Global Patent Index - EP 0860224 B1

EP 0860224 B1 20001206 - Apparatus with deployable storage magazine for the expansion of the tubes of heat exchanger assemblies of the finned type

Title (en)

Apparatus with deployable storage magazine for the expansion of the tubes of heat exchanger assemblies of the finned type

Title (de)

Vorrichtung mit einem ausklappbaren Lagerregal zur Ausweitung der Rohre von Wärmeaustauschbatterien vom Rippenrohrtyp

Title (fr)

Machine à magasin escamotable de stockage pour la dilatation des tubes des batteries d'échange thermique du type aileté

Publication

EP 0860224 B1 20001206 (FR)

Application

EP 98420013 A 19980123

Priority

FR 9701027 A 19970127

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0860224A1] A cross-head (3), sliding vertically within a portal frame (1), carries a line of tool-rods (10), each ending in an olive-shaped expansion part. Finned tubes arrayed (15) on a rack (11), hinged at the frame foot, are each aligned with a tool-rod when an actuator (13) raises the track to the vertical. The expansion parts are then simultaneously forced, hydraulically, through the tubes, producing the desired diameter. On changing the array, some tools have to be added or removed. With the cross-head raised and the rack lowered, a magazine (19), holding tools in vertical tubes, is pushed (21, 22) under the cross-head, which lowers the old and picks up the new set while locking plates are released and reapplied. The head is newly displaced to disengage the selected rods while the magazine that the motor mechanism returns finally to the skipped position to permit the widening operation. Selectors (12) on the rack determine the new configuration.

IPC 1-7

B21D 53/08

IPC 8 full level

B21D 53/08 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

B21D 53/085 (2013.01)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE ES FR IT

DOCDB simple family (publication)

FR 2758750 A1 19980731; FR 2758750 B1 19990312; DE 69800417 D1 20010111; DE 69800417 T2 20010419; EP 0860224 A1 19980826; EP 0860224 B1 20001206; ES 2152740 T3 20010201

DOCDB simple family (application)

FR 9701027 A 19970127; DE 69800417 T 19980123; EP 98420013 A 19980123; ES 98420013 T 19980123