Friction Gearing Patents (Class 408/126)
  • Patent number: 11073705
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an integrated and automatic eyeglass temple assembly device, including a left table frame and a right table frame. The left table frame and the right table frame are respectively provided with a frame, and each upper end of the frame is provided with a hinge feeding tray. The left table frame and the right table frame are respectively provided with a temple box, a clamping mechanism and a single temple holding assembly. The mounting slot of the temple is located between the temple clamping pushing plate and the temple holding assembly, the movable slot is at the same level with the mounting portion of the hinge, and each temple box is provided with a temple feeding cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: DONGGUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jun Deng, Chuliang He
  • Patent number: 10588627
    Abstract: An endoscopic surgical device includes a handle assembly including a drive mechanism actuatable by a trigger; and an endoscopic assembly including a proximal end portion extending from the handle assembly; a distal end portion pivotably connected to the proximal end portion of the endoscopic assembly; and a rotatable inner actuation shaft extending from the handle assembly and into the distal end portion of the endoscopic assembly, the inner actuation shaft including a flexible portion extending across the pivot connection. The surgical device includes an end effector selectively connectable to the distal end portion of the endoscopic assembly and to a distal portion of the rotatable inner actuation shaft. The end effector includes a splined inner tube rotatably supported in an outer tube; and a plurality of surgical anchors loaded in the inner tube. A timing system allows removal of the end effector at a defined trigger position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Kevin Sniffin, Gregory Fischvogt
  • Patent number: 10314589
    Abstract: A surgical instrument comprising a rotary motion generator, a shifting assembly, a rotatable shaft, an end effector, and a firing member is disclosed. The shifting assembly comprises a first output, a second output, a switch, and a biasing mechanism. The first output and the second output are selectively drivable by the rotary motion generator. The switch is configured to switch between the selective drivability of the first and second outputs. The biasing mechanism is configured to motivate and maintain an operative meshment between the rotary motion generator and one of the first output and the second output. The end effector comprises a first jaw and a second jaw. The first jaw is moveable relative to the second jaw during a closing motion. The firing member is moveable relative to the end effector during a firing motion. The closing motion is separate and distinct from the firing motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jeffrey S. Swayze, Eugene L. Timperman
  • Patent number: 9700979
    Abstract: A drill press has variable speed drive via belts on stepped pulleys that transfer rotational force from the motor to the drill press spindle. Three stepped pulleys connected by two belts are provided in the example. A belt tension roller is bears against one of the belts to provide tension for effective power transfer from the motor to the spindle. The belt tension roller is adjustable along an arcuate slot in an anchor plate and is fastenable in position by an adjustment knob on the belt tension roller. The middle pulley is mounted to vary its position so that tension adjustments on one belt by the belt tension roller result in tension adjustments on the second belt as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: JPW Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Barry M. Schwaiger
  • Publication number: 20140328639
    Abstract: The invention refers to a motor spindle for a machine tool which includes a tool clamping system configured to automatically clamp and release an adjustable tool, a control rod arranged within the tool clamping system, and a setting unit arranged at a B side of the motor spindle which is configured to adjust an adjustable tool via the control rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: ARTIS GmbH
    Inventor: Albert Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20140193217
    Abstract: A controlled feed speed drilling machine includes an output shaft for driving a cutting tool in motion. The output shaft is connected to first and second motors by a transmission, which includes a rotationally driving ring and a tapped drive nut. The driving ring is rotatable along the longitudinal axis of the output shaft via the transmission and the first motor. The output shaft is rotationally linked to the driving ring and is mobile in translation relative to the driving ring along the longitudinal axis via the transmission and the second motor. The tapped drive nut rotates along the longitudinal axis relative to the output shaft via the transmission and the first motor. The translation speed VT of the output shaft along its longitudinal axis is equal to the product of the rotation frequency FR of the second motor and a constant k according to VT=k. FR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventor: Sebastien Pereira
  • Patent number: 8678720
