US3167308A - Springs and strip steel - Google Patents

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US3167308A
US3167308A US198062A US19806262A US3167308A US 3167308 A US3167308 A US 3167308A US 198062 A US198062 A US 198062A US 19806262 A US19806262 A US 19806262A US 3167308 A US3167308 A US 3167308A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16F—SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; MEANS FOR DAMPING VIBRATION
    • F16F1/00—Springs
    • F16F1/02—Springs made of steel or other material having low internal friction; Wound, torsion, leaf, cup, ring or the like springs, the material of the spring not being relevant
    • F16F1/04—Wound springs
    • F16F1/10—Spiral springs with turns lying substantially in plane surfaces
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
    • G04B1/00—Driving mechanisms
    • G04B1/10—Driving mechanisms with mainspring
    • G04B1/14—Mainsprings; Bridles therefor
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
    • G04B1/00—Driving mechanisms
    • G04B1/10—Driving mechanisms with mainspring
    • G04B1/14—Mainsprings; Bridles therefor
    • G04B1/145—Composition and manufacture of the springs

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  • This invention relates to springs of the spiral type, such as main springs for watches and clocks. More in particular, the invention relates to such springs of the type wherein the delivery of power may be subject to variations because of friction between the contacting surfaces of the adjacent turns.
  • springs of the above type made of steel or other metallic alloys in flat strip form
  • difliculty has been encountered because of relatively wide variations in the power or working force of the springs.
  • Such variations result from the effects of friction between the contacting surfaces of adjacent turns or coils of a spring. That is, when a spring of this type is being wound or is unwinding the adjacent coils or turns rub against each other and friction between the moving surfaces tends to cause uneven relative movement. This is particularly true when a spring starts to unwind from its fully wound position, wherein the turns or coils are somewhat tight against each other.
  • An object of this invention is to provide improved springs, such as, the main springs for watches and clocks, spiral power springs and instrument springs.
  • a further object is to provide an improved spring structure.
  • a further object is to provide improved coatings for reducing the friction between surfaces as discussed above.
  • Another object is to provide an improved mode of applying coatings of the above character.
  • Another object is to apply an improved protective structure upon a strip of spring steel or the like.
  • FIGURE 1 is a view of a spring constituting one embodiment of the invention
  • FIGURE 2 is a greatly enlarged sectional view of two adjacent coils or turns on the line 22 of FIGURE 1;
  • FIGURES 3 and 4 are sectional views similar to FIG- URE 2, but showing other embodiments of the invention.
  • FIGURE 5 is a somewhat schematic view showing one mode of coating the strip steel in accordance with the invention.
  • a spring is tightly wound upon a spindle 4 within a barrel 6.
  • Spring 1 is formed of a strip 2 of steel which is rectangular in cross-section, and, in FIGURE 2, the two turns or coils of the spring represented are designated 2a and 2b, respectively.
  • Tightly fused to the top surface 8 of strip 2 is a continuous strip 10 of Teflon, and a similar strip 12 as to present convex surfaces.
  • Teflon is a trademark identifying a brand of polytetrafluoroethane, which is of the polyhalogenoalkene group, and is a polyfluorocarbon.
  • the invention contemplates that a polyhalogenoethene or polychlorotrifluoroethene may be used.
  • an identical spring is provided with strips 20 and 22 which are crowned so This reduces the width of the contact area very materially and permits great leeway in the attitude or relative parallel relationship between the adjacent turns.
  • the spring is of the cross-curved type having one concave and convex face.
  • the Teflon strips 24 and 26 are of the type of strips 10 and 12.
  • the strips of spring steel from which the springs of FIGURES l to 4 are formed are produced and processed as in the manufacture of springs without the Teflon coating.
  • the coating operation is performed by drawing the continuous strip over a roll 30, down into a body of liquid 32 which is a solution containing small particles of Teflon dispersed in water, around a roll 34, and thence vertically from the body of the liquid and up through a vertical drying and curing oven 36.
