Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Valve or choke making
Reexamination Certificate
1997-09-19
2001-01-30
Bryant, David P. (Department: 3726)
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Valve or choke making
C029S464000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06178637
ABSTRACT:
PRIOR ART
The invention is based on a method and an apparatus for producing rotationally symmetrical valve seat faces of high surface quality in valves. A method and an apparatus for performing the method are already known (German Patent DE 39 25 043 C2), in which the movable valve part is put into contact with the valve seat face of the valve seat body and set into a rotary motion; an oscillating motion acting parallel to the axis of rotation is transmitted at high frequency to the valve seat body and the movable valve part. Although this produces surfaces with a very high surface quality that assures good tightness of the valve, nevertheless it is disadvantageous for the assembly of the valve that the individual pairings of the movable valve part and valve seat body that have been treated by the known method must be retained, which is a problem in terms of the sequence of assembly.
ADVANTAGES OF THE INVENTION
The method of the invention and the apparatus of the invention have the advantage over the prior art that in a simple way, an improvement in the surface quality of rotationally symmetrical valve seat faces is created, so that the tightness of the valve in cooperation with sealing faces on the movable valve part is substantially improved without requiring metal-cutting machining. The elastic deformation between the valve seat face and the tool body resulting from Hertzian stress produces a relatively broad, smoothed trace on the valve seat face, in which the surface roughness is reduced, without significantly indenting the valve seat face of the valve seat body. During the assembly of the valve with the valve seat body treated according to the invention, in contrast to a valve seat body treated by the known method, no predetermined pairing with a movable valve part has to be maintained.
By the provisions recited herein advantageous further features of and improvements to the method and the apparatus for performing the method are possible.
It is especially advantageous for a tool body axis of rotation, about which the tool body is rotated, to be inclined relative to a valve seat body axis extending longitudinally of the valve seat body, as a result of which a lubricant introduced into a region of the area of contact between the valve seat body and the tool body is repeatedly reintroduced to the area of contact and a layer of lubricant builds up at the area of contact, which prevents “seizing” between the valve seat body and the tool body. It is also advantageous to embody the valve seat body chucking unit of the apparatus from a receiving body and a holding-down body, which makes easy insertion, fixation and removal of the valve seat body possible.
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Official Gazette, vol. 627, p. 262, 545,016 Method of Making Timing Valves, Carl E. Bazley, Oct. 4, 1949.
Herold Stefan
Kirsten Oliver
Bryant David P.
Butler Marc W.
Greigg Edwin E.
Greigg Ronald E.
Robert & Bosch GmbH
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