Abstract: Tightly-coiled helical ducts for centrifugal air separators may be formed with the tools and methods disclosed herein. A helical coil toolset includes a helically grooved mandrel and an entry block. The helical groove of the mandrel has a small helix inside diameter relative to a width of the helical groove. The entry block has a guide channel to guide a tube to the helical groove and a mandrel channel to receive the mandrel. Methods include forming tubing into a tightly-coiled helical duct by filling a tube with fine particles, positioning the tube in the helical groove of a helically grooved mandrel, fixing the tube relative to the mandrel, assembling an entry block around the tube and around the mandrel, and bending the filled tube around the helically grooved mandrel into the tightly-coiled helical duct by rotating the mandrel relative to the entry block.

Abstract: A coil spring forming apparatus including a core bar 2 which rotates around an axis thereof and on which a wire material W fed from a wire material-feeding means is wound; a clamping portion 22 which rotates integrally with the core bar 2 and grips an end of the wire material W on the core bar 2; and first guide rollers 30 and second guide rollers 40 for guiding the wire material W onto the core bar 2; wherein the first guide rollers 30 and the second guide rollers 40 are provided so as to move independently from each other in parallel with the axis of the core bar 2, and a coil spring formed by the above coil spring forming apparatus.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of ground-buried-type solid insulation transformer includes producing a coil form into which an inner window is formed; winding a low voltage coil and a high voltage coil on the coil form to produce a first coil part; winding glass fiber on the first coil part to produce a second coil part and assembling a first mold into the inner window and then pre-heating the second coil part; putting the second coil part into a second mold and injecting epoxy resin and hardener between the second coil part and the second mold, and automatically molding and curing thereof under predetermined speed, vacuum, pressure and temperature to produce a third coil part on outer circumference of which an epoxy layer is formed; separating the first mold from the inner window of the third coil part and then after-treating and curing the third coil part; cooling the after-treated and cured third coil part and sanding and washing the epoxy layer, and applying semi-conductive coating material to the sanded part to

Abstract: A coil spring forming apparatus including a core bar 2 which rotates around an axis thereof and on which a wire material W fed from a wire material-feeding means is wound; a clamping portion 22 which rotates integrally with the core bar 2 and grips an end of the wire material W on the core bar 2; and first guide rollers 30 and second guide rollers 40 for guiding the wire material W onto the core bar 2; wherein the first guide rollers 30 and the second guide rollers 40 are provided so as to move independently from each other in parallel with the axis of the core bar 2, and a coil spring formed by the above coil spring forming apparatus.

Abstract: Bending deformation exceeding a yield stress is applied by winding a material on a mandrel. Coiling is performed simultaneously with the application of the bending deformation, and the load is removed after the coiling. This spring includes an outside surface region having a compressive residual stress and a compressive stress reduction region in which the compressive residual stress is reduced from the outside surface region toward the center of the material. A stress change portion at which a change from the compressive residual stress to a tensile residual stress occurs exists between the outside surface region and the center of the material. The spring further includes a tensile stress peak portion, tensile stress reduction region, and inside surface region. The inside surface region has the tensile compressive residual stress having an absolute value smaller than that of the outside surface region.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a dry-type, resin-encapsulated transformer coil that includes forming a plurality of conductive layers and positioning a plurality of pre-formed plastic cooling ducts so as to be disposed between the conductive layers.

Abstract: A transformer and method of making includes first half primary and secondary windings as metallic circuits that are etched on a metallic cladding of a first liquid crystal polymer (LCP) sheet. Secondary windings are positioned in spaced relation to the primary windings. A second LCP sheet is applied over the first LCP sheet. Second half primary and secondary windings are etched as metallic circuits on a metallic cladding of a second LCP sheet. Respective first and second half primary windings are interconnected to each other and the first and second half secondary windings are connected to each other by conductive vias.