  • strip 2 moves upwardly from the body of liquid, a quantity of the liquid is carried by the surfaces of the strip.
  • the drying and curing oven 36 is a vertical tunnel having heating elements along its side walls so as to subject the upwardly moving strip and the liquid to rather intense heat. This causes the water to evaporate from the liquid so that it rapidly becomes a highly concentrated Teflon solution. As the solution becomes more concentrated and the cross-sectional area of each stream is reduced, it tends to draw together at the center of the side face of the strip. This drawing together results from the actions of cohesion and surface tension with respect to the solution and the adhesion of the solution to the surface of the strip. Hence, at the zone in the oven where the water has been evaporated, there remains a layer of Teflon at the center of each side face of the strip.
  • the further heating fuses the particles of Teflon together and also fuses the Teflon to the strip.
  • the resulting product is the strip of metal having two continuous ribs or strips of Teflon fused to the centers of its side faces. Due to the flowing of the solution from the edges of the strip, the completed product may have little or no Teflon coating at the edge portions of the strip. When strip 2 is narrow as in the draw-- ings, the edge portions constitute-a substantial percentage of the strip. However, for strips of greater width, the
  • the Teflon deposit. or coating strips may have crowned or convex surfaces as r f .in FIGURE 3,01: it may have flat s'urfaces as in FIG- URES 1 and 2. This characteristic is controlled by reguw into consideration the following: (1): the width of the metal strip, (2) theconccntrationor relative amount of 1 Teflon dispersed in the solution, ;(3) the speed. of move-.,-
  • the solution has been referred toasa dispersion of V Teflon particles in water, but it, also includesja wetting I agent so as to insure rapid and thorough-wetting of'the metal surfaces ⁇ .
  • the solution is subjected to agitation to maintain a uniformdispersionwithoutcausing objeciionable surface agitation asmight interfere with the desired coating of liquid on thestrip as it moves upwardly.
  • the a uniform rate of movement of the strip, vertically com ⁇ bined with the maintenance of other uniform conditions,- insures uniform coatings upon the two side faces of the I strip. 7
  • the stainless spring steel from strip 2 contains the following .07 to 20% carbon, not more than ;-1% nitrogen; 14 to 20% chrom-p ium; 7 to 12% nickel; .2 to 2% silicon; .4 to 2% manganese; notmore than-4% molybdenum; not more than 10% cobalt; and, the remainder,iron with the normally v -40 springsfrom strip 2 the I occurring impurities.
  • theinvention in general, theinvention 'contemplatesthat'the thickness of eachTeflon coating shall be of the order of from parallel side faces and rounded edges and which includes as'illustrative and not in wide as inch. It has been found that satisfactory com sharpal springs'can be profi l cedwith such a coated strip where each of the Teiion coatingsis ofa-thickness of the .order of .000005 inch to ,00001 inch. -although the'inventionhas particular utility with stainless spring steel, it is 'also applicable'with other steelsand other metallic alloys.
  • a spiral metal spring which has contactingsurfaces tending toicontact each other andproduce friction, ,and
  • spring 'as describedin claim '1 in which isformed by a strip of stainless spring steel havingsubstantially .a' secondTTefloncoating strip, saidcoating stripsbeing substantially identical and beingpositioned respectively along said side faces.
  • each of said coating strips having'a thickness of 1 to'10% of the thickness of the steel strip.
  • the steel; strip is of-the order of .002 inch to .01 inch in thickne'ss,'the. thickness of'the Teflon coating is of the order of .00005 to .00028 inch, preferably not more than .0001 to .0012 inch;
  • the coating layer may be of the order of .00059 inchonmore in thickness.
