EP0044783A1 - Verfahren zur Herstellung von Achsen - Google Patents

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EP0044783A1
EP0044783A1 EP81401142A EP81401142A EP0044783A1 EP 0044783 A1 EP0044783 A1 EP 0044783A1 EP 81401142 A EP81401142 A EP 81401142A EP 81401142 A EP81401142 A EP 81401142A EP 0044783 A1 EP0044783 A1 EP 0044783A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21J—FORGING; HAMMERING; PRESSING METAL; RIVETING; FORGE FURNACES
    • B21J1/00—Preparing metal stock or similar ancillary operations prior, during or post forging, e.g. heating or cooling
    • B21J1/06—Heating or cooling methods or arrangements specially adapted for performing forging or pressing operations
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21K—MAKING FORGED OR PRESSED METAL PRODUCTS, e.g. HORSE-SHOES, RIVETS, BOLTS OR WHEELS
    • B21K1/00—Making machine elements
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21J—FORGING; HAMMERING; PRESSING METAL; RIVETING; FORGE FURNACES
    • B21J5/00—Methods for forging, hammering, or pressing; Special equipment or accessories therefor
    • B21J5/06—Methods for forging, hammering, or pressing; Special equipment or accessories therefor for performing particular operations
    • B21J5/08—Upsetting
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21K—MAKING FORGED OR PRESSED METAL PRODUCTS, e.g. HORSE-SHOES, RIVETS, BOLTS OR WHEELS
    • B21K1/00—Making machine elements
    • B21K1/06—Making machine elements axles or shafts
    • B21K1/10—Making machine elements axles or shafts of cylindrical form
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21K—MAKING FORGED OR PRESSED METAL PRODUCTS, e.g. HORSE-SHOES, RIVETS, BOLTS OR WHEELS
    • B21K7/00—Making railway appurtenances; Making vehicle parts

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  • the present invention relates to the manufacture of axles, and other metal axes of a shape similar to that of the axles, in all cases where these axles or axes terminate at each of their two ends by cylindrical or conical parts, called spindles, the mean diameter is less than the largest diameter of the axle or axis considered.
  • the invention applies particularly well to the manufacture of axles of railway rolling stock.
  • the object of the present invention is to avoid all of these drawbacks of the known methods by using a forging process by push-back-hot spinning, which no longer proceeds by drawing at all, but on the contrary by pushing back the middle parts and simultaneous spinning of the extreme parts of a heated blank, so that this process results in a single operation of compressing the blank in a closed die.
  • the subject of the present invention is a process for manufacturing the axle-axles by forging by discharge-spinning of a heated full or tubular blank, characterized in that the diameter of the blank is less than the largest diameter of the axle to be manufactured, in that at least part of the blank is heated to a temperature between 1100 ° and 1300 ° C, and preferably close to 1260 ° C, and in that the forging by pushing back-spinning of this blank comprises a simultaneous pushing-back operation of the middle parts and of spinning at least one of the two spindles of the axle-axle, this simultaneous operation being carried out by a single press stroke.
  • the forging by discharge-spinning is carried out in a matrix of which all the parts are fixed, in two successive press strokes, at the rate of a press stroke for each of the two transverse halves of the axle-axle, the two press strokes being separated by intermediate heating and handling.
  • the forging by discharge-spinning of a complete axle-axle is carried out in a single press stroke, the body of the axle-axle remaining fixed, while the die comprises two mobile rocket rings, which shape by spinning the two rockets and the two deflector bearing surfaces, and by simultaneous displacement the setting bearing surfaces.
  • the blank is heated as a whole to the same temperature, preferably between 1,100 ° and 1,300 ° C., and more particularly close to 1,260 ° C.
  • the blank undergoes a differential differential heating.
  • the parts of the blank intended to form the intermediate setting seats receiving or the brake discs or the gear wheels are heated to a temperature between 1200 ° C. and 1.300 ° C., and preferably close to 1.260 ° C.
  • the blank is constituted by a round bar laminated and peeled before heating.
  • It can also consist of a square bar with rounded angles, or a bar with an ogival cross section, that is to say a square bar with curved faces, and peeled before heating.
  • the process of forging by pushing-spinning of the axle-axles according to the invention can be carried out either on a vertical forging press or on a horizontal forging press. Strictly speaking, the direction of forging could even be oblique, but this has no practical advantage.
  • each part of the die is effectively lubricated individually, whatever the direction of forging.
  • the present invention has major advantages over known methods of forging or rolling axles.
  • the quality of the result obtained is independent of a greater or lesser reliability of a control system, since it is the geometric profile of the parts of the matrix, which is predetermined with great precision, which imposes the dimensions of the axle thus produced.
  • the blank can be cylindrical, which simplifies the preparation.
  • the axle manufactured by the method according to the invention does not require deburring, since it has no burrs.
  • the variants of the method according to the invention which use a differential differential heating, for example by induction, make it possible to achieve a significant energy saving compared to the complete heating of the blank.
  • the invention therefore has multiple advantages.
  • axles A, B, C shown in the figures can be produced according to the invention under identical forging-matrixing conditions, the only differences being of a geometrical nature, in particular for the parts constituting the body and the number of axle staves.
  • the induction heating of the second half of the blank 1 is carried out after having surrounded the first half already forged with a protective envelope 6.
  • the applied thermal profile is shown at 7 in FIG. 5. It is symmetrical to that of FIG. 4. After which the second press stroke is carried out.
  • the middle part of the blank 8 is clamped between the two semi-cylindrical halves 9 and 10 of the matrix, which on the other hand have two recesses at 11 and 12, of diameter adapted to the dimensions to be obtained for the two stalls.
  • two mobile rocket rings 13 and 14, of suitable profile are arranged at each end of the blank.
  • the forging by discharge-spinning according to the invention consists in pushing the mobile rocket rings 13 and 14 (FIG. 6) up to 13 ′ and 14 ′ (FIG. 7) either two successive press operations, that is to say in a single operation, so that the two rockets are obtained by spinning, while the two setting ranges are obtained by delivery, spinning and delivery occurring simultaneously.
  • Figures 9, 10 and 11 show schematically the same operations for the forging by discharge-spinning of an axle with cylindrical-biconical body, type B.
  • the only difference with the above is that the two halves 16 and 17 of the matrix have, in their middle part, a cylindro-biconical profile, and no longer a cylindrical profile.
  • Figures 12, 13 and 14 also schematically show the same operations for the forging by discharge-spinning of an axle with 4 type C chock spans. The only difference is that. two halves 18 and 19 of the matrix have two additional wedging surfaces and no longer a cylindrical or cylindro-binonic profile.
  • table I gives the dimensions, in diameter and in length, of the completely finished axle, of the raw forging axle before machining according to known forging methods, and of the 'gross forging axle according to the invention before machining.
  • Table II gives the same dimensions for a type B axle.
  • Table III gives the same dimensions for a type C axle.
  • the blank comprises a core of suitable diameter made of silica, or any other powdery refractory product, the coefficient of expansion of which relative to that of axle steel is such that, at 1260 ° C, its adhesion with the blank is good without being excessive, and that, at ambient temperature, its elimination presents no difficulty.

