Sentence examples for mandrel from inspiring English sources
noun
A round object used as an aid for shaping a material, e.g. shaping or enlarging a ring, or bending or enlarging a pipe without creasing or kinking it.
The pattern on the roller is etched on the surface of a copper shell supported on a mandrel.
A greatly improved process was developed by the Mannesmann company in Germany in 1886; this involved rolling the billet longitudinally and at the same time forcing it onto a piercing bar called a mandrel.
The tube would then be rolled, with the mandrel inside, in a continuous close-coupled, seven-stand, two-high mill, usually with the rolls arranged at a 45° angle and in an alternating pattern like the horizontal and vertical rolls.
Flexible shaft, in practical mechanics, a number of superimposed, tightly wound, helical coil springs wrapped around a centre wire, or mandrel.
Construction involved forming a number of longitudinal staves into a tube by beating them around a form called a mandrel and welding them together.
In the Danner process, a continuous stream of glass flows over a hollow, rotating mandrel that is mounted on an incline inside a surrounding muffle.
White-coated workers supervise machines as they wind graphite tape around the mandrels.
The factory floor is dominated by the huge cylindrical "mandrels" that are used to mould the two composite barrels which will form about half the fuselage of the new plane.
Saddles and mandrels are used for forging rings and sleeves.
Other alloys are used in pipe bending and forming as temporary internal mandrels or supports that can be melted out at low temperature after use.
The reduction of sheet metal to foil is achieved principally through vertical pressure exerted by finishing-mill rolls combined with horizontal tension applied through mandrels paying out and rewinding the foil stock.