  • a flat strip of metal as described in claim 6 which is in the form of a spiral spring of'thetype used/for watches,

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US3334524A (en) * 1964-10-27 1967-08-08 North British Rubber Co Ltd Power transmission belts
US3349418A (en) * 1965-07-20 1967-10-31 Gen Tire & Rubber Co Low friction structural bearing
US3396439A (en) * 1966-04-18 1968-08-13 Ideal Corp Clamp for hose or the like
US3471327A (en) * 1963-09-25 1969-10-07 Siemens Ag Method of insulating thin electric conductors,particularly extremely thin copper conductors,with thermoplastic synthetic materials
US3918977A (en) * 1972-09-14 1975-11-11 Gte Sylvania Inc Method for coating metallic strips
US3947611A (en) * 1972-12-21 1976-03-30 White Charles S Method of making a bondable low friction thread
US4303345A (en) * 1979-06-20 1981-12-01 Sycor, Inc. Ink ribbon drive for data printers
US4850233A (en) * 1987-06-05 1989-07-25 Kioritz Corporation Recoil apparatus
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US2489456A (en) * 1945-08-21 1949-11-29 Robert A Liebel Method of applying uniform coating by immersion
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US2932503A (en) * 1956-08-28 1960-04-12 American Machine & Metals Springs
FR1224177A (fr) * 1959-02-02 1960-06-22 Ct Tech De L Ind Horlogere Perfectionnement à la lubrification des petits mécanismes, et plus particulièrement des appareils d'horlogerie
US2961345A (en) * 1957-08-05 1960-11-22 John V Petriello Composite plastic film and a method of making the same in continuous form
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US1922291A (en) * 1932-03-07 1933-08-15 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co Balloon tire
US2404000A (en) * 1940-07-24 1946-07-16 Kaywood Corp Coating machine and method of coating
US2489456A (en) * 1945-08-21 1949-11-29 Robert A Liebel Method of applying uniform coating by immersion
US2932503A (en) * 1956-08-28 1960-04-12 American Machine & Metals Springs
US2979417A (en) * 1957-06-26 1961-04-11 Straumann Inst Ag Method of preparing self-lubricating watch and clock parts and the coated article
US2961345A (en) * 1957-08-05 1960-11-22 John V Petriello Composite plastic film and a method of making the same in continuous form
CH340771A (de) * 1957-08-17 1959-08-31 Straumann Inst Ag Uhrbestandteil und Verfahren zu dessen Herstellung
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US3471327A (en) * 1963-09-25 1969-10-07 Siemens Ag Method of insulating thin electric conductors,particularly extremely thin copper conductors,with thermoplastic synthetic materials
US3301609A (en) * 1963-12-23 1967-01-31 Fabreeka Products Co Oilless antifriction device
US3334524A (en) * 1964-10-27 1967-08-08 North British Rubber Co Ltd Power transmission belts
US3349418A (en) * 1965-07-20 1967-10-31 Gen Tire & Rubber Co Low friction structural bearing
US3396439A (en) * 1966-04-18 1968-08-13 Ideal Corp Clamp for hose or the like
US3918977A (en) * 1972-09-14 1975-11-11 Gte Sylvania Inc Method for coating metallic strips
US3947611A (en) * 1972-12-21 1976-03-30 White Charles S Method of making a bondable low friction thread
US4303345A (en) * 1979-06-20 1981-12-01 Sycor, Inc. Ink ribbon drive for data printers
US4850233A (en) * 1987-06-05 1989-07-25 Kioritz Corporation Recoil apparatus
US20050090869A1 (en) * 2000-04-10 2005-04-28 Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. Adapative anti-tachycardia therapy apparatus and method
WO2009043391A1 (fr) * 2007-10-05 2009-04-09 Creepservice Sarl Ressort de barillet a grande capacite de stockage d'energie et son procede de fabrication
EP3002635A1 (fr) * 2014-09-29 2016-04-06 Richemont International S.A. Procédé de fabrication d'un élément ressort pour mouvement horloger ou autre instrument de précision
US20180347676A1 (en) * 2017-06-06 2018-12-06 GM Global Technology Operations LLC Vehicle propulsion system torque transfer vibration attenuation mechanism
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