US3455005A - Method of making a metal grating - Google Patents
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- US3455005A US3455005A US637163A US3455005DA US3455005A US 3455005 A US3455005 A US 3455005A US 637163 A US637163 A US 637163A US 3455005D A US3455005D A US 3455005DA US 3455005 A US3455005 A US 3455005A
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
- B21F—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF METAL WIRE
- B21F27/00—Making wire network, i.e. wire nets
- B21F27/02—Making wire network, i.e. wire nets without additional connecting elements or material at crossings, e.g. connected by knitting
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
- B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
- B21D47/00—Making rigid structural elements or units, e.g. honeycomb structures
- B21D47/005—Making gratings
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
- B21F—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF METAL WIRE
- B21F27/00—Making wire network, i.e. wire nets
- B21F27/12—Making special types or portions of network by methods or means specially adapted therefor
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E04—BUILDING
- E04C—STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; BUILDING MATERIALS
- E04C2/00—Building elements of relatively thin form for the construction of parts of buildings, e.g. sheet materials, slabs, or panels
- E04C2/30—Building elements of relatively thin form for the construction of parts of buildings, e.g. sheet materials, slabs, or panels characterised by the shape or structure
- E04C2/42—Gratings; Grid-like panels
- E04C2/421—Gratings; Grid-like panels made of bar-like elements, e.g. bars discontinuous in one direction
- E04C2/422—Gratings; Grid-like panels made of bar-like elements, e.g. bars discontinuous in one direction with continuous bars connecting at crossing points of the grid pattern
- E04C2/425—Gratings; Grid-like panels made of bar-like elements, e.g. bars discontinuous in one direction with continuous bars connecting at crossing points of the grid pattern made of perforated bars
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
- Y10T29/00—Metal working
- Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
- Y10T29/49616—Structural member making
- Y10T29/4962—Grille making
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
- Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
- Y10T29/00—Metal working
- Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
- Y10T29/49826—Assembling or joining
- Y10T29/49908—Joining by deforming
- Y10T29/49938—Radially expanding part in cavity, aperture, or hollow body
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- This invention relates to gratings of the type used as metal flooring stair treads and the like, and to the method of making such gratings.
- grating Many forms of grating have been proposed and one form which has recently become generally available utilizes bearer bars supporting cross-stays having a depth approximately twice that of their width. This type of grating generally has the cross-stays secured in slots in the upper edges of the bearer bars and both the notching of the bearer bars and flattening of the rod to form the cross-stays leads to undesirable deformations which must be corrected before satisfactory gratings can be made.
- a metal grating comprising parallel bearer bars, spaced lines of holes through the bearer bars and adjacent the edges of the bars at one side of the grating, and cross-stays having portions of complementary cross-section to that of the holes located in the latter, and portions of different crosssection extending between the bearer bars.
- the invention also provides for the portions of the cross-stays between the bearer bars to be of rectangular section with a depth substantially twice the width thereof.
- FIG. 1 is a plan view partly in section of the grating according to this invention
- FIG. 2 is a section of the grating on the line A-A in FIG. 1,
- FIG. 3 is a section of the grating on the line BB in FIG. 1,
- FIG. 4 illustrates a method of flattening the cross-stays
- FIG. 5 is a front elevation of the feed roll shown in FIG. 4 and FIG. 6 illustrates the method of rotating the flattened cross-stays through right angles.
- the grating comprises bearer bars 1 located by cross-stays 2 extending through holes 3 of circular section in the bearer bars.
- the portions 4 of the cross stays in the holes 3 are of complementary circular cross-section to said holes, while the portions 5 of the cross-stays between the bearer bars are of flattened section.
- the portions 5 of the cross-stays are generally of rectangular section but with the ends tapering to meet the portions 4.
- the portions 5 of the cross-stays being of greater height than the diameter of the portions 4 act to locate the bearer bars in spaced relationship, but this location is mainly effected by the swelling of the portions 4 so that they are a tight fit in the holes 3. This is effected automatically by the flattening of portion 5 causing sufiicient metal flow into portions 4 to effect the required location provided the clearances between the holes 3 and crossstays is not too great before the flattening operation.
