Longitudinal Screw Clamp Patents (Class 279/8)
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Patent number: 11541499Abstract: An indexable milling cutter includes a milling cutter body with a plurality of flutes and a plurality of seating surfaces adapted to mount a cutting insert thereon. The milling cutter body includes a plurality of coolant reservoirs in fluid communication with an adapter. In one aspect, each coolant reservoir lies along a circular intersection line of a coolant manifold. In another aspect, a longitudinal axis of each coolant reservoir is oriented at a non-zero angle, A, with respect to a central, longitudinal axis of the milling cutter. A plurality of coolant ducts in fluid communication with each coolant reservoir, each coolant duct having a smaller cross-sectional area than the coolant reservoir, provide multiple streams of coolant targeted at a plurality of specific critical cutting areas of the cutting insert.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.Inventors: Xiangdong D. Fang, Jean-Luc D. Dufour
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Patent number: 11344960Abstract: An oscillating blade for attachment to and use with an oscillating power tool, and the blade includes, an anchor with a tool arbor engagement portion defined by a side wall and a cap wall, and a locking point joined to the tool arbor engagement portion for engaging a corresponding lug on a power tool.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Imperial BladesInventor: Gregory C. Churchill
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Patent number: 10814408Abstract: A main body (3) of a replaceable-tip cutting tool (1) includes a cylinder-shaped cylindrical portion (32) made from a first metal material and extending in an axial direction, and with a female thread portion (33) provided on an inner circumference (40) of the cylindrical portion (32) and capable of being screwed together with a male threaded portion (24) of a cutting head (2). The female thread portion (33) includes a first female thread portion (34) and a second female thread portion (35). The first female thread portion (34) is a portion between a top of a female thread crest (37) of the female thread portion (33) and a portion of the female thread portion (35) that is on the female thread crest (37) side of a female thread root (36) and on the female thread root side of a portion corresponding to an effective diameter of the female thread portion (33). The first female thread portion (34) is made from a second metal material that is different from the first metal material.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2016Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: OSG CORPORATIONInventors: Jiro Osawa, Tamotsu Nagai
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Patent number: 10173271Abstract: A tool shank has a head receiving pocket at a forward end, and a plurality of chip flutes extending rearwardly therefrom along a longitudinal axis. The head receiving pocket has a support surface transverse to the longitudinal axis. A central recess is formed in the support surface and extends rearwardly therefrom. The central recess has a plurality of resiliently displaceable abutment portions circumferentially alternating with and spaced apart by a plurality of intermediate portions. Each abutment portion has a radially inward facing abutment surface, and each intermediate portion has an intermediate surface intersecting two circumferentially adjacent abutment surfaces. A rotary cutting tool includes the shank and a cutting head releasably mounted thereto. The cutting head has a mounting portion provided with a base surface and an engagement member protruding therefrom. In an assembled position, the engagement member is resiliently retained in the central recess against the plurality of abutment surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.Inventor: Gil Hecht
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Patent number: 9937572Abstract: An accessory for a cutting blade, more particularly, to a flexible plate that attaches to the blade and blows debris when the plate reciprocates up and down with the blade is described. The plate may be thin so that the plate bends/flaps as the blade (and attached plate) moves up and down. The plate may include a slit so that the plate removably attaches to the blade via a friction fit and the plate is transparent so that the plate does not block the operator's view.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Inventor: Wesley Harold Hutchcraft
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Patent number: 9616507Abstract: A replaceable head cutting tool increases the strength of engagement between a tool body and a coupling member without causing damage. A cylindrical mounting unit of the coupling member which is made of a metal having hardness lower than the hardness of the tool body, is inserted into a mounting hole having a concave portion formed on the inner surface of the tool body. The mounting unit is plastically deformed so as to increase in diameter, and the outer peripheral surface of the mounting unit contacts the inner peripheral surface of the mounting hole and is engaged with the concave portion which includes a first wall surface that is inclined toward the outer peripheral side as it moves in an insertion direction of the mounting unit, and a second wall surface that is inclined toward the inner peripheral side as it moves in the insertion direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Azegami, Tarou Abe
