Abstract: The invention provides a method and an apparatus for automatic production of coiled springs, wherein the spring has close windings at both ends and rough windings with relatively large pitch in the middle portion, by shifting the supplying positions of a material wire in relation to a rotating fixed coil-supporter at varied speed in accordance with a desired winding pitch.

Abstract: A clamping die assembly comprises a rotatable platen having first and second die members mounted thereon for rotation therewith. The second die member is adapted to reciprocate on the platen to engage the first die member to clamp a tube therebetween. A rearward end of the tube is fixedly held and the platen is rotated to wrap the tube around a die cavity formed in the first die member. A pin is reciprocally mounted on the first die member, adjacent to and below the die cavity, to support the tube prior to clamping of the tube between the die members. A coil spring normally biases the pin to an extended position to support the tube and compresses upon clamping of the die members together whereby the pin is retracted within the confines of the first die member.

Abstract: Improvements in a plastic working process for face-centered cubic metals, and titanium and zirconium having close-packed-hexagonal lattice, which process utilizes a phenomenon that the ductility of these metals is increased at sub-zero temperatures, i.e., temperatures below 0.degree. C. This process includes the steps of (i) imparting plastic flow including at least a uniaxial tensile stress field a metal at a temperature below zero, (ii) subjecting the metal to plastic flow to an extent that the strain of the metal is within the limit of uniform elongation of the metal, and then to plastic flow including at least a uniaxial tensile stress field continuously thereafter, or (iii) using frost as a lubricant for plastic working at temperatures below 0.degree. C according to either one of the foregoing steps.

Abstract: An arrangement for the further treatment of sectional steel stock delivered by a rolling mill includes a coiler unit for coiling the stock emerging from the mill, a cooling conveyor for conveying the coils while cooling them, an uncoiling unit, a section straightening unit for straightening the stock after uncoiling, a cutting unit for cutting the stock into required lengths, a collection station and a collection unit for collecting the straightened, cut lengths of stock at the collection station. Packaging and loading equipment may be used with the collecting devices.

Abstract: The holder is intended for fixed application to the tail stock of a lathe, or equivalent machine tool, to optionally mount a die or tap for externally or internally threading a workpiece carried on the rotating head-stock end of such machine tool. Thus mounted and adjustably pre-set, the holder automatically decouples operationally from the workpiece after a predetermined axial length of threading has been cut on the work part, thus causing the latter to rotatively overrun the tap or die on the holder.

Abstract: This concerns a process for manufacturing extrusion sections made of a light weight metal, using an extrusion tool with a single hole die, whereby several extrusions are produced simultaneously using a common single hole in the die. The device for carrying out the process allows a movable steel strip to pass through the common die hole this dividing it up into separate extrusion chambers.

Abstract: In a tool for tightening clamps, of the kind comprising a flexible strip and an apertured head, having a passage in which the end of the flexible strip can be engaged after the strip has been passed around a bunch of articles to be clamped together and through the apertured head, the tool being used to cut-off that portion of the flexible strip of the clamp which projects beyond the apertured head following tightening to a greater or lesser degree of the clamp around the articles, the improvement comprising a displacement member, a trigger and coupling means including a swinging link provided between the displacement member and the trigger and including a sudden release mechanism comprising a cam having a cam surface with two separate stable zones separated from one another by an unstable zone and a cam-follower maintained in contact with the cam surface of the cam, the cam and the cam-follower being relatively movable to swing said cutting lever from a rest position into a working position, one of the cam an

Abstract: A driving mechanism for transfer finger of bolt forming header wherein the phase of cam of the device can be easily variable. The device comprises a base frame, a drive shaft rotatably mounted on said base frame, a cylindrical holder fixedly mounted on said drive shaft, a pair of clutch cylinders mounted on said cylindrical holder, said clutch cylinders having serrations at one end thereof and recessed and ridged portion at the other end thereof, a pair of cams mounted on said cylindrical holder, said cams having serrations engageable with the serrations of said clutch cylinders, and a pair of clutches mounted on said cylindrical holder at both ends thereof, said clutches having recessed and ridged portion engageable with said recessed and ridged portions of said clutch cylinders.

Abstract: A process for casting or molding a single internal thread at the same time that the desired product is cast or molded. The desired thread configuration is defined by two aligned and abutting identical core pins. Each of the pins has a protruding portion in the shape of a helical ramp extending through an angle of less than 360.degree.. The ramp has an outer diameter and pitch corresponding to the diameter and pitch of the desired internally threaded surface to be formed. The protruding portion of each core pin includes a vertically oriented surface extending between the ends of the ramp. A peripheral edge groove extending along the outer edge of the ramp defines the desired thread configuration. The aligned core pins are placed within a recess formed by mating portions of a die block to define the shape of the desired product.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing bolts of a given grade and size in which, after forming, threading and heat treating, each bolt is work hardened by the application and subsequent removal of a tensile force of magnitude somewhat above the minimum proof load for the given grade and size of bolt, so that all bolts so treated will have the same yield point and the torque rotation curve for each bolt will have a discontinuity in slope at this common yield point.