    Abstract: A radial tapping attachment for a motor-driven tool includes an enclosed, box-shaped housing, a main shaft assembly adapted to retain a tap, a drive mechanism rotatably driven by the tool and a guide member assembly for supporting an object to be tapped. The main shaft assembly includes a main shaft rotatably coupled to the housing by a pair of bearings, a pair of spaced apart discs fixedly mounted on the main shaft, and a pair of axially mounted compression springs that allow for slight, bi-directional, axial displacement of the main shaft relative to the housing. The drive mechanism includes a drive shaft rotatably coupled to the housing at an approximate right angle relative to the main shaft and a drive wheel mounted on the drive shaft that selectively engages the pair of discs to rotate the main shaft in either direction when an axial force is applied to the tap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Inventor: Brian John Laakso
  • Patent number: 8534965
    Abstract: A tool is provided for use in at least one of drilling, tapping, back spot facing and counter-boring at least one hole. The tool includes a servo motor cutting device and a gearbox. The servo motor cutting device and gearbox rotate a cutting tool to create the hole. A drill unit skid is adapted to engage a hook fit slot in the case of the dynamoelectric machine and supports the servo motor drill and gearbox.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James B. Holmes, Randall S. Corn, John W. Herbold
  • Patent number: 8496416
    Abstract: An apparatus may include a housing, a spindle system located in the housing, a tool guide associated with the housing, and a magnetic unit associated with the housing. The spindle system may be capable of rotating a tool about an axis of rotation. The tool guide may be capable of engaging a receptacle at a location on a workpiece. The magnetic unit may be capable of securing the tool guide in the receptacle when the tool guide is engaged with the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Allen H. Fischer, Raymond J. Slesinski
  • Publication number: 20120219372
    Abstract: A bench slide drilling and tapping dual-purpose machine tool has a base, a column and a transverse arm sleeve. The transverse arm sleeve is sleeved around the column, which is vertically fixed on the base. A hydraulic cylinder body is arranged coaxially with the column is centered in the column. A bracket is connected to the upper end of the sleeve, and is connected to a telescopic rod of the hydraulic cylinder. A sliding track is connected to one side of the transverse arm sleeve. A sliding transverse arm is provided inside the sliding track. A main motor is provided on one end of the sliding transverse arm, and the other end of the sliding transverse arm is fixedly connected with a second transverse arm; a drilling driven shaft is arranged in the second transverse arm; the upper end of a main motor is connected with a main belt wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventors: Jing Zhan, Feng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20100266356
    Abstract: A tool is provided for use in at least one of drilling, tapping, back spot facing and counter-boring at least one hole. The tool includes a servo motor cutting device and a gearbox. The servo motor cutting device and gearbox rotate a cutting tool to create the hole. A drill unit skid is adapted to engage a hook fit slot in the case of the dynamoelectric machine and supports the servo motor drill and gearbox.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: James B. Holmes, Randall S. Corn, John W. Herbold
  • Publication number: 20090311059
    Abstract: The invention concerns a perforating device comprising a cutting tool (10), means for rotating (11) the cutting tool (10) and means for translating (12, 14) the cutting tool (10), the ratio between the rotational speed and the translational speed being variable during rotation of the cutting tool (10). It comprises a gear train (16, 17; 18, 19) for synchronizing the rotating means (11) with the translating means (12, 14). The speed ratio between a driving pinion (16; 18) of the gear train, rotationally linked to the means (11) for rotating the cutting tool (10) and a transmission pinion (17; 19) of the translating means is reversed at least once during one rotation of the cutting tool (10). The invention is useful for fragmenting the resulting shavings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: Airbus France
    Inventor: Jean-Philippe Janson
  • Publication number: 20090010725
    Abstract: A hand-held drilling machine/driver (1) with a turret head (7), where it is possible to change between at least two tool holders (6), where the turret head (7) is released to rotate by actuating an operating means (15), whereby axial displacing of the rotatable part (12) of the tool holder is allowed, thereby ensuring separation of the driving line (10) of the machine and release of a rotational lock (20) of the turret head (7). Operation of the turret head (7) of the machine occurs in a secure and comfortable way where the user does not need to change his hold on the machine (1), and where the user does not come into physical contact with the tool holder (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: ROBATTI APS
    Inventor: Peter Egelund
  • Patent number: 6321778
