6550 results about "Machine press" patented technology

A pattern forming apparatus maintaining alignment between a mold and a substrate. The pattern forming apparatus includes a press pressing the mold against the substrate in a pressing direction, and a mechanism to maintain orientation of the mold and the substrate perpendicular to the pressing direction.

A process and apparatus for embossing thermoplastic products having precise microstructured surfaces including using a continuous press having upper and lower belts with the embossing pattern(s); feeding thermoplastic material through the press where heat and pressure are applied to form the embossed pressure microstructure, and cooling the embossed material, all while maintaining pressure. A continuous embossing tool is provided by welding segments together, the welds including interface material at the weld joint which is of a different material than the segment material to increase the tensile strength.

An electrode holder comprised of a press and a clamp has at the bottom of the clamp adapted with a cylindrical base to allow one end of an electrode lead to pass through; the lead end being fastened in place by a bolt in conjunction with a protection pad covering up the cylindrical base so that in the course of welding, the point of heat conduction being kept farthest as from the hand gripping the holder to achieve working comfort.

A system and process for stamping parts having tolerances below 1000 nanometers. The inventive system and process is particularly suited for producing optoelectronic parts. The system includes a stamping press and one or a progression of stamping stations for supporting a punch and die. The stamping stations are designed to maintain substantial alignment of the punch and die with minimal moving components. The stamping station includes a shaft for rigidly guiding the punch to the die. The stamping press is capable of providing the punch with the necessary force to perform the stamping operations. The system includes an interface system for interfacing the force of the press with the punch, while simultaneously structurally decoupling the press from the punch. The system also includes a locating sub-plate, for locating the stamping station in alignment relative to each other, and means for in-line machine stock material before entry into the stamping stations.

A patch plug is provided that has a coating continuous over both the patch and plug portions, providing a strong and continuous seal to prevent seal failure and water and air introduction. The patch and plug portions may be formed separately, each with a coating element, and fused together in a press which bonds the coatings of the patch and plug portions together to form a single, continuous coating. Means known in the art, for example rubber cement, can also be employed to further ensure a firm seal between the patch plug and the tire. Methods of manufacturing and using the patch plug are also taught herein.

The present invention is an apparatus for cutting allograft bone implants from donor bone. Die sets of standard sizes are installed in a press. Donor bone is then placed in position between the upper and the lower parts of a matched cutting set comprising a hollow cylindrical cutting blade, a mandrel, and a table which establishes a gap around the mandrel which guides the blade. After the bone to be shaped has been properly placed, a shaped cutting blade is driven through the donor bone, producing a precisely shaped allograft implant. The invention provides for rapid change out of blades, rapid cleaning, and easy maintenance.

An apparatus and method for forming a can end having an annular ridge and a central panel and a can body with a can bottom is provided that exhibits reduced wrinkling in the material used to form the can end and can body. The method of the invention uses a two step doming process wherein material is first drawn or stretched and then held by a punch core ring and then further drawn, stretched or domed and then held by a punch core. The apparatus and method of the invention also include a lower piston located above an upper pressure sleeve and radially outward from a punch core ring wherein the lower piston has a bore and the lower piston, punch core ring and upper pressure sleeve define a gap to which pressurized gas may be supplied through the bore to selectively axially actuate the punch core ring.

Graphite is placed in a case, and the case is set in a furnace. The interior of the furnace is subjected to sintering to produce a porous sintered member of graphite. After that, the case with the porous sintered member therein is taken out of the furnace, and is set in a recess of a press machine. Subsequently, molten metal of metal is poured into the case, and then a punch is inserted into the recess to forcibly press the molten metal in the case downwardly. Open pores of the porous sintered member are infiltrated with the molten metal of the metal by the pressing treatment with the punch.

An apparatus for a friction stir and a friction stir processing of the present invention suppress an occurrence of a surface defect in an area processed by the friction stir. The apparatus for the friction stir includes a tool having a columnar tip-side part, a rotating unit for rotating the tool on a central axis, a first pressing unit for pressing a tip of the tool rotated by the rotating unit against a work, a jig having a tool insertion hole into which the tip-side part of the tool is inserted so that the tip-side part of the tool is encircled around the jig, a second pressing unit for slidably pressing the jig against the work, and a press control unit for controlling the first pressing unit so that the tip-side part of the tool is gradually pulled out of the work by the first pressing unit while moving the tool and the jig relative to the work, in a state that the tool is rotated by the rotating unit and the tip of the tool has been sunk into the work to a predetermined depth by the first pressing unit.