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Patent number: 9597737Abstract: A tool coupling arrangement for drills and reamers includes tool and shank portions with respective tool and shank axial stoppers. An at least partially cylindrical tool coupling end of the tool portion is located within a longitudinal through forward bore portion in the shank portion, and being coupled therein via an elongated coupling member located further inwards in the shank portion and comprising axially opposite member coupling and pulling ends. The forward bore portion has front and rear sub-portions and a bore recess which is located therebetween and extends radially outwardly. In a locked position, the tool axial stopper abuts the shank axial stopper. The tool coupling end abuts the front and rear sub-portions. And the member coupling end is wedged between the tool coupling end and the bore recess.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.Inventor: Gil Hecht
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Patent number: 8992140Abstract: The present invention relates to a hole-saw assembly (10) including a hole saw (26) having at one end a plurality of cutting teeth and at the other end two shafts. The assembly includes a mandrel (16) coaxially aligned with said hole-saw and including a body having two bores there through coaxially aligned with said shafts. An annulus (20) located on top of the body is coaxially aligned with said mandrel and hole saw and includes two holes, the annulus rotatable around its longitudinal axis from a first to a second position. In the first position the annulus holes are aligned with the bores and shafts allowing the shafts to be freely insertable and removable and in the second position the holes are misaligned to lock the shafts to the annulus. The mandrel further includes a pair of driving pins (22) adapted to engage driving apertures (24) found in hole saws especially larger ones.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2009Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Inventor: Kym John Keightley
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Patent number: 8899597Abstract: The clamping system for clamping a shank, for example a tool shank, into a seat has a spiral-shaped circumferential groove arranged in the wall of the seating hole and a clamping wedge which is provided with corresponding spiral-shaped ribs and is insertable into a recess on the shank.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2010Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Rego-Fix AGInventor: Ernst Gerber
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Patent number: 8690500Abstract: A tool interface that is easy to produce but also precise, for coupling a tool head to a tool shank in a centered manner in respect of a shank axis, comprises a first interface part that is connected to the tool shank or to the tool head, and a second interface part that is connected to the respectively other tool part, namely, to the tool head or to the tool shank. The two interface parts have interface surfaces that substantially complement each other and are intended to bear flatly on each other. The interface surface of the first interface part comprises an inner cone surface and an outer cone surface, which surrounds the latter on the outside and coaxially. The interface surface of the second interface part comprises an outer cone surface, which corresponds with the inner cone surface of the first interface part, and an inner cone surface, which corresponds with the outer cone surface of the first interface part.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2010Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Xaver Franz Spichtinger, Ullrich Kirchhof, Christian Anton Spachtholz, Heinrich Georg Manner, Armin Josef Zimmermann, Volker Fritsche
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Patent number: 8662800Abstract: A rotational tool includes a cutting head and a basic body. The cutting head includes a cutting portion including a chip flute and at least one of a cutting edge and an insert seat, where the chip flute is located before the at least one of the cutting edge and the insert seat in a rotational direction of the cutting head. A coupling portion is located axially rearward of the cutting portion relative to a cutting end of the cutting head, and is configured to couple to the basic body. A coolant slot extends axially and opens at an external radial surface of at least a portion of the cutting head.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventor: Patrice Guay
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Patent number: 8607435Abstract: A tool holder, used for holding a milling cutter and a grinding wheel, includes a tool bar, a tool base, a flange, a mounting shaft, and a fixing ring. The flange is formed on an end of the tool bar. The tool base is used for mounting the milling cutter. The ends of the mounting shaft are connected to the flange and the tool base respectively. The grinding wheel is mounted on the mounting shaft. The fixing ring is used for fixing the grinding wheel to the mounting shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chi-Hsien Yeh, Chin-Tsan Huang
