US3614882A - Machine for manufacturing helically seamed tubing from a strip-like profiled blank - Google Patents

Machine for manufacturing helically seamed tubing from a strip-like profiled blank Download PDF

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US3614882A
US3614882A US810470A US3614882DA US3614882A US 3614882 A US3614882 A US 3614882A US 810470 A US810470 A US 810470A US 3614882D A US3614882D A US 3614882DA US 3614882 A US3614882 A US 3614882A
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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
    • B21C37/12—Making tubes or metal hoses with helically arranged seams
    • B21C37/121—Making tubes or metal hoses with helically arranged seams with non-welded and non-soldered seams

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  • the present invention concerns a machine for manufacturing helically seamed tubing from a strip-like profiled blank, in which the strip-like profiled blank is guided under forced guidance into a shape consistent with that of the tubing over a length corresponding to the pitch of the helical seam, whereupon the edges of the profiled blank, which have been conducted into jointing contact, are jointed to form a seam by using at least two seaming rolls, one of them located outside and the other inside the tube which is being formed.
  • the machine according to the invention belongs in the first place to the latter category.
  • the drawbacks of previously known machines include the fact that their accessories have to contain a great number of different tool units which have to be exchanged at every transition from a given breadth or type of strip to another or when the diameter of the tubing is to be changed.
  • Such tool units are difficult to manufacture and their manufacturing is quite expensive, which implies that considerable capital investments have to be tied down in them in versatile production activity.
  • these units are subjected to wear because the tubing which is being formed, when it glides past their guiding surfaces, causes them to wear down at a considerable rate with the consequence, among others, that the calculated, correct tolerances, which are important in view of the quality of the product,
  • a further objective of the invention is to provide a machine by means of which it is possible at any time, within certain maximum and minimum limits, to produce tubing with arbitrary and completely freely selectable diameter. It is still a further objective to provide a machine by means of which helically seamed tubing narrowing or widening in its diameter can be produced, so that it is possible with a given tubing length to change from one tube diameter to another on a comparatively short distance.
  • the invention is mainly characterized in that the machine comprises a loop formed of a flexible traction element, into which the strip-like profiled blank has been arranged to be fed, whereby this strip is forced to roll up into tube shape under forced guidance by the said loop, and that it further comprises at least one support member firmly connected with the machine body, this member supporting the tubing which is being formed, from its outside and from the side opposite to that from which the profiled blank is forcibly fed.
  • a machine according to the invention has no such parts highly susceptible to wear which would have to be xchanged ever so often or to be replaced within a short period owing to deterioration of quality. It is also to be noted that no such tool units are used which would require high accuracy in their manufacturing, or any machine tools at all for that matter. It is true that in a machine according to the invention a flexible traction element is used, e.g. a steel strip or wire, Which is subject to wear and constitutes a consumption item. But its initial price is entirely negligible and the material is sold by the yard; it follows that the person operating the machine is able very rapidly to replace the worn-out part by merely using a pair of pincers and to continue the operation.
  • a machine according to the invention is eminently suitable for use as a so-called working-site machine, in other words, it is taken directly to the site where tubing is needed and the tubing is manufactured there.
  • the unreasonably high transport costs are avoided which mostly encumber the use of sheet metal tubing especially if tubing of rather large diameter is concerned, in which instance the greater part of the transport charges is in fact paid for transporting air.
  • FIG. 1 shows a machine according to the invention, viewed from the side, in the direction of the tubing which is being formed.
  • FIG. 2 is another view, from above, of the same machine.
  • FIG. 3 shows, in elevational view, an enlarged detail with reference to the attachment to the machine of the traction element which is used in the invention.
  • FIG. 4 shows, viewed from one end of the machine and sectioned along the line IVIV in FIG. 5, an enlarged detail with reference to the arrangement with respect to each other of the seaming rolls used for accomplishing the helical seam.
  • FIG. 5 shows the same as FIG. 4, but as viewed in the same direction as that in FIGS. 1 and 3.
  • the reference numerals 1 indicate side plates belonging to the body of the machine and outside which the elements participating in the jointing or seaming operation are located.
  • the flat sheet metal blank 18a must pass, first, between the driven profiling rolls 2, which impart to it the desired profile.
  • the profiling rolls 2 accomplish positive or forced feed of the strip forward and in between the guide blocks 13, where a gorge 19 (FIG. 3) has been provided, which presents various protruding steps or grooves consistent with the profile of the strip so that at this stage, too, the strip 18a will be positively guided and cannot be twisted to either side or deflected upwardly or downwardly.
  • the strip Upon its release from the positive guidance by the guide blocks 13, the strip encounters a loo formed of the flexible traction element 10, which may be made e.g. of strip steel.
  • This traction element loop determines the outer diameter of the tubing 18 which is formed.
  • the drive of the lower seaming roll 16 has been arranged to be by means of a gear train 11, 12, which is most appropriately mounted on an adjustable slide, the design of which shall be described later.
  • the drive shaft of the seaming roll 15 passes through the wall 1 of the machine body.
  • a take-up reel 7 turnable and adjustable by means of the screw 6 has been provided in the machine, upon which the traction element may be wound or from which it may be unwound so that a loop size consistent with the desired tube diameter is obtained.
