Abstract: Nails having radially offset, circular heads are manufactured from a malleable wire. The wire is clamped so that a leading portion extends axially from a clamping mechanism. The extending portion is bent at an acute angle relative to a clamping axis. The extending portion is cut so as to form a pointed end thereon and so as to leave a bent stub extending at such an angle. Such a nail head is formed from the stub, which is pressed by a punch into a cavity defined by the clamping mechanism, and which is deformed when pressed thereinto. The cavity has a fully circular, offset margin. The punch has a face covering the cavity. Once released, the wire is fed axially until a leading portion extends as before. These operations are repeated to form a similar nail in each repetition. A novel apparatus for carrying out these operations is disclosed.

Abstract: A guide device for shape rolling has upper and lower pairs of width-variable web guides arranged at the delivery of a shape mill. Support bases supporting the upper and lower pairs of web guides. Movable bases move the support bases horizontally on side frames whose ends are fixed to guide frames. Guide width adjusting devices individually adjust the distance between the movable bases; and guide height adjusting devices enable the side frames to ascend and descend. Preferably, upper and lower pairs of flange end guide rollers and flange-outer-surface guide rollers, which are adapted to roll while in contact with the end surfaces and the outer surfaces of the flanges, can move in the vertical and horizontal directions.

Abstract: A pusher bar assembly for a multi-axis tube bender acts to insert and withdraw the bending support mandrel, as well as to push the tube through the bender. A hollow sleeve with a diameter equal to the tube has sufficient length to contain both the mandrel and a piloting plug, which can be inserted between the free ends of both the tube and sleeve. A mandrel bar is slidably received through the sleeve, and so can extend the mandrel out of a stored position of the sleeve into the tube and back. A stop means stops the mandrel bar to locate the mandrel at the proper place in the tube. A push pull means on the mandrel bar also pushes the plug to a point where it bridges the free ends of the tube and sleeve with the mandrel stops. Therefore, a high pushing force can be directed from the sleeve to the tube without the free ends collapsing inside one another.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting spirally formed pipe is disclosed. The pipe cutting apparatus has an inner knife positioned inside a pipe and an annular outer knife positioned outside the pipe. The inner knife moves from an inner position within the pipe to an outer position where the knife contacts an interior surface of the pipe during the cutting operation. The inner knife also revolves in an annular pattern about the centerline of the pipe such that a cutting edge of the inner knife contacts the entire interior periphery of the pipe during the cutting operation. The annular outer knife has a cutting edge adjacent an exterior surface of the pipe. The outer knife cutting edge surrounds the pipe and is in a position to overlap the inner knife cutting edge. The inner and outer knives move in the axial direction of the pipe during the cutting operation, and the inner knife cooperates with the outer knife to cut the pipe.

Abstract: In a method of producing a metallic container by subjecting a metallic material having an organic resin coating to single-staged or multiple-staged drawing, uniformly coating a lubricant on the surface of the organic resin coating of the metallic material and draw-forming the coated material, according to the present invention, a high lubricating property is obtained at the time of drawing by using a small amount of a saturated hydrocarbon as the lubricant, and by simply heating the formed can, a major portion of the lubricant can be removed and the degreasing and washing steps or the subsequent drying step essential in the conventional method, can be omitted, with the result that the printability or the flavor-retaining property can be markedly improved, and consumption of water resource and energy resource can be reduced and a high effect of preventing environmental pollution can be attained.

Abstract: A caster mechanism for a carriage having foot rods a, b includes a stopper mechanism 3 fixedly secured to a lower end of each foot rod. A wheel support mechanism 2 is rotatably positioned below the stopper mechanism, and includes an engagement bracket 1 extending parallel to the stopper mechanism. The engagement bracket has an engagement fitting portion 12 formed at a first end of an arm plate 11 having a predetermined length. The stopper mechanism also has an actuating lever 8 at a first end of a base plate 34 having a predetermined length, which is adapted to turn upwardly and downwardly about an end thereof. An engagement member 7 adapted to turn up and down in operative association with the actuating lever is positioned below the first end of the base plate. The engagement member and the engagement fitting portion are simultaneously engaged or disengaged.