An apparatus includes a press with dies configured to deform a strip of material by drawing material primarily from a width direction, a slitter set to cut the deformed strip to a uniform desired width dimension, and a roll-former with rolls configured to shape linear portions of the deformed and now uniform-width strip into a continuous beam. The apparatus further includes a welder for welding abutting edges of the sheet together to form a permanent tube, a sweep station for imparting a longitudinal shape to the continuous beam, and a cut-off for cutting the continuous beam into segments useful as vehicle bumper beams. A controller controls timing of various components. The beam segments are optimized in specific regions for local strength and minimized weight, and features can be incorporated into the beam segments such as coplanar mounting surfaces.

The invention relates to a double diffusion intussusception forge technique of a bearing ring of a tapered roller, belongs to the technical field of forging of the bearing ring of the tapered roller and mainly aims at solving the problems that the existing ring forging technique is not suitable for various bearing rings of the large and medium size tapered rollers. The technique is mainly characterized in that: (1) a GCr15 steel material section is heated to 1050 DEG C on a medium frequency induction furnace, then upset on a press, extruded backward and forward, formed, sheathed respectively and is separated into an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve or a small outer sleeve blank; (2) the outer sleeve blank is ring-rolled on a ring rolling machine, then reeled on the press and cooled into an outer sleeve forged parts of a bearing; and (3) the inner sleeve or the small outer sleeve blank is placed on the press, upset again, extruded and punched and then a ring part is obtained which is ring-rolled on the ring rolling machine, then an inner sleeve hot forged part after being ring-rolled is reeled on the press and then cooled to obtain the inner sleeve forged part of the bearing. The technique is mainly used for manufacturing the inner and outer ring forged parts of the bearing of the large and medium size tapered roller with various types, small batch or large batch.

A vehicle recycling system includes an hold-down mechanism, a crane having an engine puller, a component disassembly station, a feed press, and a material press, all of which are housed within a building. A vehicle is placed onto a hold-down table where it is held in place by the hold-down mechanism while the engine and other valuable components are removed using the crane. Components not requiring further processing are placed into bins. Components requiring further disassembly are fed to the component disassembly where they are further disassembled and placed in bins. Once the high value components are removed, the crane loads the vehicle onto the feed press. The feed press then moves the vehicle onto the material press where it is compressed by the press. The back wall of the press is then raised so the crushed vehicle can be removed.

A power assisted drill press having a feed cylinder fed by a variable pressure regulator which allows a user to controllably feed a bit and work material together while activating a drill motor to rotate the bit. An embodiment of the power assisted drill press utilizes a suction cup and venturi system for attachment of the press to a surface work material. The drill press uniquely allows a person to variably activate the feed cylinder and also activate the drill motor with a single hand.

The invention discloses a charging pressing forming method for a variable-cross-section special-shaped pipe, and relates to a forming manufacturing method of a metal pipe. The problems that an existing low-internal-pressure forming technology only can form a pipe with the unchangeable section perimeter, and meanwhile, in the internal-high-pressure forming process of an advanced high-strength steel variable-cross-section pipe, the pressure is high, springback is large, and a mold is seriously worn are solved. The forming method comprises the steps that firstly, an upper expansion mold and a lower expansion mold are assembled on a pressure machine; secondly, the upper expansion mold descends to perform mold assembly, a pipe blank is subject to charging, and the pipe blank expands until the pipe blank is attached to the mold; thirdly, the internal pressure of the pipe blank is relieved; fourthly, an upper pressing block and a lower pressing mold are assembled on a pressure machine; fifthly, the upper pressing block descends to perform mold assembly; sixthly, under the joint action of mechanical pressure of the mold and hydraulic pressure of an inner cavity of a variable-cross-section round pipe, mold attaching is carried out, the variable-cross-section round pipe is formed into the variable-cross-section special-shaped pipe, and the forming process is finished; and seventhly, the internal pressure of the variable-cross-section special-shaped pipe is relieved, and the variable-cross-section special-shaped pipe is cut, so that the variable-cross-section special-shaped pipe meeting the design requirement is obtained. The method is used for forming the variable-cross-section special-shaped pipe.

The invention discloses a Brazilian split method for measuring an elastic parameter of a rock under an extension condition, which comprises the steps of: A. horizontally putting a machined disc-shaped sample between the load bearing plates of a press machine by using a Brazilian disc split method, placing a hard steel wire respectively between the upper load bearing plate and the sample and between the lower load bearing plate and the sample, arranging a filler strip perpendicular to the symmetrical surfaces of the sample, and applying pressure on the upper load bearing plate and the lower load bearing plate to make the sample generate tension perpendicular to the action directions of an upper load and a lower load; B. carrying out analysis by using the Hooke's law in classical elasticity mechanics by combining specific conditions of the Brazilian split method; C. analyzing the stress condition of the rock and the measurement principle in the Brazilian disc split method; and D. obtaining the strain in the stress direction according to the Hooke's law from the stress condition sigma3=0, measuring epsilon1 and epsilon2, obtaining the elastic parameter of the rock sample, and arranging a strain gauge in the center position of the rock sample for measurement of epsilon1 and epsilon2. The method has the advantages of easiness for operation and use, clear principle, low material consumption, and the like. The method is suitable for wide popularization and application.

