CA1072369A - Sintered pulley hub construction and method of making same - Google Patents
Sintered pulley hub construction and method of making sameInfo
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ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
A sintered pulley hub construction for mounting on a bottom wall of a sheet metal pulley cup. A pair of tubular mem-bers is pressure formed in a green compact state from a metal powder mixture. One of the members has a cylindrical body which terminates at one end in an outwardly extending annular flange which forms a hub pulling flange. The other member has an inter-ior annular cavity formed in one end and a radially outwardly ex-tending annular flange forced on the other end. The cylindrical body of the one member is telescopically received within the annu-lar cavity of the other member. The members are joined by sin-tering to form an integral homogeneous body. The outer surface of the other member has a cylindrical portion extending axially between the radial end flange and an annular shoulder for receiv-ing an axially extending flange of a pulley cup, with the shoulder providing a zone for welding the pulley cup to the hub. The method of forming the improved hub includes the steps of separ-ately pressure-forming each of the tubular members in a green compact state in a pair of molds. Then a cylindrical end portion formed on one of the tubular members is telescopically mounted within an annular interior cavity formed in one end of the other tubular member. The joined members then are sintered in a fur-nace and the green compacted members cohere to each other and form an integral homogeneous member.
A sintered pulley hub construction for mounting on a bottom wall of a sheet metal pulley cup. A pair of tubular mem-bers is pressure formed in a green compact state from a metal powder mixture. One of the members has a cylindrical body which terminates at one end in an outwardly extending annular flange which forms a hub pulling flange. The other member has an inter-ior annular cavity formed in one end and a radially outwardly ex-tending annular flange forced on the other end. The cylindrical body of the one member is telescopically received within the annu-lar cavity of the other member. The members are joined by sin-tering to form an integral homogeneous body. The outer surface of the other member has a cylindrical portion extending axially between the radial end flange and an annular shoulder for receiv-ing an axially extending flange of a pulley cup, with the shoulder providing a zone for welding the pulley cup to the hub. The method of forming the improved hub includes the steps of separ-ately pressure-forming each of the tubular members in a green compact state in a pair of molds. Then a cylindrical end portion formed on one of the tubular members is telescopically mounted within an annular interior cavity formed in one end of the other tubular member. The joined members then are sintered in a fur-nace and the green compacted members cohere to each other and form an integral homogeneous member.
Description
~q~ 3~3 Field of the Invention The invention relates to a pulley hub for mounting on a bottom wall of a sheet metal pulley. More particularly, the invention relates to a pulley- hub consisting of a pair of tubu-lar members formed of a powder metal mixture which are telescop-ically joined in a green compact state and then sintered to form an integral homogeneous member which eliminates costly machining operations to provide a hub pulling flange thereon. The inven-tion further relates to an improved method of forming such a sin-tered pulley hub by pressure and heating steps carried out with a powder metal mixture.
Description of the Prior Art Most pulley hubs are formed from tubular steel stock ; which is cut to predetermined axial lengths, with the variousflanges and grooves being machined or milled therein. These hub constructions are satisfactory for their intended applications, but the machining procedures increase considerably the costs of ~ the hubs. Likewise, removal of metal by machining results in ; 20 metal waste.
Machining generally is required to form a groo~e in the hub body which provides a radial annular flange on one end of the hub for gripping by a hub puller for removing the hub and connect-ed pulley from a shaft should replacement be required. Such ma-chining also is required to form flanges and other areas for re-ceiving a sheet metal pulley which is secured thereon by welding, brazing or the like.
Recent years have seen advancements in powder metallur-gy and the subsequent production of various hubs from powdered metal by pressing and sintering predetermined quantities and mixtures of such powder metal. Examples of various articles 8~
1 formed from metal powder and methods o~ producing such articles are illustrated in United Sta~es Patent Nos. 2,561,583, 3,260,596, 3,391,444, 3,719,497 and 3,720,512.
Problems, however, have been encountered in a~tempting to form pulley hubs having pulling flanges formed thereon by pow-der metallurgy. It is difficult to form an annular groove in the hub body which forms a pulling flange due to the difficulty of press forming such an exterior annular groove in the green-pressed hub compacts prior to sintering by known press molding equipment.
No known pulley hub construction and method of making the same of whiah I am aware eliminates these difficulties by providing a pulley hub structure and method of forming such a pulley hub having an annular pulling flange thereon, by pressure forming a pair of tubular members in green compact form which, when they are joined and subsequently sintered form an integral homogeneous hub with an annular pulling groove and flange.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Objectives of the invention include providing a sintered pulley hub construction from a pair of tubular members, each of which is pressure-formed from an unheated powder metal mixture, which members then are telescopically joined and sintered in a ; furnace to form an integral homogeneous pulley hub; providing such a pulley hub which has a radially outwardly extending annu-lar flange formed on one end thereof which provides a hub pulling flange easily gripped by pulling equipment for removing the hub from a shaft for replacement and maintenance problems; providing such a hub having a radially outwardly ex~ending annular shoulder which is adapted to radially align or be in close proximity with an edge of a sheet metal pulley cup which is mounted on the hub to provide an annular area for securing the pulley cup to ~he hub by welding, brazing or the like; providing such a hub construc-~ 3~
tion having an annular outer surface extending axially from theannular shoulderaway ~rom the pulling flange and terminating in a second outwardly extending radial end flange which forms a seat for receiving an annular mounting flange of a pulley cup, which mounting flange defines the hub receiving opening in the cup bottom wall; providing such a pulley hub in which the pair of tubular members may be pressure-formed into a cold green compact state and then joined in such a cold state, and then subsequently sintered to form the integral hub; and providing such a hub con-struction which may be produced inexpensively by eliminatingexpensive machining and material waste, which may be produced simply, conveniently, efficiently and with a variety of physical characteristics by varying the ingredients of the powder metal mixture, compacting pressure and sintering temperature thereof, and which pulley hub construction eliminates difficulties exist-; ing in the art.
