A Four-Roll Squeeze Pointing Machine for a Shape-Drawing Process

A pointing process is a pre-work operation to facilitate the feeding of a rod to pass through a drawing die. After performing the pointing process, the drawing material is inserted into the drawing die and the jaw pulls the end of the material. A bar pointing turning machine, which is universally used for the pointing process, causes a breaking of drawing material easily in the shape-drawing process. Because a shape-drawing process requires a higher drawing load and a smaller cross-sectional area of the pointed zone of drawing material, a pointing process which is to prevent the breaking of the drawing material through a work-hardening effect at an early stage of the drawing process is necessary. In this study, a four-roll squeeze pointing machine (RSPM) as a new automatic pointing machine is introduced. RSPM has been developed to improve the productivity of the pointing process as well as the shape-drawing process by preventing the breaking of the drawing material. The ductile fracture criterion based on Cockcroft–Latham’s theory was used to predict the breaking of drawing material and any defects during the pointing process. A tool design method for the RSPM and a feasible pointing size for the conventional pointing machine are proposed. In addition, the drawing materials manufactured using a conventional pointing machine and the RSPM are compared through finite element (FE) simulations and experiments.

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