Manufacturing method of seamless metal pipe, mandrel mill, and auxiliary tool

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9884355-B2
Application number	US-201314403241-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 18, 2013
Priority date	Jul 24, 2012
Publication date	Feb 6, 2018
Grant date	Feb 6, 2018

Abstract

A manufacturing method of a seamless metal pipe includes: preparing a plurality of mandrel bars in which lengths of work portions which come into contact with a hollow shell during elongating are different from one another; selecting a mandrel bar including a work portion having a length corresponding to the number of stands used in thickness reduction, among the plurality of mandrel bars; inserting the mandrel bar selected in the selecting into the hollow shell; and performing the elongating on the hollow shell into which the mandrel bar is inserted. Moreover, in the elongating, outer diameter reduction is performed by one of a preceding-stage stand group and a succeeding-stage stand group and the thickness reduction is performed by the other of the preceding-stage stand group and the succeeding-stage stand group, or the thickness reduction is performed by both of the preceding-stage stand group and the succeeding-stage stand group.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A manufacturing method of a seamless metal pipe which manufactures a seamless metal pipe from a hollow shell using none mandrel mill having a preceding-stage stand group including a plurality of stands arranged from a head along a pass line and a succeeding-stage stand group including a plurality of stands arranged behind the preceding-stage stand group, the manufacturing method comprising:
preparing a plurality of mandrel bars for the one mandrel mill in which lengths of work portions which come into contact with the hollow shell during elongating are different from one another;
selecting a mandrel bar including a work portion having a length corresponding to the number of stands used in thickness reduction, among the plurality of mandrel bars;
inserting the selected mandrel bar into the hollow shell; and
performing the elongating on the hollow shell into which the mandrel bar is inserted,
wherein in the elongating, outer diameter reduction is performed by one of the preceding-stage stand group and the succeeding-stage stand group and the thickness reduction is performed by the other of the preceding-stage stand group and the succeeding-stage stand group, or the thickness reduction is performed by both of the preceding-stage stand group and the succeeding-stage stand group.

2. The manufacturing method of a seamless metal pipe according to claim 1 , further comprising:
mounting a rod shaped auxiliary tool, which includes a holding portion capable of holding a rear end portion of the mandrel bar at a tip, on a rear end of the mandrel bar; and
moving a holding device forward while holding a rear end of the auxiliary tool by the holding device.

3. The manufacturing method of a seamless metal pipe according to claim 2 , further comprising:
supporting the mandrel bar during a forward movement by a support roll disposed between the plurality of stands and the holding device by lifting the support roll; and
adjusting a height of the support roll by lifting and lowering the support roll based on a forward movement distance of the auxiliary tool when an outer diameter of the auxiliary tool is different from an outer diameter of the mandrel bar.

4. The manufacturing method of a seamless metal pipe according to claim 3 ,
wherein in the adjusting, when the outer diameter of the auxiliary tool is larger than the outer diameter of the mandrel bar, the support roll is lowered before the auxiliary tool passes through the support roll.

5. The manufacturing method of a seamless metal pipe according to claim 2 ,
wherein in the elongating, the outer diameter reduction is performed by the preceding-stage stand group, and total lengths of the plurality of mandrel bars are the same as one another.

6. The manufacturing method of a seamless metal pipe according to claim 1 ,
wherein in the elongating, the outer diameter reduction is perfoinied by the preceding-stage stand group, and total lengths of the plurality of mandrel bars are the same as one another.

Assignees

• Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp

Inventors

• Yamane Akihito

Classifications

• B21B17/04

  in a continuous process · CPC title

• B21B2261/04

  Thickness, gauge · CPC title

• B21B25/06

  Interchanging mandrels {, fixing plugs on mandrel rods or cooling during interchanging mandrels (separating tubes from mandrels B21C45/00)} · CPC title

• B21B2261/08

  Diameter · CPC title

• B21B25/02 Primary

  Guides, supports, or abutments for mandrels, e.g. carriages {or steadiers}; Adjusting devices for mandrels · CPC title