Abstract: The invention is based on a method of producing bent spring elements from a spring steel strip (14), wherein a feed unit (16) delivers the spring steel strip (14) from a supply roll (12) to a bending unit (32) having at least three bending rollers (34) and a reverse bending roller (36), of which at least one bending roller (34) and the reverse bending roller (36) can be adjusted transversely to the spring steel strip (14) by bending motors (60, 62), and wherein a cutting-off unit (44) adjoins the bending unit (32), said cutting-off unit (44) cutting off the spring steel strip (14) into individual spring elements by means of cutting-off tools (46, 48; 76, 78). It is proposed that the cutting-off tools (46, 48; 76, 78) be movable in the longitudinal direction of the spring steel strip (14) in a numerically controlled manner and that they be synchronized with the feed movement of the spring steel strip (14) during the cutting-off operation.

Abstract: A transformer and method of making includes first half primary and secondary windings as metallic circuits that are etched on a metallic cladding of a first liquid crystal polymer (LCP) sheet. Secondary windings are positioned in spaced relation to the primary windings. A second LCP sheet is applied over the first LCP sheet. Second half primary and secondary windings are etched as metallic circuits on a metallic cladding of a second LCP sheet. Respective first and second half primary windings are interconnected to each other and the first and second half secondary windings are connected to each other by conductive vias.

Abstract: A wire feeder driving mechanism capable of driving a wire feeder of a spring manufacturing machine to perform a three-dimensional movement. The spring manufacturing machine includes a machine base and a work table. The work table has an opening and a plurality of tool seats. The opening provides the feeding chuck of the wire feeder a moving space. The tool seat is provided to install a tool set to move back and forth on the work table. The wire feeder is assembled with a plurality of axial driving devices. The axial driving device is able to receive power and to move perpendicular to each other. The metal wire led through the wire feeder is thereby able to approach the tool seat in a three-dimensional manner. The spring manufacturing machine is therefore able to produce various complicated springs.

Abstract: In order that a moving locus of a leading end of a tool 55 provided to a tool mounting device 54 is aligned with a direction orthogonal to a center line W of a wire rod passage (not shown) of a final wire rod guide 13, a tool operating apparatus 22 has a position adjusting table 23 movable forward and backward and movable to optional positions within a virtual vertical plane parallel to a front wall 5 of an upper portion 2B of a fixed machine casing 2, a rotating body 46 provided to the position adjusting table 23 rotatably around a rotation center line C parallel to the center line W of the wire rod passage of the final wire rod guide 13, and a tool mounting device 54 provided in the rotating body 46 movably in parallel in a direction orthogonal to the rotation center line C.

Abstract: Device to form spirals in a coiling machine for trolled stock located downstream of a rolling train provided with drawing rollers, wherein the coiling machine includes a reel able to rotate around an axis of rotation, including a guide element suitable to guide the rolled stock in a segment between the drawing rollers and the coiling machine, first translating means being suitable to cooperate with the guide element to displace at least one end of the latter in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of rotation of the reel.

Abstract: A method of operating a rolling mill for hot-rolling and cold-rolling of flat products in one or more roll stands each having two or more rolls, wherein the roll gaps are regulated so as to correct the differential force between the drive side and the operator side of the roll stands, while compensating the adjustment value-controlled regulation of the roll gaps which corrects the bending and balancing forces. Prior to further processing of the flat products, the regulation is supplied with an additional correction adjustment value formed from the horizontal forces measured in all individual rolls.

Abstract: In a stabilization control of rolling, proportional differential control of snake motion of a to-be-rolled material caused during a rolling process, is achieved on the basis of a lateral deviation of loads which are detected by load sensors disposed on a rolling mill, an instruction value for lateral deviation leveling is calculated from the lateral deviation and given to a draft device, and a roll gap is adjusted on the basis of the instruction value to stabilize the snake motion of the to-be-rolled material. A stabilization low-pass filter having a pole time constant substantially equal to a zero-point time constant of operation frequency characteristics of the rolling mill is employed in the proportional control.

