Automatic installation for the forming and thermal treatment of circular pieces
US5044611A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 19, 1989 |
| Grant date | Sep 3, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 19, 2009 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
- CPC primaryC21D9/0068
- WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
An automatic installation for obtaining in large series circular pieces of small thickness, such as notably spring diaphragms, for the automobile industry, in forming, swaging, quenching, tempering and peripheral tempering stations, these various working treatment stations being placed one after the other so that the pieces to be worked be successively transferred from one station to another, characterized in that: PA1 it includes a machine allowing realizing automatically and in series a forming operation by hot swaging and quenching of spring diaphragms or circular pieces; PA1 each entirely automated working station includes a press provided with individual heating means, said working stations receiving the pieces one by one from said automatic machine, with the assistance of transfer means withdrawing one by one the pieces to be treated from the quenching stations of the automatic machine for transferring them successively thereafter and one by one to each of the working stations; PA1 means are provided for blowing into each working station cold air in the central portion of the piece placed on the corresponding press, so as to maintain the temperature of this central portion at…
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