Metal deforming inventions 03/07

20070068210 - System for controlling a rolling mill and method of controlling a rolling mill: The invention generally relates to a method of controlled rolling of a metal strip moving through a rolling mill. The method comprises: monitoring a plurality of input control parameters; and generating a plurality of responsive operational control parameters in the rolling mill to selectively control the rolling mill and selectively... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070068211 - Gear roll-forming apparatus: A gear roll-forming apparatus includes: a pinion die that is substantially the same in configuration and size as a bevel pinion; a pinion die holder for supporting the pinion die so as to allow rotation of the pinion die about a first axis of the pinion die while preventing axial... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070068212 - Folding system for a cutting blade: A metallic ribbon stock folding apparatus. The apparatus comprises: a transferring unit to transfer ribbon stock through a passage formed by a guide, the passage defining a longitudinal axis; a rotary assembly having first and second rotary bodies spaced to receive ribbon stock therebetween; at least one retractable elongate member,... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070068213 - Apparatus and method for bending a printing plate: An apparatus and method for bending a printing plate is disclosed. A bending machine, in particular for the bending of printing plates which are used in printing machines, includes a pressure pad, which exerts the required clamping force on the printing plate during the bending operation, and which is movable... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070068214 - Deep drawing method and deep drawing machine for carrying out the method: In a deep drawing method, a sheet metal blank is positioned between two dies of a deep drawing machine and then shaped into a hollow article, whereby the dies, at least during a partial stroke phase, undergo a controlled non-rectilinear relative movement and one of the dies is shifted by... Agent: Henry M. Feiereisen Henry M. Feiereisen, LLC

20070068215 - Hollow stepped shaft and method of forming the same: A hollow stepped article is formed from a solid blank to reduce the material cost, and cracking is prevented in a stepped portion of large diameter when a portion of the blank is deformed by its radial expansion. A hollow stepped shaft is formed by holding an upper and a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070068216 - Assembly for crimping an intraluminal device and method of use: An assembly is provided which can crimp or compress an intraluminal device or measure the radial strength of an intraluminal device. The crimping assembly includes at least two moving-element subassemblies, each with a pair of moving elements. The moving elements having a first side and a second side joining at... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20070068217 - Compressive tool: A compressive tool having two jaw halves that run longitudinally from a rear to a front end and are connected to each other in an articulating manner and that can be moved from an open into a closed position. The jaw halves each have an intake contour at the rear... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20070062235 - Crack tester for flared ends: A crack test for a tubular structure includes a sensor ring disposed radially outward from a flare pin in a flaring press. The sensor ring is responsive to physical contact from a cracked flared end of a tube processed in the press.... Agent: Illinois Tool Works Inc.

20070062236 - Cracked barrel detection system: A crack test includes flowing pressurized fluid to a generally tubular part in a flare stamping process. As the flare is completed the part is sealed on opposite ends and pressurization of the inside of the part is used to determine integrity of the part.... Agent: Illinois Tool Works Inc.

20070062237 - Crimping device: A crimping device has for each crimper an anvil including a conductor anvil provided with a force sensor on which the force that arises in the conductor anvil during the crimping operation acts. The conductor anvil rests on a sensor body which in turn rests on a supporting part of... Agent: Butzel Long

20070062238 - Method for manufacturing seamless steel pipe or tube: A round billet containing, by mass %, 10.50 to 14.00% of Cr with a value represented by the equation of “Cr+4Si−(22C+0.5Mn+1.5Ni+30N)” of not more than 9.0%, wherein the symbols of the elements represent the contents, by mass %, of the elements in the steel, is heated at a soaking temperature... Agent: Clark & Brody

20070062239 - Roll straightener: A roll straightener serving as both zigzag type and opposed type and capable of being easily switched from one to the other between the zigzag type and the opposed type and being manufactured at low cost is disclosed. The roll straightener has odd-numbered pairs of upper and lower rolls. Plural... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070062240 - Adjusting roll in rolling frames, among others vertical upset forging frames: The invention relates to an adjusting roll for the rapid adjustment of rolls in rolling frames, among others vertical upset forging frames, comprising at least one respective piston, which acts on both sides of a working roll to adjust the latter, by means of assembled parts of at least one... Agent: Friedrich Kueffner

20070062241 - Unitary rear axle housing and method for manufacturing same: A method for manufacturing a one piece axle tube housing with an integral spindle includes providing a tube blank, providing the blank with a region of increased thickness, inserting a mandrel having a reduced diameter profile, passing a reducing die over the tube to conform the tube to the shape... Agent: Patzik, Frank & Samotny Ltd.