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Patent number: 8596937Abstract: A rotary cutting tool for reaming operations, including a generally cylindrically shaped tool shank with a longitudinal axis having a plurality of radially protruding and generally axially extending clamping wings, and a cylindrically shaped cutting head having a central bore and a plurality of axially extending cutting edges with an outer cutting diameter. The central bore has a plurality of circumferentially and alternately spaced bore sectors and bore recesses, where each bore sector has an outwardly inclined female clamping surface in clamping contact with an outwardly inclined male clamping surface of each clamping wing. A cylindrical shaped locking sleeve and a cylindrical shaped clamping nut assembled to the tool shank provide a means to adjust the clamping contact forces and the cutting diameter of the cutting head, and also enable removal and replacement of the cutting head without removal of the locking sleeve and clamping nut.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.Inventor: Gil Hecht
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Patent number: 8573909Abstract: In a tool coupling in the form of a cutting tool used for internal machining operations, a second component having a single cutting portion is clamped to a first component by means of a clamping screw. The second component has a mounted surface with three male engaging members interfacing with three female engagement members on a mounting surface of the first component. Each of the three female engagement members has two sets of side surfaces located on a shared portion, the shared portion exhibiting mirror symmetry about a first plane, and each set of side surfaces having two opposing flank surfaces separated by the first plane. Only one of the two flank surfaces of each of the two sets of side surfaces is in clamping contact with a corresponding abutment surface on each of the three male engaging members.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.Inventor: Gil Hecht
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Patent number: 8575800Abstract: An electric motor includes an upper housing, a lower housing including a flange for mounting the upper housing thereon and a cone-shaped portion extending away from the flange and the upper housing. The electric motor further includes a stator assembly formed of a first core having a first height and fitted into the upper housing, a rotor assembly rigidly joined to a shaft to rotate therewith within the stator assembly and formed of a second core having a second height, and a hub connected to a lower end of the shaft to rotate therewith in relation to the cone-shaped portion. The hub is configured to secure an operable implement to the electric motor. The second height is greater than the first height.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Hydro-Gear Limited PartnershipInventors: Ivan E. Fox, Christopher K. Wyatt, Jim Hendershot
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Patent number: 8499431Abstract: A clamping apparatus has been developed for coupling a tool member to the output shaft of a power tool without the use of auxiliary hands tools or a shaft-lock lever. The clamping apparatus includes a clamp member and a piezoelectric element. The clamp member is coupled to an output shaft of a motor. The piezoelectric element opposes the first clamp member and is configured to change from a first state to a second state in response to being coupled to a source of electrical energy.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2009Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Harald Krondorfer, Roland Hund, Alexandre Maciel
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Patent number: 8192116Abstract: An adaptive device for use as a tool holder for manual and computer numerical controlled lathes is provided to retain and use tools of various sizes, including those intended for use on CNC lathes and on mills. The device includes a sleeve, which includes an inner-tapered surface, a neck and an opening, and a threaded member sized to fit through the neck in the opening. The adaptive device may further include one or more shoulders and/or grooves on the exterior of the sleeve, and/or a retaining member fitted to the threaded section, and may include an embodiment where the sleeve is integrated into a tool holder and/or where the threaded member is constructed to permit fluid flow into the tool holder.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2009Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: KVK Industries, LLCInventor: Norman Keith Sturm
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Patent number: 8066457Abstract: The invention relates to a machine tool, particularly a machine reamer, comprising a shaft-type base and a replaceable cutter head which frontally protrudes from the base. An axially protruding extension of said cutter head engages into a frontal receptacle that is fixed to the base, the cutter head being removably clamped in said receptacle by means of a clamping screw which penetrates the replaceable cutter head in a truly axial direction. The screw head of the clamping screw rests against a face of the replaceable cutter head. The extension of the replaceable cutter head is provided with a polygonal part which is complementary to a truly axial polygonal hole that is fixed to the base and is penetrated by the polygonal part.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2006Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Komet Group GmbHInventors: Otto Buettiker, Roman Eigenmann, Jacek Kruszynski
