix (4) mounted upstream in a counter beam (6) of an extruder system (1) and is subsequently curved or bent due to the effect of external forces and separated, supported and arranged into partial lengths in the extrusion flow by means of a separating robot connected to a higher control mechanism (12) and is discharged to a storage area (15) with the aid of a handling robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2004
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: SMS EUMUCO GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Ohlberg, Markus Konig, James Camp, Wilfried Geven, Uwe Muschalik
  • Patent number: 7219523
    Abstract: An extruder for making a curved workpiece has an extruder frame including a counterbeam extending transversely of an extrusion direction and formed with a recess that is throughgoing in the direction and a tool recessed in the recess and including a die having a downstream face spaced upstream in the direction from a downstream side of the counterbeam. A hot metal block is pressed against an upstream face of the die to extrude a strand in the direction from the downstream face of the die. Immediately downstream of the die a transverse external force is applied to the strand to bend it. The tool includes a pressure plate that extends completely through the counterbeam in the extrusion direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: SMS Eumuco GmbH
    Inventor: Uwe Muschalik
  • Patent number: 7216522
    Abstract: A metal extrusion press has a pair of fixed crossheads spaced along a press axis from each other and a plurality of elongated upper and lower members extending axially between and rigidly connected to the crossheads. Each member includes a rod axially tensioned between the crossheads and a beam axially compressed between the crossheads. A movable crosshead is between the fixed crossheads, and a container is between the movable crosshead and one of the fixed crossheads. Respective crosshead and container guide units support the movable crosshead and container on the members and engage around the members. Rollers are engaged between each of the guide units and the members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: SMS Eumuco GmbH
    Inventor: Valentin Gala
  • Patent number: 7201571
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for extrusion, in particular for the production of bent extruded products, in which the extruded product (8) is formed in a die mounted before a support yoke (2) of an extrusion machine and then bent or curved by means of the effects of an external force, whereby at least one bending radius is formed, within the support yoke, on the extruded product (8) which enters the support yoke (2) with a straight extrusion direction (4). An extrusion unit further comprises a support yoke (2) formed with a lateral yoke opening (3), running transverse to the straight extrusion direction (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: SMS Eumuco GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Graefe, Uwe Muschalik
  • Patent number: 7168540
    Abstract: A coupling has a low-torque/high-slip clutch connected between a drive output and an input constituted by a press, shear, or stamper, and a high-torque/low-slip clutch also connected between the output and the input. In a startup phase the low-torque/high-slip clutch is engaged and the high-torque/low-slip clutch is disengaged to bring the load input up to a predetermined rotary threshold speed. Thereafter in a working phase the low-torque/high-slip clutch is disengaged and the high-torque/low-slip clutch is engaged to drive the load at a rotary speed at least equal to the rotary threshold speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: SMS Eumuco GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Kreisl, Norbert Gober
  • Patent number: 7125240
    Abstract: A withdrawing device for a press that outputs an elongated workpiece in a direction has a first guide extending in the direction and carrying a first carriage movable by a first motor. A second guide extending in the direction on the first carriage carries a second carriage displaceable in the direction on the second guide by a second motor. The workpiece is clamped to the second carriage. A controller is connected to the first and second motors for shifting the second carriage in the direction at a speed independent of a speed of the first carriage while the first carriage is moving in the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: SMS Eumuco GmbH
    Inventors: Nikolaus Jakoby, Johannes Steves, Stephan Frehe, Herbert Süther
  • Patent number: 6952942
    Abstract: The invention relates to a discharge device of an extruding installation (1), particularly provided for producing curved extruded products, that comprises, on a table-like support (8), a channel (7) which accommodates the extruded product. Said channel (7) is provided in the form of a flexible component that can be swung outward from the straight extruding direction (4) thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: SMS Eumuco GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Graefe, Uwe Muschalik
