GB1569483A - Flexible corrugated tube - Google Patents
Flexible corrugated tube Download PDFInfo
- Publication number
- GB1569483A GB1569483A GB5055277A GB5055277A GB1569483A GB 1569483 A GB1569483 A GB 1569483A GB 5055277 A GB5055277 A GB 5055277A GB 5055277 A GB5055277 A GB 5055277A GB 1569483 A GB1569483 A GB 1569483A
- Authority
- GB
- United Kingdom
- Prior art keywords
- corrugation
- corrugations
- tube
- crests
- strip
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
- Expired
Links
Classifications
-
- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16L11/00—Hoses, i.e. flexible pipes
- F16L11/14—Hoses, i.e. flexible pipes made of rigid material, e.g. metal or hard plastics
- F16L11/16—Hoses, i.e. flexible pipes made of rigid material, e.g. metal or hard plastics wound from profiled strips or bands
-
- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
- B21C—MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHEETS, WIRE, RODS, TUBES OR PROFILES, OTHERWISE THAN BY ROLLING; AUXILIARY OPERATIONS USED IN CONNECTION WITH METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL
- B21C37/00—Manufacture of metal sheets, bars, wire, tubes or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape
- B21C37/06—Manufacture of metal sheets, bars, wire, tubes or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape of tubes or metal hoses; Combined procedures for making tubes, e.g. for making multi-wall tubes
- B21C37/12—Making tubes or metal hoses with helically arranged seams
- B21C37/124—Making tubes or metal hoses with helically arranged seams the tubes having a special shape, e.g. with corrugated wall, flexible tubes
Landscapes
- Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
- General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
- Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
- Rigid Pipes And Flexible Pipes (AREA)
- Shaping Of Tube Ends By Bending Or Straightening (AREA)
Abstract
The corrugated pipe is helically coiled from a sheet-metal strip having corrugations extending parallel to its longitudinal direction, in each case at least one corrugation of one side edge of a strip (1) being located in at least one corrugation on the other, overlapping side edge of the following strip turn. In order to prevent the corrugations, located one inside the other, of two neighbouring strip turns from slipping apart, even in the case of very thin sheet-metal strips or pipes of high flexibility, the corrugation peaks of the corrugations, located one inside the other, are pressed down, at at least one point on the pipe circumference, by an amount corresponding to part of the corrugation height such that, in the pressed-down region, the corrugation heads of two corrugations, located one inside the other, are wider than the corrugation necks located therebeneath, the corrugation which is respectively adjacent in the longitudinal direction of the pipe being unchanged at least in the region beside the pressed-down portion (2). <IMAGE>
Description
(54) FLEXIBLE CORRUGATED TUBE
(71) I, EMIL SIEGWART of 6, Michael
Blatter-Strasse Sulzbach-Neuweiler 6603,
Federal Republic of Germany, a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany, do hereby declare the invention, for which
I pray that a patent may be granted to me, and the method by which it is to be performed, to be particularly described in and by the following statement: The invention relates to a flexible corrugated tube consisting of a helically wound strip with corrugations extending parallel to its longitudinal direction, in which tube at least one corrugation of one side edge of one turn of the strip lies respectively in at least one corrugation in the other, overlapping side edge of the following turn of the strip, the strip, preferably but not exclusively, being formed of thin sheet metal.
Various types of corrugated tubes of this kind are already known. Nevertheless, they entail the problem of finding the best method of ensuring at the lowest cost that the inter-engaging corrugations of two successive turns of the coil remain in engagement one in the other and do not slip out of one another, which would destroy the connection of the successive turns of strip.
In order to ensure the mutual fixed and non-detachable connection of the inter-engaging corrugations of two successive turns of the strip it has already been proposed that these inter-engaging corrugations should be pressed flat to form seams (US PS 3,858,421).