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Patent number: 8052156Abstract: A bit holder includes a shank, and a bit sleeve. The shank has a first end portion of a non-circular geometric equiangular cross-section for combining a hand tool, and a second end portion formed with a combining hole having female threads in its wall. The bit sleeve has a through hole for a bit to extend therein, male threads and a circular circumference. The bit sleeve is combined with the shank by engagement of the male threads with the female threads, and the bit sleeve may be rotated to fix with or loosen from the shank by an auxiliary tool for changing the bit. In assembling, the bit is inserted through the through hole of the bit sleeve, and then the male threads of the bit sleeve are engaged with the female threads of the shank by an auxiliary tool fitted with the circular circumference and rotated to keep the bit combined with the shank, with the bit sleeve pressing the bit so as to minimize the tolerance of the gap between them, thus enabling the bit to drive a screw smoothly into an object.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2008Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Inventor: Ho-Tien Chen
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Publication number: 20110260414Abstract: An effective technique is provided for rationally clamping and holding various kinds of tool bits which can be selectively replaced with each other and attached to the driving shaft, in a power tool The power tool includes a driving shaft 125 for driving a tool bit 109A or 109B which is arbitrarily selected from various kinds of tool bits, a first clamping element 133 provided on the driving shaft 125 and a second clamping element 135A, 135B provided separately from the driving shaft 125 and can be fixed to the driving shaft 125. The selected tool bit 109A, 109B is clamped and held between the first clamping element 133 and the second clamping element 135A, 135B.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki OTA, Masanori FURUSAWA, Ken YAMAUCHI
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Patent number: 7997586Abstract: The invention relates to an oscillatory drive having an output shaft that can be driven to perform a rotationally oscillating movement about its longitudinal axis and that comprises a free end, a holding fixture at the free end of the output shaft comprising a contact surface for attachment of a tool, a mounting section on the holding fixture, raised relative to the contact surface, that projects to the outside in the direction of the longitudinal axis and that is designed for form-locking connection with a mounting opening of a tool placed in contact with the contact surface, and having a securement for fixing the tool with its mounting opening on the holding fixture, the securement permitting the tool to yield in axial direction under the action of a torque, against a pre-stress, and the mounting section permitting the tool to rotate by a certain angle of rotation when the tool gives way axially.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2007Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: C. & E. Fein GmbHInventors: Rolf Ziegler, Uwe Frueh, Adolf Hecht
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Patent number: 7927189Abstract: A tool for use in an abrasive machining process has a body extending along a central longitudinal axis from a first end to a tip end. An abrasive material is located on the tip end. A central recess is formed in the tip end.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2004Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Daniel F. Grady, Jon C. Hammett, Stephen G. Roseberry, Brian J. Schwartz
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Patent number: 7850405Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved hole saw boss (10) and in particular, to a boss including a threaded member (12) adapted to accommodate two hole saws of the same or different bore thread diameters. The present invention allows for a pre-existing aperture (22) in a work piece to be simply enlarged. This is useful if a new lock mechanism is being installed in a door with a pre-existing aperture where the lock mechanism requires a larger aperture than that which was in existence. Currently the aperture has to be enlarged by manual handwork since there is no centre-point to which a pilot drill may be enlarged. The threaded bore diameters of the present invention correspond with the commonly available hole saw threaded bore diameters. The present invention therefore provides the public with device for enlarging apertures which is simply, cost effective and can be used with currently available hole saws.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2004Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Inventor: Kym John Keightley
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Patent number: 7832107Abstract: A deburr tool for deburring an end of a conduit includes a handle, cutting bit, and head. The handle is to grasp the deburr tool. The handle has a handle axis. The cutting bit includes a distal end, proximal end, body portion and a cutting profile. The body portion is generally cylindrical and has a bit axis. The cutting profile is generally “U” shaped and resides in a plane generally parallel to the bit axis. The cutting profile tapers from an opening disposed at the distal end to an arcuate base. The opening has a distance between a first side and a second side that exceeds a wall thickness of the conduit. The head rotatably secures the cutting bit to the handle. The bit axis coincides with the handle axis.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2009Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Inventor: William Matthew Ames
