Pirelli General Plc

Patrick B Ryan

Jack Clark

An apparatus for forming metal tubes is shown in which a metal strip 2 is passed through the apparatus and is formed by a combination of rollers 17, 17', 19, and dies 15, 24 into a shape defining a tube. Prior to the completion of the formation of the metal strip 2 into a shape defining a tube, a brazing wire 1 is supplied through rollers 8 onto the metal strip 2 between two edge portions thereof to be bonded together. The edge portions are bonded together by means of a frictional wheel 27 rotating at high speed.

Manufacture of metal tubes

An apparatus for forming metal tubes is shown in which a metal strip 2' having a brazing wire 1 bonded to an edge portion thereof passes through the apparatus and is formed by a combination of rollers 17, 17', 19, 19' and dies 15, 24 into a shape defining a tube. A frictional wheel 27 bonds together the two edge portions of the shape defining a tube.

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Limbe, United Kingdom

Patrick B Ryan