  • the traction element 10 passes over the pulley 9 and into the gorge 17, which has been provided in the guide blocks 13. From the terminal point of the gorge 17 the traction element passes helically through the distance corresponding to one turn, or to the pitch, of the helical seam and attaches to the arm 14, which is turnable about the pin 20 (FIG. 3).
  • the traction element 10 passes in the loop portion most appropriately as closely adjacent to the preformed seam portion of the strip blank as possible, whereby the abrasion marks it causes on the surface of the strip that is being bent into tube shape will be hid from view at the stage when the seam proper is formed.
  • the support 4 has been arranged to be movable along a guide 21, a spring and a flexible traction element 3 carried over appropriate transmission elements and winding upon a reel 8 mounted on the same shaft as the reel 7 ensuring that in the event of adjustment being made by screw 6 the support 4 will move along the guide 21 in synchronism with the resultant change in loop size.
  • the traction element may be made of a number of different materials.
  • the following, for instance, may come into question: strip steel, plastic strip, steel wire, and a chain with roller elements of such size that the latter contact the outer surface of the strip blank 18a which is being bent into tubular shape.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 present in closer detail the mounting on the machine body of the seaming roll 16, which participates in the forming process of the helical seam and is located outside the tube that is being formed.
  • the seaming roll 16 has been journalled in a slide 22, which is movable both in the direction of arrows A and in that of arrows B.
  • the slide 22 moves in the direction of arrows A and B in the guides 23 and can be locked in position with the aid of the sleeve piece 24 and nut 25.
  • the slide moves in the guides 27 and it is adjustable to a given position in height by means of the screw 26, for which there is a corresponding thread in the sleeve piece 24.
  • the axis defined by the seaming roll 16 and its drive wheel 12 is inclined at an angle of a few degrees against the axis of the seaming roll 15. This has been found to be of great importance in view of the tightness of the seam that is obtained, because for successful accomplishment of the seaming operation the seam has to be compressed slightly past the position it will have in the finished tubing, this fact being due to the elastic characteristics of the material of which the seam is being formed.
  • the arrangement involving transfer of driving power to the seaming roll 16 through the slide 22 is advantageous in two respects. Firstly, the detriments resulting from bending of the drive shafts of the seaming rolls 15 and 16 are hereby eliminated. It is to be noted that these shafts can never be made thick enough in practice to preclude in operation and under high seaming force the occurrence of a given deflection, which has a detrimental effect on the accuracy with which the machine performs the seaming. On the other hand, this arrangement is useful in allowing sufficient space e.g. for the placing of the traction element 10.
  • a machine for manufacturing helically seamed tubing from a strip-like profiled blank comprising two seaming rolls, means feeding said blank between said seaming rolls, a flexible traction element extending between said seaming rolls and forming a loop enclosing and bending said blank into tubular shape, a support member engaging said blank while it is being bent, said rolls being located between said means and said member, a guide supporting said member for adjustable movement, a mechanism connected with said traction element for adjusting the size of said loop, and means operatively connecting said guide with said mechanism to provide a single adjustment control of the diameter of tubing being manufactured.
  • a machine for manufacturing helically seamed tubing from a strip-like profiled blank comprising a machine body, driven profiling rolls carried by said body for feeding said blank, a flexible traction element forming a loop enclosing and bending said blank into tubular shape and bringing edges of the profiled blank into joint contact with each other, at least two seaming rolls located close to one end of said traction element for seaming together the edges of the profiled blank, a pulley guiding said traction element outside of the loop, a take-up reel holding one end of said traction element outside of the loop, said reel being rotatable in opposite directions to vary the size of the loop, a support member engaging said blank from the outside while it is being bent, a guide supporting said member for adjustable movement, a spring connected with said support member, elastic means connecting said support member with said take-up reel, whereby when the take-up reel is turned in a direction causing a diminution of the loop the support member is moved closer to said seaming rolls against the action of the spring,
  • a machine in accordance with claim 2 having means holding the other end of the traction element and causing its loop to run outside the profiled blank and around it beside the preformed seam on the profiled blank.
  • a machine in accordance with claim 3, wherein the last-mentioned means comprise an arm having an end holding said other end of the traction element close to said seaming rolls, and a pivot extending through the other end of said arm for rotatably supporting said arm.

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US3940962A (en) * 1974-05-09 1976-03-02 Pacific Roller Die Company, Incorporated Conduit making machine with diameter control and method
US4987759A (en) * 1989-02-17 1991-01-29 Tuotekolmio Oy Machine for manufacturing helically-seaming tubing
WO2015024548A3 (de) * 2013-08-21 2015-04-16 Fritz Hahn Gmbh & Co. Kg Vorrichtung und verfahren zur herstellung eines wickelfalzrohres sowie ein mit der vorrichtung und nach dem verfahren aus einem profilierten metallband hergestelltes wickelfalzrohr

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US3940962A (en) * 1974-05-09 1976-03-02 Pacific Roller Die Company, Incorporated Conduit making machine with diameter control and method
US4987759A (en) * 1989-02-17 1991-01-29 Tuotekolmio Oy Machine for manufacturing helically-seaming tubing
WO2015024548A3 (de) * 2013-08-21 2015-04-16 Fritz Hahn Gmbh & Co. Kg Vorrichtung und verfahren zur herstellung eines wickelfalzrohres sowie ein mit der vorrichtung und nach dem verfahren aus einem profilierten metallband hergestelltes wickelfalzrohr

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