Abstract: A circular wire with a circular cross section is wound on a coil reel. When a winding-form motor rotates a winding form, the circular wire is pulled and drawn from the coil reel. Rectangular forming rollers press the circular wire, so that a rectangular wire with a rectangular cross section is formed. The rectangular wire is directly wound on the winding form to be formed into a rectangular-wire coil. Because forming rectangular wire and winding on the winding form are carried out in a sequence of contiguous processes, a separate process for removing torsion set of the rectangular wire is unnecessary. The rectangular-wire coil can be formed from inexpensive circular material wire by a simple and low-cost apparatus. It is also possible and preferable to make dimensions and a shape of the rectangular wire variable by controlling clearance widths between the forming rollers and tension acting on the rectangular wire that has passed through the rollers.

Abstract: A circular wire with a circular cross section is wound on a coil reel. When a winding-form motor rotates a winding form, the circular wire is pulled and drawn from the coil reel. Rectangular forming rollers press the circular wire, so that a rectangular wire with a rectangular cross section is formed. The rectangular wire is directly wound on the winding form to be formed into a rectangular-wire coil. Because forming rectangular wire and winding on the winding form are carried out in a sequence of contiguous processes, a separate process for removing torsion set of the rectangular wire is unnecessary. The rectangular-wire coil can be formed from inexpensive circular material wire by a simple and low-cost apparatus. It is also possible and preferable to make dimensions and a shape of the rectangular wire variable by controlling clearance widths between the forming rollers and tension acting on the rectangular wire that has passed through the rollers.

Abstract: A method of producing a spiral wound gasket for sealing fluid such as a liquid including water and oil, and a gaseous body including vapor and gas and a device for producing the spiral wound gasket. The tip portion of a hoop material is cut and raised thereby forming a checking stepped-portion. The checking stepped-portion is caught by a checking pawl, so as to wind the hoop material around a core drum. After winding the hoop material around the outer periphery of the core drum, at least once, the checking pawl is retracted from the outer periphery of the core drum, thereby separating the checking pawl from the checking stepped-portion. The spiral wound gasket produced by the present invention exhibits an excellent sealing property. Moreover, it also has an excellent durability.

Abstract: The characteristics of the wire are calculated, the wire having a cross-sectional shape which is substantially uniform along its length and having a length long enough in comparison with a diameter being deformed. The wire is divided into a plurality of elements with predetermined spacing along the length. When the wire is deformed, the shape of the wire after the deformation is determined. In the determined shape, a tangential stiffness equation using the element as a basis is calculated, and the calculated tangential stiffness equation is translated into a tangential stiffness equation using the whole of the wire as a basis. A global stiffness equation representing the whole wire is calculated from the tangential stiffness equation obtained by the translation. A load or a displacement produced in each portion of the wire is calculated from the global stiffness equation and the determined shape of the wire.

Abstract: An automatic set-up system for a wire drawing machine. The present invention provides an apparatus and method for substantially automating the set-up process for a wire drawing machine, including the steps of attaching the end of a wire coil to a power-driven capstan, wrapping a sufficient number of wire wraps around the capstan, releasing the end of the wire from the capstan, and feeding the wire to a downstream compensation arm and production machine. Through the use of the present invention, the initialization or set-up process is substantially automated in that the operator simply needs to present wire to the machine, and initiate the process to automatically perform the set-up function and ultimately feed the wire to the downstream production machine. Moreover, due to greatly reduced operator interaction the machine is more reliably set up, and the operator is less likely to be caught or injured by the machine.

Abstract: A furnace coiler capable of facilitating maintenance work and improving the yield and the productivity of the associated rolling system has a housing having an upper housing portion), a lower housing portion and a bottom housing portion. The bottom housing portion can be moved together with movable table rollers relative to the lower housing portion to opening the housing for maintenance work.

