Pivotable Tool-support Patents (Class 408/180)
  • Patent number: 4962822
    Abstract: A downhole impact drill having a drill bit head with a drill bit sector for drilling an enlarge hole upon rotation of the drill. The bit is mounted within a chuck for movement between a retracted, working position in which the bit is coaxially mounted for drilling and an extended, non-working position in which the bit is loosely mounted within the chuck to permit the bit to swing laterally to reduce the diameter of the drill bit head envelope. In its extended, non-working position, the bit is supported on the chuck at a 3.degree. angle at which the drill bit sector is positioned inwardly to facilitate installation and withdrawal of the drill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1990
    Assignee: Numa Tool Company
    Inventor: Jack H. Pascale
  • Patent number: 4938291
    Abstract: A cutting tool (22) having elongate cutter arms (36) mounted about a pivot pin (40) for outward swinging movement. Cutting blades (58, 60) are mounted on the lower ends of the cutter arms (36) and have a plurality of closely fitting hard carbide cutting elements (90) secured thereto and forming an inclined leading planar cutting surface (82) inclined from the upper end of the associated blade (58, 60) at an angle A between one (1) degree and twenty (20) degrees relative to the direction of rotation. The cutting elements (90) have parallel rear and front faces (90A, 90B) connected by a peripheral side surface (90C) extending perpendicularly to the parallel faces (90A, 90B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1990
    Inventors: Gerald D. Lynde, James M. Price
  • Patent number: 4927301
    Abstract: An adjustable cartridge to be mounted in a boring bar, the cartridge including a anvil rotatably affixed to said boring bar, the anvil including a pocket into which a lay-down indexable insert is affixed. The anvil is secured in an axially oriented slot which includes an arcuate seating face. Rotation of the anvil within the slot effects radial adjustment of the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1990
    Assignee: GTE Valenite Corporation
    Inventor: Lee Reiterman
  • Patent number: 4887668
    Abstract: A cutting tool (22) having elongate cutter arms (36) mounted about a pivot pin (40) for outward swinging movement. Cutting blades (58, 60) are mounted on the lower ends of the cutter arms (36) and have a plurality of closely fitting hard carbide cutting elements (90) secured thereto and forming an inclined leading planar cutting surface (82) inclined from the upper end of the associated blade (58, 60) at an angle A between one (1) degree and twenty (20) degrees relative to the direction of rotation. The cutting elements (90) have parallel rear and front faces (90A, 90B) connected by a peripheral side surface (90C) extending perpendicularly to the parallel faces (90A, 90B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1989
    Assignee: Tri-State Oil Tool Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald D. Lynde, James M. Price
  • Patent number: 4874046
    Abstract: The invention relates to improvements in rotary groove-cutting tools of the type having a rotatable center shaft and two or more generally arcuate flyweight subassemblies mounted for rotational movement with the center shaft, each such subassembly when thus rotated being also mounted for pivotally-hinged door-like movement between a retracted inoperative position and an extended operative one in contact with the wall of the bore to be grooved about eccentrically-located axes paralleling the center shaft but displaced radially therefrom, such improvements relating to the design and placement of the abrasive-surfaced cutters carried by each of the flyweight subassemblies which especially adapts them for use in grooving concrete bores. More specifically, the invention encompasses such cutters which are circumferentially elongate to an angular extent in which they are adapted to bridge most voids in the bore wall without jamming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1989
    Inventor: Marvin G. Hurd
  • Patent number: 4775268
    Abstract: Boring device which permits the taking of dimensions with precise tolerance, characterized in that it is designed with and comprises means which permit the taking of dimensions by deformation of the neutral longitudinal axis of the tool carrier axis, which means assure a controllable and modulatable force of a part of the tool carrier axis contained between two supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1988
    Assignee: Fabrique D'Outillage de Saint Etienne Societe Anonyme
    Inventor: Daniel Michalon
  • Patent number: 4773801
    Abstract: Manually adjustable pivot head for a rotary boring bar having a spring steel mounting plate with two opposed arcuate slots terminating in yieldable webs extending between a rigidly mounted outer ring and deflectable central portion on which an annular flange of the boring bar is secured. A manually adjusted screw effects adjustment deflection of the central portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: GTE Valeron Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth G. Noggle
  • Patent number: 4756648
    Abstract: An adjustable boring bar wherein the adjustment of the cutting end is provided by a prestressed internal bar bearing against the cutting end to selectively distort the boring bar in the direction of the cutting bit to compensate for wear. The adjustment is by means of rotation of the prestressed internal bar to direct the pressure of the internal bar against the boring bar and cutting bit in the desired direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1988