20070062242 - Method of manufacturing a woodworker's holdfast: A semi-automated method for manufacturing a woodworker's holdfast tool from an unheated length of mild steel rod includes forging a flattened contact surface at one end of the rod and subsequently bending the rod upwardly away from the contact surface and forming the crook portion in an automated wire forming... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20070062243 - Support assembly for workpiece transfer system: A support assembly for use in a die transfer system for transferring workpieces between successive die stations is movable vertically on a carriage assembly during use of the system. The assembly movably supports an elongate transfer bar having workpiece engaging devices mounted thereon. The assembly comprises a support body adapted... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Groh, Sprinkle & Citkowski, P.c

20070062245 - Deforming tool and process for manufacture: In the deformation of geometrically similar components of a component family, in which the characteristic which differs is in particular thickness, there is according to conventional construction techniques of deformation tools a separate deformation tool necessary for each component. The inventive deformation tool system, including the following tool active parts... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070062244 - Device to receive tools for the calibration of workpieces and press with such a device: The device serves to receive a tool for calibrating of workpieces (83), preferably workpieces manufactured by a powder metallurgical process. On the example shown the tool comprises the lower stamps (77, 78, 79) and the upper stamps (80, 81, 82) located on tool supports (31, 32, 33; 31′, 32′, 33′).... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070062246 - Crimping press: A crimping device has a contact advancer provided with an exchangeable anvil part. A first pulley, a belt and an advancing motor drive a first carriage. A gripper for advancing the contact belt is guided in a direction crosswise to a direction of the first carriage. The distance between the... Agent: Butzel Long

20070062247 - Press driving module and method of providing a press line: Press driving modules are provided to permit a standardized press design. The presses of a press line are equipped with always identical press driving modules, and the pressing force of the presses is varied only by the adaptation of the number of press driving modules. The press driving modules each... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070062248 - Press for making a shaped workpiece: A press for compacting a soft mass into a shaped workpiece. The press has a die adapted to hold the soft mass and having an open side, a compacting tool displaceable along an axis through the side into the die to compact the mass therein, a cylinder centered on the... Agent: The Firm Of Karl F Ross

20070056341 - Hydroforming apparatus: The present invention provides a Hydroforming apparatus comprising of a cylindrical shaped upper and lower die holders and a cylindrical shaped outer ring with upper and lower cam segments and tapered wedges that is powered by hydraulic cylinders or any other means such that the tapered wedges are used to... Agent: Mohamed T. Gharib C/o Upland Technologies Inc.

20070056342 - Grid bending machine: A grid bending machine is provided for bending a workpiece. The machine includes first and second guides having inner surfaces defining a cavity therebetween. A stationary anvil is mounted to the first and second guides. A first die is releaseably connected to the stationary anvil. A body is disposed in... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson Newholm Stein & Gratz, S.c.

20070056343 - Die set, machine and method for forming die-pressed cartridge cases: Die set for forming cartridge cases (1;101), comprising at least three support elements, i.e. an upper element (1100), middle element (1200) and bottom element (1300), which are connected together in the longitudinal direction by guide columns (1001) along which said upper support (1100) and bottom support (1300) are actuated displaceably... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20070056344 - Metal sheet pressing method: This invention provides a metal sheet pressing method of precision-pressing a metal sheet, wherein after a metal sheet (1) is partially drawn so as to form a perforated portion (1a), the perforated portion (1a) is heated by baking and after it is heated by baking, the perforated portion (1a) is... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070056345 - Upsetting method and upsetting apparatus: An upsetting method capable of manufacturing an upsetting manufactured product having a bent expanded portion under a lighter load. A bar-shaped raw material 1 is loaded to the receiving die 11 in an axial movement prevented state, and the expansion scheduled portion 2 of the raw material 1 is arranged... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070056346 - Prosthetic valve crimping device: An improved crimping mechanism well-suited for use with stented prosthetic heart valves. The crimping mechanism includes a plurality of jaws configured for linear non-rotational movement toward a central axis. A rotational plate is formed with a plurality of spiral grooves or tracks for engaging the jaws. Rotational movement of the... Agent: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

20070056347 - Brake die inserts: A tool system for brake forming having a punch or a die and at least one insert. In one embodiment, two inserts are removably attached to a die. The die has a defined shape running along a longitudinal axis. Each insert has a protrusion with a particular cross-sectional shape running... Agent: Doreen J. Gridley Ice Miller

20070056348 - Brake punch inserts: A tool system for brake forming having a punch or a die and at least one insert. In one embodiment, two inserts are removably attached to a die. The die has a defined shape running along a longitudinal axis. Each insert has a protrusion with a particular cross-sectional shape running... Agent: Doreen J. Gridley Ice Miller