A middle-duty and heavy-duty automobile knuckle stamp forging extruding compound technology overcomes the disadvantages of low material utilization and large device investment of the traditional production technology, utilizes flexibility of preforming by a stamping hammer and structure characteristic of a press extrusion die and adopts stamping hammer production technology and press extrusion compound technology. The main technical scheme includes a series of technical measures of vertically splitting of blank material by mould with V-shaped cutting edge and locally enclosed structure, preforging of cavity damping stripe, finish forging of locally enclosed structure, hot extrusion forming of steering space and the like, parameter requirements and corresponding moulds and devices. The invention has the characteristics that device investment of stamping hammer production technology is small, structure is simple, and equipment manufacturing period is short; production technological flow is reasonable and processing is easy; and the invention also has the characteristics that product quality is good and productivity is high; and material utilization is obviously higher than that of any original knuckle processing technology and production cost is greatly reduced.

According to an embodiment of the invention, a mechanical press includes a transmission that comprises a first transmission and a second transmission coupled to the first transmission. The first transmission is for receiving mechanical movement from a first motor and to transmit mechanical movement to a ram. The second transmission is for modifying configuration of the first transmission in response to mechanical movement received from a second motor, and a profile of movement of the ram over a pressing cycle is affected by a profile of movement from the second motor over the pressing cycle.

The invention discloses a mechanical hand for stamping and automatic loading and unloading, which is independently placed beside a press machine and comprises a servo motor (1), a linear guide rail (2), a sliding block (3), an air cylinder (5), end pickers (6) and a stand (8), wherein the servo motor (1) controlled by a controller is installed on the stand (8), and on one side of the stand (8), the servo motor (11) is engaged with a belt pulley of the linear guide rail (2) through a belt pulley of a synchronous belt; the sliding block (3) is fixedly installed on the synchronous belt of the linear guide rail (2), and the lower part of the sliding block (3) is fixedly connected with the air cylinder (5) through a support plate (4); a support seat (7) is located below the air cylinder (5), and the end pickers (6) are arranged on both sides of the support seat (7). Because the end pickers in the invention are removable, the position of a vacuum chuck is adjustable and the controller is in real-time control, the stamping production of different products and different press machines can be met, and the mechanical hand has flexibility.

A standing single leg press exercise machine is comprised of a single movable step arranged to move up and down along an inclined path for exercising only one leg at a time. A resistance mechanism is connected to the movable step for providing resistance to movement. Two stationary steps are positioned on either side of the bottom position of the movable step. Hand rails are also positioned on either side of movable step. A shoulder pad is positioned above the movable step. A method for using the leg press is comprised of standing on one of the stationary steps with a stationary leg, and repeatedly operating the movable step up and down with an active leg. The active leg is exercised until it is tired, and the legs are switched to exercise the previously stationary leg while the previously active leg is rested.

The present invention is an ultrasonic welding system having an ultrasonic welder integrated with a servo press for galling and ultrasonic welding of a first workpiece to a second workpiece. The first and second workpieces are substantially disposed between a confronting tip and stationary anvil of the ultrasonic welder. Prior to welding, the servo press preferably quickly moves the tip toward and generally against the first workpiece. During welding, a variable speed motor of the servo press preferably slowly moves the tip toward the anvil compressing the workpieces together while a transducer of the ultrasonic welder transmits mechanical vibration to the tip for welding the workpieces together.

The invention comprises a method and apparatus for equal channel angular extrusion (ECAE) of flat billets to control material structure and properties. The improvements of the method include the special systems of billet orientations, billet lubrication, billet ejection from dies, and a press/die control system those eliminate surface cracks, flashes and billet reshaping or deburring between passes. Therefore, multi-pass ECAE becomes a cost-effective industrial operation and may be applied to large billets.

An improved coffee press structure is provided wherein the container has transparent side wall portions that are associated with top and bottom caps and an intermediate cage structure. Upper and lower band portions of the cage structure are associated with a handle upper end portion and with a link member, respectively. The link member is pivotable relative to either the handle lower end portion or the lower band portion and is spring biased so that when in a normally closed position, the link member closes the gap between the handle lower end portion and the lower band portion. The press structure also provides two different embodiments of a plunger assembly for association with the container mouth. The plunger assembly embodiments both include a handle, a piston and a rod; and the plunger assembly can remain in place after brewing and during brew dispensing from the container. One of the plunger assembly embodiments includes a spouted lid that is valve equipped, the valve being operated by rotational movement of the handle relative to the lid with the rod being fully extended through the lid.