Further objectives of the invention include providinga new method and procedure for making such a sintered pulley hub from apowder metal mixture in which the pair of tubular hub com-ponents are pressure-formed in molds into green compacts of pow-der metal, which members are subsequently assembled and sintered ; to form a pulley hub having an annular pulling flange, a sheet metal pulley cup seating area, and an annular zone for welding the sheet metal cup to the hub.
These objectives and advantages are obtained by the pulley hub construction, the general nature of which may be stated as including first and second tubular members; the first tubular member having a main cylindrical body terminating at one end in radially outwardly extending flange means; the second tubular member having an interior annular cavity formed in one end thereof, and an outer surface formed with a generally radi-ally extending portion for mounting a pulley cup on the outer surface of said second tubular member; the cylindrical body oF
the first tubular member having an outer surface with a diameter generally equal to the diameter of the interior annular cavity of the second tubular member; and the cylindrical body of the first tubular member being telescopically received within the annular cavity of the second tubular member and secured therein~
with the flange means of the first tubular member forming a hub pulling flange.
According to another aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of making a pulley hub, the method including the steps of pressure forming a first metal powder mix-ture in a mold to form a first tubular member having a cylindri-cal body and a radially outwardly extending hub pulling flange means formed on one end thereof, and pressure forming a second metal powder mixture in a second mold to form a second tubular member having an interior annular cavity formed in one end thereof and radially outwardly extending pulley cup mounting flange means formed on the other e-nd thereof. The method further includes the steps of telescopically inserting at least a portion of the cylindrical body of the first tubular member into the annular cavity in the second tubular member and sintering the telescopically joined first and second tubular members to form an integral sintered powder metal pulley hub having a hub pulling flange formed by the flange means of the first tubular member on one end of the pulley hub, and having a pulley cup mounted flange formed by the flange means of the second tubular member on the opposite end of the pulley hub.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING :
-The preferred embodiment of the improved hub construc-tion and method steps for the manufacture thereof - illustrative of the best mode in which applicant has contemplated applying . 10"~3~
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the principles - are set forth in the following description and shown in the accompanying drawings, and are particularly and dis-tinctly pointed out and set forth in the appended claims.
Figure 1 is an enlarged perspective view of the sin-tered pulley hub construction produced by the steps of the improved procedure;
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1 Fig. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the pair of green compact tubular members which are pressure formed of powder metal by the steps of the improved procedure prior to telescopic engagement and sintering of the members to form the hub construc-tion of Fig. l;
Fig. 3 is an elevational view of the improved pulley hub construction of Fig. 1 mounted on a sheet metal pulley cup having a plurality of V-grooves formed therein;
Fig, 4 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view taken on line 4-4, Fig. 3;
Fig. 5 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on ]ine 5-5? F~g. 4, Fig. 6 is a fragmentary end elevational view looking in the direction of arrow 6~6, Fig. 4; and Fig. 7 is an end elevational view looking in the direc-tion of arrow 7~7, Fig. 4.
Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawing, DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFER~ED EMBODIMENT
2a AND ~ETHOD STBPS OF THE IN~EMTION
.. . .. .. . . . .. .. ... _ _ ... ... _ .. . _ The improved pulley hub construction produced by the steps of the împroved method is shown in Fig. 1, and is indicated generally at 1. Hub construction 1 includes a pair of generally tubular-shaped members indicated generally at 2 and 3, and which are s~own in an unassembled state in Fig? 2. Members 2 and 3 are pressure-~ormed from a predetermined unheated powder metal mixture into a green compact state prior to being joined to form the im-proved hub construction 1 o Pig. 1.
Tubular member 2 :includes a maîn cylindrical body 4 which terminates at one end in a radially outwardly extending an-nular flange 5. Body 4 has a smooth cylindrical internal bore 6 (Fig, 4) and a smooth outer cylindrical surface 7. The end of %~
1 cylindrical body 4 opposite flange 5, terminates in an annular edge 8. Annular flange 5 has an annular axially extending outer surface 9 which is joined with surface 7 by a radially extending annular surface 10. Flange 5 further includes a flat annular end face 11 which terminates in a conical inwardly extending surface 12 which joins internal bore 6.