    Assignee: GTE Valeron Corporation
    Inventor: Robert F. Cusack
  • Patent number: 4729699
    Abstract: The device comprises a body longitudinally provided with a stem which is suitable for being inserted into the hole of a part being machined. On the body an element is slideably coupled which has an element for attachment to the mandrel of the machine tool, which element is adapted for imparting rotation to the body itself. On the stem is slideably mounted a shaft which is articulated at its end with a tool and is coupled to the attachment element so that an axial sliding of the same element towards the part being machined actuates a sliding motion in the opposite direction of the shaft adapted for actuating the radial projection of said tool from said stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1988
    Inventor: Luciano Frazzoli
  • Patent number: 4692069
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cutter head having a substantially cylindrical main body and a plurality of replaceably cutting elements disposed at the periphery of said main body and having at least one cutting edge in the axial and/or radial direction of said main body. For achieving a reliable three-dimensional adjustment of the cutting members within extremely close tolerances, each cutting member is mounted on a carrier member itself mounted on said main body and adapted to be radially and axially adjusted relative to the main body by means of separate adjustment means disposed between said main body and said carrier member, and to be fixed relative to said main body with the aid of clamping means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1987
    Assignee: Walter Kieninger GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Kieninger
  • Patent number: 4647261
    Abstract: A cutting device and method for the precision trimming of a selected portion of the peripheral edge of a cast lens secured on the external surface of a male mold independent of any eccentricity that may exist between the opening defined in the mold and the outer diameter of the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1987
    Assignee: International Hydron Corporation
    Inventor: Hans S. Schaffner
  • Patent number: 4643057
    Abstract: The invention provides a cutting tool for incising a helical cut around the internal surface of a hollow member comprising a tool carrier adapted for insertion into the hollow member adjacent the internal surface thereof to be cut; a cutting block carried by the tool carrier and adapted so as to be located, in use, within the hollow member, the block being freely pivotally mounted on the carrier about an axis normal to the axis of relative rotation, in use, of the carrier and the hollow member, and a cutting member secured to the cutting block and extending from the block generally parallel to the axis of pivot thereof upon the carrier, and being arranged such that, in use, as the tool moves (relative to the hollow member) in a helical path around the internal surface, the cutting edge of the cutting member moves (relative to the hollow member) in a direction generally towards the axis of the pivot of the cutting block on the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1987
    Assignees: The Victaulic Company PLC, Rutland Plastics Limited
    Inventors: Trevor J. Hall, Robert E. Beechey
  • Patent number: 4631994
    Abstract: A linearly and angularly adjustable holder for a cutting tool having primary and secondary cutting edges includes a basic element, a receptacle element for the cutting tool rotatably mounted on the basic element, and a setting element slidably mounted on the basic element.The receptacle element is mounted on the basic element so as to be pivotal about the point of intersection of the primary and secondary cutting edges of the cutting bit. An adjustment screw 50 whose threaded portion is seated in the basic element and whose head engages a recess in the receptacle element serves to perform the angular adjustment. The linear adjustment is accomplished with the aid of a double threaded adjustment screw which connects a wedge and the basic element and which slidably engages the setting member to control the length of the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1986
    Assignee: Fried. Krupp Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Willi Jester, Norbert Reiter
  • Patent number: 4625602
    Abstract: A precisely adjustable cutting tool holder for a machine tool employs an eccentric shaft to directly engage and thereby to pivot a tool holding part with respect to a stationary part that is secured to the machine tool. Threaded members that engage another eccentrically oriented member may be used to minimize backlash between moving parts of the mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1986
    Inventors: John A. Korson, Bruce W. Korson
  • Patent number: 4622871
    Abstract: A machine tool of the type wherein a non-rotating cutting tool cuts a workpiece which rotates about a longitudinal axis of rotation. The machine tool includes a block member having the cutting tool attached thereto, the block member being coupled to a housing for radial movement of the block member and cutting tool in response to axial movement of a roller screw spindle internal of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1986
    Assignee: GTE Valeron Corporation
    Inventors: Richard G. Van Sickle, Gerald W. Mathie
  • Patent number: 4611959
