Bell-Swaged Pipe Extraction Device for a Hydrostatic Testing Machine

Roscoe Moss Company Engineering, 2002-03

Liaison(s): Regis Coyle, Oscar Jaime
Advisor(s): Philip Cha
Students(s): Thomas Both (PM), Peter Chung, Lut Au-Yeung, Anand Vemuri

Roscoe Moss utilizes a hydrostatic testing machine to check their pipes for structural integrity. The tester bells one end of the pipe by swaging it over a belling die. Because Roscoe Moss does not extract the pipe from the belling die as efficiently as desired, the Clinic team has been asked to design, fabricate, and test an extraction device that will remove the bell swaged end of the pipe from the belling die. The goal for the design is to extract the pipe more efficiently, safely, and economically than the current method used by Roscoe Moss.