Abstract: A clamp die for urging a tube against a rotatable bend die is mounted for limited translational and rotational motion so that its tube receiving cavity will accommodate and receive a portion of a bend previously made in the tube. Thus, one bend may be started closely adjacent a previous bend and little or no length of the straight and as yet unbent tube need extend forwardly of the point of tangency with the bend die in order to permit gripping by the floating clamp die.

Abstract: A superconducting compound wire which comprises a plurality of strands having superconducting compound therein, a part or all of the strands having inclination to the lengthwise direction of the superconducting wire, and the strands being not substantially together with each other.

Abstract: Metal powders are hot isostatically pressed in a can or container produced from superplastic metal sheet.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for obtaining steels having improved machinability. This process provides for the upgrading of divided metallurgical products, which are consolidated without fusion, with incorporation of a dispersed phase.This process is used in particular for scrap consisting of sheet metal or turnings, which is mixed in the desired proportion with an additive such as for example sulfur or lead. After it has been compressed the mixture is extruded in a press in the form of bars and the like.This process is particularly suitable for producing stainless steels containing sulfur or lead. The lead stainless steels thus prepared have an excellent corrosion resistance, in addition to their machinability characteristics.

Abstract: Chain link fence straightener apparatus usable to restore bent chain link fence sections or segments without removal thereof from the fence, and including lower and upper tine means arranged on an upright post supported by a ground engageable base member, such upper tine means being movable vertically on a carriage vertically shifted along the post through means of a rack gear on the post and pinion gear means on the carriage, said lower and upper tine means being of substantial horizontal span to engage a plurality of links of the fence at various points along the fence. In preferred form the rack gear on the post is made up of a length of hardened steel chain links and is readily removable and adjustable in tension by means of a threaded anchor bolt at its lower end.

Abstract: A rod and wire bending machine including at least one bending unit substantially including a fork member, which guides the wire or rod to be bent, and a disengaged bending pin rotating coaxially about the fork member for the bending of the rod. To obtain the rod-forward/backwardfeed, the fork member lodges a roller, operating in couple with an opposed roller in such a way, that the side edges of the opposed extremities of the fork member project from the roller forming two projecting extremities to cause the rod to move forward and backward between the projecting extremities and its said roller and an opposed one, while the rod is laterally guided by the opposed extremities of the fork member, in order that the bending pin has the capacity to effect bendings about one or the other of the pendants constituted by the two projecting extremities of the fork member.

Abstract: The method includes positioning a plurality of rotary milling saw stations about a path of travel for successive screw blanks. Two longitudinally overlapping fluting cuts are made on each side of each blank to configure a drilling point. The blanks are rotated about their axis a predetermined amount, during travel between work stations, to expose the appropriate peripheral surface of the blank to the appropriate work station. The method and apparatus described in the invention is capable of producing a drill screw with relatively long flutes behind the cutting edges while not appreciably weakening the point structure. The turret carrying the blanks is intermittently indexed in timed relationship with the activation of the milling saw, the work stations and means to clamp the blanks at the work stations.

Abstract: A self-locking internally threaded fastener in which the self-locking characteristic is derived from a ring-like plastic patch having a circumferential extent of greater than 180.degree. adhered to the thread-defining surface of the fastener. A method for making the fastener includes seating a fastener upon a pin having a configuration which establishes a cavity between the pin and the fastener, placing an initial deposit of plastic powder in the cavity and then re-distributing the plastic powder, as by blowing, to form a ring-like deposit which can be heated until fused to establish the desired ring-like patch. An apparatus includes a pin having a seating shoulder and a frusto-conical tapered portion for receiving the fastener and establishing the cavity.

Abstract: A device and a process for continuous de-scaling of elongated metallic material, particularly steel. The material has front, center and end sections, and the process includes the steps of continuously moving the material in one direction, and shaping, particularly rolling the material, while the material center and end-sections are still subjected to the heat of a furnace, and the material has a plurality of successive areas in longitudinal direction to be de-scaled. The material is treated or de-scaled following the heating and prior to the forming thereof in predetermined cycles for a predetermined time at a predetermined degree at each of the successive areas, by spraying a fluid, particularly a liquid, on the material under high pressure.

Abstract: An improved apparatus for continuously forming spirally corrugated metal pipe from an elongated sheet of metal which is first impressed with longitudinal corrugations in a corrugating device and the spiralled into a pipe in a three roll forming device, each roll of which is composed of a plurality of individual rollers. Each individual roller is mounted for rotation about its axis in an individual roller yoke, with each of the roller yokes of each roll being in constant abutment, but with adjacent roller yokes being uninterconnected. Individual roller yokes of each roll are positioned along a guide, with each yoke being both freely displaceable along the guide along a horizontal path generally parallel to the axis of the formed pipe, and also pivotable about a vertical center axis.