Abstract: Tooling apparatus comprises opposing first and second dies adapted to receive a three-dimensional honeycomb core article therebetween and including opposedly aligned arrays of elongated mutually parallel translating pins, each terminating at a tip end and arranged in a matrix for longitudinal movement between a retracted position and an extended position engageable with the article. A controller individually moves each of the translating pins in a coordinated manner between the retracted and extended positions and into engagement with the article to form it to a predetermined contour.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for a plate processing at inclined C-frame presses for an automatic cutting of tin-can covers and lids of tin cans and the like from sheet-metal plates with a piston plunger of a press moving up and down, where the sheet-metal plate is led step-by-step past under the piston plunger of the press. The apparatus includes a u-shape-formed frame 1. The longitudinal traverses 2 are in each case connected through a c-shaped bracing 3 to a C-shaped press frame 4.

Abstract: A vertical coil winder for winding hot rolled products. A reel includes a cylindrical container and a plurality of vertical rods provided within the container. A gap is defined between the container and the rods to receive a hot rolled product which is wound due to the rotation of the reel. The rods can move in the radial direction between an expanded position for winding the product and a withdrawn position for extracting the coil.

Abstract: An apparatus and a process produce a honeycomb body from at least one stack having a multiplicity of at least partially structured sheets which form a multiplicity of passages through which a fluid can flow. The apparatus includes a fork-shaped winding device which is rotatable about an axis and which engages each stack, as well as former segments which close to constitute a former. The former is formed from at least two former segments. Each former segment is pivotable in opposite relationship to the direction of rotation of the winding device about a respective pivot axis which respectively extends parallel to the axis of the winding device.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a method of producing a formblock utilizing stereolithography for producing a sheet metal part. A computer formblock model is first designed. Stereolithographic techniques are utilized to create the formblock using the computer formblock model. A part may be formed from a sheet metal blank using the formblock, whereby force is applied to the sheet metal blank to bend it about the formblock.

Abstract: A tag for use in a press machine includes a reprogrammable storage area provided in the form of a read/write memory for storing reprogrammable die information associated with the die assembly. A communications device provided in the form of a transceiver transmits die data supplied by the read/write memory and receives data for storage in the read/write memory. The tag, which is integrally attached to one of the die members, establishes a wireless bi-directional communications link with a production monitoring system provided in the form of a reader module integrally associated with the press machine. The reader includes a transceiver arranged for RF communication with the tag transceiver. Die data received by the reader from the tag is supplied to a press controller, which may also provide the reader with information to transmit to the tag.

Abstract: A method and system are provided that enable an operator without skills in performing bending operations to easily and quickly perform precise bending operations on a sheet workpiece by following a skilled operator's experience, hints or data. The method may include: storing data for a shape of a part; storing data related to a bending order for manufacturing the part from a workpiece; selecting tools for performing each bending operation; storing data for the selected tools or dies; storing bending press control data for controlling the operation of the bending press to perform the bending operations in accordance with the bending order; and storing bending operation support information for supporting an operator for performing the bending operations by using the bending press.

Abstract: A coiling system for thin steel strip which avoids problems of thin steel strip winding on its pinch rolls and assures that the strip is guided towards the predetermined coiling roll, thus decreasing operational delays and increasing productivity of a thin gage hot rolling steel strip mill. The system comprises a flap guide positionable in at least two positions, a first position contacting a pinch roll during the initial threading period of each strip to be coiled, and a second normal operating position without contact with said pinch roll when the strip is being wound in said predetermined coiler. The flap guide may also be used in multiple coiler rolls systems and may be adapted for automatic operation.