Abstract: A door closer includes a body having a closed, fluid-filled cylinder. A piston is slidably mounted in the cylinder and has an actuating rod with rack gearing. A pinion is rotatably mounted on the body for meshing with the rack gearing of the actuating rod to axially move the piston. The closer also has a valve that can bypass fluid past the piston to regulate its motion. A spring mounted outside the cylinder can apply a balanced, substantially axial force to the actuating rod for axially urging the piston.

Abstract: A bending die for forming a 180.degree. bend in a tube includes a center die and a shiftable block pivotally mounted to the center die grooves are defined on opposing sides of the center die and shiftable block for supporting the tube while being bent. The grooves have a C-shaped cross section for receiving and holding the tube during the bending process, but which grooves create an interference condition trapping the bent tube in a plane defined by the grooves. The shiftable block is pivotally connected to the center die and movable between a bend-forming position where the shiftable block forms an upper part of the groove along the one opposing side and part of the end, and a tube-release position where the shiftable block is removed from the one opposing side. The bending die also includes a clamp die that both clamps the tube to the center die and also holds the shiftable block to the center die while the tube is being bent, but which is movable to release the shiftable block.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing drill screws from austenitic stainless steel, which offers sufficient hardness for drilling and tapping into sheet iron and avoids the problems of intergranular corrosion and other erosions by taking full advantage of hardenability through cold working of austenitic stainless steel.The drill screw is manufactured by cold working from austenitic stainless steel. The above-mentioned material is formed into the head section (1) and shaft section (2) by header processing. The tip of the shaft section (2) is formed into the drill section (3) with the point (4), and with the cutting edge (5) running up to the tip. This is accomplished by pressing with a pair of pointer dies (7). On the die face (8), the cutting edge (9) and the receiving face (10) face each other. The shaft part (2) is formed into the screw part (6) by threading with a rolling die. Finally, all surface areas are passivated before aging treatment is applied.

Abstract: Support for rolling rings on rolling stands having rolls supported as cantilevers, comprising a shaft (16) with a first flange (12) and a second flange (13), a rolling ring (11) having substantially parallel lateral walls being interposed therebetween, the second flange (13) operating towards the first flange (12) owing to the action of threaded clamping bolts (14), the first and second flanges (12-13) including undercuts (17), in which support:the shaft (16) extends beyond the rolling ring (11) so as to create a first toric protrusion (20),the second flange (13) comprises a toric hollow (21), which mates with the first toric protrusion (20) and is coupled thereto, and comprises also a second toric protrusion extending within the first toric protrusion (20) and mating therewith,and the undercuts (17) of the first (12) and second (13) flanges include rings (22) made of an antifriction material.

Abstract: A method and an arrangement for continuous tension stretching of thin metal strips. The strip is conducted through a set of brake rollers and a set of pull rollers and the strip is subjected to a stretch-forming or stretch pull operation between the two sets of rollers for stretching the strip in the plastic range, wherein the stretch pull force corresponds to the yield point of the strip material. The strip is subjected between the set of brake rollers and the set of pull rollers only to a stretch-pull which is required for stretching the strip in the plastic range. As a result, transverse elongation during plastic stretching is minimized, so that center troughs no longer occur and, when the strip is longitudinally divided, the strip portions no longer have unequal side lengths.

Abstract: A forming pin having a shank, a head, a point, and a pair of like grooves on opposite sides of the shank is made by gripping an elongate wire in a position wherein an end of the wire is exposed, forming a head at the exposed end of the wire while gripped, advancing the wire by a predetermined distance, and simultaneously forming the point and forming the grooves. The forming pin thus formed is severed from the remaining wire as the point and the grooves are formed. A pair of dies are used, which are movable so as to pinch the wire therebetween, along with mechanisms for closing the dies. The dies are configured similarly to define suitable forming edges.

