Wire drawing

Description:

The wire-drawing bench is a low-speed laboratory facility. It allows to draw wires from 15 mm down to 0.5 mm in successive passes. The drawing dies are made of tungsten-carbide (with cobalt-binder). Before each pass the wire is pointed with a swaging machine; it is then inserted through the conical die and clamped to the drawhead. Much attention should be paid to find the proper lubricant for each wire material to be drawn.
 

Technical details:
Robertson Pointing and wire drawing machine
Pointing Rolls9
 Max. Diameter8 mm
Wire drawing
 Variable speed (Max.)
Diameter op capstan
Max.Diameter (annealed copper)
Max. pulling force
45.7 m/min
450 mm
9.5 mm
7.7 kN
K.U.Leuven wire drawing machine
 Variable speed (Max.)
Max. pulling force
Max. Diameter (annealed copper)
Option: Possibility to measure the pulling force by a load cell (Max.)
0.8 m/min
9.8 kN
10 mm
9.8 kN

List of Dies (2a ~ 11°)
DiameterReductionDiameterReduction DiameterReduction
0.54 1.50  3.23 
0.58514.791.55 6.353.251.23
0.6825.991.58 3.763.303.01
0.7210.801.64 7.183.405.80
0.745.331.67 3.563.484.54
0.752.651.70 3.503.501.14
0.762.611.75 5.633.584.42
0.785.061.78 3.343.674.84
0.829.521.94 15.813.722.67
0.856.932.05 10.443.751.59
0.862.312.18 11.573.802.61
0.896.632.25 6.123.926.03
0.9715.812.42 13.563.982.99
1.1528.852.50 6.304.001
1.2819.282.55 3.84.031.48
1.3611.422.73 12.754.071.96
1.382.882.90 11.384.080.49
1.402.842.92 1.374.257.84
1.422.803.00 5.264.323.21
1.487.943.13 8.134.393.16
1.502.653.23 6.104.431.80

List of Dies (continued)
DiameterReductionDiameterReduction
4.43 6.50 
4.492.656.623.59
4.552.627.2015.46
4.758.247.302.72
4.781.257.464.24
4.790.427.808.53
4.852.468.4614.99
4.92.038.480.47
5.066.229.2215.41
5.080.799.607.76
5.100.7810.007.84
5.183.0610.8515.05
5.345.9011.5010.98
5.505.7312.7018.00
5.613.8813.8015.31
5.641.0614.9514.79
5.743.45
Diameter in mm
Reduction in %
5.956.93
6.104.86
6.151.62
6.5010.48

 
Room: H 00.25

 
More Technical information: Techinfo@mtm.kuleuven.ac.be
 

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