This known seaming has the consequence that the inside or outside diameter is changed from place to place, since the corrugations pressed flat to form a seam have a substantialy reduced height in the radial direction in comparison with those corrugations of the tube which have not been pressed flat. Above all, however, the flexibility of the corrugated tube is almost completely destroyed in the region of the seams, each of which extends circularly around the tube, and this is frequently found to be disadvantageous since the bendability of the tube is thereby impaired.
A corrugated tube of the kind first mentioned above is also already known in which the crests or troughs of at least two interengaging corrugations are made wider, for the purpose of hooking one into the other, than the distance between the corrugation flanks between the crest and the trough of the corrugations (German
Offenlegungsschrift No. 2,235,012). It is true that by this means the overlapping edges of the strip are prevented from being detached from one another in the case of thick-walled tubes, but if a corrugated tube of this kind is made of a very thin, foil-like sheet metal material, or if it has great flexibility so that the interengaging corrugations can be stretched in the direction of the axis of the tube in such a manner that the undercuts are destroyed, there is no absolute certainty that the overlapping edges of the strip will not become detached or pull out of one another.
With a flexible corrugated tube of the kind first described above the invention therefore seeks to prevent in all cases that is to say even with very thin foil-like sheet metal strips and when the wound sheet metal strips are very flexible - the undesirable slipping out of one another of the inter-engaging corrugations of two neighbouring turns of strip, and therefore their possible detachment from one another.
According to the invention there is provided a flexible corrugated tube consisting of a helically wound thin strip having corrugations extending parallel to the longitudinal direction of the strip, in which tube at least one corrugation of one side edge of each turn of the strip lies respectively in at least one corrugation in the other overlapping side edge of the following turn of the strip, wherein the crests of the corrugations lying one in the other are locally depressed to the extent of part of the height of the corrugation at least at one point on the periphery of the tube, in such a manner that in the depressed region the inter-engaging crests of two interengaging corrugations are wider than the parts of the corrugations situated under the flattened crests, while each neighbouring corrugation adjacent thereto in the longitudinal direction of the tube is not depressed, at least in the region adjoining the depression.
The invention thus has the consequence that in the longitudinal direction extending around the periphery of the tube the crests of two inter-engaging corrugations have parts where the inter-engaging crests have a lower height and greater width, so that in this region the corrugations are deformed two-dimensionally in relation to the neighbouring region. In the transition region there is thus on the one hand a reduction of the height of the corrugations, that is to say a deformation of the corrugations in the radial direction of the tube, and on the other hand a widening of the crests of the corrugations, that is to say a deformation of the corrugations in the axial direction of the tube. This twodimensional deformation of the corrugations ensures extremely great stability of the inter-engaging corrugations in their deformed region, so that even in the case of a corrugated tube consisting of particularly thin foil-like sheet metal strip the danger of the opening-up of the inter-engaging corrugations hooked to one another, to such an extent that these corrugations might slip one out of the other, is virtually eliminated. Because of the depressions provided only at certain points on the corrugations, the flexibility of the tube is moreover scarcely impaired, particulaly as the neighbouring corrugations next to each depression are not deformed.
In the depression region the cross-section of the,.corrugations may be roughly in the shape of a push-button or dovetail or rivet-shaped. The depressed corrugation crests may have about half the height of the undeformed corrugation. In a preferred embodiment the depressions of the corrugation crests are punctiform when viewed in the longitudinal direction of the tube. Because of this slight length of the depressions in the tangential direction of the tube wall, great flexibility of the corrugated tubes is ensured. The depressions may be provided only on the crests of the corrugations lying on the outside of the tube or only on the crests situated on the inside of the tube wall.
For the purpose of producing the depressions of the corrugation crests it is possible to use a pressure roller which acts on the outside or the inside of the tube wall, the roller on its periphery having radial projections the length of which corresponds to the desired length of the depression. The pressure roller may be provided on its periphery with grooves into which the corrugations of the wound corrugated tube are inserted, the projections being formed on the base or bottom of the grooves.
