Supporting core for producing hollow profiled elements

US8881572B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG · DE

Inventors

• Michael Brüggenbrock · Rosendahl, DE
• Thomas Flehmig · Ratingen, DE
• Jörg Gorschlüter · Hamm, DE
• Harald Silz · Unterlangenstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 29, 2009
• Grant date: Nov 11, 2014
• Expiry date: Jul 8, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B21C37/16
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A supporting core for using in a device for forming plates into a structured hollow profile and a method for producing structured hollow profiles from a plate, which on the one hand ensures an all-over support of the plate, and still enables the production of hollow profiles with a variable cross-section or a curved course, is provided by including individual supporting members, which when pushed together at least in part form as a surface an inner contour of the hollow profile to be produced and are interconnected by means of coupling elements, wherein the coupling elements allow the supporting members to be pulled-apart, and wherein the supporting members are interconnected in a hinged manner in the pulled-apart position.