  • Publication number: 20050142241
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device (1) for withdrawing a bar (3) that has been produced in a bar extruder or pipe extruder (2). Said device (1) comprises at least one driven first carriage (4) that is movable in a linear direction along the direction of withdrawal (L) of the bar (3) and exerts a pulling force on said bar (3). A second carriage (5) which is movable in the direction of withdrawal (1) relative to the first carriage (4) is arranged on the first carriage (4). The bar (3) that is to be withdrawn is attached to the second carriage (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Applicant: SMS EUMUCO GMBH
    Inventors: Nikolaus Jacoby, Johannes Steves, Stephan Frehe, Herbert Suther
  • Patent number: 6672123
    Abstract: A flange is formed on a workpiece by first mounting the workpiece in an inner holder shiftable along about a main axis and securing the inner holder against rotation about the main axis. A roller is rotated about the main axis adjacent the inner holder. Then the inner holder and workpiece are displaced axially to press the workpiece axially against the roller and deform the workpiece and form a flange thereon. This is done without heating the workpiece, that is in a cold-forming operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: SMS Eumuco GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Sczesny, Frank Siewert, Jürgen Bergmann
  • Patent number: 6626022
    Abstract: A double-acting or single-acting mechanical forging press has an eccentric drive acting on the entire ram or an outer ram member and a toggle mechanism which acts on an inner ram, e.g. via removable pins so that, when the pins are removed, the toggle mechanism is decoupled from the inner ram member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: SMS Eumuco GmbH
    Inventor: Detlef Stamm
  • Patent number: 6543321
    Abstract: A peeling machine through which a rod workpiece is moved along a main axis has an upstream guide and a downstream guide centering the workpiece on the axis and axially flanking a rotary scraper engaging the workpiece. The upstream guide has a plurality of supports angularly spaced about the axis and respective holders displaceable in the supports along respective holder axes extending radially of the axis and having respective centering elements engaging the workpiece radially of the main axis. Respective biasing units braced between the holders and the supports elastically press the elements against the workpiece radially of the main axis Respective brake elements in the supports engage radially of the holder axes against the holders and are pressed radially of the holder axes against the holders so as to rub on the holders and damp vibration in the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: SMS Eumuco GmbH
    Inventor: Friedrich Heider
  • Patent number: 6484548
    Abstract: A drive system for the container holder and the travelling beam of a metal extruder press in which a return stroke is accelerated by connecting the annular chambers of the travelling beam and container holder cylinders to a pressurization force and with the full piston area chambers of the container holder connected to a tank, connecting the full piston area chambers of the travelling beam to the pressure source as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: SMS Eumuco GmbH
    Inventors: Ekhard Siemer, Hans Günter Fleischer
  • Patent number: 6481075
    Abstract: A peeling machine through which a rod workpiece is moved along a workpiece axis has upstream and downstream guides centering the workpiece on the axis is and axially flanking a rotary scraper engaging the workpiece and carried on an upstream end of a scraper tube coaxially surrounding the downstream guide and rotatable about the workpiece axis. The downstream guide has a stationary tubular housing extending coaxially in the rotatable scraper tube, a plurality of shafts pivotal in the tubular housing about respective guide axes angularly spaced about the workpiece axis, and respective axially elongated guide bars fixed on the shafts, extending axially therealong generally a full length of the scraper tube, and projecting radially of the guide axes therefrom. Guide elements—rollers or blocks—carried on the bars are engageable radially of the workpiece axis with the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: SMS Eumuco GmbH
    Inventor: Friedrich Heider
  • Publication number: 20020100305
    Abstract: A flange is formed on a workpiece by first mounting the workpiece in an inner holder shiftable along about a main axis and securing the inner holder against rotation about the main axis. A roller is rotated about the main axis adjacent the inner holder. Then the inner holder and workpiece are displaced axially to press the workpiece axially against the roller and deform the workpiece and form a flange thereon. This is done without heating the workpiece, that is in a cold-forming operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Applicant: SMS EUMUCO GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Sczesny, Frank Siewert, Jurgen Bergmann