One embodiment of a corrugated tube according to the invention and also an embodiment of an aparatus for producing this corrugated tube will now be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings in which: Figure 1 shows an embodiment of the corrugated tube during the winding process;
Figure 2 is a partial longitudinal section through the finished corrugated tube showing parts of three turns:
Figure 3 is a plan view of a winding apparatus for producing this corrugated tube;
Figure 4 is a cross-section through the pressure roller provided at the strip inlet in the winding apparatus shown in Figure 3.
In the embodiment illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 a corrugated tube is formed from a thin metal strip having corrugations extending parallel to its longitudinal direction by helically winding the strip. The successive turns 1 of the thin metal strip forming the flexible corrugated tube overlap by about half the width of the strip.
In their overlapping region the turns 1 of the strip lie with their corrugations one in the other. At determined mutual intervals, in this example every fifth corrugation, depressions 2 on the crests of two inter-engaging corrugations are provided.
The depressions are punctiform when viewed in the longitudinal direction of the tube and by the term punctiform is meant that the depressions are very short in the circumferential direction. These depressions are so arranged that in these regions the inter-engaging corrugations have about only half the radial height, while the axial cross-section of the corrugations is given approximately the shape of a pushbutton, rivet or an inverted trapezium. At both ends of the deoressions 2 there are thus two-dimensional modifications 3 of the shane of the inter-engaging corrugations from their normal shape to their depressed shape.
A tube according to Figures 1 and 2 can be produced in a winding apparatus of the kind illustrated by way of example in
Figures 3 and 4. This winding apparatus consists of mandrel 4 onto which runs the corrugated strip 5 serving to form the corrugated tube. This strip 5 is wound helically around the mandrel with the aid of a pressure roller 8, reversing roller 7, and guide roller 6, in such a manner that the pitch of the strip turns 1 amounts to approximately half the width of the strip, so that the turns formed overlap to the extent of this width. On their periphery the rollers 6, 7, and 8 are provided with grooves 9 which extend around them and which receive the corrugations of the strip.
The pressure roller 8 is situated at the inlet for the strip 5. the grooves extending around this roller serving to receive the corrugations of the strip.
At certain points on their periphery the grooves 9 in the pressure roller 8 are provided at their bottom with raised portion or proiections 10, which have the consequence that the crests of the inter-engating corrugations of two neighbouring striD turns lying in the grooves are de
Dressed to about half the height of the corrugations, as shown in Figure 2 at two Doints on two inter-engaging corrugations in each case. The length of the nrojections is no geater than the width of the grooves.
This depression of parts of the crests of two inter-engaging corrugations leads to local two-dimensional deformation of the corrugation crests. The upward and downward slopes in the corrugation crest which are formed in the peripheral direction of the tube on both sides of the depressions 2 of the corrugation crests, and the modification of the width of the corrugation crest effected at the same time in these regions the crest being wider longitudinally than the base of the depression lead to substantial stiffening and increased stability of shape of the deformed crests of the inter-engaging corrugations, so that even when subjected to a heavy pull in the axial direction of the corrugated tube they will not be detached from one another.
The size of the depression are chosen to give the required qualities for the tube.
The length of the depression, measured in the tangential direction may correspond to approximately the height of the undeformed corrugation or may be smaller than the height of the undeformed corrugation. The length mav be equal or smaller than the distance between the flanks of two undeformed corrugations. The depressions may be provided. directed radiallv towards the inside of the tube only on the corrugation crests lying on the outside of the tube or only on the crests lying on the inside of the tube.