    Abstract: An apparatus for pipeline construction comprises a constructing means located on the lower part of the apparatus, which includes a chest and a unit for completing the operation of construction; a feeding means located on the upper part of the apparatus, which drives the constructing means to rotate and to approach to the constructed pipe, and which includes a main shaft having a central hole, a rod placed in the central hole, a drive means as well as a rod feeding means; a base of the apparatus, the bottom of the base and the top face of the base are detachably connected with the feeding means and the constructing means respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: China Liaohe Oilfield Huasheng Pipeline Research Institute
    Inventors: Jisheng Chen, Mingyi Li
  • Patent number: 5700115
    Abstract: A speed-increasing spindle device in an assembly structure in a separable form of device main body and shank, capable of using a coupling bolt of large diameter, high in rigidity, and sufficient in strength. The head of the coupling bolt is rotatably engaged in a bolt head engaging part provided at one side of the device main body and shank, while the threaded part of the coupling bolt is engaged with a screw hole provided at the other side of the device main body and shank, and the engaging part for rotary operation tool provided on the outer end plane in the axial direction of the coupling bolt confronts outside through the insertion hole of the shank. The bolt head engaging part has a bolt head accommodating space larger than the maximum hole diameter permitted in the shank in terms of strength, and therefore the shaft diameter of the coupling bolt may be set, at least, as large as the maximum hole diameter of the shank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignees: Koyo Machine Industries Co., Ltd., Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Chikamori, Shinji Yasuhara
  • Patent number: 5295772
    Abstract: A traction drive tool adapter is adapted to detect an overload on a planetary roller speed increasing mechanism which occurs due to an excessive depth of out, and prevent the breakage of the planetary roller speed increasing mechanism and the imperfect processing of a workpiece. It consists of a rotary portion, and a tool mount portion rotatable with respect to the fixed portion and rotary portion and adapted to attach a tool to a front end section thereof, all of these three portions are put together via a planetary roller speed increasing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouichi Ueda, Shinji Yasuhara
  • Patent number: 5281061
    Abstract: A separable rotary tool adapter consists of a low-speed rotary unit (A) having casings (1, 2); a first rotary shaft (3) in the casing connectable to a driving shaft of the machine tool and a second rotary shaft (5) orthogonally drivingly connected to the first shaft; a high-speed rotary unit (B) having a casing (15) detachable to the casing of the low-speed rotary unit (A); a rotary shaft (20) in the casing of the high-speed unit having a free end portion (23) connectable with a rotary tool; and a planetary roller mechanism having two parts engageable with and disengageable from each other in the axial direction, each part being cooperatively associated with one of the high-speed rotary shaft and the second rotary shaft. In the low-speed rotary unit (A), a first part of the planetary roller mechanism is attached to the second rotary shaft (5) engaged with the first rotary shaft (3) at right angles via a transmission mechanism and includes planetary roller driving retainers (9) or shaft pins (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1994
    Assignee: Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouichi Ueda, Shinji Yasuhara, Hitoshi Iwamoto, Toshiaki Oku
  • Patent number: 5193949
    Abstract: An arrangement for driving a rotary tool is provided in which the tool shank is engaged and frictionally driven by the engagement of three or more drive rollers. Axial movement of the tool is accomplished by tilting the axes of the rollers as permitted by flexible portions of the shafts which drive the rollers. The tool is released by moving one roller away from the other two. A pressure foot is provided at the bottom of the assembly reciprocated by a cam arrangement to engage the workpiece when the tool is in operation. A position pick-off senses the axial position of the tool so that the tilt angle of the rollers can be controlled by a dual feedback path servo loop having an improved preconditioning circuit for its feedback position counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1993
    Inventors: William F. Marantette, Roger Johnsrud
  • Patent number: 5033921
    Abstract: A traction drive tool adapter, has a rotary portion provided at its front half section with planetary roller-inserting bores extending radially from the outer circumferential surface of the rotary portion into a central bore therein, each of the roller-inserting bores having planetary rollers driving shaft member-setting grooves continuing from two ends of the roller-inserting bore that are opposed to each other in the axial direction of the central bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Assignees: Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd., Showa Tool Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Yasuhara, Kouichi Ueda, Toshiaki Oku, Kazuo Rokkaku, Eiichi Katayama
  • Patent number: 4981403