TubuIar member 3 (Figs. 2 and 4) includes an interior annular cavity 13 which extends axially from annular end surface 14 of member 3. The remaining interior portion of member 3 has a smooth internal cylindrical bore 15 equal in diameter to internal bore 6 of member 2, as shown in Fig. 4.
An exterior annular recess 16 is formed in the end of member 3 adjacent interior cavity 13 and forms an annular radially extending shoulder 17 which extends between and joins recess 16 and a cylindrical outer axially extending surface 18 of member 3.
Surface 18 terminates in an upwardly outwardly extending flange 19 which is concavely~shaped in cross-section. Flange 19 termin-ates in and forms a radially outwardly extending annular flange 20 on the other end of member 3.
Flange 20 includes a cylindrical axially extending outer surface 21 and an annular radially extending end face 22. End face 22 is joined with internal bore 15 of member 3 by a curved corner 23 which is convexly-shaped in cross-section (Fig. 4). The thickness of cylindrical body 4 between inner and outer surfaces 6 and 7, respectively, is equal to the depth of internal cavi~y 13 of member 3. This configuration enables bore 6 of member 2 to form a continuous hub bore 25 with internal bore 15 of member 3 when member 2 is telescopically engaged within member 3.
In accordance with the invention, flange surface 10 of ; 30 member 2 forms an annular groove 26 with end surface 14 of member 3 when the members are joined (Pig. 4~, into which a hub pulling device can project ~o grip flange 5 for removing hub 1 from a 1 shaft for replacement, should the pulley become damaged or worn.
The diameter of annular surface 9 of flange S preferably is equal to the diameter ofcylindrical outer surface 18 of member 3, where-by surfaces 9 and 18 lie în a common imaginary cylinder for rea-sons set forth below.
Improved hub construction 1 is shown in Fig. 3 mounted on a sheet metal pulley cup 27 which has a plurality of V-grooves 28 roller spun in an axially extending side wall 29 which is inte-gral wi~h a conical wall 30. Wall 30 terminates in an annular axially extending flange 31 which defines a cen~ral opening 32 for receiving pulley hub 1 therein. Axial flange 31 of pulley cup 27 joins conical wall 30 in a corner 33 ~Fig. 4) which has the same general configuration as annular corner 19 of flange 20.
Hub 1 is mounted easily on pulley cup 27 by inserting hub 1 through the open outer cup end 34 of cup side wall 29 and through central opening 32 formed by attachment flange 31. Flange 5 passes through opening 32 due to the diameter of axial surface 9 of member 2 being equal to the diameter of cylindrical surface 18 of member 3, whlch in turn is generally equal to the diameter of cup opening 32. Attachment flange 31 aligns with and abuts cylindrical surface 18 of tubular member 3 with corner 33 of cup 27 conforming to the curvature of flange corner 19 as shown ln Fig. 4, when cup 27 is mounted on hub 1.
One of the features of the invention is the alignment of annular edge 35 of attachment flange 31 with annular shoulder 17 of member 3 to provide a sufficiently wide radially extending an-nular surface for securing pulley cup 27 to hub 1 by welds 36 ~Figs. 4 and 5).
The improved method for forming pulley hub 1 includes the steps of forming members 2 and 3 from an unheated powder metal mixture having a predetermined composition depending upon the par-ticular physical and mechanical properties desired for the final 1 pulley hub. A quantity of the powder metal is placed in molds having configurations conforming to that of members 2 and 3. This powder metal then is compressed to form members 2 and 3 in a green-pressed compact state. The types of molds and presses for carrying out such press-forming steps may have various construc-tions and arrangements all of which are known in the art, and therefore are not described in detail or shown in the drawing.
; These molds preferably are unheated eliminating additional heating equipment and expense at the molding site.
The green compact members 2 and 3, which have the con-figurations as shown in Fig. 2 ? then are telescopically joined as shown in Fig. 1l and placed in a sintering furnace. The joined members are heated at a predetermined temperature for a certain period of time until sintering occurs. The abutting surfaces of the joined members upon sintering, integrally join to form a sin-gle piece hub having a homogeneous sintered metal body. The tem-perature and application time~ as well as the compacting pressure initially applied in forming members 2 and 3, are dependent upon the particular mixture of powder metal used in forming the pulley hub. One type of powder metal mixture found suitable for hub 1 consists of iron and carbon in various percentages in accordance with Designations F-0008-~S or F-0008-R of Standard No. 35 of the ~etal Powder Industries Pederation to form a sintered steel hub.
If desired, the powder metal mixture may consis~ only of iron, carbon and small amounts of copper to form a sintered steel, copper impregnated hub.
The axial length of ~nternal cavity 13 of member 3 pre-ferably is shorter tfian the axial length of cylindrical surface 7 of member 2, This arrangement provides that upon telescopic engagement of members 2 and 3, edge 8 o cylindrical body 4 abuts the inner edge or shoulder 37 Eormed by cavity 13, whereby surface 10 of flange 5 is spaced from end surface 14 of member 3 and forms 3~
1 pulling groove 26 in assembled hub 1.
