Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
  • B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
  • B21D51/00—Making hollow objects
  • B21D51/16—Making hollow objects characterised by the use of the objects
  • B21D51/38—Making inlet or outlet arrangements of cans, tins, baths, bottles, or other vessels; Making can ends; Making closures
  • B21D51/40—Making outlet openings, e.g. bung holes

Definitions

• This invention relates to metal deformation and particularly but not exclusively to a method of forming a cylindrical, internally threaded opening in an end wall of a metal, preferably mild steel, container drum.
• a method of forming a cylindrical opening in a metal sheet comprising piercing, pressing and drawing the metal sheet to provide a raised cylindrical section partly closed at one end by an annular flange, and bending the flange into the cylindrical section while rolling the flange so as to permit the requisite enlargement thereof.
• a method of forming a screw thread on an internal cylindrical surface for example a cylindrical opening as produced by the method of the first aspect of the invention, comprising rolling a peripherally screw-threaded roller continuously over said surface in orbital relationship with the cylinder axis until the surface is deformed into a complementary screw configuration.
• Fig. 1 is a partly cut-away view of one end of a container drum with the end wall in section through the closure opening;
• Fig. 2 is a detail of Fig. 1 to an enlarged scale
• Figs 3 to 6 illustrate successive stages in the manufacture of the closure opening shown in Fig. 2.
• Fig. 1 shows part of a cylindrical container drum made of mild steel having an end wall provided with a closure opening further illustrated in Fig. 2 as comprising a raised cylindrical section 1 of double thickness with a screw thread 2 on the cylindrical inner surface of the inner metal skin.
• the outer end of the cylindrical section 1 is thickened to provide a sealing surface 3 which is engaged by a sealing ring 4 of a conventional externally threaded bung 5 having an internal handle 6.
• the closure opening illustrated in Fig. 2 is made by first _ piercing, pressing and drawing the metal sheet constituted by the drum end wall (prior to fixing to the drum end in conventional manner) to form a cylindrical section 7 raised out of the plane of the end wall by a step 8 and terminating at its outer end in an annular flange 9 which partly closes the cylindrical section leaving a circular opening 10 around a central axis 11 (Fig. 3).
• the raised cylindrical section 7 is then surrounded by clamping supports 12 and a tool 13 is progressively introduced into the opening 10 so as to bend the flange 9 inwardly.
• a tool 13 is progressively introduced into the opening 10 so as to bend the flange 9 inwardly.
• Such deformation of the flange 9 requires a corresponding enlargement of the opening 10 which cannot be achieved without extension of the flange 9 along its circumferential dimension.
• Such extension is achieved by orbiting the tool 13 about the axis 11 while simultaneously rolling the frusto-conical tool surface on the flange 9 to achieve the necessary thinning of the metal in this region.
• the tool 13 When the flange 9 has been bent inwardly to an extent conforming to the shape of the tool 13, the tool 13 is replaced by a tool 14 which has a cylindrical working surface which, using the same rolling action as the tool 13, completes the inward deformation of the flange 9 and the attendant enlargement of the hole 10.
• the tool 14 also creates the shoulder 3 by pressing metal into a circular recess 15 in the clamping segments 12.
• the cylindrical section 1 is then completed by using a thread forming tool 16 which has an orbiting and rolling action like tool 14 but in this case is provided with a thread formation on its outer cylindrical periphery, the action of the tool 16 serving to impress said thread formation onto the internal surface of the cylindrical section.
• a thread forming tool 16 which has an orbiting and rolling action like tool 14 but in this case is provided with a thread formation on its outer cylindrical periphery, the action of the tool 16 serving to impress said thread formation onto the internal surface of the cylindrical section.
• This difference when the tool rolls on the component without slipping, causes a relative angular positional displacement of the two thread forms (forming and generated). Compensation for this difference may be accomplished by axial displacement of the tool amounting to the pitch of the thread times the ratio of the two diameters.
• the axial displacement of the forming tool may be achieved by allowing the tool to float freely or by providing an incremental movement of the tool spindle relative to tool rotation.
• the accumulative effects may be avoided by alternating the direction of rotation of the forming tool after each full revolution of the tool spindle.
• a similar threaded closure may be formed with a single thickness of metal in which case the preliminary piercing, pressing and drawing operation omits the flange 9 rendering the bending stages using tools 13 and 14 unnecessary, the thread forming tool 16 being used for forming the thread in the cylindrical section 7.
• the invention is not confined to the formation of cylindrical closure openings for end walls of container drums and the threading operation, for example, has wide application in relation to other cylindrical articles, e.g. conduit sections, which require an internally threaded end section.

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• Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
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• Closures For Containers (AREA)
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• Laminated Bodies (AREA)
• Transition And Organic Metals Composition Catalysts For Addition Polymerization (AREA)
• Secondary Cells (AREA)
• Rigid Containers With Two Or More Constituent Elements (AREA)
• Shaping Metal By Deep-Drawing, Or The Like (AREA)
• Containers Having Bodies Formed In One Piece (AREA)

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