Abstract: A tube or metal extrusion press has a stationary press frame formed by a main housing, a counter housing, a billet support carrying a billet holder, and a ram cross-member movable in the press frame between the housings. A piston-cylinder unit has a cylinder on the main housing, a piston in the cylinder, and a ram stem extending between a front end of the piston and the ram cross-member. An equalizing reservoir supplies hydraulic fluid to the piston, and a transfer passage extends between the reservoir and the cylinder rearward of the piston. A fill valve has a displacement sleeve on a rod and carries a ring piston and a fill valve body movable centrally of the cylinder in the transfer passage between an open position in which the passage has a large annular flow cross-section and a closed position in which the valve body blocks the passage.

Abstract: A workpiece-shaping tool assembly has a drive shaft having an outer end centered on and rotatable about an axis and a tool fittable with the end of the drive shaft. A torque coupling is formed by shaft splines formed on the drive shaft and tool splines formed on the tool, complementary to the shaft splines, and interfitting with the shaft splines. A radial-force coupling is formed by an inner cylindrical shaft surface formed on the shaft axially offset from the shaft splines and centered on the axis and a respective inner cylindrical tool surface formed on the tool offset from the tool splines, centered on the axis, and radially juxtaposed and engageable with the inner shaft surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a tube (2) or tubular pre-product from a solid billet in a rolling mill, comprising at least one roll (5a, 5b) acting from the outside on the solid billet or tubular pre-product and a mandrel (4) carrying a piercing head (3) and engaging from the inside in the tube or tubular pre-product, wherein immediately after the solid billet has been completely pierced by the piercing head a fluidized deoxidation agent and/or an inert gas is supplied to the end of the tube or tubular pre-product facing the roll and is guided through the tube or tubular pre-product into the interior of the tube or tubular pre-product when the mandrel is withdrawn.

Abstract: The invention relates to a four-die press tool (1), comprising a lower die assembly (4) and an upper die assembly (6) displaceable relative thereto, comprising four rams (10, 11, 12, 13) spaced apart and supported on the lower die assembly (4) or the upper die assembly (6) and carrying forging dies (29), and a ring (20) on which are mounted the four rams (10, 11, 12, 13) concentrically around the central press axis (28) of the four-die press tool (1) in such a way that they can be displaced relative to the central press axis (28) whenever the upper die assembly (6) is moved relative to the lower die assembly (4), wherein protecting means (35) are mounted on the ring (20) to secure a workpiece in a centered position on a central predetermined position of the workpiece relative to the central press axis (28) independently of a workpiece manipulator.

Abstract: The invention relates to a roll stand (1) as a constituent part of a roll stand group (2) in a high-speed wire mill, having at least one roll pair or roll ring pair (5) and a drive shaft (7) which is connected to a motor (6), characterized in that each roll stand (1) of this roll stand group (2) is assigned a motor (6) and a drive shaft (7), and the motor (6), the drive shaft (7) and the at least one roll pair or roll ring pair (5) are arranged linearly with respect to one another.

Abstract: The invention relates to extrusion and pipe presses (1), comprising a press frame consisting of a cylindrical spar (2) and a counter spar (4) connected thereto, in which a mobile billet container holder (7) supporting a billet container (8), which puts a billet (18) to be pressed, which was introduced by a loading device, into a press position in front of the counter spar (4) with the associated tool (38), and a mobile punch crosshead (6) are provided. In the cylindrical spar (2), a main cylinder, or press cylinder, is arranged, which in the cylinder housing (9) thereof receives a press piston (11), which at the front end thereof that is supported by the punch crosshead (6) is connected to a press punch (19). A compensation tank (15), which delivers hydraulic oil to the press piston (11) by way of a slider plate (28), is assigned to a main cylinder housing (9) connected to a tank line.

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine (1) for machining pipe ends. At least one centering device (8; 35) is associated to said machine, which centering device centers a tubular workpiece (5, 5?) in relation to an axis of rotation (D) of the machine for machining pipe ends extending in the center of the machine, the tubular workpiece either being stationary in the case of a rotating tool head (4) or rotating in the case in which the tubular workpiece is fastened in the machine chuck (9).

Abstract: An apparatus for making a cold-pilger-rolled tube has two grooved pilger rolls rotatable about respective axes to compress a workpiece moving in a travel direction against a mandrel extending in the direction between a nip formed between the rolls and anchored upstream of the nip in a thrust block. Workpiece thickness is adjusted on the fly by measuring a wall thickness of the workpiece downstream in the direction from the roll as the workpiece passes through the nip and for displacing the thrust block and mandrel in to the travel direction as the workpiece passes through the nip in accordance with the measured wall thickness.

Abstract: A forging press for rotationally asymmetrical parts by warm or hot forming has a stationary press table, a vertically shiftable press ram above the press table, vertically delimiting with the press table a working space, and vertically displaceable between from an upper open position into a lower closed position. An upper part is carried by the ram in the space, and an upper die in the space is in turn carried on the upper part. A lower part sits on the table in the space and below the upper part and carries a lower die in the space and fittable with the upper die in the closed position. A first closing apparatus outside the space bears vertically on one of the dies, and a second closing apparatus outside the space bears vertically via the first closing apparatus on the one die.