Abstract: The invention resides in a module used in conjunction with other such modules in an apparatus for rapidly producing an article having a three-dimensional design comprising a base, a plurality of pins mounted on said base and said plurality of pins movable relative thereto, a plurality of drive motors corresponding in number to the number of said plurality of pins and means interconnecting each of said plurality of pins with said base, each said means being connected independently between said base and a corresponding one of said pins. A control means interconnects each of said drive means and a controller with one another to effect selective energization of said drive means.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing continuously cast thin or intermediate thickness gauge slabs into finished continuous hot-rolled strip in superlarge coil form. Optimum entry speed of continuous cast slabs into the hot rolling mill is enabled and substantially uninterrupted operation of the continuous caster is provided for; problems associated with welded coil ends during subsequent processing are reduced with use of the finished superlarge coils.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to bending a workpiece to form a desired configuration and, in particular, to a method and apparatus for forming bends "out of sequence," i.e., in a time sequence different from the spatial sequence of the bends on the workpiece. The apparatus of the present invention include a bending system for bending a workpiece and a positioning system for positioning the workpiece relative to a bending region so that bends can be formed in various locations across the bending region. By virtue of the disclosed structures, a series of bends can be formed on a workpiece at various locations within the bending region. Bends can be formed out sequence and without advancing the workpiece relative to the bending region.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for handling a superlarge coil of metal strip formed from an entire heat of metal and having a coil weight up to about 8000 lbs./in. of coil width, by coiling the strip on a coiling mandrel until the weight approaches that which the mandrel cannot support, then supporting the coil on a plurality of driven rollers disposed in a curved pattern conforming to the shape of the coil and mounted on a vertically and horizontally movable carriage, completing the coiling, and moving the carriage and thereon-supported coil to an uncoiling station and there rotating the driven rollers to unwind the coil preparatory to a further continuous treatment of the strip.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a method of producing a sheet metal part utilizing stereolithography. A computer formblock model is first designed. Stereolithographic techniques are utilized to create a formblock using the computer formblock model. A part is formed from a sheet metal blank using the formblock, whereby force is applied to the sheet metal blank to bend it about the formblock.

Abstract: Object of the present invention is to provide a method or a system by which an operator without skills in bending operation can easily and quickly perform precise bending operations on a sheet workpiece by following skilled operator's experience, hints or data. To achieve this object, the method of this present invention comprises the steps of storing data for a shape of said part; storing data for a bending order for manufacturing said part from said workpiece; selecting tools for performing each of bending operations; storing data for the selected dies; storing bending press control data for controlling the operation of said press to performs the bending operations in said bending order; and storing bending operation support information for supporting an operator for performing the bending operation by using said bending press.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for uniformly twisting hollow, open-seam rods with preferably rectangular cross-sections for use as decorative curtain rods are disclosed. The twist extends throughout substantially the entire length of the rod. This feature enables a telescoped pair of rods, that is, a pair of rods with an inner rod dimensioned to slide into and out of an outer rod, to be twisted simultaneously such that the telescoping feature is maintained after twisting. The apparatus includes a rotatable first chuck and a substantially non-rotatable second chuck. Each chuck has male and female components to engage the inner and outer surfaces of a respective end of the rod. These components prevent buckling along the open seam and permit twisting throughout substantially the entire length of the rods. Sensor controls ensure uniform twisting and controlled unwinding of the rods.

Abstract: In the rolling of e.g. metal strip, an entry reel is provided in the form of a stub mandrel having two opposed and spaced-apart arms with reduced diameter end portions, rolling the strip and evacuating a tail end of the strip from the entry reel, placing a coiling spool over the reduced diameter portions of the arms of the stub mandrel, reversing the rolling direction of the mill, gripping the last rolled end of the strip on the coiling spool, again rolling the strip, and coiling the rolled strip on the coiling spool.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing patterned tread plates including the steps of providing a press having a path for advancing a sheet therethrough, the press being equipped with a progressive die including a plurality of gaggable dies and punches arranged in a plurality of rows in the path to sequentially engage the sheet when the same is being advanced therethrough in the path, operably associating with the press a CPU having a large capacity secondary data storage device, introducing a multiplicity of codes into the secondary data storage device with each code corresponding to a different tread pattern, some of the codes including gagging instructions for the operation of the dies and punches, selecting a first set of codes and operating the CPU to control the press so as to optionally produce a predetermined number of tread plates according to the first set of codes, and thereafter selecting a second set of codes and operating the CPU to produce a predetermined number of tread plates having a different pattern th

