Abstract: A strip rolling mill of cluster type has, on at least one side of the strip path, a work roll, a plurality of intermediate rolls supporting said work roll and a plurality of backing bearing assemblies supporting said intermediate rolls. Each backing bearing assembly has a row of backing bearing units and shape control means by which the backing bearing units are adjustable relative to the work roll axis so that strip shape control can be applied. All backing bearing assemblies on one side of the strip path have such shape control means. In the mill at least two of the shape control means are independently operable so as to apply respectively different shape control patterns to the work roll.

Abstract: An apparatus for constricting an end of a metallic tube (or worktube) to form an arcuate-walled portion that has an outer surface is provided. The apparatus comprises a means for rotating the tube on its axis, a movable means for heating an end portion of the tube, and a forming rolling means. The forming rolling means includes a forming roller adapted for applying pressure on the end portion of the tube along successive lines of contact to constrict progressively the end of the tube. The movement of the forming rolling means is orchestrated with the movement of the means of heating. In a preferred embodiment, each line of contact has a substantially straight portion.

Abstract: Axial thread rolling head which comprises a bearing unit including the thread rollers and rotatably supporting said thread rollers by means of eccentric shafts, an axial shank being axially movable with respect to said bearing unit and, in a first axial relative position, cooperating with a claw clutch portion of said bearing unit by means of a claw clutch portion to connect both portions so as to be resistant to torsional strength, a first gear between said shank and said eccentric shafts, a helical spring between said shank and said bearing unit being so provided that in a second axial relative position, in which said claw clutch portions are out of mesh, said helical spring, on the occasion of a displacement of said bearing unit into a first direction of rotation with respect to said shank, is tensioned or, respectively, said tensioned helical spring displaces said bearing unit into the second direction of rotation relative to said shank, spring means which tension said shank and said bearing unit into the

Abstract: An eccentric roller control apparatus is intended to eliminate the adverse effect of the eccentric upper and lower back-up rollers against a product profile with high precision. The rolling weight sensors 7W, 7D sense each rolling weight of a working side and a driving side. The rotary angles of the upper back-up roller 4T and lower back-up roller 4B are sensed by the angle sensors 8T, 8B. The roller eccentricity sensor 14 serves to derive each of the amplitudes A.sub.TWn, B.sub.TWn, A.sub.BWn, B.sub.BWn, A.sub.TDn, B.sub.TDn, A.sub.BDn and B.sub.BDn as each roller eccentricity of the working side and the driving side, based on the sensed rolling weights P.sub.W, P.sub.D and the rotary angles .THETA..sub.T and .THETA..sub.B. Then, the depression operating unit 15W serves to derive the depression of the working side and add the derived value to the depressor control device 6W.

Abstract: Rolling schedule computing method for adjusting the desired roll force and desired roll gap of a roll stand, in which before rolling a strip (1) of a prescribed quality from an expected material hardness (MH*) and before a relative desired pass reduction (.epsilon.*) given from a pass schedule the desired roll force (F*) is computed taking account of stand-specific and/or material-specific roll force fitting terms (KFK, KMK) and with simplification by means of a simple arithmetic combination, and then the desired roll gap (S*) is computed, with simplification by means of a simple arithmetic combination, from the desired delivered thickness (HA*) given by the relative desired pass reduction (.epsilon.*), the stand modulus (CG) and the desired roll force (F*), taking account of a zero-point correction (SO), a temperature correction (SOT), and, as the case may be, a roll gap fitting term (KSK), and the stand (6) is subjected to the desired roll force (F*) and the desired roll gap (S*).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a radial milling head, in particular for thread milling, comprising a casing, a plurality of peripherally spaced rollers which are equidistantly arranged about a center axis of said casing and which are rotatably supported in said casing, a gear wheel each secured to a respective roller, a central gear wheel mashing with said roller gear wheels, said rollers including a peripheral working surface, having a diameter spirally increasing for working the workpiece, a locking means including a spring biased locking member and a release means for releasing said locking member to initianally rotate said rollers into frictional engagement with the workpiece by a rotational movement of said spring biased locking member, whereupon said rollers are further rotated by frictional engagement with said workpiece until the locking member and said rollers are locked again after having performed a full rotation.

