Convertible Metal Working Machine Patents (Class 29/560)
  • Patent number: 4615099
    Abstract: A machine tool for cutting a workpiece formed of metal or other machinable material by one of a plurality of selected operations including mill cutting and/or broaching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1986
    Inventor: William H. Bibbens
  • Patent number: 4598744
    Abstract: A universal machine for the wood and/or synthetic plastic working has a base model for mounting of various working aggregates which can also be used as independent working aggregates, and includes a working motor supported in a height-adjusting device inside a machine housing and having a motor shaft whose ends are formed as working spindles, wherein said working motor is turnable by a turning device from a horizontal position to a vertical position, and a machine housing which surrounds the working motor at its all sides has a plurality of fixedly integrated horizontal mounting surfaces for the working aggregate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1986
    Assignee: Stephan-Werke GmbH
    Inventors: Antonie Bons, Erwin Raabe
  • Patent number: 4594038
    Abstract: A motor driven apparatus for performing secondary or auxiliary functions such as cutting slots, chamfering, milling flats, removing protrusions and the like. The apparatus comprises a motor having a multiplicity of cutting tools mounted to the shaft, a box like housing covering the shaft and tools, guides incorporated into the construction of the top and three sides of the housing, and the guides serve to position and guide work pieces into the cutters to perform common auxiliary or secondary operations on work pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1986
    Inventors: Kevin G. Mundelius, Christian H. Buddenbaum
  • Patent number: 4593451
    Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning each threaded marginal end portion of large pipe. The apparatus has a cleaning head assembly which includes a rotatable member having circumferentially spaced cleaning brushes adjustably mounted thereon so that the cleaning brushes can engage and clean the opposed pipe surface at the opposed marginal terminal ends of a joint of pipe. Spaced plate-like members are axially arranged along a common shaft, and the opposed faces of the plate members have the cleaning brushes adjustably mounted thereto and arranged so that the common shaft can be rotated in a horizontal plane, thereby bringing the brushes of one of the plate members into cleaning engagement respective to the pipe threads, and thereafter the assembly is rotated 180.degree.0 in a horizontal plane, thereby bringing the other set of brushes into cleaning relationship respective to the opposed pipe end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1986
    Inventor: Royce G. Roberts
  • Patent number: 4580329
    Abstract: A workpiece processing machine comprises a stationary main frame 10 with at least one main processing plane G. On the one side of this main processing plane there are arranged worm shafts 15, 16, 17 and 18 extending with their axes substantially parallel with the main processing plane G, mounted in the stationary main frame 10 and connected for drive with one another. On the other side of the main processing plane G there are provided securers for the securing of processing units 25 on the stationary main frame 10. To each worm shaft there is allocated at least one main power take-off position 15a, 16a, 17a, 18a for the drive connection of a processing unit 25 with the respective worm shaft 15, 16, 17, 18 through a worm wheel, meshing with the worm shaft, with worm wheel axis perpendicular to the main processing plane G. At least three worm shafts connected for drive are arranged along mutually adjoining sides of a polygonal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1986
    Assignee: Otto Bihler
    Inventors: Otto Bihler, Eduard Bruller
  • Patent number: 4566169
    Abstract: A building set is provided including at least a drive motor, a spindle stock and a support element for holding these elements. These elements can be assembled to form a variety of small machine tools. The elements are formed as independent parts with under cut clamping grooves. The elements are joined together at their clamping grooves by a connecting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1986
    Assignee: Maier & Co.
    Inventor: Gottfried Vesely
  • Patent number: 4546531
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a set of components for a machine tool including at least one elongated machine bed and one spindle stock, with a drive motor, adjustably guided on the machine bed, with components connectible with the machine bed being held to the machine bed by a groove and spline guide running in the longitudinal direction of the bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1985
    Assignee: Maier & Co.