WHAT I CLAIM IS:
1. A flexible corrugated tube consisting of a helically wound thin strip having corrugations extending parallel to the longitudinal direction of the strip, in which tube at least one corrugation of one side edge of each turn of the strip lies respectively in at least one corrugation in the other overlapping side edge of the following turn of the strip, wherein the crests of the corrugations lying one in the other are locally depressed to the extent of part of the height of the corrugation at least at one point pn the periphery of the tube, in such a manner that in the depressed region the inter-engaging crests of two inter-engaging corrugations are wider than the parts of the corrugations situated under the flattened crests, while each neighbouring corrugation adjacent thereto in the longitudinal direction of the tube is not depressed, at least in the region adjoining the depression.
2. A corrugated tube according to claim 1, wherein the cross-section of the corrugations in the depressed region has approximately the shape of a push-button or rivet.
3. A corrugated tube according to claim 1 wherein the region of the depressed crest the corrugations have approximately half the height of the undeformed corrugation.
4 A corrugated tube according to claim 1 wherein the depressions of the crests of the corrugations are punctiform in the longitudinal direction of the tube (as defined herein).
5. A corrugated tube according to claim 4 wherein the length of the depression of the crest of the corrugation, measured in the tangential direction of the tube wall, corresponds aproximately to the height of the undeformed corrugation.
6. A corrugated tube according to claim 4, wherein the length of the depression of the crest of the corrugation, measured tangentially to the tube wall, is smaller than the height of the undeformed corrugation.
7. A corrugated tube according to claim 4, 5 or 6, wherein the length of the depression of the crest of the corrugation, measured tangentially to the tube wall, is equal to or smaller than the distance between the flanks of two undeformed corrugations.
8. A corrugated tube according to one or more of claims 1 to 7, wherein the depressions are Drovided, directed radially towards the inside of the tube, only on the corrugation crests lying on the outside of the tube.
9. A corrugated tube according to one or more of claims 1 to 7, wherein the depressions are provided, directed radially
**WARNING** end of DESC field may overlap start of CLMS **.
Claims (16)
1. A flexible corrugated tube consisting of a helically wound thin strip having corrugations extending parallel to the longitudinal direction of the strip, in which tube at least one corrugation of one side edge of each turn of the strip lies respectively in at least one corrugation in the other overlapping side edge of the following turn of the strip, wherein the crests of the corrugations lying one in the other are locally depressed to the extent of part of the height of the corrugation at least at one point pn the periphery of the tube, in such a manner that in the depressed region the inter-engaging crests of two inter-engaging corrugations are wider than the parts of the corrugations situated under the flattened crests, while each neighbouring corrugation adjacent thereto in the longitudinal direction of the tube is not depressed, at least in the region adjoining the depression.
2. A corrugated tube according to claim 1, wherein the cross-section of the corrugations in the depressed region has approximately the shape of a push-button or rivet.
3. A corrugated tube according to claim 1 wherein the region of the depressed crest the corrugations have approximately half the height of the undeformed corrugation.
4 A corrugated tube according to claim 1 wherein the depressions of the crests of the corrugations are punctiform in the longitudinal direction of the tube (as defined herein).
5. A corrugated tube according to claim 4 wherein the length of the depression of the crest of the corrugation, measured in the tangential direction of the tube wall, corresponds aproximately to the height of the undeformed corrugation.
6. A corrugated tube according to claim 4, wherein the length of the depression of the crest of the corrugation, measured tangentially to the tube wall, is smaller than the height of the undeformed corrugation.
7. A corrugated tube according to claim 4, 5 or 6, wherein the length of the depression of the crest of the corrugation, measured tangentially to the tube wall, is equal to or smaller than the distance between the flanks of two undeformed corrugations.
8. A corrugated tube according to one or more of claims 1 to 7, wherein the depressions are Drovided, directed radially towards the inside of the tube, only on the corrugation crests lying on the outside of the tube.
9. A corrugated tube according to one or more of claims 1 to 7, wherein the depressions are provided, directed radially
towards the outside of the tube, only on the corrugation crests lying on the inside of the tube wall.
10. A flexible corrugated tube according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the strip is formed of sheet metal.