    Abstract: Adjustment of the radial position of the tool bit is accomplished by insertion of the bit in a recess of a clamping shoe which clamps the bit against a shoulder in the cutter head. The clamping shoe has an extension which is rotatably mounted in a recess in the cutter head. A single wedge-shaped adjustment member rotates the clamping shoe with the cutter blade thereby changing the radial distance between the cutting edge and the axis of rotation of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1986
    Assignee: MAPAL Fabrik fur Prazisionswerkzeuge Dr. Kress KG
    Inventors: Dieter Kress, Friedrich Haberle
  • Patent number: 4594033
    Abstract: A boring tool for producing undercuts in preformed holes. The boring tool has a cutting element which is provided at one end of a driving shaft. In order to produce the undercut, the driving shaft can be deflected at right angles to the axis thereof via a deflection mechanism. The deflection mechanism is accommodated in the boring tool, and is provided with a longitudinally displaceable deflection rod for positively deflecting the driving shaft. In the deflected position, the driving shaft is driven by a rotary drive which is separate from the turning drive. As a result, the undercuts can be very precisely produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1986
    Assignee: Hawera Probst GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Peetz, Siegfried Klaissle, Bernhard Moser, Norbert Muller
  • Patent number: 4575294
    Abstract: An anchoring bolt (1), which can produce a conical undercut by rotation in a cylindrical hole and serves simultaneously as a securing element has a connection portion (2), a shaft (4) and an insertion portion (5). The insertion portion (5) has an axially extending slot (6) forming two spreadable branches (8,9), into which slot a movable spreading wedge (18) can be driven in with its tapered end. The branches (8, 9) are each provided with drillings (14, 15) receiving hard metal pins (16, 17) of which the front edges, in the rotation direction, are more protuberant than the rear edges so as to form a clearance angle .alpha..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1986
    Assignee: Upat GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Kurt Mermi, Danilo Sternisa, Albert Frischmann
  • Patent number: 4545706
    Abstract: A method and machine for machining the surface of a valve seat (3) which is required to have a very accurate alignment with respect to a guide bore of a valve guide (2).In order to be capable of machining the valve seat surface in high roundness while maintaining a high concentricity with the guide bore, a pilot member (4) is moved forward inclinably to catch a guide bore of a valve guide (2) at its front end; the pilot member is further moved forward bendably while following the guide bore; when the pilot member has reached the desired position, the posture of the pilot member in the position is firmly held; and the surface of the valve seat (3) is machined by moving edged tool members (5a) forwardly while rotating the edged tool members (5a) which are arranged coaxially with the pilot member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1985
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Minoru Hiroyasu, Shigeru Yamagishi, Hideo Yamashita, Susumu Yamada, Koji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4509236
    Abstract: A boring machine comprises a hollow rotary spindle, a pair of swing arms attached to the front end of the rotary spindle to extend in symmetric radial directions with respect to the rotary spindle, and a driving mechanism disposed within the rotary spindle for driving the swing arms. A pair of rams can be assembled respectively in the swing arms to be symmetrically movable in radial directions and a ram driving mechanism is also disposed in the rotary spindle. Cutters are supported to the front ends of the swing arms or rams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1985
    Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiichiro Morita, Akihiko Yuasa, Takao Arai
  • Patent number: 4508476
    Abstract: A boring tool is disclosed capable of positioning a tool element between a radial cutting position and a radial retracted position out of contact with the finished workpiece bore to avoid tool mark formation on the finished bore during tool withdrawal. The boring tool is simple and low cost in construction and includes a resilient tool-carrying member which extends transversely of the spindle axis in cantilever fashion for deflection by a spindle draw bar relative to a stop means on a fixed support member attachable to the spindle. During boring, the tool-carrying member is in deflecting engagement with the drawbar and, in conjunction with stop means, positions the tool thereon in a radial cutting position. For tool withdrawal, deflecting engagement is released so that the resiliency of the tool-carrying member positions the tool in a radial retracted position out of contact with the finished workpiece bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1985
    Assignee: Ex-Cell-O Corporation
    Inventor: Shivdas A. Kalokhe
  • Patent number: 4475852
    Abstract: A retractable rotary cutting tool is disclosed in which the tool is adapted to be connected to a chuck or a tool holder of a machine tool such as an automobile tool changer on a numerically controlled machining center or the like. The cutting tool support is arranged to have a cutter which is recessed into the support and is pivotally connected to an actuating shaft coaxially within the tool support, which shaft reciprocates relative to the tool support when a thrust collar located about the tool support engages the work or another fixed external surface and will withdraw when the thrust collar engages for a second time an external surface or the work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1984
    Assignee: Santrade Ltd.