Abstract: Each of the two, pivotal, roll supporting arms of a thread rolling attachment has therethrough adjacent the end thereof remote from its pivotal axis a bore in which one end of a cylindrical pattern roll supporting shaft is adjustably secured. The axis of the bore, and hence the axis of the shaft and the pattern roll mounted thereon, are inclined slightly to the pivotal axis of the roll supporting arm, so that the axis or rotation of the pattern roll will be inclined slightly to the axis of rotation of the stock which is to be engaged by the roll. The pattern roll is releasably attached to one end of the support shaft, and is drivingly connected to one end of an internal pin, which is mounted intermediate its ends for rotation in an axial bore which is formed through the support shaft. At its opposite end the pin is releasably connected to a roll gear to which rotation is imparted by the pin upon rotation of the pattern roll.

Abstract: A handtool for restoring and reforming the surface of cylindrical workpieces.

Abstract: An annular threading roll is releasably secured to one end of a support shaft by a ball detent which in its locking position seats at one side in a semi-spherically shaped recess that is formed in the inner peripheral surface of the roll, and which is engaged at its opposite side by an enlarged-diameter head formed on one end of an operating member that is mounted for limited axial movement in an axial bore in the shaft. The operating member is spring-loaded into a position in which its head engages the detent to keep the latter in its roll locking position, but the member can be pushed axially to a second position to remove its head from behind the detent which can then shift radially inwardly of the shaft to release the roll for axial movement off of the shaft.

Abstract: A method of roll forming a skip threading tap by plastic deformation of metal.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming tapered threads to a workpiece such as a pipe comprises a casing and a supporting member attached to one side of the casing, and three support plates rotatably attached to the supporting member. Roller members or cam members are secured to the support plates, respectively, to be rotatable with respect thereto and rolling dies are also secured to the support plates. The rolling dies are rotated by an electric motor through a power transmission mechanism. The workpiece is inserted into a space defined by the supporting dies to be subjected to the roll-forming operation.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming splines in a first portion (22) of a shaft (13) of a workpiece (12) and a thread in a second portion (24) of the shaft (13) which has a smaller cross sectional diameter than the first portion (22), the apparatus including supports (26,28) for rotatably supporting the shaft (13) about the longitudinal axis A thereof and a pair of forming assemblies (36,36',38,38') mounted for movement with the workpiece (12) therebetween. The apparatus (10) is characterized by the forming assemblies (36,36',38,38') including oppositely opposed dies for simultaneously forming the splines in the first portion (22) of the shaft (13) having the larger cross sectional diameter and threads in the second portion (24) having the smaller cross sectional diameter in a single pass of the dies over the shaft (13).

Abstract: The wedge-shaped operating member of a thread rolling attachment is reciprocated by a piston rod which extends into one end of a fluid pressure cylinder. A rotatable valve stem is mounted intermediate its ends in the opposite end of the cylinder for limited axial movement, and has thereon a valve seat normally closing a port which leads to a reversible valve that directs fluid under pressure selectively to opposite ends of the cylinder to shift the piston rod between retracted and advanced positions. The inner end of the stem is slidably connected to the piston rod so that when the latter reaches its advanced position it momentarily unseats the valve seat from the port to effect reversal of the valve and consequent return of the piston rod. The valve stem is rotatable to adjust the length of the stroke of the piston rod.

