Abstract: A deburrung method, in which a laser (3) is directed towards the edge of a workpiece (1) so that the position of a first surface (5) and a second surface (6) joining the first surface at an angle, can be deternined, after which extrapolation of a cutting curve (8) between the first surface (5) and the second surface (6) is performed and in that the burr (2) is removed along the cutting curve (8).

Abstract: A deburring apparatus for cutting beards formed at edges of slabs as a result of torch cutting of strands during continuous steel casting operations is disclosed. The apparatus includes extendable pistons having deburring tools mounted thereon. The deburring tools are arranged such that rotation between adjacent tools is substantially prevented. Compressed air containing a lubricant is used to extend the pistons and cool the deburring tools.

Abstract: A vinyl weld seam cleaner having a fixed support head and a movable support head. The movable support head accommodates windows of varying widths. Each support head has an upper and lower machine head that houses a tool head. The tool heads have interchangeable tools. The machine head and tool head cooperate together to allow tools on the tool heads to move in three dimensions. The tools can clean and machine at a 45.degree. angle along a weld seam or at a 90.degree. angle relative to the top, sides and bottoms of a window frame. The window frame is engaged by an inner conveyor belt that moves the frame into and out of a first cleaning position for cleaning and machining the top corners of the window frame, and into and out of a second cleaning position for cleaning and machining the bottom corners. The inner conveyor includes fixed and movable fences, tabletop back fences, and clamps. The top corners are simultaneously cleaned and the bottom corners are simultaneously cleaned.

Abstract: Apparatus for removing burrs from flame cut steel slabs having a rotating shaft and burr knocking members loosely mounted on the shaft for impact removal of the burrs.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically welding and handling welded tailored blank composites. The method comprises the steps of transferring first and second sheet component parts from respective input stacks to an assembly table of a welding machine. The sheet components are disposed in a butt joint or an overlapping lap joint configuration and the blanks are welded together along a weld seam thus defining a welded blank. The welded blank is conveyed in a timed step manner from the welding machine to an output stacking machine via a magnetic stepping conveyor and the blank is transferred from the conveyor to an output stack of completed blanks with a stacking machine. An apparatus is provided to carry out the method.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically welding and handling mash welded tailored blank composites. The method comprises the steps of transferring first and second sheet component parts from respective input stacks to an assembly table of a mash welding machine. The sheet components are disposed in an overlapping lap joint configuration and the lap joint is welded along a linear weld seam thus defining a welded blank. The welded blank is conveyed in a timed step manner from the welding machine to an output stacking machine via a magnetic stepping conveyor and the blank is transferred from the conveyor to an output stack of completed blanks with a stacking machine. An apparatus is provided to carry out the method.

Abstract: A hydraulically-driven deburring shear assembly used to remove dross from the edges of a slab of steel that has been torch cut. The assembly comprises a table assembly, a pair of arms, and a knife assembly. Each arm is adapted to alternately act as a pinch roll and a pusher arm to effect the consecutive deburring of opposed edges of a slab of steel, as follows. After the slab of steel is placed on the table, one of the arms is lowered to rest on the slab and apply a downward pressure on the slab, and the other arm is lowered to come into contact with the leading edge of the slab. At the same time, the knife assembly is raised to the level of the table. The other arm then pushes the leading edge of the slab back over the knife assembly to shear the dross from the edge. Both arms are then raised, the knife assembly is lowered, and the slab is traversed in the forward direction.

Abstract: The invention comprises an apparatus for removing from the outer surface the raised bead resulting from welding in the manufacture of continuous seam-welded metal tubes. A stage or travelling support block mounted for movement transversely of the advancing tube carries a pair of scarfing blades, each of which may have a plurality of cutting edges moveable seriatim into operative position. Adjusting screws operatively connected to the stage permit the stage and the scarfing blades thereon to be manually adjusted both laterally and vertically relative to the tube, and to selectively position either one of the scarfing blades for bead removal. A piston rod is connected by suitable linkage to the stage for rapidly advancing and retracting the stage upon command to move the scarfing blade into and out of operative position.

