Kawasaki Steel Corporation

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Kusakabe Electric & Machinery Co.

Kingo Sawada

Masahiro Kagawa

Takaaki Toyooka

Yuji Hashimoto

Motoaki Itadani

Nobuki Tanaka

Koji Sugano

Toshio Ohnishi

Akira Yorifuji

Masanori Nishimori

Kazuo Omura

Ryoji Kusakabe

Yoshinori Sugie

Yoshnori Sugie

Masao Shoji

Teruo Kobayashi

Mikio Kodaka

Shohei Kanari

Shuji Okazaki

Shiro Hatakeyama

A method and apparatus for smoothing a thick walled portion of a steel pipe produced by pressure-welding two opposite longitudinal edges of an open pipe with a squeeze roll after being subjected to induction heating. Outer and inner reduction rollers pressure sandwiches the thick walled portion from the outer and inner surfaces of the pipe, a support supports the inner reduction roller to be rotatable and containing a water passage for cooling water, a connecting rod connects the support device to a coupler and contains a further water passage for feeding cooling water to the water passage, and an anchor holds the connecting rod. In the method of producing steel pipes two opposite longitudinal edges of the open pipe are preformed before being subjected to the induction heating and thereafter a thick walled portion is smoothed by the above-described.

Method for smoothing steel pipe seam portion

A method and apparatus for smoothing a thick walled portion of a steel pipe produced by pressure-welding two opposite longitudinal edges of an open pipe with a squeeze roll after being subjected to induction heating. Outer and inner reduction rollers pressure sandwiches the thick walled portion from the outer and inner surfaces of the pipe, a support supports the inner reduction roller to be rotatable and containing a water passage for cooling water, a connecting rod connects the support device to a coupler and contains a further water passage for feeding cooling water to the water passage, and an anchor holds the connecting rod. In the a method of producing steel pipes two opposite longitudinal edges of the open pipe are preformed before being subjected to the induction heating and thereafter a thick walled portion is smoothed by the above-described apparatus.

Apparatus and method for smoothing a welded seam of steel pipe

A forming stand for continuously forming a skelp material into a pipe, by pressure of spaced-apart forming rolls supported by spaced upper and lower shafts, the forming rolls having two portions, with one portion fixedly fitted on one side of its shaft, a sleeve slidably fitted to the other end of the shaft and fixedly secured to the sleeve and slidable with respect to the shaft; a bearing box for supporting one side of the associated shaft; a bearing box supporting the other side of the associated shaft through the sleeve; upper and lower stand supporting frames for supporting both of the bearing boxes to be movable in an axial direction; and supporting columns for supporting the stand supporting frames; the pipe-forming force is continuously measured and the forming operation is adjusted such that the measured value of pipe-forming force does not exceed a predetermined pipe-forming upper limit.

Pipe forming roll apparatus and method

A method of controlling the operation of a cross helical rolling mill. The cross helical rolling mill has a pair of work rolls arranged at respective predetermined lead angles, and a pair of power-driven drive roller shoes arranged obliquely at predetermined lead angles on both sides of the rolling region formed between both work rolls. The method comprises controlling the rotation speed of each of the drive roller shoes in synchronism with the speed of rotation of the rolled material such that the difference in the peripheral speed between each of the drive roller shoe and the rolled material falls within a predetermined range, and, simultaneously with the control of the speed, controlling the driving torque applied to each of the drive roller shoes. According to the method, the drive roller shoes impart driving torques to the rolled material, while maintaining the slip between the shoes and the rolled material within a predetermined allowable range, so that the material under the rolling can be held safely and stably, whereby the quality of the rolled product is improved and the lift of the shoes is prolonged. Disclosed also is an apparatus for carrying out this method.

Method of and apparatus for controlling operation of a cross helical

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