Abstract: A method for manufacturing thin-walled metal tubes and structures utilizing thin-walled metal tubes. A continuous metal tube is formed by passing longitudinally-extending metal tape through forming tools which bend the lateral edges of the metal tape towards each other to form the tube. A continuous wire or tape is wrapped in the form of a helix around the tube. The wrapped tube is heated to melt soldering material that joins the lateral edges of the folded metal tape to each other. The soldering material can take the form of a separate sheet positioned between the wire or tape and the folded tube, a coating applied to the wire or tape, or a coating applied to a surface of the metal tape. The thin-walled tube is attached to other members to form composite structures.

Abstract: A method of joining together two metal parts, one of which may be a tubular heater, wherein an insert such as a helical wire coil which is preferably provided with a core is positioned between the parts or around one of the parts and the parts pressed together into abutting engagement so that the insert is embedded in both of the parts to retain the parts together in a securely bonded relationship.

Abstract: A method of joining metal elements such as heating tubes, pipes, rods, metal cords, or other lengthy elements having similar profiles, with a plate or other flat, molded, metal surface by use of a wire structure which is affixed to at least one of the metal elements at a great number of places.

Abstract: A method of joining metal sheets together or to shaped bodies, e.g., electric tubular heating elements, wherein use is made of an insert in the form of wire coils, profiled strips, wires or balls which are pressed into the material of the parts which are to be joined together.