Abstract: A forming stand for continuously forming a skelp material into a pipe, by pressure of spaced-apart forming rolls supported by spaced upper and lower shafts, the forming rolls having two portions, with one portion fixedly fitted on one side of its shaft, a sleeve slidably fitted to the other end of the shaft and fixedly secured to the sleeve and slidable with respect to the shaft; a bearing box for supporting one side of the associated shaft; a bearing box supporting the other side of the associated shaft through the sleeve; upper and lower stand supporting frames for supporting both of the bearing boxes to be movable in an axial direction; and supporting columns for supporting the stand supporting frames; the pipe-forming force is continuously measured and the forming operation is adjusted such that the measured value of pipe-forming force does not exceed a predetermined pipe-forming upper limit.

Abstract: A finishing train for continuously cast strip material and a method of operating the finiching train, wherein an edging stand is arranged in front of the finishing train for preventing strip material cracks occurring during the reduction of the strip thickness at the strip edges, wherein position control circuits are arranged in front of the adjusting device of the edging stand. The arrangement includes a superimposed pressure control circuit (edging degree monitoring circuit) which responds to the adjusting force of the edging stand and the position thereof, and a load limiting control unit which responds to adjusting forces of the grooved rolls of the edging stand exceeding permissible values and/or to loads of the drive motors of the grooved rolls exceeding permissible values, for increasing the predetermined gap width and/or reducing the desired pressure of the adjusting device of the edging stand.

Abstract: The method of rolling a wide flange beam results in an improved accuracy of the web thickness and the flange thickness in a universal rolling mill. Rolling a wide flange beam in a universal rolling mill having horizontal rolls and vertical rolls, switching over the positional control gain for each of drives for the horizontal rolls and drives for the vertical rolls by means of measured values of rolling load on the horizontal rolls and the vertical rolls during rolling, or filtering a control amount of the horizontal roll position calculated from a rolling load acting on the horizontal rolls and a control amount of the vertical roll position calculated from a rolling load acting on the vertical rolls to achieve different responses of horizontal roll rolling and vertical roll rolling, results in reducing mutual interference between horizontal roll rolling and vertical roll rolling caused through the rolling material.

Abstract: A shearing machine includes a sickle shaped upper jaw interacting scissors fashion with a generally linear lower jaw. The distal ends of the sickle shape begin shearing from opposite ends of a plate-type object at about the same time, with shearing progressing toward a central point. A transverse member and a return leg form, with the lower jaw, a J-shaped device. The upper jaw slides within the return of the J during the entire cutting operation, thereby overcoming any tendency for jaw spreading between the linear and sickle shaped cutters. A front cutting insert in the transverse member and a return cutting insert in the return leg, interact with a tip of the upper jaw to pierce, and then cut, a plate which is longer than the throat of the shearing machine, thereby enabling shearing of large plates. The initial piercing takes place simultaneously at the tip of the upper jaw and at an upward-directed point on the front cutting insert.

Abstract: A method for adjusting the roll gap in strip rolling mills including a roll stand equipped with hydraulic adjusting devices on the drive side as well as on the operator side, wherein the positions of the rolls in a roll stand are adjustable by means of the hydraulic adjusting devices. Prior to the beginning of rolling, the stand is calibrated in a reproducible state. For any changes of the stand geometry and/or the force proportions in the stand, position changes of the adjusting devices corresponding to and resulting from these changes are determined. Changes in the stand geometry and/or the force proportions adjusted or occurring during the rolling operation are regulated by utilizing the difference between the determined corresponding adjusting positions on the drive side and the operator side and by controlling the adjustment toward zero.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hot reversing rolling mill for isothermally reducing a metal strip product. The mill includes a hot reversing mill stand with a pair of coilers positioned on opposite sides of the mill stand. At least one heater is positioned between one of the coilers and the mill stand with at least one strip cooling unit positioned between one of the coilers and the mill stand. A sensor is provided for sensing a strip parameter indicative of strip temperature as well as a controller for controlling each of the heating and cooling units in response to the sensed parameter. The rolling mill of the present invention can be utilized for isothermally rolling multiple passes of a metal strip product on the hot reversing mill.