Abstract: Apparatus for removing burrs which develop on semifinished metallic produ in the course of a flame cutting operation has a shaft which is driven to rotate about a horizontal axis and carries an array of round, polygonal and/or oblong cutting tools which extend radially beyond its peripheral surface. The shaft is movable up and down adjacent the path of movement of metallic products with the burrs located at the undersides of the products. When a burr is moved to a position above the shaft, the latter is lifted and is set in rotary motion so that its axially staggered tools remove and simultaneously fragmentize the burr. The shaft is then lowered and the product is advanced to move another burr of the same product to an optimum position for removal of the burr or to provide room for transport of another product to the deburring station. The tools can be used for removal of burrs from straight or curved metallic products.

Abstract: Automatic index rotary buffing apparatus includes a plurality of buffing stations at which buffing heads are rotated relative to a workpiece having recesses in a face thereof for buffing the workpiece at each buffing station. The buffing heads at the last two buffing stations comprise bias pleated cotton buffs which, at the next to last buffing station, are rotated against the rotation of the workpiece to clean out one side of the recesses in the workpiece, and at the last buffing station, are rotated with the rotation of the workpiece to clean out the other sides of the recesses and to color buff the workpiece.

Abstract: The present invention is a device for contouring blocking burrs for a milling cutter. The penumatic broach or spindle is equipped with a tachometer, which controls the reversal of the supply of a pneumatic jack connecting the spindle to the wrist or handle of the robot as soon as the rotation speed of the cutter drops below a threshold value. The blocking burrs are then cut off by means of successive passes.

Abstract: A device is provided for grinding down the crown of a pipe weld joining aligned pipe sections so that the weld is substantially flush with the pipe sections joined by the weld. The device includes a cage assembly comprising a pair of spaced cage rings adapted to be mounted for rotation on the respective pipe sections on opposite sides of the weld, a plurality of grinding wheels, supported by the cage assembly for grinding down the crown of the weld, and a plurality of support shafts, each extending longitudinally along the joined pipe sections, parallel thereto, for individually mounting respective grinding wheels. Each end of the support shafts is mounted for rotation in a bearing assembly housed within a radially directed opening in a corresponding one of the cage rings so as to provide radial movement of the associated shaft, and thus of the associated grinding wheel, towards and away from the weld.

Abstract: A method for preparing an elastic roller having a layer of elastic material disposed about and integrally molded to a shaft-shaped core metal member, includes the steps of disposing a cylindrical molding device for holding the elastic material, coating the core metal member with an adhesive, and mounting first and second lid members at opposite ends of the molding device. Each lid member holds a respective end of the core metal member so that the core metal member is disposed concentrically within said molding device. A sealing rubber is disposed between each lid member and the core metal member to prevent elastic material from entering a bearing portion of the core metal member, and the elastic material is injected into the molding device. The elastic material is cured, and the lid members are removed such that an extending portion of each lid member removes burrs formed at peripheral end portions of the roller.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of structurally homogeneous flash-free lead battery terminals comprised of first removing all voids from the lead infeed stock by means of an extrusion forming process and then automatically delivering the void-free extrusion formed lead infeed stock to a computer-controlled automatic metal lathe for automated machining and delivery therefrom of a flash-free battery terminal output product.

Abstract: A method and machine adapted to deburr items having burrs, particularly pressed sponge metal compacts of zirconium or hafnium. The burrs are gently scraped away by one or more endlessly moving, substantially horizontal preferably rotary screens preferably of stainless steel wire, which carry the items to be deburred. An item-confining wall and a series of baffles are associated with each screen for guiding the items back and forth across the upper surface of the screen and for passing the items through a passageway in the confining wall. The shavings of deburred material drop through the screen and are collected below. Means, such as item turning chutes, are provided between screens so that opposite sides of an item to be deburred, such as a washer-shaped item having flat opposite sides, will be completely deburred in a single pass through the machine.

