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Method of piercing in seamless tube manufacturing

US4470282A · kind A · utility

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11Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJan 11, 1982
Grant dateSep 11, 1984
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Expiry dateJan 11, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB21B19/04
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a method of rotary piercing in seamless tube manufacturing under a rotary piercing process, such as Mannesmann mandrel mill process. Rotary piercing operation is carried out by employing a rotary piercing mill having a pair of cone-shaped main rolls adapted to cooperate with a plug for rotary piercing and disc rolls disposed in opposed relation between the pair of main rolls and adapted to press hollow shell on the surface thereof. In this method of rotary piercing, the main rolls have feed and cross angles designed to meet certain conditions individually and in combination. The method makes it possible to carry out rotary piercing of less hot workable and/or extremely hard-to-work materials, that is, high-alloy steel billets, without surface torsional deformation and circumferential shear deformation. Thus, it is possible to manufacture high quality tubes of high-alloy steels free from outside seams and inside bore defects.

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