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Patent number: 7802948Abstract: The invention is a drill bit extender and method that enables holes to be formed or screws to be driven remote from a drill motor. It includes a drill adapter for attaching to a drill bit, hole saw, or spade bit, for example. The drill adapter accepts a threaded rod, such as a segment of rod that is threaded along its entire length, where the length of the rod determines the distance that a hole can be drilled remote from a drill motor. The rod is readily attachable and replaceable to enable an operator flexibility in drilling at various locations remote to a drill motor. The rod is attached to a drill motor by a drill motor adapter, which securely retains the rod in the drill motor adapter, enabling the drill motor to drive the remotely located drill bit efficiently.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2006Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Inventor: Matthew R Bastiaans
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Patent number: 7775751Abstract: A rotary cutting tool comprises a cutting head which is axially secured to a forward end of a shank by a locking screw. At least one radially extending locking wing of the locking screw is located in at least one radial recess of the cutting head or at least one radially extending passage is formed between the locking screw and the cutting head.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2006Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.Inventors: Gil Hecht, Oleg Eliezer, Tsur Cohen
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Patent number: 7753628Abstract: A cutting tool has a cutting head which is removably secured to an adaptor of a tool holder. Upon replacement of the cutting head the adaptor remains fixed in the tool holder. In addition to the adaptor, the cutting tool includes a shank in which the adaptor may be retained, and a retaining element configured to form a sub-assembly with the adaptor without being threadingly engaged thereto. The retaining element is positioned and configured to limit rotation of the adaptor about a longitudinal axis of the tool.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2006Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.Inventors: Gil Hecht, Oleg Eliezer, Tsur Cohen
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Patent number: 7748934Abstract: A machine reaming tool includes a reaming head or interchangeable head (1) and a shaft (2), wherein the interchangeable head (1) is of one piece and may be exchanged, and in an axial direction and at each location, thus including means for the exchange adaptation, is thinner than a maximal thickness hmax, wherein this maximal thickness hmax is computed in millimeters from a diameter D1 of the interchangeable head in millimeters as hmax=6 mm+(1/10)·(D1?12 mm). On account of this, a guide portion (18) for cutters of the reaming head (1) becomes very much shorter than usual, but despite this ensures an adequate quality of machining. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the interchangeable head (1) in a plane shaft-side end-face (15) comprises cutout (11) for the centering fastening on the shaft (2).Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2004Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: URMA AGInventors: Gilbert Zumsteg, Urs Berner
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Patent number: 7703360Abstract: The present invention provides a lathe chuck having a hollow arbor and a cylindrical turning shaft which slides within the hollow arbor. Such an arrangement accommodates a turning shaft of considerably greater length than would ordinarily be possible. For one embodiment of the invention, the chuck is hand-tightenable, the arbor is an integral part of the chuck assembly, and is equipped with a standard Morse taper. The tapered arbor installs in the end of a lathe output shaft or spindle. The turning shaft is equipped with at least one pair of work-securing collets, at least one threaded end and a nut which engages the threaded end and secures one or more work pieces between the collets and to the turning shaft.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2007Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Inventor: Douglas A. Myers
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Patent number: 7621703Abstract: The present invention relates to a hole-saw assembly (10) including a hole saw (26) having at one end a plurality of cutting teeth and at the other end two shafts. The assembly includes a mandrel (16) coaxially aligned with said hole-saw and including a body having two bores there through coaxially aligned with said shafts. An annulus (20) located on top of the body is coaxially aligned with said mandrel and hole saw and includes two holes, the annulus rotatable around its longitudinal axis from a first to a second position. In the first position the annulus holes are aligned with the bores and shafts allowing the shafts to be freely insertable and removable and in the second position the holes are misaligned to lock the shafts to the annulus. The mandrel further includes a pair of driving pins (22) adapted to engage driving apertures (24) found in hole saws especially larger ones.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2005Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Inventor: Kym John Keightley
