Sms Meer Gmbh

Norbert Zillekens

Hermann-Josef Klingen

Thomas Winterfeldt

Karl-Heinz H&auml;usler

Ralf Bonsels

A single carriage of the drawing apparatus for pulling a continuous metal workpiece through a drawing die is displaceable back and forth by a linear electronic motor drive. A coil forms a supply upstream of the die which can pay off a length of the workpiece to form a loop adapted to be drawn through the die without tensioning it against the coil.

Drawing apparatus and method of operating same

In the planetary skew rolling blooms to form seamless metal tubing or pipe the internal tool is retracted at the leading and/or trailing end of the tubular bloom to allow the rolls to seal the end or ends and prevent coolant from entering the rolled tubing or bloom. The internal tool is advanced back into its normal rolling position after the end has passed the rolling location.

Method of and apparatus for producing tubes of metal

A drawing apparatus for drawing metal and articles has at last one drawing carriage and a linear motor complex which determines the pattern of movement of that carriage and hence of the drawing operation.

Method of drawing metal workpieces and drawing unit for a drawing machine

A drawing apparatus is assembled from modular units utilizing modular path-forming members and holder modules which can carry the drawing die and drawing carriages shiftable on the guide modules. The drives for the carriages are individual linear motors whose stationary components are the modular path-forming members disposed end-to-end.

Modular drawing apparatus and drawing

An apparatus for drawing a strand has a frame extending in a longitudinal direction, a pair of substantially identical linear motors each having a primary fixed on the frame, and a movable secondary slidable along the respective primary in the direction. The primaries extend parallel to the direction and are transversely spaced on a plane extending in the direction. A strand clamp capable of gripping the strand is fixed between the secondaries. Electricity is supplied to the primaries to longitudinally displace the secondaries and clamp in the frame so that the clamp and any strand held by it are advanced longitudinally through the frame.

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Hückelhoven, Germany

Norbert Zillekens