Method of coupling two concentrically disposed members

Details Method of coupling two concentrically disposed members Method of coupling two concentrically disposed members

1979-10-22

1982-06-22

Moon, Charlie T.

Metal working

Method of mechanical manufacture

Assembling or joining

29418, 29522R, 403274, B21D 3900, B23P 1100

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043354963

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

This invention relates to a coupling or combining process of two member to-be-coupled by the steps of arranging two members to-be-coupled so as to form an interspace between coupling faces of the two members, interposing a coupling member in the interspace and applying pressure in a cooling state to force the plastic or non-elastical flowing of the coupling member and more particularly a coupling process preferably used to strongly fix a shaft, plate, rod and cylindrical member made of metal or synthetic resin to each other.
There are welding including brazing and casting as methods to couple two members to-be-coupled by using a coupling member as a third member.
As is well known, welding causes thermal deformation owing to heating both member to-be-coupled and coupling member, so that a structure of high dimensional accuracy is difficult to obtain. In addition, there exists a limit in the selection of a material for the member to-be-coupled, the coupling member, electrode, brazing. Further, the welding is disadvantageous relative to productivity as well as to requiring large-scale facilities and being liable to occur faults in quality due to the dispersions of working conditions.
Also, with the casting process, the construction of equipment becomes complicated and larger in size due to the installation of an internal chill and a turning-preventing mechanism in order to ensure the coupling strength. Further, casting is disadvantageous the selection of materials for the coupling member is limited as well as productivity and accuracy.
There have also been known processes of inserting under pressure and of caulking in order to directly couple two members to-be-coupled.
As is well know, in the process of inserting in pressure there is a limit in strength and especially the produced products are weak to impacts. Further, this process has a defect in that it is difficult to obtain a required strength in a case of materials having less elongation such as casting iron.
With the process of caulking, there exists a limit in selection of materials for the members to-be-coupled and to be subjected to the caulking working; this means that materials having small deformation resistance must be selected. Thus, the sufficient coupling strength is not always obtained in any material construction, and especially it is impossible to obtain the sufficient coupling strength in a case of casting iron. Further, the caulking has a defect that the coupling strength is extreamly reduced, depending upon the employed temperature conditions, when there exists a large difference in the thermal coefficient of expansion of two members to-be-coupled.
Also, as a method to directly couple two members to-be-coupled, a method is know which comprises applying pressure on a first member to-be-coupled to force a part thereof to non-elastically flow in a groove formed on a second member to-be-coupled. However, in this method the part of the first member is not sufficiently inserted or bited into the groove and hence an interstitial gap between the first member and the surface of the groove occurs. This is due to a fact that when the pressure is applied on the end portion of the first member to-be-coupled by a metal mould, the generated stress in the end portion permits the deformation in the small constraint direction and it is impossible to give rise to a stress of such an extent of magnitude as induces a sufficient non-elastical deformation locally in only the groove part.
Moreover, a coupling process for coupling the members to-be-coupled by non-elastically deforming the coupling member interposed between the members to-be-coupled is also known.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,559,946 exists as prior art. According to this reference, each rectangular groove in section is formed on each coupling face of two members to-be-coupled and a coupling member is non-elastically deformed to force a part thereof to non-elastically flow. However, with this construction since the sectional figure of the groove is rectangular, after the coupling

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