Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Dai-ichi High Frequency Co., Ltd.

Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd

Hamada Printing Press Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Hamada Printing Co., Ltd.

Akira Fukuda

Itsuro Masuda

Yasuo Watanabe

Tadafumi Mikoshi

Susumu Hanyoh

Kenji Furumi

Hitoshi Oka

A method of and an apparatus for manufacturing an elongated metallic member (1) having at least one thickened wall area defined at a portion thereof. That portion of the elongated metallic member (1) is heated to a plasticizable temperature to form a heated area (5) while the latter is moved along the metallic member (1) and, at the same time, axially inwardly compressed to allow upsetting at the heated area (5), to thereby form a thickened wall area. A trailing portion (1a) of the thickened wall area of the elongated metallic member (1) immediately after the heated area (5) is cooled. The ratio (V/W) of a compressing speed V relative to the moving speed W of the position of the heated area (5) in reference to the thickened portion (1a) of the metallic member (1) is progressively increased from a small value, employed at an initial stage of wall thickening, along the metallic member (1) to an aimed value, employed at a steady stage of wall thickening, to thereby progressively increase a wall thickening ratio along the metallic member (1) to a designed value. The subsequent wall thickening is carried out while the ratio is maintained at said designed value for the steady stage of wall thickening. A method of connecting two metallic members (1) in end-to-end fashion and a method of connecting a beam to the metallic member (1) are also disclosed.

Partially thick-walled elongated metallic member and methods of making

A paper feed device for use with a rotary press for printing newspapers includes a plurality of guide rails connected together so as to extend along any of different paper feed paths. A linear member is inserted into the guide rail so as to be fed through guide rails extending along a predetermined paper feed path. A lever has its one end secured to one side of the linear member and is provided at its other end with a clip for detachably engaging a paper coupling adaptor holding the leading end of a web of a paper roll stored in a paper feed unit of the rotary press. The linear member is moved along the guide rails by pairs of driving and driven wheels arranged at equal intervals along the guide rails. The linear member has a length slightly larger than the distance between the adjacent pairs of wheels.

Paper feed device for rotary press

An industrial robot provided with at least six joints and adapted to have at least six degrees of freedom, wherein rotational joints rotatable around axes extending lengthwise of the arm and bending joints swingable around perpendicular axes extending perpendicularly to the lengthwise direction of the arm, thereby enabling the position and attitude control for a wrist at the arm and the obstacle avoiding control to change height of an elbow portion at the arm so as to avoid the obstacle.

Industrial robot

A device and method for treating the end portion of a paper from a paper roll mounted on a paper feed unit of a paper processer. The device arranged adjacent the paper roll is moved toward the paper roll until a presser roller mounted on the device is pressed against it. A cutter assembly facing the paper roll is pushed out so that its cutter will come into contact with the periphery of the paper roll. The cutter is then slid transversely from one end of the paper roll to the other to cut several turns of paper from the paper roll as broke. The broke is rolled out to be fed downwardly over a suction body through a pair of nip rollers and taken up by a take-up mechanism. Another cutter assembly is pushed forward into contact with the central part of the paper end rolled out together with the broke and moved widthwise to make a center cut in the paper end. A cavity forming device is then pressed against the paper end right under the center cut to form a square cavity there. A tab sticking device carrying a tab is pressed against the paper end just over the cavity to stick the upper part of the tab thereon. Two knives for V-cutting arranged at both sides of the paper end are moved laterally toward its center, while rewinding the paper roll, to make a V-cut extending obliquely from both sides toward the cavity. Adhesive is applied to the paper end along the cut edge. The paper end is rewound on the paper roll. The tab adhered to the paper end is then pressed by the presser roller against the surface of the paper roll to be stuck thereto. The broke is then discharged from the take-up mechanism.

Method and apparatus for treating end portion of roll paper

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Osaka, Japan

Akira Fukuda