Patent ID: 7506767

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a screen cylinder, comprising: fastening a plurality of longitudinally-extending screen wires at lateral intervals about a plurality of ring-shaped support rods, each support rod defining an axis extending therethrough and the support rods being arranged in spaced-apart relation such that the axes thereof are coaxially disposed to define a screen cylinder axis, and such that the screen wires cooperate with the support rods to form a cylindrical screen surface of the screen cylinder, the screen surface having opposed ends, and at least one of the support rods being disposed about one of the ends of the screen surface; and mounting an end ring to the at least one of the support rods closest to one of the ends of the screen surface, in a shrink fit therebetween, whereby a force resulting from the shrink fit is directed substantially perpendicularly to the screen cylinder axis, and acting between the end ring and the at least one of the support rods, secures the screen cylinder surface in substantially immobile relation relative to the end ring via the at least one of the support rods.