EP0510759A1 - Procédé de fabrication de coudes de tuyaux à parois minces - Google Patents

Procédé de fabrication de coudes de tuyaux à parois minces Download PDF

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EP0510759A1
EP0510759A1 EP19920201075 EP92201075A EP0510759A1 EP 0510759 A1 EP0510759 A1 EP 0510759A1 EP 19920201075 EP19920201075 EP 19920201075 EP 92201075 A EP92201075 A EP 92201075A EP 0510759 A1 EP0510759 A1 EP 0510759A1
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Rune Larsson
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AP&T AUTOMATION & TOOLING AB
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21C—MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHEETS, WIRE, RODS, TUBES OR PROFILES, OTHERWISE THAN BY ROLLING; AUXILIARY OPERATIONS USED IN CONNECTION WITH METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL
    • B21C37/00—Manufacture of metal sheets, bars, wire, tubes or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape
    • B21C37/06—Manufacture of metal sheets, bars, wire, tubes or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape of tubes or metal hoses; Combined procedures for making tubes, e.g. for making multi-wall tubes
    • B21C37/15—Making tubes of special shape; Making tube fittings
    • B21C37/28—Making tube fittings for connecting pipes, e.g. U-pieces
    • B21C37/286—Making tube fittings for connecting pipes, e.g. U-pieces starting from sheet material