Abstract: Apparatus for the deburring of longitudinal sections by operating a milling head in response to the sensed position of a burr on the section.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for notching and removing the fin from a continuously cast metal bar, whereby the fin is broken into small pieces for easy handling by using a driven, blade carrying guide assembly.

Abstract: An apparatus for the treatment of workpieces by means of temperature and pressure shocks through the ignition of a combustible gas mixture, particularly a thermal deburring system, is proposed whose workpiece treatment chamber (1, 21, 34) consists of an outer hollow member (3, 22, 35) and an inner hollow member (4, 29, 37) which are guided one into the other and are arranged so as to be movable relative to one another, the inner hollow member (4, 29, 37) having at least one combustion space (10, 31, 32, 39, 40) for receiving the workpieces, which combustion space (10, 31, 32, 39, 40) can be brought into the area of a wall (5, 23) of the outer hollow member closing the combustion space by means of a relative movement of the two hollow members.

Abstract: A scarfing apparatus for removing a weld bead from a tube being produced by a continuous method wherein the tube enters one end of a rotatable hollow spindle which supports a tool bit. The tool bit has an arcuate shape having a segment which extends 180.degree. or less about the periphery of the tube. The spindle oscillates rotationally causing the tool bit to rock back and forth across the surface of the moving tube to remove the weld bead. The tool bit is formed of carbide steel containing tantalum, titanium and cobalt. The tool bit has a forward face portion and a bottom face portion which define a tooling edge at their intersection. The bottom face portion slopes upwardly at an angle of approximately 3.degree. to reduce friction on the tube. For use with carbon steel tubing, a bit is used having a forward face portion angled approximately 15.degree. from the vertical. For use with stainless steel or aluminized material, a bit is used having a forward face portion angled back approximately 21.degree.

Abstract: The machine removes burrs from slabs (1) issuing from a continuous casting plant and cut to length by an oxygen cutting. The machine is of the type having a rotor mounted horizontally in a frame and carrying on its periphery means for removing the burrs. The burr removing means are self-retractable hammers (8) whose head (10) describes an envelope which is rendered substantially tangent to the lower side of the slab (1) by means (40, 36) for moving the rotor (4) vertically in translation carried by the frame (21, 22). The rotor (4) is driven by a driving shaft (51) whose rotation is controlled in one direction or the other by a control device as a function of the detection (C1, C2, C3) of the passage of the head end or foot end of the slab.

Abstract: A scarfing apparatus for removing a weld bead from a tube being produced by a continuous method, wherein the tube enters one end of a hollow spindle which rotatably supports a scarfing tool holder on which is mounted a tool bit. The tool bit has an arcuate shape having a segment which extends 180.degree. or less about the periphery of the tube. The other end of the spindle is provided with a sensing device which, in conjunction with a power unit and control means, applies oscillatory rotational movement to the spindle to thereby cause the tool bit to rock back and forth across the surface of the moving tube to remove the weld bead. The tool holder is provided with an undercut section adapted to receive securing means for mounting the tool bit in a manner to facilitate rapid removal thereof for installing a new tool bit without ceasing the operation of the continuous tube-forming apparatus.

Abstract: Dust-pressed plates (P) are trimmed to a predetermined peripheral profile by means of three milling cutters rotating at around 12,000 r.p.m. The cutters are uniformly spaced about a central axis and operate simultaneously on the periphery of a plate while the plate is rotated about the axis. The cutters are located during trimming by means of a profile cam which is in registration with the plate mounted on a ware support. To ensure registration with the cam, a plate is centered by a centering unit before being orientated by orientating mechanism and transferred to the ware support. Each plate is delivered to the centering unit with a reference feature at a predetermined position on its periphery, the orientating mechanism being arranged to search for that feature before rotating the plate to bring it into the required orientation for registration with the cam.

Abstract: Cutters for removing excess weld material from elongated welds are moved by hydraulic cylinders into precise positions in proximity to the article having the welds to maintain the desired uniform thickness of the welds. The movement of the hydraulic cylinders is controlled by tracer control valves having operating elements engaged by members connected to sensing rollers which engage the article as the article is moved past the sensing rollers. The positions of the rollers and the cutter are adjustable to accommodate articles of various sizes.