The diameters of internal bores 6 and 15 of members 2 and 3 may be varied by increasing the thickness o-f cylindrical body 4 and of member 3 to provide hubs 1 with internal bores 25 of various diameters for mounting on a variety of shafts without affecting the diameter of pulley cup mounting surface lg. Like-wise, the diameter of bore 25 may remain constant with the diamet-er of surface 18 being increased by increasing the thickness of member 3 to accommodate pulley cups having various diameter hub wall openings 32 Another advantage of the method and construction des-cribed above is the providing of a sufficiently large annular area formed by shoulder 17 and cup edge 35 for securing cup 27 on hub 1 by a simple circular welding procedure. Flange 22 of member 3 assists in strengthening the connection between cup 27 and hub 1 by trapping cup mounting flanges 31 between corner 19 and the welded connection controlling axial movement of the pulley cup with respect to the hub. Tubular members 2 and 3 need not be formed of the same powder metal mixture. It may be desirable for some hub applications to form tubular member 2 of a denser and stronger powder metal to increase the strength of the pulling flange 5.
Likewise, tubular member 3 may be formed of another and different powder metal mixture than that of member 2 to provide better welding characteristics for securing pulley cup 27 on member 3.
Accordingly, the present invention provides substantial improvements in the art of making a pulley hub construction and ~` the mounting of such a hub on a sheet metal pulley cup~ which sat-isies the various objectives set forth above, which solves prob-lems and satisfies demands existing in the art, and which obtains the new results indicated, In the foregoing description, certain terms have been used for brevity, clearness and understanding; but no unnecessary .
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1 limitations are to be implied therefrom beyond the requirements of the prior art, because such terms are used for descriptive purposes and are intended to be broadly construed.
~ loreover, the description and illustration of the inven-tion is by way of example, and the scope of the invention is not limited to the exact details shown or described.
Having now described the features, discoveries and ; principles of the invention, the manner in which the improved sintered pulley hub construction and procedure for forming such hub construction is carried out, the characteristics and the ad-vantageous, new and useful results obtained, the new and useful constructions, method steps and procedures are set forth in the appended claims.
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Description of the Prior Art Most pulley hubs are formed from tubular steel stock ; which is cut to predetermined axial lengths, with the variousflanges and grooves being machined or milled therein. These hub constructions are satisfactory for their intended applications, but the machining procedures increase considerably the costs of ~ the hubs. Likewise, removal of metal by machining results in ; 20 metal waste.
Machining generally is required to form a groo~e in the hub body which provides a radial annular flange on one end of the hub for gripping by a hub puller for removing the hub and connect-ed pulley from a shaft should replacement be required. Such ma-chining also is required to form flanges and other areas for re-ceiving a sheet metal pulley which is secured thereon by welding, brazing or the like.
Recent years have seen advancements in powder metallur-gy and the subsequent production of various hubs from powdered metal by pressing and sintering predetermined quantities and mixtures of such powder metal. Examples of various articles 8~
1 formed from metal powder and methods o~ producing such articles are illustrated in United Sta~es Patent Nos. 2,561,583, 3,260,596, 3,391,444, 3,719,497 and 3,720,512.
Problems, however, have been encountered in a~tempting to form pulley hubs having pulling flanges formed thereon by pow-der metallurgy. It is difficult to form an annular groove in the hub body which forms a pulling flange due to the difficulty of press forming such an exterior annular groove in the green-pressed hub compacts prior to sintering by known press molding equipment.
No known pulley hub construction and method of making the same of whiah I am aware eliminates these difficulties by providing a pulley hub structure and method of forming such a pulley hub having an annular pulling flange thereon, by pressure forming a pair of tubular members in green compact form which, when they are joined and subsequently sintered form an integral homogeneous hub with an annular pulling groove and flange.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Objectives of the invention include providing a sintered pulley hub construction from a pair of tubular members, each of which is pressure-formed from an unheated powder metal mixture, which members then are telescopically joined and sintered in a ; furnace to form an integral homogeneous pulley hub; providing such a pulley hub which has a radially outwardly extending annu-lar flange formed on one end thereof which provides a hub pulling flange easily gripped by pulling equipment for removing the hub from a shaft for replacement and maintenance problems; providing such a hub having a radially outwardly ex~ending annular shoulder which is adapted to radially align or be in close proximity with an edge of a sheet metal pulley cup which is mounted on the hub to provide an annular area for securing the pulley cup to ~he hub by welding, brazing or the like; providing such a hub construc-~ 3~
tion having an annular outer surface extending axially from theannular shoulderaway ~rom the pulling flange and terminating in a second outwardly extending radial end flange which forms a seat for receiving an annular mounting flange of a pulley cup, which mounting flange defines the hub receiving opening in the cup bottom wall; providing such a pulley hub in which the pair of tubular members may be pressure-formed into a cold green compact state and then joined in such a cold state, and then subsequently sintered to form the integral hub; and providing such a hub con-struction which may be produced inexpensively by eliminatingexpensive machining and material waste, which may be produced simply, conveniently, efficiently and with a variety of physical characteristics by varying the ingredients of the powder metal mixture, compacting pressure and sintering temperature thereof, and which pulley hub construction eliminates difficulties exist-; ing in the art.