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EP81401142A 1980-07-22 1981-07-20 Verfahren zur Herstellung von Achsen Expired EP0044783B1 (de)

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AT81401142T ATE4293T1 (de) 1980-07-22 1981-07-20 Verfahren zur herstellung von achsen.

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FR8016107A FR2487232A1 (fr) 1980-07-22 1980-07-22 Procede de fabrication des essieux-axes
FR8016107 1980-07-22

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DE (1) DE3160703D1 (de)
ES (1) ES503804A0 (de)
FR (1) FR2487232A1 (de)
HU (1) HU189985B (de)
MX (1) MX155937A (de)
PL (1) PL232305A1 (de)
ZA (1) ZA814381B (de)

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EP0272067A2 (de) * 1986-12-18 1988-06-22 Stelco Inc. Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Stauchschmieden langer Abschnitte von Metallstangen
WO2009067773A1 (en) * 2007-11-30 2009-06-04 V & M Do Brasil S/A An axle from a seamless tube for railroad vehicles, and a process for manufacturing an axle from a seamless steel tube for railroad vehicles
FR2926739A1 (fr) * 2008-01-24 2009-07-31 Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes S Essieu forge a partir de tube sans soudure pour des vehicules de chemin de fer et du procede de fabrication d'essieu forge a partir de tube sans soudure pour des vehicules de chemin de fer
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US2313116A (en) * 1940-09-12 1943-03-09 Pittsburgh Steel Co Method of making tubular axles
FR1016457A (fr) * 1950-04-19 1952-11-13 Forges De Collonges Procédé de forgeage centré en particulier pour axes de pédaliers et moyeux de cycles et similaires
FR1026688A (fr) * 1950-10-30 1953-04-30 Procédé d'obtention d'axes de pédalier de cycle
FR2382288A1 (fr) * 1977-03-03 1978-09-29 Sofomec Procede de forgeage a froid d'axes de pedaliers, les moyens de mise en oeuvre et les axes executes selon ce procede

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US2273931A (en) * 1939-07-27 1942-02-24 Clarence P Byrnes Forging
US2313116A (en) * 1940-09-12 1943-03-09 Pittsburgh Steel Co Method of making tubular axles
FR1016457A (fr) * 1950-04-19 1952-11-13 Forges De Collonges Procédé de forgeage centré en particulier pour axes de pédaliers et moyeux de cycles et similaires
FR1026688A (fr) * 1950-10-30 1953-04-30 Procédé d'obtention d'axes de pédalier de cycle
FR2382288A1 (fr) * 1977-03-03 1978-09-29 Sofomec Procede de forgeage a froid d'axes de pedaliers, les moyens de mise en oeuvre et les axes executes selon ce procede

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EP0272067A2 (de) * 1986-12-18 1988-06-22 Stelco Inc. Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Stauchschmieden langer Abschnitte von Metallstangen
EP0272067A3 (de) * 1986-12-18 1990-05-09 Stelco Inc. Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Stauchschmieden langer Abschnitte von Metallstangen
WO2009067773A1 (en) * 2007-11-30 2009-06-04 V & M Do Brasil S/A An axle from a seamless tube for railroad vehicles, and a process for manufacturing an axle from a seamless steel tube for railroad vehicles
US9133533B2 (en) 2007-11-30 2015-09-15 V & M Do Brasil S/A Axle from a seamless tube for railroad vehicles, and a process for manufacturing an axle from a seamless steel tube for railroad vehicles
FR2926739A1 (fr) * 2008-01-24 2009-07-31 Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes S Essieu forge a partir de tube sans soudure pour des vehicules de chemin de fer et du procede de fabrication d'essieu forge a partir de tube sans soudure pour des vehicules de chemin de fer
CN101314202B (zh) * 2008-06-02 2010-04-21 江阴振宏重型锻造有限公司 局部镦粗全纤维镦锻生产风电主轴的方法
CN106216964A (zh) * 2016-08-24 2016-12-14 江苏金源高端装备股份有限公司 一种锤杆锻造工艺
CN106216964B (zh) * 2016-08-24 2018-08-24 江苏金源高端装备股份有限公司 一种锤杆锻造工艺
CN109985910A (zh) * 2019-04-12 2019-07-09 安徽马钢和菱实业有限公司 一种薄壁挂车车轴增厚轴肩区域轧前加热方法
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