Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Assembling or joining
Patent
1985-11-20
1987-06-02
Moon, Charlie T.
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Assembling or joining
29173, 29558, 128 6, 138131, 138139, B23P 1904
Patent
active
046691723
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a method for the fabrication of a flexible shaft comprising a spiral cut member having an essentially uniform inside diameter and a tapered linear profile coextensive with at least a portion of the spiral of sai d member. This flexible shaft is fabricated initially by progressively removing a portion of the exterior wall along a predetermined segment of a relatively rigid tube thereby forming a tapered profile along such segment. A series of cuts are thereafter made in the wall of the tapered segment of the tube resulting in a progressive and transition free increase in flexibility along itslongitudinal dimension; that portion of the tapered segment having the thinner wall being increasingly more flexible than that portion of the tapered segment having a comparatively thicker wall.
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patent: 2598895 (1952-06-01), Dreyer
patent: 3788304 (1974-01-01), Takahashi
Circon Corporation
Moon Charlie T.
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