Metal deforming – Process – Tube making or reshaping
Patent
1992-07-27
1994-04-26
Larson, Lowell A.
Metal deforming
Process
Tube making or reshaping
723912, B21D 3908
Patent
active
053056272
ABSTRACT:
An internally lubricated, longitudinally split sleeve is positioned on a small diameter portion a mandrel having a rear end connected to a piston with a puller tool. The rear end of the split sleeve is flared and is against the front end of a tubular sleeve stop which immediately surrounds the mandrel. The puller tool includes a tubular sleeve holder which surrounds the sleeve stop. A forward main portion of the sleeve holder is separated by a pair of longitudinal slots into a pair of elongated fingers. The forward ends of the fingers define a sleeve and mandrel receiving end opening and jaws radially outwardly bounding the opening. The mandrel and sleeve holder are both extended and then the puller tool is moved into alignment with a sleeve and is moved endwise to push the mandrel through the sleeve until the flared end of the sleeve is against the sleeve stop. Then the sleeve holder is retracted. Next, the mandrel and sleeve are inserted into a hole in a workpiece and the tool is moved forwardly until the front ends of the jaws are against the workpiece. Then, the puller tool is operated to retract the mandrel through the sleeve and into the sleeve stop. Retraction of the mandrel moves first an increasing diameter portion of the mandrel and then a maximum diameter portion of the mandrel through the sleeve which radially expands the sleeve and cold expands the material immediately surrounding the hole in the workpiece. After the mandrel is retracted into the sleeve stop, the puller tool is moved away from the workpiece. The jaws of the sleeve holder engage and retain the sleeve so that the sleeve is pulled out from the hole in the workpiece.
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Copple Charles M.
Easterbrook Eric T.
Jarzebowicz Richard Z.
Quincey Darryl E.
Walsh William B.
Barnard Delbert J.
Fatigue Technology Inc.
Larson Lowell A.
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