Abstract: An automatic method and device for calendering aluminum profiles for producing spacer frames for insulating glazing units, the method consisting in producing calendering by preliminarily deforming the surface on which minute holes are formed so as to obtain an inside curve. A consecutive plurality of minute bends, the pitch increment whereof tends to zero and the bending angle increment whereof tends to zero, is then performed at an automatically controlled microbending station.

Abstract: A hot forging press for use in closed-die hot forging operations wherein the forging press may be operated in conjunction with an automated multi-station transport sub-system to move parts through a progressive multi-station forging die. The press includes a press bed and vertically moveable ram for supporting lower and upper dies, respectively. A drive mechanism for driving the ram is provided with an adjustment system whereby the shut height of the press may be adjusted during operation of the press. A programmable logic controller is provided for controlling the press operations including the shut height adjustment, transport of parts by the transport sub-system and operation of a kickout sub-system for kicking parts out of the dies. Further, the press includes an enlarged tonnage zone whereby the full tonnage zone encompasses a plurality of the dies in their entirety.

Abstract: An automatic positioning system that includes positioning means for positioning a hose assembly adjacent a crimping apparatus. Actuator means is in communication with the positioning means to cause the positioning means to move. Control means is in communication with the actuator means to control movement of the positioning means. The method of the present invention includes the steps of: (a) actuating a positioning means to cause the positioning means to move; (b) controlling movement of the positioning means by control means so that the positioning means is in proper position with respect to a crimping apparatus; and (c) placing a hose assembly on the positioning means.

Abstract: For economy of operation, as much as possible of the total length of a steel strip being rolled by a Steckel mill should be maintained at an acceptably high temperature. To this end, the trailing edge of the strip is drawn into the coiler furnace to the extent possible without losing driving control of the strip. This is enabled by providing within or in close proximity with the entrance/exit port of the coiler furnace a pair of preferably heated pinch rolls that drive the trailing edge of the strip (that has just completed a pass through the Steckel mill) into the coiler furnace as far as possible, leaving only a very short protruding portion of that trailing edge outside the coiler furnace. The strip may be left idle within the coiler furnace for as long a time as is required to bring the temperature of the wound strip up to a target operating temperature. Then the same pair of pinch rolls in or near the entrance/exit port of the coiler furnace drive the strip out of the furnace toward the Steckel mill.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for automatically bending a strip-shaped blade material to a predetermined configuration. An oscillating arm provided with a movable clamp portion for holding the blade material at the front end portion thereof is attached to a base. A pair of stationary bits are adjacently placed on the base near an end of the movable clamp portion of the oscillating arm at a predetermined distance. The apparatus is provided with an oscillation driving mechanism oscillating the oscillating arm horizontally and a feeding mechanism sending the blade material forward along the oscillating arm. The blade material is bent between one of the stationary bits and the movable clamp portion by oscillating the oscillating arm horizontally.

Abstract: A method and a machine for producing plate components (1) from a sheet of metal (2) which is moved through a press (13) for at least a first cutting operation to be performed to separate the plate components from the sheet of metal and a second cutting operation to separate scrap (27), said press being open with a space (32) allowing free insertion of the metal sheet. According to the invention the metal sheet is displaced by means of a feeding device (11) between the metal working operations, following a predetermined coordinate pattern and being machined in consecutive y-sections (24, 26) each y-section (24) being fully machined in x-direction before the immediately following y-section (26) is brought into position for machining, the metal sheet being machined within surface areas (33), each of which has a length in x-direction of at most 30 cm, and is larger than the plate component so that a peripheral, unbroken scrap portion (27) remains after the first cutting operation.

