摘要 |
A pipe (or tube) mill which receives preformed pipe blanks over an axially fixed mandrel rod and by cold rolling deforms the blanks into super thin walled pipes. The mill has variable speed main and auxiliary drive motors, a main frame, a rolling stand with spring balanced tool rollers with contoured roller tracks having provision for adjustment to accommodate various different diameters of pipe, a rocking lever mechanism for roller stand operation, a mandrel rod clamping mechanism, a floating blank feeding and rotating chuck with associated variable feed and turning gear mechanism, an intermediate blank clamp, a speed reduction gearing with output to the feed and turning mechanism and, via a crank mechanism, to the rolling stand rocking lever mechanism and correlating controls between mandrel clamp and intermediate blank clamp. Emulsion and lubrication is provided.
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