Abstract: The invention relates to a chuck (1) for a machine tool for machining a tubular workpiece (26) which rotates about a rotational axis that coincides with the center of the chuck, comprising at least two chucking slides (7a, b, c) that are designed to be positionable radially with respect to the rotational axis in order to release and chuck the workpiece, are arranged on the end side of and in a manner distributed uniformly around the circumference of a chuck head plate, and bear chucking jaws (8a, b, c). Such a chuck is intended to be created with improved operating characteristics and extension to all chucking functions.

Abstract: A powder press in which seals of cylinder/piston units that can hydraulically activate or apply pressure to additional plates with reference to a die plate, the upper yoke and/or the lower yoke are kept free of powder to the greatest possible extent disposes a cylinder of a cylinder/piston unit facing away from a die plate and/or an additional plate, preferably below the additional plate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for optically measuring the interior of a seamless pipe which is manufactured by rolling or of a pipe which is welded with a longitudinal seam and is manufactured from sheet-metal plates shaped to form half-shells or from a shaped sheet-metal plate or from a metal strip which is unwound from a coil, comprising a sensor means (9) which emits a laser beam (10) in the interior of the pipe (3). In such a method and device, an internal measurement of seamless pipes or pipes which are welded with a longitudinal seam is to be provided with which it is easily possible to determine and model precisely the ovalness and straightness of the pipe (3) in a station.

Abstract: In a method for operating an indirect extrusion press, wherein the indirect extrusion press includes an indirect punch having a tool head that can be accommodated on the indirect punch, a closure piece, and a longitudinally movable block holder having a material block accommodation for accommodating a material block, after pressing a material block and forming a shell in a shell chamber, a tool head to be replaced is pushed out of the block holder by a tool head to be inserted, so that very operationally reliable removal of a shell formed during one or more pressing procedures is possible. For this purpose, an indirect extrusion press can have a maximal distance between a closure piece and an indirect punch that corresponds at least to the sum of the expanses of the tool head and of the block holder in the movement direction.

Abstract: In order to minimize the maintenance effort that accompanies discharge and comminution of a chip, an apparatus for discharge and comminution of a chip has a chip guide and a comminution apparatus, to which the chip guide guides the chip along a chip path. The chip guide has a guide channel that circumferentially surrounds the chip path having a channel inlet and a channel outlet, wherein the guide channel has a maintenance opening in addition to the channel inlet and the channel outlet. Furthermore, a method for discharge and comminution of a chip for this purpose services the guide channel by way of the maintenance opening after discharge and comminution of a chip having a predetermined chip length.

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for machining the ends of pipes which, for control purposes, is assigned at least one computer unit and in the case of which the tools (13) are arranged displaceably such that they can engage radially in relation to the pipe in a tool head (11) which is driven by a motor (4) via a main spindle (10) guided through a headstock (6), the tool head rotating coaxially about the fixedly clamped pipe end, wherein the tools are arranged in tool holders in the form of slides (14A, 14B; 15A, 15B; 16A, 16B) and adjacent slides together mesh with a toothed wheel which is formed with weight compensation. According to the invention, the tool head (11) is formed with integrated advance motors (17) assigned to the slides (14A, 14B; 15A, 15B; 16A, 16B), and each slide is assigned a measuring device (24).

Abstract: An extrusion press for making profiles of nonferrous metal has a ram, a hydraulic piston/cylinder assembly for moving the ram, a pump connected to the assembly for pressurizing same, and an electric motor connected to the pump for driving same. A multiphase source of electricity is connected via a controller to the electric motor for a soft start of the motor.

Abstract: A forming machine, particularly a ring-rolling machine, which includes a hydraulically regulated linear axle, which is driven by way of an electro-hydrostatic actuator, can work precisely while having a simple mechanical-engineering structure. The machine may have at least one further hydraulically regulated linear axle, which is driven by way of an electro-hydrostatic actuator or by way of a drive other than an electro-hydrostatic actuator.

Abstract: A forming machine, particularly a ring-rolling machine, which includes a light section sensor, which is directed at a workpiece disposed in a work region of the forming machine, can work precisely while having a simple mechanical-engineering structure. The light section sensor may be directed at a forming region in which the working tool acts in forming manner.

Abstract: In a multi-roll table ring-rolling mill and method, a mandrel roll can be switched from a rolling state into a free-running state, when a predetermined ring diameter is reached, even if the roll gap minimum has not yet been reached, in order to improve the size accuracy of the rolled rings.

Abstract: In order for upsetting presses to be able to work more effectively and in more energy-optimized manner for upsetting of an end of longitudinally extending workpieces, an upsetting press for upsetting of an end of longitudinally extending workpieces has at least two longitudinally divided dies, having at least two die parts. A first one of the two die parts is disposed on a first die revolver and a second one of the two die parts is disposed on a second die revolver.