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: An optimizing controller for a straight rod stock processing stirrup bender which provides a production method enabling a combination of bent rod stock profiles in multiple counts to be delivered from each individual infed straight rod stock bar, whereby bent rod stock piece output is optimized through such an output combination so as to most efficiently utilize the available stock from each such infed straight rod stock bar and thereby to consistently minimize the tail piece wastage consistent with the stirrup bender tail piece handling capabilities, also thereby substantially reducing labor and waste and handling costs per ton which are otherwise normally associated with the processing of straight rod stock lengths through a stirrup bender.

Abstract: The invention provides that a former (A,B,C) is used for forming scrolls from strip metal (30). The former has a scroll flight which is in two parts (A,B) which are relatively movable in the direction of the axis about which the former (A,B,C) rotates to coil the strip (30) about the flight (A,B) by drawing it radially into the former. In the first stage of the process the strip (30) is coiled about the inner part (A) of the flight, the outer part (B) being held displaced axially so as not to interfere with the initial coiling by the strip (30), until the strip (30) clears the end of the outer part (B) of the flight which then move into the plane of the inner part (A) of the flight and coiling can continue onto the outer part (B). The apparatus can also, in selected embodiments, include additional mechanisms for making circles and arches from the strip and for cutting, punching, twisting and right angle bending the strip from the same drive.

Abstract: A hot strip coiler furnace is disclosed, which comprises a furnace hood, a drivable coiler drum, which is accommodated in the furnace hood and has a strip-receiving opening for receiving the leading end of the incoming strip, and a strip-receiving guide, which has a delivery end adjacent to the strip-receiving opening of the coiler drum when it is in a strip-receiving position. In order to permit the hot strip to be completely pulled into the coiler furnace, it is proposed that a strip-delivering guide for the outgoing strip is provided, which guide protrudes or is adapted to be introduced into the generally triangular space which is defined by the coil of strip and the incoming or outgoing strip.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a method and apparatus for forming thin-wall tubing for later welding of the seam thereof which includes tightly rolling upon itself a sheet of thin metal stock about a roller between layers of a flexible fabric. When released from the roller, the sheet metal springs back to form a near-perfect tube without the kinks, scratches, and/or dents commonly caused by conventional rolling methods.

Abstract: A hot strip mill including an improved coiler furnace adapted to minimize heat losses and exposure of the roller table to extreme working conditions. The coiler furnace includes a mandrel which is mounted within a housing. An access opening is provided in the housing for allow for entry and exit of the stripper material being worked upon. A pivotable diverter is mounted on a pivot pin adjacent this opening and is shiftable between a closed position which substantially seals the housing closing of the access opening and an open position which extends into the pass line of the roller table of the hot strip mill to divert the strip being worked upon into the coiler furnace.

Abstract: An apparatus for coiling strip, in particular, continuously cast thin slabs, which after leaving the continuous caster are wound into a coil in a furnace at a casting speed, and are payed out of this furnace at a rolling speed, whereby preferably two furnaces are preferably located one above the other for alternating coiling and payout. To improve an apparatus of the type described above for the coiling of strip which has only small thermal losses in a largely closed furnace, and has the smallest possible number of moving parts inside the furnace to achieve a high degree of operational safety and reliability. The invention proposes that each furnace has a threading opening for the strip which is largely closed by a pair of pinch rolls, and together with the pair of pinch rolls, can be pivoted around its horizontal axis, which corresponds to the coiling axis, from the coiling position into the payout position.

Abstract: In a coiler arrangement having a housing and a mandrel penetrating the housing, rolling stock to be wound on and off the mandrel is conveyable from a roller table guiding the rolling stock through an opening of the housing to the mandrel by a pivot flap extending from the roller table to the vicinity of the mandrel and movable by a pivot drive. In order to be able to close the opening of the housing almost entirely during the coiling procedure, the pivot mounting of the pivot flap is realized on the periphery of the housing at a distance from the roller table, i.e., at a distance from the roller way formed by the table rollers. The pivot flap, with its free end, is pivotable into the roller way and, vice versa, is pivotable away from the roller way by closing the housing. At least one flap part is provided to extend the pivot flap in the direction opposite to its free end. The end of the flap part facing away from the pivot axis is pivotable from the region of the mandrel to the housing and vice versa.

