Method of making a crankshaft
US4829642A · kind A · utility
Assignee
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 22, 1988 |
| Grant date | May 16, 1989 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 22, 2008 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T29/49989
- WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A method of making a crankshaft involves positioning a serpentine-shaped tube in a casting mold with a plurality of removable (breakaway) portions of the tube spaced apart along the length thereof supported in the mold body and a plurality of oil line-forming portions of the tube between the removable portions bridging across a crankshaft-shaped mold cavity formed in the mold. Molten metal is cast into the mold cavity about the oil line-forming portions of the tube to form a cast crankshaft with the oil line-forming portions of the tube cast in-situ therein and the removable portions of the tube disposed externally of the cast crankshaft. After separating the cast crankshaft and the mold, the removable portions of the tube are severed from the cast crankshaft, preferably broken off from the cast crankshaft at scored locations on the serpentine-shaped tube, to leave a plurality of open-ended, tubular oil lines cast in-situ in the crankshaft.
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