Further objectives of the invention include providinga new method and procedure for making such a sintered pulley hub from apowder metal mixture in which the pair of tubular hub com-ponents are pressure-formed in molds into green compacts of pow-der metal, which members are subsequently assembled and sintered ; to form a pulley hub having an annular pulling flange, a sheet metal pulley cup seating area, and an annular zone for welding the sheet metal cup to the hub.
These objectives and advantages are obtained by the pulley hub construction, the general nature of which may be stated as including first and second tubular members; the first tubular member having a main cylindrical body terminating at one end in radially outwardly extending flange means; the second tubular member having an interior annular cavity formed in one end thereof, and an outer surface formed with a generally radi-ally extending portion for mounting a pulley cup on the outer surface of said second tubular member; the cylindrical body oF
the first tubular member having an outer surface with a diameter generally equal to the diameter of the interior annular cavity of the second tubular member; and the cylindrical body of the first tubular member being telescopically received within the annular cavity of the second tubular member and secured therein~
with the flange means of the first tubular member forming a hub pulling flange.
According to another aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of making a pulley hub, the method including the steps of pressure forming a first metal powder mix-ture in a mold to form a first tubular member having a cylindri-cal body and a radially outwardly extending hub pulling flange means formed on one end thereof, and pressure forming a second metal powder mixture in a second mold to form a second tubular member having an interior annular cavity formed in one end thereof and radially outwardly extending pulley cup mounting flange means formed on the other e-nd thereof. The method further includes the steps of telescopically inserting at least a portion of the cylindrical body of the first tubular member into the annular cavity in the second tubular member and sintering the telescopically joined first and second tubular members to form an integral sintered powder metal pulley hub having a hub pulling flange formed by the flange means of the first tubular member on one end of the pulley hub, and having a pulley cup mounted flange formed by the flange means of the second tubular member on the opposite end of the pulley hub.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING :
-The preferred embodiment of the improved hub construc-tion and method steps for the manufacture thereof - illustrative of the best mode in which applicant has contemplated applying . 10"~3~
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the principles - are set forth in the following description and shown in the accompanying drawings, and are particularly and dis-tinctly pointed out and set forth in the appended claims.
Figure 1 is an enlarged perspective view of the sin-tered pulley hub construction produced by the steps of the improved procedure;
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1 Fig. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the pair of green compact tubular members which are pressure formed of powder metal by the steps of the improved procedure prior to telescopic engagement and sintering of the members to form the hub construc-tion of Fig. l;
Fig. 3 is an elevational view of the improved pulley hub construction of Fig. 1 mounted on a sheet metal pulley cup having a plurality of V-grooves formed therein;
Fig, 4 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view taken on line 4-4, Fig. 3;
Fig. 5 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on ]ine 5-5? F~g. 4, Fig. 6 is a fragmentary end elevational view looking in the direction of arrow 6~6, Fig. 4; and Fig. 7 is an end elevational view looking in the direc-tion of arrow 7~7, Fig. 4.
Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawing, DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFER~ED EMBODIMENT
2a AND ~ETHOD STBPS OF THE IN~EMTION
.. . .. .. . . . .. .. ... _ _ ... ... _ .. . _ The improved pulley hub construction produced by the steps of the împroved method is shown in Fig. 1, and is indicated generally at 1. Hub construction 1 includes a pair of generally tubular-shaped members indicated generally at 2 and 3, and which are s~own in an unassembled state in Fig? 2. Members 2 and 3 are pressure-~ormed from a predetermined unheated powder metal mixture into a green compact state prior to being joined to form the im-proved hub construction 1 o Pig. 1.
Tubular member 2 :includes a maîn cylindrical body 4 which terminates at one end in a radially outwardly extending an-nular flange 5. Body 4 has a smooth cylindrical internal bore 6 (Fig, 4) and a smooth outer cylindrical surface 7. The end of %~
1 cylindrical body 4 opposite flange 5, terminates in an annular edge 8. Annular flange 5 has an annular axially extending outer surface 9 which is joined with surface 7 by a radially extending annular surface 10. Flange 5 further includes a flat annular end face 11 which terminates in a conical inwardly extending surface 12 which joins internal bore 6.
TubuIar member 3 (Figs. 2 and 4) includes an interior annular cavity 13 which extends axially from annular end surface 14 of member 3. The remaining interior portion of member 3 has a smooth internal cylindrical bore 15 equal in diameter to internal bore 6 of member 2, as shown in Fig. 4.
An exterior annular recess 16 is formed in the end of member 3 adjacent interior cavity 13 and forms an annular radially extending shoulder 17 which extends between and joins recess 16 and a cylindrical outer axially extending surface 18 of member 3.
Surface 18 terminates in an upwardly outwardly extending flange 19 which is concavely~shaped in cross-section. Flange 19 termin-ates in and forms a radially outwardly extending annular flange 20 on the other end of member 3.