Abstract: Improved thread rolling dies are disclosed forming fasteners with a cylindrical threaded portion and a threaded pointed portion. Such dies provide a polished rise angle surface for forming and threading the pointed portion of the fastener so as to promote slippage between such surface and the pointed portion of the fastener. The polished rise angle surface improves point formation, provide better filled threads, reduced burning of the fastener and increases die life. The dies also provide a match point spaced from the end of the short die so as to reduce the likelihood of improper timing when the dies are set up in the thread rolling machine. Further the dies provide an angulated top of the rise surface to break off any whiskers or tails which might otherwise project beyond the end of the point of the fastener being formed.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming splines in a first portion (22) of a shaft (13) of a workpiece (12) and a thread in a second portion (24) of the shaft (13) which has a smaller cross sectional diameter than the first portion (22), the apparatus including supports (26,28) for rotatably supporting the shaft (13) about the longitudinal axis A thereof and a pair of forming assemblies (36,36',38,38') mounted for movement with the workpiece (12) therebetween. The apparatus (10) is characterized by the forming assemblies (36,36',38,38') including oppositely opposed dies for simultaneously forming the splines in the first portion (22) of the shaft (13) having the larger cross sectional diameter and threads in the second portion (24) having the smaller cross sectional diameter in a single pass of the dies over the shaft (13).

Abstract: An outboard thread rolling attachment for an automatic screw machine for rolling a pattern on a workpiece comprising:a roll arm yoke; a pair of roll arms supported by the yoke end diametrically opposed to each other relative to the axis of rotation of a workpiece placed therebetween; each roll arm having a rotatable shaft with a thread roll positioned at the lower end of each shaft; fluid pressure means including a first cylinder element, a first piston element and a wedge element connected to the roll arm yoke and in contact with and operable on and between the inner end of the roll arm.The first piston element comprises a second movable cylinder element and a second piston element having adjustment means for adjusting the travel of the wedge element.

Abstract: An axial thread roll head is used for producing threads on workpieces, arranged on a rotary disk of a numerically controlled automatic lathe and has two threaded rolls which, after rolling of a thread, are withdrawn in the same direction transversely to a workpiece with constantly retained opposite distance from the workpiece tangentially relative thereto.

Abstract: Skewed-axis cylindrical-die rolling method for the production of combined screw-thread and gear-tooth forms on the external surface of bars using multi-element dies which progressively form the screw thread and then the gear teeth on a portion of the screw thread in which the gear-tooth forming die element is free-rotating and the other die elements are driven.

Abstract: Skewed-axis cylindrical-die rolling system for the production of continuously threaded rod and similar continuous helical forms using two driven forming dies and an annular formed support roller which supports the part being formed a controlled distance below the line of centers of the forming dies.

Abstract: A radial infeed thread roll attachment comprising a pair of jaw elements each having a thread roll mounted at one end and a roller secured on the other end, a housing, pivotally mounting the jaw elements in opposed relation thereon, a cam assembly mounted on the housing and having an inner portion having a wedge-shaped cam element at one end and a threaded member at the other end and an outer portion, a spring for forcefully maintaining the rollers in engagement with the cam element for preventing the rotation of the inner portion when the outer portion is rotated whereby rotation of the outer portion will result in the axial displacement of the inner portion relative to the outer portion, the outer portion having an outer axially fixed element and an inner axially displaceable element threadedly related to the inner portion threaded member, the outer element having an axially extending keyway and the inner element having an axially extending key, a hydraulic cylinder with an air-on-oil hydraulic booster or o

Abstract: Apparatus and method for forming fins on a tube surface. The apparatus comprises a plurality of roller assemblies and each roller assembly includes first and second spaced apart sets of discs. The first set of discs have progressively increasing outside diameters in a forward direction. The second set of discs includes a first subset of discs having outside diameters generally equal to the outside diameter of the forwardmost disc in the first set, and a second subset of discs having progressively increasing outside diameters in the forward direction, with the outside diameter of the forwardmost disc in the second subset generally equal to the outside diameter of the forwardmost disc in the first set.

Abstract: A cylindrical through-feed thread rolling die having a tapered lead-in portion, a cylindrical dwell portion, and a tapered exit portion is disclosed. Such die provides uniform spacing between the crests of the thread forms thereon throughout the lengths of the die. The spacing between the roots of the die is uniform except at the junction between the dwell portion and the two tapered end portions, where a larger spacing exists between the roots of adjacent thread forms. Because the crest spacing on the thread forms of the die is uniformly maintained throughout the length of the die, excessive pressures do not exist at the junction between the dwell portion and the two end tapers, and drunken threads on the workpiece being rolled are virtually eliminated.