11. A flexible corrugated tube substantially as described herein with reference to and as illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings.
12. An apparatus for producing a corrugated tube according to any one of claims 1 to 10 having a pressure roller adapted to act on the inside or the outside of the wound tube, wherein the pressure roller is provided on its periphery with radial projections adapted to locally depress the crests of the corrugations laid one in the other to the extent of part of the height of the corrugation in such a manner that in the depressed region the interengaging crests of two interengaging corrugations are wider than the parts of the corrugation situated under the flattened crests.
13. An apparatus according to claim 12 having a pressure roller provided on its periphery with grooves into which the corrugations of the wound corrugated tube are inserted, wherein the radial projections on the pressure roller are in the grooves.
14. An apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the height of the projections corresponds approximately to half the height of the grooves.
15. An apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the tangential length of the projections is no greater than the width of the grooves.
16. Apparatus for producing a corrugated tube the apparatus being substantially as described herein with reference to, and as illustfated in, Figures 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawings.
Applications Claiming Priority (1)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
---|---|---|---|
DE19762654963 DE2654963C3 (en) | 1976-12-03 | 1976-12-03 | Method and device for the production of a flexible corrugated pipe |
Publications (1)
Publication Number | Publication Date |
---|---|
GB1569483A true GB1569483A (en) | 1980-06-18 |
Family
ID=5994653
Family Applications (1)
Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
---|---|---|---|
GB5055277A Expired GB1569483A (en) | 1976-12-03 | 1977-12-05 | Flexible corrugated tube |
Country Status (9)
Country | Link |
---|---|
AT (1) | AT360295B (en) |
BE (1) | BE861394A (en) |
CH (1) | CH627248A5 (en) |
DE (1) | DE2654963C3 (en) |
FR (1) | FR2373008A1 (en) |
GB (1) | GB1569483A (en) |
IT (1) | IT1091266B (en) |
NL (1) | NL184293C (en) |
SE (1) | SE440859B (en) |
Cited By (2)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
GB2164882A (en) * | 1984-10-03 | 1986-04-03 | Fisco Products Ltd | Tape measure and coated sheet fabrication |
EP1281904A2 (en) * | 2001-08-03 | 2003-02-05 | Ohtsuka Co., Ltd. | Helically wound corrugated tubular structure |
Families Citing this family (7)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
DE2754483C2 (en) * | 1976-12-23 | 1982-11-18 | Emil 6603 Sulzbach Siegwart | Device for the production of spiral tubes |
DE3016719A1 (en) * | 1980-04-30 | 1981-11-05 | Ohler Eisenwerk, Theob. Pfeiffer, 5970 Plettenberg | SPIRAL TUBE MADE OF SCREW-WINDED, CORRUGATED RIBBON AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF |
DE3022575C3 (en) * | 1980-06-16 | 1996-11-28 | Hahn Fritz Gmbh Co Kg | Device for producing pipes by helically winding a preferably corrugated strip |
CA1146097A (en) * | 1980-09-19 | 1983-05-10 | Emil Siegwart | Flexible corrugated tube |
DE3102827A1 (en) * | 1981-01-29 | 1982-08-26 | Fritz Hahn Kg, 5500 Trier | Flexible corrugated pipe (tube) |
DE19821596A1 (en) * | 1998-05-14 | 1999-11-25 | Witzenmann Metallschlauchfab | Agraff hose for exhaust systems of motor vehicles |
DE102012012548B4 (en) * | 2012-06-26 | 2015-01-08 | R + W Antriebselemente | Manufacturing method for a propeller shaft and then produced propeller shaft |