    Abstract: A speed-up spindle unit including a non-rotative housing having a fixed ring, a sun roller secured to a high speed spindle rotatably carried in the housing and a plurality of planetary rollers rotatably carried in such a manner as to be in contact with the fixed ring at one peripheral end and the sun roller at the opposite peripheral end so that the planetary rollers individually rotate about their own axes while they revolve about the sun roller, thereby transmitting a torque from the planetary rollers to the high speed spindle through the sun roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1991
    Assignees: Showa Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eiichi Katayama
  • Patent number: 4960405
    Abstract: A traction drive spindle device includes an input shaft connectable to a drive main shaft for rotation therewith. A hollow holder shaft is connected to an output end of the input shaft in coaxial relation thereto, the hollow holder shaft having a plurality of planetary rollers mounted thereon intermediate opposite ends of the holder shaft. A high-speed spindle is rotatably received in a bore of the hollow holder shaft, the high-speed spindle having an inner end portion which is received in the bore and serves as a sun shaft disposed in rolling contact with the planetary rollers. A housing is mounted on the outer periphery of the holder shaft through a first ball-and-roller bearing so as to be rotatable relative to the holder shaft, the housing having a fixed ring fixed to an inner periphery thereof. The planetary rollers are disposed in rolling contact with the fixed ring. A second ball-and-roller bearing is interposed between the holder shaft and the high-speed spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1990
    Assignees: Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd., Showa Tool Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichi Katayama, Kouichi Ueda, Hiroaki Takebayashi, Kazuo Rokkaku
  • Patent number: 4950110
    Abstract: A rotating tool includes a drive source, a work piece, and a traction drive unit intercoupled between the drive source and work piece. The traction drive unit includes a unit case having a through-hole, a drive shaft and a follower shaft inserted into the through-hole and supported via a rolling bearing, and a plurality of planet rollers installed between the rolling bearing and the drive shaft in a frictionally rotatable condition and supported at the side of the follower shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1990
    Assignee: Koya Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keiji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 4741650
    Abstract: A tool holder has a prime shaft which receives an external torque and is partly accommodated in and partly projects from a casing; a speed reduction unit having a coaxial three-layer structure consisting of a wave generator, a flexible spline and a circular spline being disposed in said casing, the wave generator being connected to the prime shaft in the casing, of the flexible spline and circular spline, one is secured to the casing while the other is an output section; a rotary holder secured to the output section; a tool holder mounting shaft supported by a top end of the rotary holder, the tool holder mounting shaft having a top end portion projecting from the casing; a crankshaft rotatably provided within the inner wall of the rotary holder; crank arms secured to both ends of the crankshaft, one of the crank arms being eccentrically coupled to the wave generator, the other the crank arms being eccentrically coupled to the rear end of the tool holder mounting shaft, with respective axes positioned eccentr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1988
    Assignee: Hiroshi Sasaki
    Inventor: Kenji Nakata
  • Patent number: 4681492
    Abstract: A spindle apparatus is composed of a holding member to define a casing, a spindle shaft to support a rotor rotatably, a neck bearing disposed radially of the spindle shaft, a buffer disposed between the holding member and the neck bearing, an end bearing secured to the end of the holding member remote from the rotor, and a mechanism provided between the buffer and the end bearing for transmitting power from a source of power to the spindle shaft for rotating the shaft. This spindle, rotatable at a high speed without any substantial vibration or noise, is applicable to spinning machines, more particularly to an overhung rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1987
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho
    Inventors: Junzo Hasegawa, Susumu Kawabata, Nobuharu Mimura
  • Patent number: 4641551
    Abstract: The present invention provides apparatus which can be incorporated into a powered instrument that rotates a tool at varying rotational speeds and torques. The invention includes at least two drive plates, each of which rotates at a different speed and which exerts a different magnitude of torque. A movable member within the instrument selectively engages one of the two drive plates to couple that drive plate to the output shaft of the instrument. The apparatus can include a torque limiter which couples the input shaft to the output shaft only when the resistance to rotation offered by a drive plate is less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1987
    Assignee: Hall Surgical, division of Zimmer, Inc.