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  • the present invention relates to a method of producing a thin-walled pipe bend comprising the steps of producing pipe bend halves, the halves being formed into one another's mirror image in the plane of curvature of the pipe bend, and two halves being joined together for the formation of a pipe bend.
  • the prior art process suffers from numerous drawbacks, one of these residing in the relatively large material consumption which is caused by the fact that the halves for producing the pipe bend are employed in a pressing process, which requires a relatively large quantity of material surrounding the finally-shaped pipe bend half.
  • the present invention relates to a method of the type intimated by way of introduction, the method being devised so as to obviate the above-mentioned drawbacks.
  • the present invention relates to a method which, in particular, makes for the manufacture of pipe bends with an absolute minimum of material consumption, possibly in thinner material than has hitherto been possible, and with a minimum number of handling phases.
  • the present invention further relates to a method which gives a finished product of superior quality and configurational accuracy.
  • holes are made in the blank inside the gutter on forming of the gutter.
  • the dimensions of the blank may be reduced further, since the hole-making entails that relatively more material is drawn from the region interiorly in the gutter, when this is formed, than would have been the case without the central hole.
  • the present invention is also suitably characterized in that, on division or splitting of the gutter, approximately radially directed bridges are left, these interconnecting parts of the blank located outside the gutter with parts of the blank located inside the gutter.
  • the present invention implies that those halves of which pipe bends are joined together are produced from the point of departure of a closed, annular gutter which has substantially the same profile or cross-sectional configuration as the pipe bend half.
  • the gutter has been produced by pressing of a preferably square or rectangular sheet metal blank which may be taken from a metal sheet or a roll.
  • a sheet metal blank 1 which may preferably have substantially square or rectangular form and which may be taken from rolled so-called skelp.
  • the employment of a square blank obviates the need for orientation of the blank.
  • the finished blank 1 is fed to a press device in which a gutter 2 is formed, this being annular and being given a cross-sectional configuration which is preferably semi-circular (if the pipe bend is to have circular cross-section), but which naturally may be of any other suitable shape for the production of a pipe bend.
  • the gutter 2 in the illustrated embodiment, consists of four arcuately curved portions 3 which are connected pairwise via straight portions 4.
  • the production of the gutter is effected by the application of a substantially conventional pressing process so that a scrap strip 5 is formed exteriorly about the gutter 2.
  • a scrap portion 6 will correspondingly be formed inside the gutter.
  • the scrap strip 5 and the scrap portion 6 substantially lie in a common plane, and that the gutter 2 is located wholly on one side of this plane.
  • a central opening 7 is, during the pressing operation (preferably towards the end of this operation), cut in the central scrap portion 6 of the blank 1.
  • this central opening In an intended pipe diameter of 120 mm in the finished pipe bend, it is appropriate to make this central opening when roughly 25 mm remains of the pressing movement in the tool, i.e. when approximately 40 per cent of the working stroke is left.
  • this central opening 7 affords the major advantage that the material which, during the pressing operation, forms the wall in the gutter 2 will, to a greater extent, be taken from the central portion of the blank than from its peripheral portion outside the gutter.
  • the dimensions of the blank 1 may be reduced so that the total material consumption will consequently be reduced to a corresponding degree.
  • the blank 1 has assumed the shape which is apparent from Figs. 1 and 2, the gutter itself is cut away from superfluous parts (i.e. the scrap strip 5 and the scrap portion 6) of the blank 1. Furthermore, the closed, annular gutter is divided into a number of halves, in Fig. 1 four in number, which are then joined together two-by-two, for example by welding, such that a complete pipe bend is formed.
  • the material saving which may be achieved according to the present invention amounts, in a pipe diameter of 120 mm, to approx. 15 per cent as compared with the prior art method of manufacture described by way of introduction using trapezoidal blanks. Since the forming of the gutter takes place wholly symmetrically, the material thickness in the blank employed can probably be reduced somewhat, possibly of the order of magnitude of between 10 and 20 per cent, whereby a further material saving may be achieved without running the risk of any deterioration in quality or other drawbacks.
  • the length of the straight portions 4 disposed in the gutter may naturally be varied within broad limits, depending upon the final shape of the contemplated pipe bend. In one extreme case, the straight portions 4 may possibly be eliminated entirely. In addition, the straight portions need not be of equal length at both of the ends of a half.
  • the annular gutter be given a corresponding configuration such that it has greater radial extent to every second cutting point 8 than to the remaining cutting points.
  • the radial extent could, for example, be 160 mm in the upper and lower cutting points 8 in the Figure (the profile here being thus a semi-circle with a radius of 80 mm), while the radial extent at the two horizontal cutting points could be 120 mm (the profile here being thus a semi-circle with a radius of 60 mm).
  • Such a dimensioning would result in a transition bend from 120 to 160 mm ⁇ .
  • Fig. 1 it has been assumed that the pipe bend is to be 90°, for which reason four halves are produced in one and the same ring.
  • the annular gutter is divided into a different number of parts than that shown on the Drawing.
  • the gutter may be divided into only two parts, which would result in a U-shaped pipe bend.
  • the division of the gutter may be effected in three points of division, which would result in a pipe bend with an angle of curvature of 120°.
  • the gutter may, of course, also be divided into a larger number of parts than those shown on the Drawing.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Bending Of Plates, Rods, And Pipes (AREA)
  • Branch Pipes, Bends, And The Like (AREA)
  • Lining Or Joining Of Plastics Or The Like (AREA)
  • Shaping Of Tube Ends By Bending Or Straightening (AREA)
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SE9101275A SE9101275D0 (sv) 1991-04-26 1991-04-26 Saett att framstaella en tunnvaeggig roerkroek
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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE355286C (de) * 1922-06-24 Rheinische Schweisswerke Siegl Verfahren zur Herstellung von Rohrkruemmern
US2192471A (en) * 1937-06-17 1940-03-05 Earl J Harbison Method of making pipe fittings
FR1551735A (fr) * 1967-01-23 1968-12-27
EP0214054A1 (fr) * 1985-08-30 1987-03-11 WANNER ISOFI ISOLATION Société Anonyme Dite: Procédé de fabrication par emboutissage de pièces métalliques rigides destinées à constituer des revêtement de calorifuge de tuyauteries, des gaines et d'autres organes similaires

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE355286C (de) * 1922-06-24 Rheinische Schweisswerke Siegl Verfahren zur Herstellung von Rohrkruemmern
US2192471A (en) * 1937-06-17 1940-03-05 Earl J Harbison Method of making pipe fittings
FR1551735A (fr) * 1967-01-23 1968-12-27
EP0214054A1 (fr) * 1985-08-30 1987-03-11 WANNER ISOFI ISOLATION Société Anonyme Dite: Procédé de fabrication par emboutissage de pièces métalliques rigides destinées à constituer des revêtement de calorifuge de tuyauteries, des gaines et d'autres organes similaires

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EP0510759B1 (fr) 1995-06-21
ES2073856T3 (es) 1995-08-16

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