- the cross-stays 2 are shown in the drawing with the top edges thereof slightly below the level of the tops of the bearer bars 1. However, the cross-stays may be above or level with the tops of the bearer bars, this being controlled by the location of the holes 3 in the bearer bars and the degree of flattening of the cross-stays.
- the bearer bars 1 may be about 1 /2" deep and the cross-stays made from A drawn rod which has the portions 5 thereof flattened to a thickness of and a height of To manufacture the grating, the bearer bars 1 are punched at equal spacing to form the holes 3 and rods 6 threaded therethrough by any conventional means to form the basic grid structure 7 shown on the left hand side of FIG. 4.
- This grid structure 7 is fed between flattening rolls 8 to reduce the rods 6 to an approximately rectangular section having a thickness approximately one half its width. This process locks the cross-stays 2 so formed against transverse movement relative to the bearer bars 1 and makes rotation of the cross-stays very difficult.
- the grating is preferably formed upside down mainly to assist location of the bearer bars 1 before being locked to the cross-stays.
- the feeding of the grid structure 7 between the flattening rolls 8 is conveniently elfected by a feed roll 9 having transverse grooves 10 which engage the rods 6 in turn.
- the feed rolls 9 and flattening rolls 8 have deep circumferential grooves 11 through which the bearer bars 1 extend and are thereby located prior to being locked to the cross-stays 2.
- the flattening of the cross-stays is a continuous operation and it will be noted from FIG. 4 that they are flattened at right angles to the direction required.
- the rotation of the cross-stays to the positions shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 is effected in a separate non-continuous operation as shown in FIG. 6.
- the method enables gratings to be made quickly, economically and with the components in an undistorted condition.
- a method of making a metal grating comprising forming equally spaced circular holes in elongated bearer bars, locating a plurality of said bearer bars in parallel spaced relationship, threading cross-stays through corresponding holes in the bearer bars, flattening the portions of the cross-stays between the bearer bars in planes extending substantially parallel to the lengths of the bearer bars, and thereafter rotating the flattened cross-stays through approximately 2.
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Cited By (4)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US4126980A (en) * | 1976-06-19 | 1978-11-28 | Norton Engineering Alloys Company Limited | Metal grating |
WO1984002551A1 (en) * | 1982-12-24 | 1984-07-05 | John Raymond Williams | Grid structure |
US5133123A (en) * | 1988-11-18 | 1992-07-28 | Stewart-Decatur Security Systems, Inc. | Security gratings and methods of making bars therefor |
US10376946B1 (en) * | 2016-05-25 | 2019-08-13 | James E. Ealer, Sr. | System and method of making an expanded metal gutter cover having a solid edge margin |
Citations (2)
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US1734660A (en) * | 1927-07-30 | 1929-11-05 | New Engineering Construction C | Metallic flooring or grating |
US1867702A (en) * | 1929-09-06 | 1932-07-19 | Arthur E Sangdahl | Grating |
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- 1967-05-09 US US637163A patent/US3455005A/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1967-05-09 GB GB21571/67A patent/GB1142906A/en not_active Expired
- 1967-05-17 DE DE19671659169 patent/DE1659169A1/de active Pending
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US1734660A (en) * | 1927-07-30 | 1929-11-05 | New Engineering Construction C | Metallic flooring or grating |
US1867702A (en) * | 1929-09-06 | 1932-07-19 | Arthur E Sangdahl | Grating |
Cited By (4)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US4126980A (en) * | 1976-06-19 | 1978-11-28 | Norton Engineering Alloys Company Limited | Metal grating |
WO1984002551A1 (en) * | 1982-12-24 | 1984-07-05 | John Raymond Williams | Grid structure |
US5133123A (en) * | 1988-11-18 | 1992-07-28 | Stewart-Decatur Security Systems, Inc. | Security gratings and methods of making bars therefor |
US10376946B1 (en) * | 2016-05-25 | 2019-08-13 | James E. Ealer, Sr. | System and method of making an expanded metal gutter cover having a solid edge margin |
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GB1142906A (en) | 1969-02-12 |
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