Flange 20 includes a cylindrical axially extending outer surface 21 and an annular radially extending end face 22. End face 22 is joined with internal bore 15 of member 3 by a curved corner 23 which is convexly-shaped in cross-section (Fig. 4). The thickness of cylindrical body 4 between inner and outer surfaces 6 and 7, respectively, is equal to the depth of internal cavi~y 13 of member 3. This configuration enables bore 6 of member 2 to form a continuous hub bore 25 with internal bore 15 of member 3 when member 2 is telescopically engaged within member 3.
In accordance with the invention, flange surface 10 of ; 30 member 2 forms an annular groove 26 with end surface 14 of member 3 when the members are joined (Pig. 4~, into which a hub pulling device can project ~o grip flange 5 for removing hub 1 from a 1 shaft for replacement, should the pulley become damaged or worn.
The diameter of annular surface 9 of flange S preferably is equal to the diameter ofcylindrical outer surface 18 of member 3, where-by surfaces 9 and 18 lie în a common imaginary cylinder for rea-sons set forth below.
Improved hub construction 1 is shown in Fig. 3 mounted on a sheet metal pulley cup 27 which has a plurality of V-grooves 28 roller spun in an axially extending side wall 29 which is inte-gral wi~h a conical wall 30. Wall 30 terminates in an annular axially extending flange 31 which defines a cen~ral opening 32 for receiving pulley hub 1 therein. Axial flange 31 of pulley cup 27 joins conical wall 30 in a corner 33 ~Fig. 4) which has the same general configuration as annular corner 19 of flange 20.
Hub 1 is mounted easily on pulley cup 27 by inserting hub 1 through the open outer cup end 34 of cup side wall 29 and through central opening 32 formed by attachment flange 31. Flange 5 passes through opening 32 due to the diameter of axial surface 9 of member 2 being equal to the diameter of cylindrical surface 18 of member 3, whlch in turn is generally equal to the diameter of cup opening 32. Attachment flange 31 aligns with and abuts cylindrical surface 18 of tubular member 3 with corner 33 of cup 27 conforming to the curvature of flange corner 19 as shown ln Fig. 4, when cup 27 is mounted on hub 1.
One of the features of the invention is the alignment of annular edge 35 of attachment flange 31 with annular shoulder 17 of member 3 to provide a sufficiently wide radially extending an-nular surface for securing pulley cup 27 to hub 1 by welds 36 ~Figs. 4 and 5).
The improved method for forming pulley hub 1 includes the steps of forming members 2 and 3 from an unheated powder metal mixture having a predetermined composition depending upon the par-ticular physical and mechanical properties desired for the final 1 pulley hub. A quantity of the powder metal is placed in molds having configurations conforming to that of members 2 and 3. This powder metal then is compressed to form members 2 and 3 in a green-pressed compact state. The types of molds and presses for carrying out such press-forming steps may have various construc-tions and arrangements all of which are known in the art, and therefore are not described in detail or shown in the drawing.
; These molds preferably are unheated eliminating additional heating equipment and expense at the molding site.
The green compact members 2 and 3, which have the con-figurations as shown in Fig. 2 ? then are telescopically joined as shown in Fig. 1l and placed in a sintering furnace. The joined members are heated at a predetermined temperature for a certain period of time until sintering occurs. The abutting surfaces of the joined members upon sintering, integrally join to form a sin-gle piece hub having a homogeneous sintered metal body. The tem-perature and application time~ as well as the compacting pressure initially applied in forming members 2 and 3, are dependent upon the particular mixture of powder metal used in forming the pulley hub. One type of powder metal mixture found suitable for hub 1 consists of iron and carbon in various percentages in accordance with Designations F-0008-~S or F-0008-R of Standard No. 35 of the ~etal Powder Industries Pederation to form a sintered steel hub.
If desired, the powder metal mixture may consis~ only of iron, carbon and small amounts of copper to form a sintered steel, copper impregnated hub.
The axial length of ~nternal cavity 13 of member 3 pre-ferably is shorter tfian the axial length of cylindrical surface 7 of member 2, This arrangement provides that upon telescopic engagement of members 2 and 3, edge 8 o cylindrical body 4 abuts the inner edge or shoulder 37 Eormed by cavity 13, whereby surface 10 of flange 5 is spaced from end surface 14 of member 3 and forms 3~
1 pulling groove 26 in assembled hub 1.
The diameters of internal bores 6 and 15 of members 2 and 3 may be varied by increasing the thickness o-f cylindrical body 4 and of member 3 to provide hubs 1 with internal bores 25 of various diameters for mounting on a variety of shafts without affecting the diameter of pulley cup mounting surface lg. Like-wise, the diameter of bore 25 may remain constant with the diamet-er of surface 18 being increased by increasing the thickness of member 3 to accommodate pulley cups having various diameter hub wall openings 32 Another advantage of the method and construction des-cribed above is the providing of a sufficiently large annular area formed by shoulder 17 and cup edge 35 for securing cup 27 on hub 1 by a simple circular welding procedure. Flange 22 of member 3 assists in strengthening the connection between cup 27 and hub 1 by trapping cup mounting flanges 31 between corner 19 and the welded connection controlling axial movement of the pulley cup with respect to the hub. Tubular members 2 and 3 need not be formed of the same powder metal mixture. It may be desirable for some hub applications to form tubular member 2 of a denser and stronger powder metal to increase the strength of the pulling flange 5.