    Inventor: Josef Maleschew
  • Patent number: 4532794
    Abstract: A stamping and bending machine, having modular structure, comprises a drive unit, a pull-in feed system, a stamping press and one or several bending appliances are disclosed. Every bending appliance comprises one top and one bottom box of oblong shape forming a closed frame thanks to spacing elements. Within every box, there are two drive shafts which actuate bending attachments provided on the front and rear faces of the top as well as of the bottom boxes. The drive shafts of stamping press and of all bending appliances are coupled frontally. The shafts will all be driven at the same high speed, stepping down being performed not earlier than at a take-off gearing comprised in any bending attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1985
    Inventor: Ernst Mauderer
  • Patent number: 4531439
    Abstract: A metal working apparatus comprises a fixed frame and first and second metal working tools operatively mounted to the frame. A tool mounting structure is movable alternatively in one of a first direction for operating the first tool and a second direction for operating the second tool. A bi-directional drive means is carried upon the frame for driving the mounting structure in the first and second direction.Operator accessible first and second controls are provided for respectively controlling the direction of operation of the drive means so as to drive the mounting structure respectively in the first and second directions. The controls are preferably located respectively at first and second work stations on opposite sides of the fixed frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1985
    Assignee: Raymond L. Valente
    Inventor: Raymond L. Valente
  • Patent number: 4516308
    Abstract: The invention relates to a portable workshop having various facilities for performing precision machine work at a work site and which includes a mobile trailer having first and second sections with transport wheel and suspension assemblies and a trailer hitch whereby the trailer may be easily towed from one work site to another. One section is separable from the other and the transport wheels remain with one platform while smaller wheels are provided on the other platform with elevating mechanism to lower the platform onto the smaller wheels. One platform may have equipment such as a welder which might be separated and used on one location at the job site while the other section has various tools, including a crane and a container for storing the tools, which might be moved to and utilized at another location at the site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1985
    Inventor: John A. Urban
  • Patent number: 4515191
    Abstract: A radial universal tool which is designed to perform the functions of a tablesaw, wood lathe, metal lathe, drill press, horizontal boring machine, milling machine and disc sander, which includes a light-weight frame having a pivoting end member and a non-pivoting end member at opposite ends, a top, middle and bottom way system in cooperation with a radial head stock, a radial tail stock, a tilt table and a cross slide vise. In a preferred embodiment the universal tool frame is fitted with wheels at one end to facilitate ease of mobility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1985
    Inventor: James R. Fetty
  • Patent number: 4506433
    Abstract: The bending and shearing machine according to the invention comprises a framework, a table which can be vertically displaced and on which sheet metal, such as steel sheets, may slide as well as a rocker head which can be pivoted 180.degree.. The displacement of the table is carried out by means of a system including levers and pistons. One of the horizontal edges of the rocker head carries a knife while the other holds a wedge or a bending roller. The table includes a cutting matrix which carries a knife mounted at the end of the table and a bending matrix shaped to rest on the cutting matrix. The rocker head pivots according to an eccentric axis so that its knife and its wedge or bending roller are offset with respect to one another when they are in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1985
    Inventor: Roger Gingras
  • Patent number: 4485664
    Abstract: A metal forming tool having a reciprocal ram carrying tubular beam to which is attached a metal plate upon which workpiece holders are mounted, the tubular beam having a pivotal support to allow the tool to be pivoted between a vertical position in which the ram reciprocates vertically and a horizontal position in which the ram reciprocates horizontally. The workpiece holders are independently and detachably secured to the work platform by means located behind the workpiece holders on a line parallel to the line of movement of the ram, so that the tool performs both press and bending functions, and also workpieces with severe or multiple bends can be formed or straightened without excess obstruction by the securing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1984
    Assignee: J. A. Richards Company
    Inventor: Robert E. Richards
  • Patent number: 4440204
    Abstract: A planar of the type adapted to be mounted on and driven by a multipurpose woodworking tool includes a housing, a rotating blade member, and a table mounted beneath the blade member and vertically displaceable relative thereto by a plurality of jack screws. The jack screws carry connector nuts having outer members attached to the table which allow relative sideward movement between the table and screws to minimize table binding. A chain drive engages the jack screws and includes an idler sprocket which can be adjusted to allow adjustment of an individual jack screw to level the table. First and second roller assemblies upstream and downstream of the blade member are rotatably mounted on the housing and are vertically displaceable; the roller assemblies are driven by a single, fixed drive sprocket which is capable of rotating the rollers throughout a range of vertical displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1984
    Assignee: Shopsmith, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert L. Bartlett
  • Patent number: 4393570
    Abstract: To cut strips in the length direction from long sheet metal plates, a table upports the plate and a cutting device moves along the length of the plate supported on the table for cutting the desired strip in a series of cutting steps. The cutting device includes a bottom cutter and a top cutter with the top cutter being movable toward and away from the bottom cutter for making partial cuts across the length of the plate. The cutting device is moved along the support table in the length direction of the plate. After completing the cutting of a strip, the cutting device can be reversed to cut another strip as it moves in the opposite direction. Movable clamps hold the plate down during the cutting operation. Further, movable members are provided in the support table to support the strip as it is cut in successive steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1983
