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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7258296 | Spiral winder and a method of spirally winding A spiral winder is disclosed adapted to implement a new method for spirally winding a product of indefinite length, such as pipe, into a coil for packaging and/or transport to an end user. The spiral winder consists primarily of a rotor assembly (1) supportin... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7093472 | Method of continuously rolling a product exiting from an upstream roll stand at a velocity higher than the take in velocity of a downstream roll stand A method is disclosed for continuously rolling a product exiting from an upstream roll stand at a delivery velocity V1 higher than the take in velocity V3 of a downstream roll stand. The excess product resulting from the velocity differential b... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7086783 | Laying head bearing with offset preloading A bearing assembly is disclosed for rotatably supporting a quill in the housing of a rolling mill laying head. The bearing assembly includes first and second axially spaced roller bearing sets interposed between the quill and the housing. The bearing assembly also i... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7011264 | Laying head for rod rolling mill In a laying head for forming a longitudinally moving hot rolled product into a helix, a tubular quill has a central axis of rotation and a through passageway extending along the central axis from a first end to an opposite second end of the quill. The interior quill... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6915978 | Method of rod coil forming and set of equipment for its realization This invention relates to rolling and in particular to the process of rod coil forming, for instance, of steel and nonferrous metals, and to a set of equipment for its realization. The method of rod coil forming includes continuous rod feeding through a wire-... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6769641 | Segmented ring guide for rolling mill laying head A laying has a quill rotatable about an axis, and a pipe carried on the quill. The pipe has an entry end arranged to receive a product, and an intermediate portion defining a curved guide path leading from the entry and to a delivery end spaced radially from the qui... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6565031 | Coil-laying device A coil-laying device has a body having a generally cylindrical outer surface centered on and rotatable about an axis and wall structure forming on the surface a radially outwardly open groove having an intake end, a center, and an output end. The groove h... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6543712 | Laying head with a laying pipe for a rapidly movable wire rod A laying head for a rapidly movable wire rod and including a carrying sleeve located in the support housing of the laying head for receiving a wire entrance section of a laying pipe and supported by two, spaced from each other bearings, a pipe holder proj... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6196486 | Counterweighted wire-coiling head A coil-laying head for a wire-coiling apparatus has a tubular body centered on and rotatable about an axis, a generally spiral guide tube having an inlet end at the axis and an outlet end opening generally tangentially of the axis at a radial spacing from... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6179237 | Coiling device for wire rod An apparatus for coiling a continuously arriving wire has a main support rotatable about an axis and having mounting formations and a head carried on the support and having mounting formations engaging the support mounting formations. A guide tube is fixe... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6161787 | Method of placing wire windings onto a conveyor belt and device for carrying out the method A method and a device for placing wire windings onto a conveyor belt, particularly onto a Stelmor conveyor belt, wherein the wire windings are placed on the conveyor belt in an actual position relative to the belt middle. The wire windings are placed on t... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6098909 | Laying tube for windings A laying tube for producing wire windings from continuously introduced essentially straight wire material includes a first portion of an outer casing which is driven so as to rotate and receives a feeding tube for the wire material. Connected to the first... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5944275 | Device for forming loops from a wire strand emerging from a wire rolling train by means or a rotating looper A device for forming loops from a wire strand emerging from a wire rolling train using a rotating looper, wherein the device includes a conveyor onto which the loops are placed while the conveyor is moving, wherein a driving unit, a looper and a roller co... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5934594 | Coiler in wire rolling trains A coiler in wire rolling trains includes a laying pipe support supporting a laying pipe, wherein the laying pipe support includes a support disk holding the wire insertion pipe member. The support disk is coupled for rotation with a rotating insertion sle... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5897071 | Wire-coiling system Wires are coiled by rotating about a main axis a curved laying tube having an upstream end opening generally at the axis and directed axially upstream and a downstream end opening radially offset from the axis and directed generally tangentially and feedi... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5853134 | Apparatus for storing ropes or the like An assembly for storing a line in a coil in a storage room with a bottom and walls, as well as a central, upper opening to guide the line while it is being lead into or out of the storage room. The assembly comprising a central, round pole extending upwar... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5839684 | Lined pipe for forming spirals for spiralling machines and the relative reconditioning method A lined spiral-forming pipe (11) for a spiral-forming head of spiralling machines for metallic wire, comprising a plurality of wear-resistant inserts having an inner hollow through which the metallic wire passes and an outer surface connecting with the in... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5829424 | Device for wire sawing provided with a system for directing wire permitting use of spools of wire of very great length A sawing device comprises a layer of parallel wires (8) which move with reciprocal or continuous movement whilst bearing against a member (9) to be sawed fixed to a support table (10). The wire comes from a management region (41a) of the wire, constituted... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5590848 | High speed laying head A rolling mill laying head as a quill supported for rotation about its longitudinal axis between axially spaced first and second bearing assemblies. A laying pipe is carried by the quill for rotation therewith. The laying pipe has an entry section lying o... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5506381 | Wire electric discharge machine A wire electric discharge machine including a wire electrode collecting device for collecting a wire electrode previously used for electric discharge machining, and a guide for guiding the previously used wire electrode to the wire electrode collecting de... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5483730 | Apparatus and method for forming coils of yarn and for heat setting the same An apparatus and method are provided for forming coils of yarn and for heat setting the yarn. The apparatus has a coiler adapted to receive yarn from a yarn source and to form the yarn into a plurality of overlapping loops of a desired size. The coiler pr... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5465917 | Welding wire dispenser with adjustable brake A welding wire dispenser for use on a spool of welding wire comprising a base which is removably secured to the top plate of the spool. A let-off arm is rotatably mounted on the base and has a guide tube mounted thereon through which the welding wire exte... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5448801 | Process and device for fiber sliver severing on a draw frame A process and device are utilized for severing a fiber sliver on a draw frame. A fiber sliver is conveyed through a calender roller pair of the draw frame to a sliver guiding channel of a rotary plate. The sliver is deposited through the rotary plate into... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5312065 | Rod laying head with front and tail end ring control A laying head for forming axially moving elongated products into series of rings. The laying head includes an auxiliary guide which is readily dismantled from the laying head in order to accommodate the rolling of larger diameter slower speed products. Th... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5033689 | High speed coil-forming headstock High speed coil-forming headstock which works at speeds up to and over 150/180 meters a second and comprises a stator (11) and a rotor (12), a planetary ring (16) being included at the position at which a diameter of the stator (11) and rotor is greatest ... | 07/23/1991 |
| 5018678 | Fiber payout machine A method and apparatus for pulling fiber from a bobbin using a payout wheel dispensing the fiber into the air in a helical pattern. The invention includes a deflector mounted in the path of the fiber which is rotated as the fiber is payed out. The deflect... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4944469 | High speed coiling apparatus In a continuous casting and rod rolling system, the production rate is generally limited by the capacity of the slowest element. The present invention is directed to changes in the rod coiling station portion of the system, and particularly to modificatio... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4785510 | Method and apparatus for the continuous looping of yarn A fixed base plate provided with a circular recess accommodates a rotating disk. Mounted above the base plate and the rotating disk, is an endless band conveyor swivellable about the axis of the roller in the area of the edge of the base plate. The rotati... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4773607 | Apparatus for accumulating a filiform element such as an optical fiber, at different speeds An apparatus accumulating a filiform element in order to absorb differences in input and output travel speeds of the element, without tangling and damaging the element. Mechanical means located above an accumulation container draw the filiform element at ... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4765556 | Rolling mill laying head A rolling mill laying head has a first tubular shaft mounted on first bearings for rotation relative to a stationary housing structure. A second hollow shaft carrying a three dimensionally curved laying pipe is mounted on second bearings for rotation rela... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4669676 | Device for depositing cables A device for depositing synthetic cables into individual containers comprises a tubular cable feeder feeding a cable into a non-rotating receiver which accommodates four cable-transporting organs which transport cable spirals in an axial direction. The ca... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4590742 | Method and machine for packing a rope into a container A rope (21) is packed into a container (31) in such a manner as to permit easy extraction therefrom in that the rope by means of a winding head (25) is coiled with the coil center situated between the center line and periphery of the container (31). For t... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4557428 | Wire laying arm In a wire laying arm (1) provided with a roller guide for the wire wherein the roller guide is curved along a curve in space and is formed by a plurality of profiled rollers (4) arranged at the laying arm (1), versatile use and long service life are reali... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4432503 | Machine for producing yarn loops A machine for producing yarn loops comprises a rotary winding flyer or member having a discharge end through which the yarn emerges. A winding means for collecting the yarn loops is provided and transfers the loops to a conveyor. In order to secure the en... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4353513 | Winding apparatus A winding apparatus is provided for the layering of thin elongated material, especially hot-rolled wire in loop-like windings, in which a doubly or spatially curved laying tube whose longitudinal axis forms a cone-shaped rotation body and whose peripheral... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4313550 | Package containing optical fibres made of glass and apparatus for packing glass optical fibres Package containing a glass optical fiber and apparatus for packaging glass optical fibres. A package containing optical fibres, made of glass, consists of two plates between which the optical fiber is wound in a double helix pattern. Such a package is com... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4255917 | String packaging machine and apparatus Filamentary members, music strings for example, are automatically coiled and the coils captured on a sheet of packaging material by feeding the members into an annular groove against a surface of a sheet of heat sealable material and subsequently shearing... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4242892 | Laying head with segmented laying pipe A laying head is disclosed for forming the longitudinally moving hot rolled product of a rolling mill into a helix. The laying head includes a housing carrying a cone assembly for rotation about an axis. The cone assembly has a support member with a three... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4223422 | Turntable for depositing a fiber sliver into a spinning can A turntable for the deposition of a fiber sliver into a spinning can comprising a sliver duct and calender rolls arranged, viewed in the direction of material flow, after the sliver duct and circling or orbiting therewith. Each calender roll is provided w... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4221345 | Rotary filament feeder Devices and processes for feeding freshly spun and/or stretched filaments, which are delivered to the devices at more than 1000 meters/min., in helices to a receptacle, said devices embodying a rotating member with curvate passage extending from its upper... | 09/09/1980 |