Likewise, tubular member 3 may be formed of another and different powder metal mixture than that of member 2 to provide better welding characteristics for securing pulley cup 27 on member 3.
Accordingly, the present invention provides substantial improvements in the art of making a pulley hub construction and ~` the mounting of such a hub on a sheet metal pulley cup~ which sat-isies the various objectives set forth above, which solves prob-lems and satisfies demands existing in the art, and which obtains the new results indicated, In the foregoing description, certain terms have been used for brevity, clearness and understanding; but no unnecessary .
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~ loreover, the description and illustration of the inven-tion is by way of example, and the scope of the invention is not limited to the exact details shown or described.
Having now described the features, discoveries and ; principles of the invention, the manner in which the improved sintered pulley hub construction and procedure for forming such hub construction is carried out, the characteristics and the ad-vantageous, new and useful results obtained, the new and useful constructions, method steps and procedures are set forth in the appended claims.
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Claims (24)
1. A pulley hub construction including:
a) first and second tubular members;
b) the first tubular member having a main cylindrical body terminating at one end in radially outwardly extending flange means;
c) the second tubular member having an interior annu-lar cavity formed in one end thereof, and an outer surface formed with a generally radially extending portion for mounting a pulley cup on the outer surface of said second tubular member;
d) the cylindrical body of the first tubular member having an outer surface with a diameter generally equal to the diameter of the interior annular cavity of the second tubular member; and e) the cylindrical body of the first tubular member being telescopically received within the annular cavity of the second tubular member and secured therein, with the flange means of the first tubular member forming a hub pulling flange.
a) first and second tubular members;
b) the first tubular member having a main cylindrical body terminating at one end in radially outwardly extending flange means;
c) the second tubular member having an interior annu-lar cavity formed in one end thereof, and an outer surface formed with a generally radially extending portion for mounting a pulley cup on the outer surface of said second tubular member;
d) the cylindrical body of the first tubular member having an outer surface with a diameter generally equal to the diameter of the interior annular cavity of the second tubular member; and e) the cylindrical body of the first tubular member being telescopically received within the annular cavity of the second tubular member and secured therein, with the flange means of the first tubular member forming a hub pulling flange.
2. The construction defined in claim 1 in which the flange means of the first tubular member is an annular flange.
3. The construction defined in claim 1 in which the radially extending portion of the outer surface of the second tubular member is an annular shoulder formed by an annular recess formed in the said one end of said second tubular member;
and in which the shoulder provides a weld zone for attaching a pulley cup on the outer surface.
and in which the shoulder provides a weld zone for attaching a pulley cup on the outer surface.
4, The construction defined in claim 1 in which the radially extending portion of the outer surface of the second tubular member is an annular flange formed on the other end of said second tubular member.
5. The construction defined in claim 4 in which the outer surface of the second tubular member is formed with an annular recess in said one end and has a cylindrical portion extending axially between said annular recess and the annular flange; and in which the junction of said recess and cylindrical portion forms a shoulder which provides a weld zone for securing a pulley cup on the second tubular member.
6. The construction defined in claim 5 in which the annular flange of the second tubular member is joined with the cylindrical portion of the outer surface by an annular corner concavely curved in cross section.
7. The construction defined in claim 5 in which the diameter of the cylindrical portion of the outer surface of the second tubular member is equal to the diameter of the radial flange means of the first tubular member.
8. The construction defined in claim 1 in which the thickness of the cylindrical body of the first tubular member is equal to the depth of the interior annular cavity of the second tubular member; and in which the first and second tubular members have inner surfaces which form a cylindrical hub bore when joined for receiving a shaft therein.
9. The construction defined in claim 1 in which the axial length of the cylindrical body of the first tubular member is greater than the axial length of the interior annular cavity of the second tubular member; and in which the flange means of the first tubular member is spaced axially from said one end of the second tubular member to form a pulling groove extending between said flange means and said one end.
10. The construction defined in claim 1 in which a pulley cup is mounted on the outer surface of the second tubular member; in which the pulley cup has a bottom wall and a side wall extending in a generally axial direction from said bottom wall with an opening being formed in said bottom wall; and in which the second tubular member is telescopically mounted within the bottom wall opening.
11. The construction defined in claim 10 in which the pulley cup bottom wall opening is defined by an annular axially extending flange; in which the outer surface of the second tubular member has a cylindrical portion; in which the radially extending portion of the outer surface of the second tubular member is an annular flange formed on the other end of said second tubular member and communicating with the cylindrical porttion; and in which the cup bottom wall flange is seated on the cylindrical portion of the outer surface with portions of the bottom wall being in abutment with the radial flange of the second tubular member.
12. The construction defined in claim 11 in which an exterior annular shoulder is formed on the second tubular member adjacent one end; in which the cup bottom wall flange terminates in an annular outer edge; and in which said edge aligns generally radially with said shoulder to form an annular zone for securing the pulley cup to the second tubular member.