    Assignee: Karl Mengele & Sohne Maschinenfabrik und Eissengiesserei GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Georg Frick, Harro Reiff, Alois Kirsch
  • Patent number: 4349301
    Abstract: A carriage support for an electric, power-driven hand tool having a rotating chuck for receiving for rotation such tools as twist drills, disk saws, buffing and sanding disks, routing tools and the like comprising a carriage member which constitutes a primary support and spaced supporting arms thereon between which the housing of the power-driven hand tool can be positioned, one at least of the arms being movable relative to the other to embrace the housing placed therebetween, teeth mounted to the arms adapted to be engaged with the vent openings in the housing to fix the position of the housing relative to the carriage member and means for maintaining the arms in positions of engagement of the teeth with the vent holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Inventor: Alfred Z. Boyajian
  • Patent number: 4318432
    Abstract: A workbench tool assembly which takes the form of a frame upon which is mounted a drill press assembly movable between a stored position within the frame and an extended position above the frame. The drill press assembly includes a counterbalance mechanism to counterbalance the force required to move the drill press assembly between the retracted position and the extended position. The workbench tool assembly also includes a table saw assembly and a separate band saw assembly, as well as a jointer, a sander and a lathe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1982
    Inventor: Thomas L. Howey
  • Patent number: 4275777
    Abstract: Carriage attachment apparatus is disclosed for carrying a workpiece on an associated saw table whereby planar surfaces may be formed by sawing with common attachment between the carriage and a woodturning lathe being provided so that the sawed product is turned about the same rotational axis affording a high degree of symmetry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1981
    Inventor: Louis H. Briggs
  • Patent number: 4263706
    Abstract: A dragline is constructed in the manufacturing plant with a segmented guide rail shimmed and secured to the plates of a tub concentric with the pintle for the deck. The guide rail is then machined so that a rolling surface is created on the rail that is within .+-.0.002 inches of a planar surface. Tub gear segments have mounting portions accurately machined and accurately drilled as are tub rail segments and deck rail segments accurately machined. The dragline is then disassembled, shipped to the site and re-erected with the guide rail shimmed and installed on the plates of the tub so that the rolling surface is within .+-.0.002 inches of a plane. The deck is mounted on the pintle and supported on columns to space the deck rail girder from the tub rail girder. A tram or boom is mounted on the deck pintle and has a machine tool carriage riding on the guide rail so that a milling head on the carriage can mill the upper and lower rail girders to within .+-.0.0025 inches of planar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1981
    Assignee: Page Engineering Company
    Inventor: Michael W. Smith, Sr.
  • Patent number: 4262410
    Abstract: Apparatus for removing protective members from the threaded ends of pipe joints. A rotating head assembly is attached for longitudinal movement respective to a main frame having a motor mounted therewithin. The head includes a plurality of protector gripping jaws which are radially spaced from one another and aligned such that movement of the head assembly towards and away from the main frame causes the jaws to releasably grip the pipe protector. The rotating head assembly includes spaced parallel arms connected to cause the jaws to maintain the same relative position as the jaws are moved apart from one another to accommodate different diameter pipe. The apparatus can also be used to engage and remove pipe couplings as well as other threaded members. A second embodiment of the invention includes a cleaning head assembly mounted to the main frame which cleans the threads of both the box end and pin end of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1981
    Inventor: Royce G. Roberts
  • Patent number: 4259778
    Abstract: A tool for the selective joining of the individual conductors of a multiconductor flat cable. The tool may be set according to indicia on a selection device to punch any pattern, which can be correctly employed, on the cables guided and oriented on the tool base. After punching, connectors are manually inserted through the punched apertures and the tool is reapplied to simultaneously crimp all of the connectors to complete the joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1981
    Assignee: Thomas & Betts Corporation
    Inventor: William S. Greenwood
  • Patent number: 4233727
    Abstract: Accessory for a screw-tightening device having a support ring with hydraulic piston-cylinder assemblies as tensioning elements for pressure-vessel cover screws, the assemblies being disposable on a flange of the pressure-vessel cover, fastening nuts for the cover screws being loosenable and tightenable as well as transportable by the screw-tightening device, including a divided auxiliary ring having parting gaps formed in a circumferential region thereof corresponding to a circumferential region of the support ring at which parting gaps are likewise formed, the auxiliary ring and the support ring being mutually superimposable and clampable, the divided auxiliary ring having the parts thereof provided with respective means for engagement by a lifting tool, the rings having flange connections at the parting gaps thereof, the flange connections being disconnectible to form at least two separate arcuate units respectively including part of the support ring and part of the auxiliary ring clamped together for trans
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1980
    Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Anton Kautetzky, Otto Muller
  • Patent number: 4227840