Abstract: A method of thread rolling a cylindrical sintered P/M blank is provided comprising, forming a sintered cylindrical powder metal (P/M) blank of density ranging from about 75% to 92% of the actual density of said metal blank having a selected diameter larger than the final pitch diameter of a predetermined roll threaded product produced therefrom and not substantially exceeding the outside diameter of said predetermined roll threaded product. The P/M blank diameter selected is substantially inversely related to the density of the blank, the P/M diameter selected being correlated to produce a substantially full thread. The sintered P/M blank is then thread rolled using a threading die corresponding to the gage of the predetermined roll threaded product to be produced.

Abstract: A tangential thread rolling head includes two threaded rollers supported for free rotation on two parallel shafts; each of said rollers is provided with an unbalancing weight which by the force of gravity automatically adjusts a predetermined starting position of the rollers irrespective of the angular position of the head.

Abstract: A machine for the rolling of cylindrical forms such as threads, worms, serrations, and annular forms, using two cylindrical dies whose axes are parallel or slightly skewed with respect to the axis of rotation of the workpiece, wherein the dies are supported on pivoting arms whose pivot points are cooperatively adjustable about a fixed horizontal centerline to provide for work diameter and die size changes. Workpiece size adjustment is achieved by a micrometer drawbar which can be either fixed for thru-feed work or hydraulically or mechanically actuated for infeed work. The dies are cooperatively driven by a central gearbox consisting of a hollow distributor gear flanked by two spindle drive gears, said drive gears being connected to the ends of the die spindles by universal joints.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved method for economically manufacturing lobular internally and externally threaded self-tapping inserts. The method is characterized by the novel application of a conventional roll forming apparatus of the type including two cylindrical driven thread forming dies in combination with a specially configured lobular elongated stock material, resulting in the provision of a multiplicity of longitudinally spaced-apart, externally threaded increments which may thereafter sequentially be drilled, tapped and severed from the stock material.

Abstract: A roll-type thread cutting die capable of cutting threads in shafts of varying diameters is disclosed. A plurality of threaded rollers are rotatably mounted on the smooth end portion of a plurality of bolts, each bolt having an intermediate main body portion, a smooth end portion and a grooved end portion. The main body portion of each of the plurality of bolts is supported by a different circumferentially spaced bore in a support plate having an axial bore capable of accommodating a shank on which threads are to be cut. Each of the plurality of circumferentially spaced bores is positioned a distance from the axial bore sufficient to enable the threads of its associated roller to contact the shank on which the threads are to be cut. A positioning plate having a plurality of grooved bores adapted to engage the grooved end portions of the bolts is positioned adjacent to the support plate and holds the bolts in a preselected angular orientation.

Abstract: A thread-rolling head comprises three identical support pieces rotatingly and non-displaceably mounted in a bearing member. Each support piece has at its outer end a supporting journal on which a thread roller is rotatingly disposed between an annular shoulder of the support piece and a circlip which matingly engages a V-shaped annular groove; the side of the groove nearest the thread-roller is a flat shoulder and the other conical side has an outer diameter equal to that of the journal, the outer end face of which is flush with the outer face of the circlip.

Abstract: A thread-rolling head comprises three crank-like support pieces, each bearing a thread roller, protruding from a support member in which they are mounted. A control member is held unrotatably on the support member while a bearing member held in front of the support member is rotatable and stop means are operative between the bearing and the support member to transmit to the latter a torque received from the workpiece through the thread rollers; the stop means is rendered inoperative when the bearing means is caused by the workpiece to move forwardly, whereby the torque will aid a spring in rotating the bearing member to pivot the support pieces in order to remove the thread rollers from the workpiece.

Abstract: The invention provides a tool for forming threads or grooves on the internal surface of a pipe.