13. The construction defined in claim 11 in which the annular flange of the second tubular member is joined with the cylindrical portion of the outer surface by an annular corner concavely curved in cross section; in which the annular axial flange of the pulley cup bottom wall is joined to a conical portion of the bottom wall by a concave corner; and in which said pulley cup corner is in abutment with the annular corner of the second tubular member.
14. In a method of making a pulley hub including the steps of:
(a) pressure forming a first metal powder mixture in a mold to form a first tubular member having a cylindrical body and radially outwardly extending hub pulling flange means formed on one end thereof;
(b) pressure-forming a second metal powder mixture in a second mold to form a second tubular member having an interior annular cavity formed in one end thereof and radially outwardly extending pulley cup mounting flange means formed on the other end thereof;
(c) telescopically inserting at least a portion of the cylindrical body of the first tubular member into the annular cavity of the second tubular member; and (d) sintering the telescopically joined first and second tubular members to form an integral sintered powder metal pulley hub having a hub pulling flange formed by the flange means of the first tubular member on one end of the pulley hub, and having a pulley cup mounting flange formed by the flange means of the second tubular member on the opposite end of said pulley hub.
(a) pressure forming a first metal powder mixture in a mold to form a first tubular member having a cylindrical body and radially outwardly extending hub pulling flange means formed on one end thereof;
(b) pressure-forming a second metal powder mixture in a second mold to form a second tubular member having an interior annular cavity formed in one end thereof and radially outwardly extending pulley cup mounting flange means formed on the other end thereof;
(c) telescopically inserting at least a portion of the cylindrical body of the first tubular member into the annular cavity of the second tubular member; and (d) sintering the telescopically joined first and second tubular members to form an integral sintered powder metal pulley hub having a hub pulling flange formed by the flange means of the first tubular member on one end of the pulley hub, and having a pulley cup mounting flange formed by the flange means of the second tubular member on the opposite end of said pulley hub.
15. The method defined in claim 14 including forming the cylindrical body of the first tubular member with a uniform thickness equal to the depth of the interior cavity of the second tubular member during the pressure forming of said first and second tubular members.
16 The method defined in claim 14 including providing an annular shoulder on the second tubular member by forming an annular exterior recess in the second tubular member adjacent said one end during the pressure forming of said second tubular member.
17. The method defined in claim 16 including the steps of providing a sheet metal pulley cup having an annular flange defining an opening in an end wall thereof; inserting the joined first and second tubular members through the end wall opening, with said pulley cup annular flange aligning with the annular shoulder of the second tubular member providing an annular attachment zone; and attaching the pulley cup to the hub by welding at the attachment zone.
18. The method defined in claim 14 in which the first and second metal powder mixtures are identical to each other.
19. In a method of making an integral pulley hub construction including the steps of:
(a) pressure-forming a first metal powder mixture in a mold to form a first, generally tubular-shaped, hollow member having first and second ends and a cylindrical bore extending therebetween, with radially outwardly extending hub pulling flange means being formed on said first end;
(b) pressure-forming a second metal powder mixture in a second mold to form a second, generally tubular-shaped, hollow member having first and second ends and a cylindrical bore extending therebetween, with cavity means being formed in said first end within the bore and with pulley cup mounting flange means being formed on said second end;
(c) telescopically inserting at least a portion of the second end of the first member into the cavity means of the second member; and (d) sintering the telescopically joined first and second members to form an integral sintered powder metal pulley hub having a hub pulling flange formed by the flange means of the first member, a pulley cup mounting flange formed by the flange means of the second member, and a continuous cylindrical hub bore formed by the bores of said first and second members.
(a) pressure-forming a first metal powder mixture in a mold to form a first, generally tubular-shaped, hollow member having first and second ends and a cylindrical bore extending therebetween, with radially outwardly extending hub pulling flange means being formed on said first end;
(b) pressure-forming a second metal powder mixture in a second mold to form a second, generally tubular-shaped, hollow member having first and second ends and a cylindrical bore extending therebetween, with cavity means being formed in said first end within the bore and with pulley cup mounting flange means being formed on said second end;
(c) telescopically inserting at least a portion of the second end of the first member into the cavity means of the second member; and (d) sintering the telescopically joined first and second members to form an integral sintered powder metal pulley hub having a hub pulling flange formed by the flange means of the first member, a pulley cup mounting flange formed by the flange means of the second member, and a continuous cylindrical hub bore formed by the bores of said first and second members.
20. The method defined in claim 19 in which the flange means of the first and second members are formed with annular configur-
21. The method defined in claim 19 in which the second end of the first member is formed with a cylindrical configuration;
and in which the cavity means in the first end of the second member is formed with an annular configuration which is concentric with and complementary to the cylindrical second end of the first member.
and in which the cavity means in the first end of the second member is formed with an annular configuration which is concentric with and complementary to the cylindrical second end of the first member.
22. The method defined in claim 21 in which the thickness of the cylindrical second end of the first member is uniform and is equal to the depth of the cavity means of the second member.
23. The method defined in claim 19 including the step of forming an exterior annular shoulder on the second member adjacent the first end during the pressure forming of said second member.
24. The method defined in claim 19 including the step of forming a cylindrical axially extending outer surface on the second end of the second member during the pressure forming of said second member.
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