    Abstract: A drilling attachment adapted to be fixed to a chain saw and a chain saw so equipped wherein the driving output shaft and a drill chuck are advantageously connected by a pair of friction drive wheels to produce clockwise rotation of the drill chuck and thus allow the use of standard and less expensive clockwise drills, to automatically provide for relative slipping without using a slip clutch, to produce the desired speed reduction, and to allow trouble and failure-free operation in the field, such as to drill holes in maple trees to collect the sap thereof. This drilling attachment includes a first friction drive wheel and a second friction drive wheel frictionally engaging each other with the second friction drive wheel rotatively carried by a bracket adjustably securable to the chain saw. A drill chuck is fixedly connected to the second friction drive wheel for bodily rotation clockwise therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1980
    Inventor: Clovis Thivierge
  • Patent number: 4197629
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in machining and statically balancing a large and heavy workpiece such as the runner of a hydraulic turbine. The apparatus includes a vertical center support column on the upper end of which is mounted a rotatable turntable. The workpiece which is to be machined and statically balanced is suitably clamped to and rotates with the turntable, the workpiece extending radially beyond the turntable so that as the turntable is rotated the workpiece is moved past a machining tool which is suitably supported along the path of rotary movement of the workpiece. The turntable is detachably secured to a composite member which comprises a bearing, such as a roller bearing, integral with a gear, such as an internal ring gear, the composite member being in underlying relation to the turntable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1980
    Assignee: Allis-Chalmers Corporation
    Inventors: Jack L. Reese, Robert G. Grubb, Selim A. Chacour
  • Patent number: 4187601
    Abstract: A universal type machine tool has a horizontal bed which, via a turnable intermediate slide, supports a rectangular work table, the slide being displaceable along the bed. A vertical column, displaceable along a bed perpendicular to the first bed has a second intermediate slide displaceable along the column and turnable around a horizontal axis. Its turnable portion carries a rectangular plate along which a foot plate for a drive unit is longitudinally displaceable. The foot plate supports a drive unit turnable around a horizontal axis and adapted alternatively to rotate a tool or a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1980
    Inventor: Per O. Aldrin
  • Patent number: 4140032
    Abstract: A tool holder assembly mountable on a lathe housing for dressing cylindrical and flat walls of drums and disc shaped work pieces respectively, has a mounting plate formed with two mutually perpendicular walls each carrying a short drive shaft. The assembly may be disposed in one position with one wall at the lathe housing so that one shaft is driven by a lathe motor in dressing a drum. The assembly may be disposed in another position with the other wall at the lathe housing so that the other shaft is driven by the lathe motor in dressing a disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1979
    Assignee: Besenbruch-Hofmann of Puerto Rico, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Besenbruch, Franz Krause
  • Patent number: 4117711
    Abstract: A combination cutting and crimping tool arrangement is disclosed having a housing defining an anvil underlying a vertically movable mandrel cooperative with the anvil to crimp a tubular connector body onto a cable disposed in supporting relation on the anvil, and wherein the housing has a vertical slot therethrough facilitating insertion of a cutting tool having a cutting edge operative to shear a cable when the cutting tool is impacted by the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1978
    Assignee: Belden Corporation
    Inventor: Wayne R. Medcraft
  • Patent number: 4057893
    Abstract: A lathe head (work rotating device) and lathe tail stock (when required) are mounted on the table of a conventional numeric control milling machine. A tool holder and support are secured fixedly to a part of the stationary bed of the milling machine. The part to be machined is clamped in the lathe chuck and rotated by the lathe head. The mill table is programmed to move the work piece relative to the stationary tool in the required directions for machining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1977
    Assignee: Still-Walter Tool & Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Joe Delano Smith, David Daniel McCall, James Alexander Kyzer
  • Patent number: 4052781
    Abstract: The tool attachment for converting rotating into reciprocating motion comprises a hollow traveling body having a radial bore and an axial bore therein. A bearing housing is removably mounted in the radial bore. A ram is movably mounted in the bore's axial bore. The ram has on its outer periphery a single closed groove having a pitch depending on the desired reciprocating stroke of the ram. A roller is rotatably mounted in the bearing housing and has a portion thereof disposed in the groove. Restraining means couple the ram to the machine whereby the ram is restrained against rotation and unrestrained against longitudinal motion upon the rotation of the traveling body by a rotatable member of a machine fixedly coupled to the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1977
    Assignee: Cougar Instruments Corporation
    Inventor: B. Paul Sanford
  • Patent number: 4050836
    Abstract: A portable field machine for cutting, grinding and lapping the valve seat of a valve body having a valve disc axially translatable in a cylindrical valve chamber with respect to the seat includes a pair of axially spaced spiders having radially extendable arms engageable with the walls of the cylindrical valve chamber on opposed sides of the valve seat, the spiders being interconnected by a rigid shaft which is thereby axially positioned with the chamber axis and a tool holder adapted to selectively hold either cutting, grinding or lapping tools is rotatably and reciprocably supported on the shaft for axial movement therealong and rotation thereabout with respect to the valve seat, the tool holder rotatably supporting a carrier which is fixed against relative rotation and which is connected to a drive means for operatively rotating the tool means and tool holder concentrically with respect to the axis and the valve seat to perform profile forming operations thereon, the tool holder including feed means for ra
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
    Inventor: Ronald J. Anders