Abstract: In a method of drawing and wall ironing a can body, a blank (1) is cut from a laminate of aluminium or alloy and a polyester film. The blank is lubricated and drawn to a cup (7) having a side wall (8), which is then wall ironed. A terminal margin (14) of the side wall (13) of the wall ironed can is heated to a temperature above 100.degree. C. but below the crystalline melting point of the polyester film in order to prevent delamination of the polyester film from the side wall of the can during subsequent washing of the can. A benefit of the process is that the heating of the side wall margin (14) does not soften the aluminium or aluminium alloy body.

Abstract: A thin-web frame feeding device for intermittently feeding a thin-web frame at a predetermined pitch along a guide rail has first and second shafts supported by bearing stands for synchronized axial sliding motion in the same direction and for rotation in opposite directions. The first and second shafts are provided with feeding claws rotatable in accordance with the rotation of the shafts into and out of positions where spontaneous portions of the thin-web frame are clamped. The feeding claws are axially moved in accordance with the axial sliding movement of the shafts to feed the thin-web frame.

Abstract: A sheet workpiece manipulating apparatus for delivering, supporting, and removing large sheet workpieces to a sheet bending press includes a plurality of rotationally and linearly translatable support arms. A gripping device is disposed on each free end of each support arm. The sheet workpiece is captured and rigidly restrained by the paired gripping devices, such as opposing suction cups operationally connected to a vacuum source, which are detachably attached to the support arms in a magnetically cooperating arrangement. Large gripping forces are developed by the gripping devices, which are separately replacable with alternate gripping devices sized to accommodate workpieces of different sizes, shapes, and materials, as well as a particular manipulation procedure. Perforated as well as imperforated sheets may be manipulated by the apparatus due to the paired, opposing relationships of the suction cups.

Abstract: In the method proposed a peripheral wall with at least one axial section of high shaping and fitting accuracy is made by forming an initial blank. This accuracy is achieved, in that before the peripheral wall is formed, sheet material which has been put into a plastic state is swaged in places round the periphery, then the swaged locations are sized, and/or in that during or after the formation of the peripheral wall, the wall is shaped by stamping in a plurality of places along its periphery, whereby the said zone providing shaping and fitting accuracy is formed from fitting areas at at least one side of the peripheral wall in the region of the swaged and/or stamped locations. An apparatus for carrying out such a method is generally in the form of a drawing machine, wherein the holder and/or the bottom die contain radial apertures, which open into the inner edge of the holder and/or into the shaping cavity of the die, and which are arranged at intervals round the periphery.

Abstract: A winding apparatus for winding a coated wire on the drum for making a coil which is used for a stator or an alternator. A sectional shape of the wire which is introduced to the winding apparatus is circular, and the wire is deformed in order to make the sectional shape of the wire polygonal, so that the polygonal wire is fed to the bobbin in order to be wound on the bobbin. The resulting coil wound by the apparatus has an increased density.

Abstract: A hinge for use with a fire door has a blade in which there are formed a number of screw holes and a larger opening. The larger opening is filled with an intumescent material.

Abstract: A method for forming a self-drilling screw. The self-drilling screw formed by this method stabilizes the screw during the hole drilling step of driving the screw and produces a precisely dimensioned hole for receiving the threaded portion of the screw. The method of forming the self-drilling screw starts with providing a screw blank having a head end and a tip. A driving head is formed on the head end and a drilling portion is formed on the shank distal the head end. Two longitudinally extending flutes are formed on the drilling portion of shank from the tip towards the head end. Each flute includes a working edge and a formed trailing edge. The working edges and the formed trailing edges of the two flutes are respectively diametrically opposed on the shank. A formed trailing diameter measured across the diametrically opposed formed trailing edges is greater than a working diameter measured across the diametrically opposed working edges.

Abstract: A caster retention device is disclosed that supresses flutter or shimmy of a caster wheel and that is easily adjustable. The device includes a caster stem receiving chamber in which a bushing is disposed. The bushing receives a caster stem assembly that includes bearing elements. An adjustable locking device secures the stem assembly within the bushing and is positioned at an opening of the receiving chamber. In one embodiment the device may include first and second collars that are useful for adjusting a preload on the bearings.