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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8127583 | Coiler mandrel A mandrel for winding sheet metal has a generally tubular mandrel body extending along and centered on an axis and formed at one end with a plurality of radially throughgoing and angularly spaced apertures each having a pair of closed and axially confronting end fac... | 03/06/2012 |
| 7942029 | Coil box between roughing train and finishing train in a rolling mill The invention relates to a method for expanding the use of a coiling and uncoiling station (coilbox) located between the roughing train and the finishing train for rolled strip material in hot-rolling mills. The use of said coilbox is expanded by impinging the coil ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7832246 | Installation for winding up material in strip form An installation for processing material in strip form, such as a sealing strip that has been removed from a roll of material, comprises a rotary head, by means of which one end of the material in strip form can be grasped and on which said material in strip form can... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7823431 | Method and apparatus for temporarily interrupting the passage of long products between upstream and downstream paths in a rolling mill A method and apparatus is disclosed for temporarily interrupting the passage of a long product between upstream and downstream paths in a rolling mill. Product passing along the upstream path is delivered onto a cylindrical drum. The drum is rotated in one direction... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7424987 | Coiling device and method for rolled or drawn long products Coiling device (10) and relative coiling method for rolled or drawn long products, comprising a mandrel (11), arranged cantilevered and rotatable with respect to a central longitudinal axis (X), and on which the long products are wound in adjacent and ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7401485 | Apparatus for inspecting steel strip during rolling Steel strip issues continuously from a downstream end of a rolling line and can be wound up there on a coiler. An inspection table downstream of the rolling line has a surface aligned with the downstream end and the strip emerging therefrom. The coiler is below a pl... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398666 | Method of and installation for rolling in-process stock The invention relates to a method of rolling a strip-shaped in-process stock, in particular a metal strip, with which, a metal strip (3) is unwound from a coil (2, 7) held on an unwinding reel (1, 6), is fed into a reversing rolling mill (8 | 07/15/2008 |
| 7392682 | Method and device for coiling thin metal strip, especially hot-rolled or cold-rolled thin steel strip A method for coiling thin metal strip, especially hot-rolled or cold-rolled thin steel strip, on a coiler mandrel which is adjusted in diameter. At the beginning, the inner windings of the coil are coiled on the adjusted coiler mandrel diameter and, after the final ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7318267 | Strip production equipment Arranged are a twin- or single-roll continuous casting machine supplied with molten metal from a tundish arranged above so as to continuously cast a strip with a predetermined width, a trimmer arranged downstream of the continuous casting machine to trim widthwise e... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7293446 | Coil box, mounted between a roughing rolling train and a finishing rolling train The invention relates to a coil box, which is mounted between a roughing rolling train and a finishing rolling train, for metal pre-strips, in particular steel strips, which are hot wound to form coils and are protected against further cooling in the vicinity of a w... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7290421 | Variable curvature tube and draw die therefor A tube is bent having a curved portion with a variable radius extending between first and second ends. The curved portion includes a circular arc portion with a constant radius and a clothoid transition portion with a variable radius. The circular arc portion extend... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7251887 | Tool for balancing rotating components A tool for limiting a cut on an impeller having a shaft and vane is provided. The tool includes a shield member having a sidewall, a top, and an inner cavity. The tool also includes a first cut opening extending through the hub sidewall to the shield member inner ca... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251976 | Apparatus and method for the noncircular bending of tubes A tube bending apparatus adapted for the noncircular bending of a tube includes a modified bend die, a modified wiper die, a translatable and pivotable element and an actuator. The bend die presents a noncircular bending profile having a linearly or nonlinearly incr... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7181946 | Device for winding and unwinding hot-rolled pre-strips consisting of hot metal The aim of the invention is to configure a device for winding and unwinding partly rolled products, in a way that ensures the smallest possible accumulation of scrap. To achieve this, a roller (20, 20′, 20″) whose position is controlled and which runs on ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7121130 | Method and installation for hot-rolling strips using a Steckel rolling frame The invention relates to a method and an installation for hot-rolling strips using a reversible Steckel rolling frame (8), each side of which is equipped with a respective furnace coiler (9, 10) and a driving mechanism (17,18), provided between ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7117703 | Wire-stranded hollow coil body, a medical equipment made therefrom and a method of making the same A wire-stranded hollow coil body (1) has a multitude of coil line elements (2) stranded along a predetermined circular line to form a flexible wire tube having a central axial hollow portion (3), the flexible wire tube is stranded under a strand... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7085625 | Control system for baling machine A control system for a bulk material baler embodied in a machine readable data structure and including an instruction to a moveable guide track to move from a removed position to a closed position to create a guide track loop around a volume of bulk material to be b... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7055244 | Method of manufacturing flat wire coil springs to improve fatigue life and avoid blue brittleness The present invention relates to a method of forming a coil of spring wire by winding a wire into a coil spring formed of a plurality of rings of the wire wherein each of the rings has a substantially constant strain rate. The forming speed of the wire being wound i... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6975911 | Operator input interface for baling machine An operator interface for a control system for a bulk material baler includes interface means such as a touch screen or keyboard for an operator to enter process parameters into a control system memory. A display shows process parameter fields into which an operator... