Method for making annular articles
AssigneeThe Budd Company
InventorsJoseph R. Hannum, Gerard R. Santos
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Abstract
This application discloses method and means for making annular articles, such as rims, particularly rims which form components of gear wheels, in which arcuate segments are cut from a parallel-sided strip, ribbon, or tape without any waste of material and assembled to form an annulus without voids between segments; also means for cutting segments from a tape and coincidently placing them accurately in an annular assembly container or bucket and then integrating them to form an annular article which can be handled as a unit for assembling with other components to form a finished product.
Claims13
The method of making annular articles comprising the steps of:
- forming form a strip of material a first plurality of similarly shaped arcuate blank segments,
- forming from said strip of material a second plurality of arcuate blank segments identical in shape to said first plurality of said arcuate blank segments and inverted with respect thereto,
- assembling end to end sequentially one at a time segments from said first plurality of segments and the inverted segments from said second plurality of segments,
- continuing said assembling step until a plurality of layers of said segments are formed to form said annular article,
- the angles of the joining ends of said first and second plurality of segments being at different complementary angles with respect to each other whereby said first and second plurality of segments are formed from said strip material utilizing substantially all the material of said strip of material.
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