Family Cites Families (1)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
DE2235012A1 (en) * | 1972-07-17 | 1974-01-31 | Emil Siegwart | FLEXIBLE CORRUGATED TUBE |
-
1976
- 1976-12-03 DE DE19762654963 patent/DE2654963C3/en not_active Expired
-
1977
- 1977-11-30 NL NL7713222A patent/NL184293C/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1977-12-01 AT AT859477A patent/AT360295B/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1977-12-01 CH CH1471277A patent/CH627248A5/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1977-12-01 BE BE183086A patent/BE861394A/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1977-12-01 SE SE7713642A patent/SE440859B/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1977-12-02 IT IT6972377A patent/IT1091266B/en active
- 1977-12-02 FR FR7736393A patent/FR2373008A1/en active Granted
- 1977-12-05 GB GB5055277A patent/GB1569483A/en not_active Expired
Cited By (3)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
GB2164882A (en) * | 1984-10-03 | 1986-04-03 | Fisco Products Ltd | Tape measure and coated sheet fabrication |
EP1281904A2 (en) * | 2001-08-03 | 2003-02-05 | Ohtsuka Co., Ltd. | Helically wound corrugated tubular structure |
EP1281904A3 (en) * | 2001-08-03 | 2004-07-28 | Ohtsuka Co., Ltd. | Helically wound corrugated tubular structure |
Also Published As
Publication number | Publication date |
---|---|
FR2373008B1 (en) | 1984-12-28 |
NL7713222A (en) | 1978-06-06 |
IT1091266B (en) | 1985-07-06 |
NL184293B (en) | 1989-01-02 |
DE2654963A1 (en) | 1978-06-08 |
CH627248A5 (en) | 1981-12-31 |
NL184293C (en) | 1989-06-01 |
DE2654963B2 (en) | 1979-10-18 |
DE2654963C3 (en) | 1980-07-03 |
FR2373008A1 (en) | 1978-06-30 |
ATA859477A (en) | 1980-05-15 |
SE440859B (en) | 1985-08-26 |
AT360295B (en) | 1980-12-29 |
SE7713642L (en) | 1978-06-04 |
BE861394A (en) | 1978-03-31 |
Similar Documents
Publication | Publication Date | Title |
---|---|---|
US4141385A (en) | Flexible corrugated tube | |
US3913623A (en) | Flexible corrugated tube | |
US3865146A (en) | Helically wound tubing and method of forming the same | |
US4368088A (en) | Method of manufacturing corrugated tube | |
US3815639A (en) | Corrugated tubing | |
US3604464A (en) | Bendable metal duct | |
US20080264509A1 (en) | Spiral-wound diaphragm bellows, and method of making such a diaphragm bellows | |
GB1569483A (en) | Flexible corrugated tube | |
JPS6228023A (en) | Exhaust-gas catalyst carrier and manufacture, device and blank thereof | |
HU209656B (en) | Flexible pipeline | |
US4029129A (en) | Helical pipe lock seam | |
US3487537A (en) | Method for making a spiral seamed corrugated laminated pipe with uncorrugated interior | |
US6014988A (en) | Beaded center tube | |
US3474514A (en) | Apparatus for making spiral seamed corrugated laminated pipe with uncorrugated interior | |
KR960001709A (en) | Metal fin tube | |
US4377188A (en) | Flexible corrugated tube | |
US5074138A (en) | Method of making bellows pipe | |
US4509560A (en) | Locking detent for corrugated tube | |
US5158115A (en) | Bellows pipe construction | |
CA2065196C (en) | Flexible metal conduit and method of making the same | |
US5709029A (en) | Manufacture of helically corrugated conduit | |
EP0635353B1 (en) | Corrugated pipe manufacturing apparatus | |
KR100208040B1 (en) | Finned tube and method of fabricating the same | |
KR970009918A (en) | A method for manufacturing a corrugated metal pipe and a tool for carrying out the same, and a corrugated metal pipe | |
EP0697927B2 (en) | Container beading |
Legal Events
Date | Code | Title | Description |
---|---|---|---|
PS | Patent sealed | ||
PCNP | Patent ceased through non-payment of renewal fee |
Effective date: 19951205 |