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Patent number: 7611311Abstract: A cutting tool, and a loose top therefore, includes two parts detachably connected to each other via a threaded joint in which co-operating male and female threads are included in the form of helicoidal ridges. The profile shape of each helicoidal ridge is defined by a top and two flanks, which delimit a helicoidal groove having a bottom. The first flank is inclined in relation to a center axis of the tool at a first angle that is smaller than a second angle of the second flank in relation to the center axis. Accordingly, the thread ridge is reinforced in comparison with thread ridges having a symmetrical profile shape, whereby larger tensile forces than compressive forces can be applied to the threaded joint while avoiding damage to the thread ridges.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2007Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventors: Isak Kakai, Ralf Lehto, Kenneth Larsson, Magnus Örtlund
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Patent number: 7537422Abstract: An adaptor (20, 76, 104, 106) secures a cutting head (16) to a tool holder (12, 14) having a passage for fluid. The adaptor (20, 76, 104, 106) has a corresponding passage (68, 94) for fluid to which a nozzle (22) is connected for the distribution of fluid towards a cutting region (54) of the cutting head (16).Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2007Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.Inventors: Assaf Ballas, Carol Smilovici, David Feldman
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Patent number: 7527459Abstract: A tool holder assembly having a tool holder and a cutting tool. The cutting tool has a stepped shank that is matingly received within the lower end of the tool holder. The stepped shank is separated into distinct sections, including: a wedging section having conical mating surfaces, a drive section having polygonal cross-sections, and a cylindrical anti-tipping section. The drive section has a plurality of walls that run parallel to the longitudinal axis of the assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2007Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Inventor: Stojan Stojanovski
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Patent number: 7513724Abstract: A cutting tool including a basic body having a geometrical center axis, a loose top having a rear male element, and a drawbar having a front part in which a coupling means is included, which by engagement in a coupling means of the male element of the loose top can transfer axial forces. The coupling means form an interface between the loose top and the drawbar. Each coupling means includes two axially separated ridges, a front ridge in the male element is between a front groove and a rear groove, the front groove being shallower than the rear groove such that the bottom thereof is situated at a greater radial distance from the center axis than the bottom of the rear groove.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2006Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventor: Isak Kakai
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Patent number: 7478978Abstract: The present invention relates to a tool head preferably for milling. The tool head is connectable to a toolholder. The tool head includes a cutting portion and a mounting portion. The mounting portion includes an axial stop surface and a radial stop surface. Dimensions and tolerances of the axial stop surface and the radial stop surface are selected such that the axial stop surface will abut an axial stop on the toolholder to prevent axial movement of the toolholder relative to the tool head beyond the axial stop surface and the radial stop surface will be disposed proximate a radial stop of the toolholder to limit radial movement of the tool head relative to the toolholder when an integral fastening portion of the tool head and an integral fastening portion of the toolholder are fastened directly to one another and the axial stop surface and the axial stop abut.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2007Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: Seco Tools ABInventors: Christer Jonsson, Bengt Högrelius, Jan Eriksson, Christer Ejderklint, Carl-Erik Berglöw, Jorma Koskinen, Jonas Boman
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Patent number: 7431543Abstract: A machine reamer has a base and a reamer head configured as a one-piece indexable insert that axially projects beyond the front of the base. The indexable insert can be introduced in a front insert seat of the base with an axially projecting, preferably conical shoulder and can be clamped therein by a tension rod that extends through the center-axis of the base. In order to improve the rotational catch effect between the base and the indexable insert, the indexable insert has a central polygonal opening through which the tension rod engages with a complementary polygonal section.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2002Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: Dihart AGInventors: Otto Buettiker, Roman Eigenmann, Jacek Kruszynski
