Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Helmut Mechtold

Robert Weber

Siegfried Forner

Roland Bieselt

An apparatus for drawing-in a pipe end by plastic cold forming includes a clamping body. An annular body disposed on the clamping body has an inner surface and a center. An internal tool in the form of a stop ring is centrally supported on the clamping body for defining a desired inside pipe profile. A plurality of jaws is disposed on the clamping body for extending over the outside of a region of a pipe to be drawn-in. The annular body has blind bores serving as cylinders formed therein in radial directions with openings facing toward the inner surface of the annular body. Pistons connected to the jaws are inserted in the cylinders and movable radially toward the center of the annular body by a pressure medium. The stop ring has individual stops in the form of stop heads with threaded shafts being radially adjustably screwed into radial threaded bores formed in the stop ring. The threaded shafts may be rotated.

Apparatus for drawing-in a pipe end by cold forming

Fixture for machining the cutting line of a pipe, including a centering device insertible into an end section of the pipe, the centering device including a clamping system having pressure pieces with pressure surfaces formed thereon, the pressure pieces being disposed about the longitudinal axis of the centering device, and a pressure motor for driving the pressure pieces in radial direction of the pipe, for maintaining an equal distance between each of the pressure surfaces and the longitudinal axis of the centering device and for holding the centering device in the pipe with the clamping system, and a coupling device disposed at an end of the centering device along the longitudinal axis thereof for mounting an accessory device.

Fixture for machining the cutting line of a pipe

A flaring device for pipe ends including an insert member centrally insertable into a pipe end, the insert member having mounted thereon synchronously operable pressure plungers arranged at the outer circumference thereof and bringable into engagement with the inner circumference of the pipe end to be flared, includes a calibrating ring for determining a maximum outer circumference defined by the pressure plungers mounted on the insert member, the calibrating ring being in operative engagement with the insert member.

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Nuremberg, Germany

Helmut Mechtold