Abstract: A method of producing a metal support for an exhaust gas catalyst. The method comprises the steps of: (a) mating respective end portions of flat and corrugated metal strips in such a manner that respective major portions of the strips extend in opposite directions; (b) putting the mated end portions of the strips between two generally flat holding members; (c) winding the major portions of the flat and corrugated metal strips around the holding members overlapping one on another by a predetermined number of times, thereby to produce an oval structure which includes the flat and corrugated metal strips and the holding members; (d) drawing the holding members from the oval structure thereby to provide a semi-processed oval assembly which has two generally flat bores left therein; and (e) pressing the semi-processed oval assembly in a manner to eliminate the bores thereby to provide a tightly wound oval assembly of the flat and corrugated metal strips.

Abstract: A coiler has a plurality of frame units. Each frame unit includes a first frame having a free end portion facing to the periphery of a mandrel for coiling a band plate and a base end portion rotatably pivoted to a shaft parallel to the axis of the mandrel. A first drive unit moves the first frame. A second frame is rotatably pivoted at the free end portion of the first frame to a shaft parallel to the axis of the mandrel. A second drive unit moves the second frame. A pressing roller is rotatably supported by the second frame for assisting fastening of the band plate around the mandrel. A circular guide is provided on the second frame to face the mandrel.

Abstract: Two-function coil-forming assembly which cooperates with channels (14-15) feeding rolled stock and with at least one drum (20) forming coiled bundles and having an axis at least momentarily vertical and comprises at least two feeder units (25) having different individual functions (12-13), the assembly including a rotatable column (11) having a substantially vertical axis and able to take up at least two circumferential positions to support and position the feeder units (25), at least one of the feeder units (25) being momentarily in direct association with the drum (20) forming coiled bundles.

Abstract: Apparatus for the fabrication of rechargeable battery cores formed of component layers of electrically conductive layers and inter-leafed electrically insulating layers in a coil-like manner comprising an arbor rotatable about its axis for the receipt and support of the core component layers and for winding such core component layers thereon; associated support roller means located adjacent to the arbor for forming a nip and for feeding the component layers to and around the arbor; tray means positioned adjacent to the arbor and support roller means to feed the component layers to the nip and around the arbor; and a tucker bar operatively associated with the arbor and support roller means adapted to move the leading edge of the insulating component layers for being rotated around the arbor prior to the feeding of the conductive component layers. Also disclosed is the method of fabricating rechargeable battery cores.

Abstract: Described is a coil collecting station for wire-rod mill trains with a coil collecting chamber consisting of a pre-collector, collecting pin and limiting cage, in which at least two collecting pins can be brought alternatively into a loading and/or discharging position by means of swing movements. The enveloping diameter of the collecting pin in the loading position is variable with respect to its diameter in its discharging position for a wire coil wound up thereon. For this purpose, said collecting pin consists of a plurality of pin rods, some of which being fixed and the other ones being supported radially movably with respect to said fixed pin rods.

Abstract: A carrier matrix wound of a carrier strip having undulations in its transverse direction has deflections of the carrier strip, said deflections being arranged in planes. During the winding process, the deflections are created by the insertion of deflection pins between the corresponding winding layers. The deflections pins, in this case, are inserted between the winding layers as a function of the desired cross-section of the carrier matrix so that after the winding process and after the removal of the deflection pins, the carrier matrix can be inserted into a sheath that has the desired cross-section of the carrier matrix. By combining several winding bodies of this type into one carrier matrix, arbitrary cross-sections of carrier matrices can be produced, particularly cross-sections having concave archings. During the making process, the deflection pins are fitted through the corresponding bores of two winding disks that are connected with one another in a torsionally fixed way.