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Patent number: 7407351Abstract: A rotatable tool includes a shank rotatable about a longitudinal axis, a drawbar mounted to an axial front end of the shank, and a cutting head mounted to an axial front end of the drawbar. The shank and the drawbar include mutually engageable screw threads which impart an axial displacement of the drawbar relative to the shank. The cutting head and the drawbar include mutually engageable serrations for transferring axial force therebetween. The serrations are axially spaced from one another and extend transversely relative to the axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2005Date of Patent: August 5, 2008Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventors: Göran Pantzar, Isak Kakai
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Patent number: 7374376Abstract: The present invention relates to a replaceable cutting tip and, more particularly, to such cutting tips attachable to the cutting tip holders by a threaded connection. The cutting tip for a cutting tool includes a working end portion disposed along an axis of the cutting tip and including one or more cutting edges for machining a workpiece, and a mounting portion disposed along the axis of the cutting tip. The mounting portion includes a frustoconical supporting surface tip portion and a frustoconical threaded portion. The present invention also relates to a cutting tool per se.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2005Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignee: Seco Tools ABInventors: Christer Jonsson, Bengt Högrelius, Jan Eriksson, Christer Ejderklint, Carl-Erik Berglöw, Jorma Koskinen, Jonas Boman
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Patent number: 7329073Abstract: The present invention relates to a tool head preferably for milling. The tool head is connectable to a toolholder. The tool head includes a cutting portion and a mounting portion. The mounting portion includes an axial stop surface and a radial stop surface. Dimensions and tolerances of the axial stop surface and the radial stop surface are selected such that the axial stop surface will abut an axial stop on the toolholder to prevent axial movement of the toolholder relative to the tool head beyond the axial stop surface and the radial stop surface will be disposed proximate a radial stop of the toolholder to limit radial movement of the tool head relative to the toolholder when an integral fastening portion of the tool head and an integral fastening portion of the toolholder are fastened directly to one another and the axial stop surface and the axial stop abut.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2005Date of Patent: February 12, 2008Assignee: Seco Tools ABInventors: Christer Jonsson, Bengt Högrelius, Jan Eriksson, Christer Ejderklint, Carl-Erik Berglöw, Jorma Koskinen, Jonas Boman
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Patent number: 7325471Abstract: A toolholder and cutting insert for a toolholder assembly wherein the cutting insert has a tapered shank which provides a resilient interference fit with a tapered section of a bore extending within the toolholder. Additionally, a rearwardly facing face on the cutting insert abuts with a forwardly facing surface on the toolholder to properly locate the cutting insert within the toolholder.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2004Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Ted R. Massa, David R. Siddle
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Patent number: 7290968Abstract: An extension fixture for a turning tool includes a shank, a pull rod, a clamping sleeve, and a fixing member. Thus, the fixing member presses the rotation head of the pull rod to prevent the pull rod from being rotated, thereby preventing the clamping sleeve from being loosened from the pull rod, so that the turning tool is clamped by the clamping recess of the clamping sleeve. In addition, the pull rod is positioned in the shank by the fixing member to prevent the clamping sleeve from being loosened from the pull rod, so that the turning tool is clamped in the clamping sleeve closely and will not produce a vibration during operation of the turning tool, thereby preventing the turning tool from being broken due to the vibration.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2006Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Inventor: Shih-Chang Wu
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Patent number: 7278196Abstract: An end mill chucking structure for chucking an end mill. The chucking structure includes an end mill holder; a shank receivable in an axial opening in the holder; a cone having an exterior cone shape adapted to be received in a drive spindle and an axial opening that is telescopically received on the shank; and a retention knob mounted on the cone and connected to the shank for axially pulling the shank toward a position in which an integral neck on the cone is received in an opening in the tool holder. The retention knob is rotated to pull the neck into a tapered structure on the shank to wedge the neck in the tool holder.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2006Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Inventor: Stojan Stojanovski