Abstract: A roll system for use particularly in a papermaking press nip for dewatering a fibrous web, comprising a roll disposed so as to rotatingly cooperate with another roll in a press nip, the roll having a helical sensor for sensing pressure exhibited on the roll, and transmitting pressure signals to a processor as the roll rotates. Trigger signals are generated at certain times as the roll rotates, the time of the occurrence of the trigger signal representing a specific location on the helical sensor. The pressure signals are coordinated with the trigger signals, such that the pressure corresponds to the angular position of the roll where it is sensed. The operator may thus be given a visual or audible indication of the existence of non-uniformities in pressure sensed at various locations along the roll, thereby enabling corrective action to be initiated if necessary.

Abstract: In welded pipe manufacturing a steel strip is fed and bent by forming rolls into a pipe. A load detector is provided for a roll rotary shaft of each forming roll; a forming roll inclination adjustment device inclines the roll rotary shaft. The roll shaft load is measured to cause inclining of the rotary shaft counterclockwise or clockwise on a plane formed by the rotational axis of the forming roll and the advancing direction of the steel strip.

Abstract: A work roll cross type rolling mill comprises a pair of work rolls and a pair of back-up rolls for backing up the work rolls. The back-up rolls are so arranged that their axes can be inclined within horizontal planes only to three or four specific angular positions. The work rolls are allowed to be inclined within horizontal planes with respect to the back-up rolls such that the axes of the work rolls cross the axes of the associated back-up rolls and cross each other. The nip between each the work roll and the associated back-up roll is lubricated so as to reduce axial thrust generated therebetween due to the crossing of the rolls. The cross angle between the work rolls is set and controlled during rolling operation only when the roll peripheral speed or the rolling speed is 50 m/min or higher.

Abstract: This method is for winding an inner coil of a transformer, the transformer including a ferrite core with an inner groove for receiving the winding, the ferrite core being provided with a radial inlet groove for feeding in and feeding out of the winding wire. The wire is fed through a winding mandrel with a transverse longitudinal bore. The ferrite core is pushed onto the winding mandrel and moved rotatably and axially, thereby forming the inner coil in the inner grove of the ferrite core.

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: The apparatus of the present invention includes an externally threaded spindle to which one end of a thin walled metal tube is detachably secured. The spindle is rotated to wind the tube into the external thread, thereby producing a helix. As the tube is wound onto the spindle, it is pressed into the thread grooves by an auxiliary roller.

Abstract: A wire coiling apparatus having a plurality of wire feeding spools, belts driving a wire coiling arbor, variable speed motors driving the belts and arbor, a lead screw moving the spools across the arbor feeding wire to be coiled on said arbor and a programmed computer coordinating the motors to determine the character of the coil produced.

Abstract: This invention relates to plastic metal working. The apparatus embodying the invention, includes two parallel oppositely directed mandrels secured each by one end in a collet clamp and by the other end in a rotating sleeve, and two assemblies for winding springs from a respective wire onto the corresponding mandrel, these two assemblies being mounted on a common carriage to move lengthwise of the mandrels. Each spring winding assembly has a mechanism for setting the helic angle of the spring being wound.

Abstract: This invention relates to a die device for forming tube from a metal band, wherein the die comprises a long die block comprising, lengthwise and passing through it, a conduit comprising an inlet orifice of larger cross section and an outlet orifice of smaller cross section. The conduit converges from the inlet orifice towards the outlet orifice. At the level of the inlet orifice, the conduit is of a width slightly greater than that of said metal band. As the planar metal band passes through the conduit, it is formed by the interior surface, or generatrices, of the conduit into a tube of the desired configuration. Means are provided for creating tubes of differing cross-sectional shapes, such as a square, or a circular configuration. The die block is removably mounted on a carriage, which carriage is movable horizontally in front of a horizontal mandrel driven in rotation. The tube created by passage through the die block is wound around the mandrel.

Abstract: A device for making springs from wire comprises two driven mandrels located arallel to each other and adapted for winding springs from wire and a carriage feeding wire onto each of these mandrels alternatively while reciprocating along the ways from one extreme position to the other, and backwards.