    Inventor: John H. Pascaloff
  • Patent number: 4609310
    Abstract: A drilling machine for use in industrial furniture production includes a drill spindle carrier which is rotatably mounted in a gear block. Two rows of drill spindles are staggered with respect to each other by 90.degree.. Driving pinions of the drill spindles are arranged in recesses of a spacer disk of plastics material, such spacer disk spacing an upper and a lower cover plate of the drill spindle carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1986
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Dietmar Blum
  • Patent number: 4597453
    Abstract: A drive unit for a power tool has a motor driven output gear rotatable about an output axis, a rotatable carrier plate, and a plurality of idler gears rotatably mounted on pins affixed to the carrier plate such that the gears engage the periphery of the output gear. The unit includes a drive shaft supported at one end by the carrier plate, and a non-rotatable ring gear floatingly mounted for engagement with the idler gears, whereby rotation of the output gear is coupled to the drive shaft, and hence to the tool bit, through the carrier plate and the carrier plate is urged toward rotational alignment with the axis of the output gear through the action of rotational forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1986
    Assignee: Cooper Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul R. Kilmer, David S. Chapin
  • Patent number: 4380991
    Abstract: In a device for drilling rock, concrete, reinforced concrete and similar materials, a spindle is rotatably mounted in a housing and a drilling tool is replaceably mounted on the spindle so that the spindle and drilling tool rotate together. A gear wheel is fitted on the drilling tool. A motor is located on the housing laterally spaced from the axis of rotation of the spindle. The motor includes a drive pinion which drives an intermediate gear. The intermediate gear meshes with the gear wheel and drives the drilling tool and spindle. The spacing between the axis of the intermediate gear and the spindle is adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1983
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Richter, Wolfgang Erdt
  • Patent number: 4365916
    Abstract: The invention provides a turning type multi-spindle attachment used for mounting a plurality of drills or taps to a drilling or tapping machine. This attachment comprises a mounting cylinder fixed to the spindle quill of the drilling or tapping machine and a body positioned such that a turning position thereof is adjustable relative to the mounting cylinder, whereby a plurality of drills or taps are rotatably supported by the body. The position of the drills or taps is adjustable around the mounting cylinder by causing turning of the body relative to the mounting cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1982
    Assignee: Miyakawa Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eiji Miyakawa
  • 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: 4219293
    Abstract: A machine for perforating workpieces, particularly corrugated plastic drain pipe or tile, to produce holes using drills is described. Multiple drills are radially mounted on a guide wheel so that the individual drills are sequentially extendable from the periphery of the guide wheel into the workpiece as the guide wheel rotates against a surface of the workpiece. A motor rotates a drive disc which as the guide wheel rotates sequentially contacts a cylindrical bushing on each drill to extend and rotate the drill into the work surface to create a perforation or hole and the drill is then extracted from the perforation by the rotation of the guide wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1980
    Inventor: Anthony J. Licht
  • Patent number: 4209274
    Abstract: A lightweight power drive for threading pipe and the like includes an integral folding tripod stand. A motor casing is built into one leg of the stand, and the casing includes integral sockets in which the other two legs are hinged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1980
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Richard J. Martin, Richard J. Mittendorf
  • Patent number: 4182588
    Abstract: A positive feed drill having an elongated spindle mounted for reversible longitudinal motion in a drill housing. The spindle has an hexagonal cross-section with the apices of the hexagon being threaded. A toothed drive gear having a hexagonal aperture centrally thereof has a close sliding fit with the spindle and is mounted for rotating the spindle. A feed gear having a threaded aperture centrally thereof is in threaded engagement with the spindle apices and is selectively rotated at a different rotational speed than the drive gear to longitudinally advance and retract the spindle. A gear for driving the feed gear is pin-slot locked to a motor gear for longitudinal spindle advancement, and is pin-slot locked to the housing for rapid spindle retraction. A pneumatic circuit in cooperation with limit valves and stop members provides completely automatic drilling to an adjustable depth, a dwell, and a positive retract operation with an economy of pneumatic energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1980