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Patent number: 7234902Abstract: A milling tool holder apparatus includes a tool holder having a male structure received in a female opening of a shank, and a camming plug received in a transverse plug-receiving opening in the shank and the tool holder. Turning the camming plug in one direction moves the male structure axially to a locked position. Turning the camming plug in the opposite direction moves the male structure axially to a release position.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2005Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Inventor: Stojan Stojanovski
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Patent number: 7228776Abstract: A Punch Assembly and the method of use thereof is disclosed. Also disclosed is. The device is designed to be accepted within the chuck of a powder-actuated tool. The device can create a hole in steel decking when the device is shot into the decking by a powder-actuated tool. The device is defined by a mandrel and a detachable punch attached to it. The outer diameter of the mandrel is greater than the outer diameter of the punch so that when the mandrel prevents the device from passing through the hole created by the punch. The punch has a generally cylindrical shape and a cutting edge forming a pair of tips on opposing sides of the cylinder in order to improve the quality of the hole formed in the decking.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2003Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Inventor: Gerald A. Case
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Patent number: 7192226Abstract: A drill has a unitary drill bit and chuck structure that includes a drill bit and a chuck. The chuck encloses a portion of the drill bit and has a thread. A rotatable drive element having a thread engages the thread of the chuck. The chuck is heat shrunk onto the drill bit to form a unitary structure through direct bonding of the chuck with the drill bit.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2004Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Industrial Tooling Corporation LimitedInventor: Robert Unsworth
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Patent number: 7189039Abstract: A tool assembly includes first and second tool bodies, a tool coupling interconnecting the tool bodies, and a drawing member for drawing the tool bodies together along a common longitudinal axis. The tool coupling includes a male portion disposed on one of the tool bodies, and a female portion disposed on the other of the tool bodies. The male portion has a plurality of tongues spaced apart around the axis, the tongues being flexible in a radial direction with reference to the longitudinal axis. The female portion has a non-circular recess defining a plurality of corner portions receiving respective ones of the flexible tongues for radially steering the tool bodies during axial mating thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2003Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventor: Göran Pantzar
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Patent number: 7156006Abstract: A cutting insert rotated about its axis may be utilized during a metalworking operation and applied against the rotating workpiece to enhance tool performance. A method, including an assembly with a rotatable insert mounted to a toolholder may be utilized to achieve this result.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2003Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Gregory A. Hyatt, Linn R. Andras, Ted R. Massa
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Patent number: 7153071Abstract: A device for chip forming machining including first and second rotatable bodies arranged along a common axis of rotation. The first body forms a male element, and the second body forms a female element into which the male element is threaded for forming a threaded joint. The male element has an outer circumferential area displaced in the axial direction in relation to the thread thereof and which engages a corresponding inner circumferential area of the female element by a press-fit. One or both of those circumferential areas has an out-of-roundness, such that there occurs a press-fit along two or more preselected regions in the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2003Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventors: Patrik Blomberg, Ake Danielsson
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Patent number: 7131802Abstract: A rotary tool includes first and second tool bodies defining an axis and clamped together in the axial direction by a screw. The tool bodies include axially extending male and female parts that engage one another to transmit rotary force. Spaced radially outwardly of the male and female parts are two sets of radial guiding structures for guiding the tool bodies in the radial direction, so a radial play can exist between the male and female parts.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2004Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventor: Göran Pantzar
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Patent number: 7125207Abstract: A cutting tool including a cutter body and a locking screw. The cutter body has one or more pockets for receiving one or more cutting inserts and at least one channel for delivering coolant from a milling machine to the cutting inserts.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2004Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignee: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Karen A. Craig, Thomas J. Long, II, Filho Ruy Frota de Souza