Abstract: A coil box apparatus provided between a roughing roll and a finishing mill at a hot rolling mill so as to coil a rolled material transported from the roughing mill in order to make the temperature distribution of the rolled material more uniform, which is provided with a controller for computing a stand-by time of the coiled rolled material in a coil box on the basis of a condition of proceeding a rolling operation of an advanced rolled material at the finishing mill of the downstream side process, and predicting a temperature difference between the outermost first coiled layer and the inside coiled layers from the second coiled layer of the coiled rolled material after the lapse of the computed stand-by time with reference to information of the previously stored temperature drop at each part of the coiled rolled material, so that when the predicted value is larger than the reference value, the coiled rolled material is covered on the surface of the outermost first coiled layer thereof by coil covers formed o

Abstract: A process for making a coil having no bobbin comprises the steps of connecting one end of an electrical conductor to a coil making jig, rotating the jig to wind the electrical conductor thereon while applying a tension to the conductor as the coil is being formed, and removing the coil from the jig, the tension on outer windings of the coil being greater than that on inner windings thereof. Accordingly, the outer winding provides a high pressure against the inner winding such that a high friction is produced between the adjacent windings, whereby the windings of the coil do not subsequently separate from each other.

Abstract: Line to cool wound bundles of rolled wire and rod, the diameter of the rolled stock processed on the line ranging from a few millimeters up to about 45 mm., the line comprising a head (12) to form coils of wire, a roller conveyor (13), a cooling tunnel (15), a reel (14) to collect coils and to form wound bundles of wire and a conveyor to discharge wound bundles of wire and rod, two Garrett-type reels (28) being included at the sides of the coil-forming head (12) coiling the wire.

Abstract: A bead former (14) has a gripping mechanism (90,92) for gripping a leading end (106) of a bead ribbon (12) at a position recessed in the surface (18) of the former (14) during the initial rotation of the former (14). The gripping mechanism (90,92) has a seat member (92) movable radially outward of the former (14) into a supporting position at the surface (18) of the former (14) after releasing the leading end (106) for supporting the leading end (106) during the latter rotation of the former (14). A pressure roller (20) is rotatably supported in a guide cage (54) mounted on a dual arm (22,48) having a dual actuation system (34,60) for moving the guide cage (54) and pressure roller (20) into position for guiding and compacting the convolutions of bead ribbon (12) wrapped around the former (14) and for providing a high pressure force to crimp the splice area (124 ) of the bead (16).

Abstract: A spiral wound gasket is made by progressively winding strip material between co-operating rollers to form a gasket section, the method of manufacture including the step of separating the rollers at a predetermined rate to give a predetermined rate of growth for the gasket section formed between them.

Abstract: In an arrangement for coiling metal strip on a downcoiler, the strip is directed to the downcoiler by a pair of pinch rolls and one or both of the rolls are used to steer the strip to a desired position on the mandrel so that a coil with tidy vertical sides is formed on the mandrel. One roll of the pair of pinch rolls may be skewed with respect to the other roll or both rolls may be skewed to the direction of travel of the strip material.

Abstract: An arrangement for winding material onto a coiler drum along a passline of a hot reversing mill comprising an apparatus having two pivotal arms mounted on a common shaft and movable in a different arcuate path toward and away from the coiler drum. Rollers at the end of the arms tightly enwrap the material around the drum when the arms are positioned against the drum as the material is being underwound onto the drum. The roller of one of the arms may act as a deflector roller when positioned away from the drum as the material is being overwound onto the drum. The other arm consists of two wrapper rollers on a pivotal mounting for their proper orientation around the drum and for flat passes of the material through the mill. This other arm is positioned away from the drum below the passline to allow a retractable table roll assembly consisting of a plurality of table rolls to be positioned in the passline for supporting the material.