Mannesmannn.
/ˈmanəsmən/, U.S. /ˈmɑnəsˌmɑn/, /ˈmænəsmən/ Engineering.
attributive. Designating or relating to a method of making thick-walled seamless metal tubes by drawing a heated cylinder of metal between two inclined rollers which cause it to separate and flow round a pointed mandrel aligned with its axis.
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brass-finishing1879
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Mannesmann1920
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1920 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 101 736 The method of manufacture of seamless tubes by the Mannesmann process is described.
1960 D. J. O. Brandt Manuf. Iron & Steel (ed. 2) xliii. 345 Before considering in detail the Automatic Mill Process and the Pilger Process of tube-making we may first examine the Rotary Piercing Process or Mannesmann Process..which is the first stage in both these methods of tubemaking.
1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 612/1 It was hoped to directly produce tubes by electrodeposition, but the process was dropped with the successful development of the Mannesmann piercing and rolling techniques.
1984 E. P. DeGarmo et al. Materials & Processes in Manuf. (ed. 6) xiv. 367 The Mannesmann-type mill is used to produce tubing up to about 300 mm (12 inches) in diameter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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