Metal deforming – By use of tool acting during relative rotation between tool... – Tool orbiting or rotating about an axis
Patent
1982-02-23
1985-02-12
Larson, Lowell A.
Metal deforming
By use of tool acting during relative rotation between tool...
Tool orbiting or rotating about an axis
B21H 0308
Patent
active
044983220
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The invention relates to the manufacture of products having helically shaped elements by plastic deformation of a metal blank and can be utilized for rolling female threads of a resilient profile inside through holes.
BACKGROUND ART
Known in the art are tools for rolling female threads in which thread rollers are uniformly disposed along the circumference thereof relative to the axis of rotation of the tools and are utilized for rolling threads in plastic, steels and alloys. Such tools can be used for rolling threads of a resilient profile, though in this case only thread-rolling devices having a rigid MDTW gearing (machine-tool-device-tool-workpiece) can be utilized.
Also known in the art is a tool for rolling female threads (USSR Inventor's Certificate No. 108, 253, published Sept. 26, 1956), which tool is a body provided with a tail portion for fixing said body inside a rotating spindle of, for example, a drilling machine. Within the body there are provided thread rollers which are uniformly disposed around the circumference thereof relative to the axis of rotation of said body, the axes of the rollers being in an angular position at an angle equal to the lead angle of the helical line of the thread being rolled.
The profile of the circular grooves of the thread rollers is made in accordance with that of the thread being rolled.
When said body is caused to rotate, the thread rollers also start rotating under the action of friction forces applied against the surface of the thread being rolled, and the body starts screwing into the hole.
Such a tool can be applied in the manufacture of a female thread of a resilient profile inside a through bore, though in this case the provision of a rigid MDTW gearing is required, thus resulting in the complication of the thread-rolling devices. The presence of clearances within the gearing system affects the stability of the resilient properties of the resulting thread.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
The invention is directed to the provision of a thread-rolling tool enabling rolling female threads of a resilient profile inside through bores, without application of a rigid MDTW gearing, by forming a cavity inside the profile of the resulting thread.
The object set forth is attained by the provision of a thread-rolling tool comprising a body provided with thread rollers uniformly disposed around the circumference thereof with their axes being in an angular position relative to the axis of rotation of the body, at an angle equal to the lead angle of the helical line of the thread being rolled. According to the invention, groove-forming rollers are mounted within the body, said rollers having a pitch equal to that of the thread rollers and being disposed relative to the axis of rotation of the body similar to the thread rollers, but in an angular position relative to the latter. The top portions of the thread of the groove-forming roller are disposed with axial displacement relative to the top portions of the thread of a preceding thread roller, if viewed in the projection on a plane normal to the axis of rotation of the body, the amount of said displacement being: preceding thread rollers if viewed in the projection on a plane normal to the axis of rotation of the body.
The thread-rolling tool of such a design does not require the provision of additional devices ensuring a rigid MDTW gearing.
Such an arrangement excludes the influence of clearances being present within the above described rigid gearing system, on the resilient properties of the resulting thread having a resilient profile.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
Now the invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a front view of the thread-rolling tool of the invention;
FIG. 2 is a bottom view of the thread-rolling tool of the invention.
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
A thread-rolling tool for rolling female threads of a resilient profile inside through holes comprises a body 1 provided with a tail portion 2 for fixing s
REFERENCES:
patent: 2645954 (1953-07-01), Pfingston
patent: 3813718 (1974-06-01), Kamiya
Shamenko Stepan P.
Toropov Gennady A.
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