Abstract:
An apparatus for the automatic continuous, high-speed manufacture of metal containers is disclosed utilizing a welding machine with electrode rolls. The blanks are stacked and rounded and moved toward the welding point on a first conveyor. The rounded blanks are then transferred to a second conveyor operating at the welding speed which is less than the speed of the first conveyor. The apparatus includes means for reducing the speed of the rounded blanks below the welding speed immediately before the transfer from the first to the second conveyor, and to increase their speed above the welding speed immediately after the transfer so as to compensate for the speed reduction before the transfer.
Abstract:
A shell or body tube for a relatively large container such as a tin-lined pail adapted for use in storing and shipping food products and the like, and a method of making such body tube. The method utilizes as the starting material a flat metal sheet plated along at least one side thereof with a layer of tin, and the sheet has longitudinal edge portions respectively terminating in unfinished edges. The plated sheet is bent upon itself along one longitudinal edge portion thereof to form a generally Ushaped section having the tin plating therealong facing outwardly; and the sheet is then formed into a tube having the longitudinal edge portions thereof overlapped and seam welded to each other in close proximity with the unfinished edge of the Ushaped section but on the side thereof at which there are only two juxtaposed layers of the metal sheet. The seam weld and temperature developed therefor are controlled so that the heat of fusion dissipating transversely through the body tube from the situs of the weld fuses the contiguous layers of tin plating along the U-shaped section, thereby isolating both of the unfinished longitudinal edges of the body tube from the interior thereof.
Abstract:
A method of repairing a weak spot in the wall of a vessel, which method comprises (a) securing at least one support element to the wall of the vessel in the neighborhood of the weak spot, wherein the ends of the support element(s) are fixed to the wall of the vessel; (b) covering the surface of the wall around the weak spot by means of a weld overlay in overlay area; (c) causing a support element to elongate by an amount which balances the thermal expansion caused by the welding; and (d) removing the support element after the welding has been substantially completed.
Abstract:
Process for butt welding two metal blanks(1,2) of which the first blank is of steel and the second blank is of a metal having a melting temperature lower by more than 400.degree. C. than the melting temperature of the steel. The process includes positioning the two metal blanks (1,2) so that they contact each other in the region of their lateral faces to be butted together, maintaining the two metal blanks in contact, directing onto one of the principal faces of the metal blank (1) a high energy density bean (5) which passes through the first metal blank (1) and of which the focusing point is situated at a given distance from the joint plane (3) so as to generate in the region of the joint plane (3) a temperature equal to the melting temperature of the second metal blank (2) to within 10%, and displacing the high energy density beam (5). This process is applicable to the welding of two metal blanks of which one is of steel and the other is of aluminium or aluminium alloy for producing a motor vehicle part, in particular a body and structural part.