Abstract: A coil-spring winding apparatus according to the present invention comprises a guide rail extending along the axis of a mandrel, and a carriage movably supported by the guide rail. The carriage is fitted with first and second guide rollers. The second guide roller, which is spaced from the first guide roller in the radial direction thereof, guides the coil forming a coil spring toward the first guide roller. The first guide roller is moved in the axial direction of the mandrel, at a speed determined by the rotating speed of the mandrel, so that the coil is wound at predetermined pitches. The second guide roller can pivot around a point near the point of contact between the first guide roller and the coil. The first guide roller is oriented always in the same direction as the second guide roller. The direction of these two guide rollers is changed by means of an actuator, depending on the pitch angle of the coil spring.

Abstract: A plurality of filaments are helically wound on a mandrel, with longitudinal portions being formed between the last turn of one and the first turn of the next filament. Winding stresses are removed from a preceding wound filament by heating it. That filament is anchored on the mandrel by the heating step, and the next filament is then wound as similarly freed from winding stress. The mandrel is then drawn out of the preceding filament and is displaced through the next subsequent filament while the mandrel is rotated in a direction opposite that used for winding. The filaments are then separated.

Abstract: A wire coiler comprising an elongated coil support, gripping device holding the coil support for rotation therewith, a drive connected to the gripping device for rotating the gripping device, the drive having an axis extending parallel to the direction of elongation of the coil support, a control for the drive, a device for guiding and feeding the wire to the coil support, and an adjustment drive connected and responsive to the rotating drive control, the adjustment drive cooperating with the wire guiding and feeding device for adjustably positioning the same in directions parallel to the direction of elongation of the coil support and relative thereto.

Abstract: The device and related process for the manufacture of vibration-damping and shockproof mountings formed of metal cable spirals comprise a generator of low speed rotational motion; a spindle formed of at least two portions, parallel longitudinally developing and adjustably matchable to each other, having outer surfaces corresponding to those of the cable spirals to be formed, and at least two planar zones along two diametrically opposite generatrices, each of such zones for the bearing thereon of one of the terminal forming bars connecting with the bar, the pairs of bars having the matching surfaces provided with semicylindrical connecting seats for accommodating and firmly tightening for a short length the cable spirals, but without any distortion to the elementary wires thereof; a braking system for holding the in-coming cable under tension, slidable on two parallel shafts, to supply the spiral winding on the spindle body; a clamp for securing the cable to be wound up at the operation start and a spacer down

Abstract: Coil winding machine for the winding of coils without support, of bare or insulated wire, comprising a main drive shaft, onto which is keyed a set of control cams controlling the movements of:a spindle, on which the coil is formed and which is caused to rotate by a gearing comprising a sector gear, oscillated by a first cam, and a pinion gear keyed onto the spindle shaft, the pinion and the shaft being movable parallely to themselves along an arc concentric to the rotation axis of an intermediate gearwheel;a wireguide, for feeding the wire and guiding the distribution of the turns, the forward movement of which is controlled by a second cam and which comprises structures for positively retaining the wire during its forward movement at the start of the winding;shears for cutting the wire at the end of the winding, which are controlled by a third cam and which can be adjusted with precision in respect of the spindle and the wireguide, so as to determine the length of the terminals at the start and at the end of

Abstract: Band making apparatus comprising a mandrel on which is wound wire of U-shaped cross-section with relatively inverted portions alternating longitudinally of the axis of the mandrel having a side edge interengaged in the channel of the other, has a guide for guiding the wire onto the mandrel provided with a guiding surface which engages the external surface of a side of the wire incoming to the mandrel, and the wire and mandrel are relatively rotated about the axis of the mandrel and reciprocated longitudinally of that axis at a controlled speed ratio such that the back pressure of previously wound turns maintains the incoming wire side against the guiding surface.

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 method and apparatus for producing prestressed coil springs whereby the wire is fed about a rotating spindle and taken up or drawn in with a predetermined spacing from the front end of the coils and guided to a point ahead of the front end of the coils in the form of an expanded helix. A stop block is movable along the spindle, fixed against rotation and provided with a plurality of wire grooves at different angles of inclination so that the wire passes beneath the already formed coil as it passes through one of the grooves to produce the desired stress.