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6823579 | Portable platform for use in gasket manufacture The present invention comprises a portable platform (10) for use in gasket manufacture, comprising a shaft connected to a motor and can receive at least one mandrel, and a surface to receive at least one molding tool, the mandrel being activated by the motor ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6607841 | Silicon steel sheet An improved silicon steel sheet has two lateral ends each having a side edge narrower than the width of the silicon sheet. The side edge has two end points linking respectively to two lateral sides of the silicon steel sheet to form two symmetrical slant ... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6604396 | Wire condenser element bending method and wire condenser element bending apparatus A wire condenser element bending method and a wire condenser element bending apparatus bend two wire condenser elements by pressing the wire condenser elements against a bending roller to form two scroll wire condensers simultaneously. Inner edge parts of... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6571458 | Apparatus for producing a honeycomb body An apparatus for producing a honeycomb body from a stack having a plurality of at least partially structured sheet metal layers forming a plurality of channels through which a fluid can pass, including a mould having an internal shape substantially corres... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6520442 | Looping thick steel strip A looper for thick metal strip has a large-diameter outer basket centered on an upright axis and a small-diameter inner basket axially above the outer basket and centered on an upright axis. The strip is fed on edge and generally tangentially into the out... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6374655 | Spring winding automatic machine Spring coiling machine with a drive, a wire guide, a cutter mechanism and a coiler mechanism, in which the drive is adapted for optionally driving one or other of at least two wires sitting in the wire guide at the same time.... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6313395 | Interconnect structure for solar cells and method of making same An interconnect structure for use with solar cells and like devices which are subject to compressive and/or expansive forces through packaging or in application comprises a flattened spiral of a metal strip. The interconnect is fabricated by first providi... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6305068 | Continuous horizontal strip casting installation and method for producing a coilable metal strip A continuous horizontal strip casting installation for producing a metal strip that can be coiled into a coil has a stationary draw-off unit with multiple draw-off rolls at a distance from a chill mold assigned to a furnace, a strip cutting unit which is ... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6089490 | Method of and apparatus for transferring extruded metal wire rings in protective tubs Wire rings or coils in tubs pass from a cooling conveyor onto a rotatable framework in which the tub carrier can be raised toward a transfer conveyor. The framework is then tilted to deposit the wire ring on the transfer conveyor, whereupon the tub is rai... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6029488 | Apparatus and process for producing a honeycomb body from intertwined sheet metal layers An apparatus to produce a honeycomb body having a multiplicity of at least partially structured sheet metal layers forming a multiplicity of fluid-permeable passages. A fork-like intertwining device is rotatable about a central axis and engages each stack... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6009736 | Superlarge coil handling system for hot strip mill A method and apparatus for processing continuously cast thin or intermediate thickness gauge slabs into finished continuous hot-rolled strip in superlarge coil form. Optimum entry speed of continuous cast slabs into the hot rolling mill is enabled and sub... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5950476 | Method and apparatus to tension hot strip during coiling The present invention is to tension and guide hot strip for coiling in a hot strip mill, the hot strip mill includes a runout table with driven rollers for delivering hot strip from a train of finishing mill stands along a pass line of a runout table to a... | 09/14/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5495739 | Apparatus for forming scrolls from strip material The invention provides that a former (A,B,C) is used for forming scrolls from strip metal (30). The former has a scroll flight which is in two parts (A,B) which are relatively movable in the direction of the axis about which the former (A,B,C) rotates to ... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5485665 | Gasket size control The size of the spiral gaskets which are formed by winding a sealing strip and a compressible filler strip around a mandrel is controlled by measuring the angle through which the mandrel turns, e.g., by means of an encoder. The lengths of arcs on the peri... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5361618 | Method and apparatus for adjusting bending rolls A method and apparatus for adjusting a set of bending rolls which simultaneously position a pair of adjustable top bending rolls with respect to a bottom bending roll. A bottom bending roll is mounted within a housing while a pair of adjustable top bendin... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5285670 | Pinch roll and shear combination A pinch roll and shear combination for use in a mill, such as a reversing hot strip mill. The pinch roll and shear combination includes a stationary frame provided with a rotatably mounted lower roll and stationary lower blade adjacent the lower roll. A r... | 02/15/1994 |
| 4955218 | Method of manufacturing a high temperature composite gasket including a strip segment of non-woven fibrous refractory material The method in accordance with the invention comprises the steps of forming a strip of composite material comprising at least one flexible strip of refractory material superposed on at least one strip of knitted metal, of making a blank by winding the stri... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4895011 | Continuously balanced apparatus for storing and dispensing elongate materials An apparatus is described for storing and dispensing elongate flat strip material for use with rotating machinery, such as that used to produce helically wound interlocked flexible pipe. The strip material is fed from an external payoff or supply reel and... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4869437 | Wire coiling apparatus with a recovery device for a coiled wire reel A wire coiling apparatus with extraction device for a coiled wire reel (B) with a coiler basket, comprises two concentrical circular rows of basket rods (1, 4) which stand vertically upon a base plate (3). The base plate (3) can be rotatably driven around... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4869438 | Wire coiling apparatus with a recovery device for a coiled wire reel A wire coiling apparatus with a recovery device for a coiled wire reel, including a coiler basket, formed of basket rods arranged on a baseplate which is drivable rotatably around a stationary vertical bearing, and a reel support mandrel that can be lower... | 09/26/1989 |
