B - Operations – Transporting – 29 – C
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
29
C
B29C 57/04 (2006.01) B29B 13/02 (2006.01) B29C 33/02 (2006.01) B29C 33/06 (2006.01) B29C 35/02 (2006.01) B29C 35/08 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2258437
The invention provides for conferring a cup shape to the terminal junction segment (2) of pipes that are bi-axially oriented longitudinally and circumferentially and hence very sensitive to diameter and length reduction through heat, by means of passage into a furnace (4) which heats the segment (2) to a differentiated temperature, increasing towards the end of the segment (2), whose inner diameter progressively drops down to a controlled value, as temperature increases (whilst length is simultaneously reduced, with a corresponding increase in thickness). Preferably then, in an appropriate station (33), an additional heating is executed to a plastic deformation temperature suited to obtain a correct preliminary dilation of the terminal segment (2), introducing a rigid element (34) which acts as inner contrast, thereby inhibiting any retraction thereof. Here the segment (2) undergoes a thickening of the dilated wall both during the introduction of the rigid element (34), and during its extraction therefrom. Such terminal segment (2), dilated and heated, is then easily and rapidly fitted onto a calibration expander (3), itself also heated to such a temperature as to limit heat absorption from said segment (2). Here too the terminal end (2) thickens yet again and takes its shape and, after the possible additional heating to force the terminal segment (2) to adhere spontaneously and perfectly to the underlying expander (3), at least the outer surface of the terminal segment (2), thus shaped, is cooled.
Pezzi Lauro
Savioli Leopoldo
Tabanelli Giorgio
Shapiro Cohen
Sica S.p.a.
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