Abstract: The arrangement comprises a body constructed in the form of a grip clamp arable from the vertical axis of a workpiece, and having two jaws coupled with each other in the upper portion thereof by a clamping cylinder. The arrangement further comprises cutters for deburring, and a mechanism for pressing said cutters to the workpiece surface. The cutters are mounted in the lower portion of the jaws so that cutting edges thereof form a profile of the workpiece cross-section. The cuttes disposed on the same jaw are pivotally connected with each other. The mechanism for pressing the cutters is constructed in the form of a system of hydraulic cylinders mounted on the jaws in symmetrical relationship relative to the vertical axis of the body. Said hydraulic cylinders are provided with rods operatively connected to corresponding cutters.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for removing burrs and other roughage from stamped, milled and cast metallic articles. A conical combustion chamber is provided with a spiral groove which creates a turbulent flow for an ignited combustible mixture, which turbulence transforms the process from combustion to detonation. The detonated gaseous mixture is directed down the conical combustion chamber in expanding fashion to the articles which are to be de-burred, which articles are stored in a receptacle in axial alignment with the conical-shaped combustion chamber. During detonation, the burrs and other roughage are removed from the articles, while the remainder of each article is kept in tact.

Abstract: A machine for flash welding rails having two gripping clamps with conductive jaws pivoted on a common shaft, at least one clamp being able to slide along said shaft relative to the second clamp under the action of a jack and being guided along rods disposed laterally to the rail, which rods also serving as jack rods in which the machine has flash removing cutters mounted on a flash removing clamp independently of the gripping clamp, which flash removing clamp has two clamp halves pivotally and slidably mounted on the same shaft and on the same rods as the gripping clamps.

Abstract: An apparatus for internal flash removal is intended for use in pipe manufacture and comprises a hollow supporting bar inserted into a pipe being welded and carrying an oxygen duct with a main nozzle and a cooled ferrite-holder. An additional nozzle having an oxygen conduit common with the main nozzle is arranged downstream of the main nozzle in the direction of welding. The main and the additional nozzles have oval outlets of different clear openings and are arranged at different acute angles to the weld in the same plane passing through the pipe axis and the weld. The apparatus ensures a quality weld surface finish inside the pipe.

Abstract: A mobile machine for removing surface irregularities from the faces of rail heads comprises a machine frame, at least one pair of tool carriers transversely aligned with respect to the track and a respective one of the tool carriers being associated with a respective one of the rails, each of the tool carriers being vertically adjustably mounted on the machine frame and arranged for guidance along the respective rail in a vertical and lateral direction, and at least one metal removing tool carried by each of the tool carriers, and at least one longitudinally adjustable spacing member extending transversely to the track between the tool carriers. A pivot connects respective ends of the spacing member to the respective tool carriers, the axes of the pivots extending preferably vertically to a plane defined by the track.

Abstract: A machine for removing flashing, burrs and the like from castings includes a base having a swivelable workpiece supporting table and inclined surfaces supporting a milling assembly on a saddle such that the saddle is movable, with the milling assembly, in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the spindle sleeve, and the assembly is swivelable on the saddle such that the sleeve axis remains parallel to itself. The spindle is also movable axially. An impact cutting tool is supported on the spindle sleeve and is driven by a piston and cylinder assembly to reciprocate rapidly in an operating position in which the impact tool axis is parallel to the spindle axis. The impact tool assembly is movable from the operating position to a rest position, either by retraction or by a pivoting mechanism. The apparatus can be automatically operated by using a pattern-following arrangement in which the workpiece itself is used as the pattern and the impact tool as the pattern follower.

Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for trimming a cable terminal lug to a predetermined size, inserting a bolt through a bore in the lug and assembling a nut onto the bolt in a single operating cycle. The apparatus includes means for moving a terminal lug from a first station to a second station during which the lug is trimmed, and means disposed at the second station for inserting a bolt through a bore in the lug and running a nut onto the threaded end of the bolt to a predetermined torque.