# US 4,395,379 A · Method and device for forming an internal annular groove in a plastic tube part

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- Number: US 4,395,379 A
- Document ID: US4395379A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 06/248,487
- Filed: 1981-03-27
- Granted: 1983-07-26
- Earliest claimed: 1977-06-30
- Assignees: Wavin B.V.
- Inventors: Kornelis Herder; Wilhelmus F. T. C. Olderaan
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US4395379A

## CPC

- B29C 57/04: using mechanical means {(B29C57/025 takes precedence)}
- B29C 57/02: Belling or enlarging, e.g. combined with forming a groove
- B29C 61/025: {for the production of hollow or tubular articles}
- Y10S 425/218: Pipe machine: socket forming apparatus
- B29C: SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING (making preforms B29B11/00; making laminated products by combining previously unconnected layers which become one product whose layers will remain together B32B37/00 - B32B41/00)
- Y10S: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS

## Abstract

A socket of a thermoplastic pipe is provided with an internal groove by subjecting the tube to an upsetting action and simultaneously inflating the tube by an inner pressure. Subsequently a moulding ring is expanded and the tube is shrunk onto the expanded ring by cooling. Before shrinkage the inner diameter of the bottom of the groove is at least equal and preferably greater than the outer diameter of the moulding ring in expanded form.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for forming an internal annular groove in a plastic tube part by sliding the part onto a core and surrounding same with a mold having an annular recess, heating the tube part and forming the groove by applying an expandable and retractable segmented rigid groove forming a ring in a recess in the interior of the tube part which ring is removed by a retracting action after forming the final groove and cooling down the plastic tube part, subjecting first the plastic tube part to the action of an internal medium overpressure in order to form a groove with a bottom having an inner circumference which is greater than the periphery of the completely expanded groove forming ring, performing an upsetting action simultaneously with the action of said internal medium overpressure and after having formed the groove by means of the internal medium overpressure moving the groove forming ring to its completely expanded position, whereafter the inner side of the groove which was formed by the internal medium overpressure is shrunk onto the completely expanded groove forming ring and the recess for expanding the groove forming ring is closed by a sleeve which is pushed away during sliding of the plastic tube part onto the core.