Wheel manufacturing method

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1993-03-05

1994-03-15

Echols, P. W.

Metal working

Method of mechanical manufacture

Wheel making

356381, 356394, B21K 128, G01B 1106

Patent

active

052936872

ABSTRACT:
There is disclosed an improved method for manufacturing wheels in a production line by: hot-shaping metal into wheel-shaped articles which are larger in some areas than the wheels to be formed and which have a plurality of complexly-curved inner and outer surfaces; cooling the wheel-shaped articles and removing excess metal from some areas of the wheel-shaped articles. The improvement comprises: inspecting at least some of the wheel-shaped articles at a plurality of points along a transverse plane through the inner and outer surfaces of each article being inspected and at a plurality of transverse plane locations about the perimeter of each such article with a contactless gauging system recently after the articles have been hot-shaped to determine whether the articles are within dimensional requirements to form a wheel therefrom. The improvement further comprises taking corrective action to the hot-shaping operation to minimize the number of unacceptable wheel-shaped articles that are being formed after finding an article which is not within dimensional requirements.

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