    Inventors: Robert C. Burkart, Gilbert J. Newbould
  • Patent number: 4178495
    Abstract: Apparatus is provided for welding studs to workpieces. The invention is particularly concerned with welding studs to workpieces made of materials having relatively low electrical resistance but covered with layers of other materials having higher electrical resistance, a common example being metal workpieces having painted surfaces. In order for the stud to make effective electrical contact with the workpiece at the beginning of the welding cycle, the paint must be eliminated; in accordance with the invention, this is accomplished by rotating the stud which effectively removes the portion of the paint in contact with the stud. Electrical contact can then be established between the stud and the workpiece to enable the welding cycle to be initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1979
    Assignee: TRW, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Spisak, Thomas E. Shoup
  • Patent number: 4154122
    Abstract: A hand-powered tool in which a spindle for driving a tool attachment is driven by a bevel gear. The spindle is supported in bearings on both sides of the bevel gear and extends through an opening in a stationary transverse shaft on which the bevel gear is journaled. Two pinions fixed to the spindle on opposite sides of the transverse shaft are moved into and out of meshing engagement with the bevel gear by shifting the spindle longitudinally in order to reverse the direction of rotation of the spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1979
    Inventor: Hubert J. Severin
  • Patent number: 4097175
    Abstract: A drilling machine comprises a ram movable up and down on a carriage slidably mounted on a horizontal crossrail. A toolhead is mounted on the bottom end of the ram for pivotal movement about a horizontal axis at right angles with the crossrail and is pivoted to a desired angular position by a first drive shaft within the ram via bevel gearing. Rotatably mounted in the toolhead for rotation about an axis lying in a vertical plane is a toolholder which rigidly supports a drill and which is driven from a second drive shaft within the ram via bevel gearings. Preferably, the machine further comprises a rack-and-pinion mechanism driven from the second drive shaft for securely but releasably locking a turning tool at the bottom end of the ram, so that the machine can be used also for turning operation as a workpiece is rotated on a turntable. This turntable is of course held stationary during drilling operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1978
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Tsukiji
  • Patent number: 4082475
    Abstract: There is disclosed an attachment for a counter-rotating coaxial drive fastener gun having a cylindrical housing adapted to be threadably attached to the outer drive member of a coaxial drive fastener gun and having an inner cavity with a ring gear fixedly attached therein. A spider has a projecting end thereon adapted to engage the inner drive of the coaxial drive fastener gun and further has a plurality of planetary gears journaled therearound and is inserted into the inner cavity of the cylindrical housing with the planetary gears engaging the ring gear. A central drive gear of smaller diameter than the planetary gears is inserted into a central opening between the planetary gears and engages each of the planetary gears. A reamer is removably coupled to the central drive gear and rotated thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1978
    Assignee: Frank A. Klaus
    Inventor: Alfred W. Kuder
  • Patent number: 4060334
    Abstract: A machine for machining bars, rods, tubes and similar articles, e.g. by cutting a thread thereinto is provided with a cutting head journalled by means of a spindle or the like on a housing, and is also provided with a motor, e.g. an electric motor, which is axially aligned with the cutting head. Between the motor and the cutting head there is arranged a transmission having a driving or input gear which is drivingly connected to the motor shaft and having an output gear of the transmission drivingly connected to the cutting head. The transmission is a planetary gear transmission which is arranged in axial alignment with the motor and the cutting head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1977
    Assignee: Remswerk Christian Foll und Sohne
    Inventor: Rudolf Wagner