20070056349 - Tool for removing dents from sheet metal: A tool for pulling a dent out of a sheet metal surface has a support post with a foot shaped to rest against a portion of the sheet metal surface adjacent the dent. The tool includes a hinged lever arm which is pivotally connected to this support post at a... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070051150 - Groove processing apparatus and groove processing method: The holder member 4 is rotatably supported at the tip portion 2a of the sliding member 2 placed on the guide face 1a of the guide member 1 arranged fixedly inside the cylinder C. The holder member 4 is inclined when the tip portion 3a of the profiling member 3... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20070051151 - Rotary apparatus with multiple guides and method of forming: A rotary forming apparatus of the type having a pair of central rotors, and one or more die carriers swingably mounted on the rotors, for repeatedly forming a sheet metal work piece moving along a linear path, rotor bearing supports for supporting the rotors at least at one end thereof,... Agent: George A. Rolston

20070051152 - Device for heating a metal strip, and apparatuses equipped with a device of this type, for producing hot-rolled metal strip: The invention provides a device for heating a metal strip, which device allows the metal strip to be heated precisely and rapidly to a predetermined temperature, while taking up little space. The invention also relates to an apparatus that is suitable for producing hot-rolled metal strip, with which apparatus, despite... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP Patent Department

20070051153 - Tablet dispenser: The invention relates to a rolling mill (1) which is used to hot roll metal, in particular aluminium. Said rolling mill comprises a hot strip mill (3) provided with a pre-rolling train (4) and a finishing rolling train (5). The aim of the invention is to improve said rolling mill... Agent: Friedrich Kueffner

20070051154 - Reaction force expanding and clamping device: A method of clamping and locking a roll for a steel mill on a driving pinion comprising applying a side thrust force against a roller to clamp it against a shoulder on the pinion whilst applying the reaction force produced by the side thrust force to cause a plug located... Agent: Edward H. Oldham

20070051155 - Control device for a die cushion mechanism: A control device (10) for a die cushion mechanism that produces a force for a slide (24) in a press machine, comprising slide velocity command-forming means (61) for forming a velocity command for the slide (24), die cushion velocity command-forming means (62) for forming a velocity command for said die... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070051156 - Manufacturing method for an annular member and a pronged annular member: A workpiece 20b is formed that includes a circular bottom portion 22b having a hole 23b and an inner wall portion 24b around the hole 23b, and a skirt-shaped outer wall portion 25b that includes prong portions 26b on the outer circumference of the bottom portion 22b and linking portions... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20070051157 - Work transfer device for press machines: A transfer feeder 41 for a transfer press 1 comprises a pair of bars 14 provided on a moving bolster 30 in parallel with a work transfer direction, a feed carrier 52 held by the bars 14 and movable in the work transfer direction, a clamp carrier 62 held by... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20070051158 - Workpiece transfer system for stamping press: A transfer system for transferring workpieces between successive die stations in a stamping press employing elongate bars with workpiece grippers mounted thereon. Two elongate support beams are mounted on vertical primary supports on opposite sides of the press. Two mounting heads are mounted on each beam and are horizontally movable... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Groh, Sprinkle & Citkowski, P.c

20070044529 - Method for vaccum assisted preforming of superplastically or quick plastically formed article: Method of preforming and forming a sheet metal article from a preheated blank of sheet metal uses opposing dies including a punch having a punch surface defining a final configuration for the article and a cavity die having a cavity surface defining a preform configuration. The blank is placed between... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070044530 - Apparatus and method for flanging a neck of a container: A flanging apparatus is provided that includes a flanging tool that provides a force to an open end of a container to create an outwardly extending flange or other geometry on the open end of the container. The outwardly extending flange is adapted to receive a container end closure after... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070044531 - Method and apparatus for conditioning sheet metal: A metal processing apparatus, comprising a pay-off reel for supporting and uncoiling a coil of metal, a roller-leveler apparatus adapted to receive a strip of sheet metal from the pay-off reel for conditioning the strip of steel, a recoiler for re-coiling the coil of metal, and whereby the apparatus generates... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20070044532 - Eccentric rotary stamping apparatus & method forming moving sheet metal: An eccentric drive rotary stamping apparatus for forming moving sheet metal and having a die assembly (12) (14) (16) (18) moveable forward and backward along a linear path, with upper and lower dies (12) (16) on respective sides of the sheet metal (M), the dies being closeable on the sheet... Agent: George Rolston And Associates

20070044533 - Rolling machine: In the transverse wedge rolling machine as claimed in the invention the drive motor is a permanent magnet motor, especially a torque motor. Furthermore the rotational speed of the rollers is controlled depending on their rotary position.... Agent: The Law Office Of James E. Ruland, PLC