    Inventor: Eldo K. Koppelmann
  • Patent number: 4451185
    Abstract: A tool holder having a shank receivable in a machine tool spindle, a tool mounting shell securedly connected to the shank and adjustably movably carrying a cutting tool in a radial direction thereof, and a pair of contact detection members respectively protruded from the outer surface of the mounting shell in opposite directions. The tool holder, when used while received in the machine tool spindle, operates not only to make a bore in a workpiece, but also to be a measuring probe in measuring the diameter of the bore so that a machine tool using the tool holder is able to successively perform boring and measuring operations of the bore. Further, the tool holder incorporates a tool position adjusting mechanism therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1984
    Assignee: Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuro Yamakage
  • Patent number: 4439074
    Abstract: A boring tool includes a central shaft which carries a tool head on a shaft working end and which is mounted in a rotatable bushing for eccentric movement in the tool body. For work adjustment up to 1.00 inch on diameter, the tool head is radially slidable on the working end of the central shaft by an adjustment screw arrangement while the shaft is held by the bushing. For micro-adjustment, the bushing is rotated to move the shaft working end in an eccentric path with a key on the tool body translating this movement into radial micro-adjustment of the tool head to 0.0001 inch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1984
    Assignee: Ex-Cell-O Corporation
    Inventor: Shivdas A. Kalokhe
  • Patent number: 4347768
    Abstract: A drilling tool including a central, laterally flattened primary drill adapted to produce a cylindrical main drillhole and a secondary drill, pivotally displaceable relative to the primary drill, in a laterally outward direction to produce an undercut, a sleeve which concentrically surrounds the primary drill and is axially slidable on the shaft of the primary drill against the action of a spring and a slotted link system adapted to effect pivoting of the secondary drill relative to the primary drill. The sleeve is constructed as a cage having a rear portion adapted to guide it for axial movement along the shaft, webs extend from the rear portion in the general direction of the shaft axis and leave large passages in the axial and circumferential direction, and an end ring joins the webs at their outer ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1982
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Edgar Boehm
  • Patent number: 4224846
    Abstract: A turning boring head or the like has a tool, designed for radial adjustment, and whose tool support is able to undergo feed motion, using liquid power into a position dependent on the desired size of the bore being machined. The bore rod body has not only a pressure medium powered tool support designed for fine positioning of the fine-adjustment cutting tool, but furthermore at least one further tool support for a further cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1980
    Assignee: Firma Samson Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Eysel, Wilfried Gerk
  • Patent number: 4195957
    Abstract: A boring tool having a tool head rotatable about its axis and movable in direction of the axis along a working stroke and a return stroke. A knife having a pair of opposite cutting edges is floatingly mounted in a slot of the tool head extending transverse to the axis thereof and tiltable in the slot between a working position and a withdrawal position in which the cutting edges of the knife project a smaller distance beyond the periphery of the tool head than in the working position to prevent damage of the machined surface during the return stroke of the tool head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1980
    Assignee: Wilhelm Hegenscheidt Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Helmut Wittkopp, Garrj Berstein, Lothar Heymanns, Willi Hansen
  • Patent number: 4147463
    Abstract: A deburring tool including an elongated arbor formed with a cutting blade recess. A unitary cutting tool has a cutting head with an elongated, flat, resilient blade extending therefrom. The blade is received in the recess, and the end of the blade opposite the cutting head is secured to the arbor by a pin and an adjustable screw with the cutting head projecting from the recess. Rotation of the screw causes pivotal adjustment of the blade to in turn adjust the unstressed position of the cutting head with respect to the recess. The portion of the blade that extends from the pin to the cutting head is yieldable to permit the cutting head to move resiliently inwardly with respect to the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1979
    Inventor: William R. Robinson
  • Patent number: 4072083
    Abstract: A milling head having a shaft for attachment to a machine tool, and at least one cutting insert or bit, characterized in that the cutting insert is supported in a tiltable or swivelable holder having a swivel axis extending perpendicularly to the axis of rotation of the milling head. Stopping means is situated between the milling head and the holder, against which the holder rests in its working position. A cam plate is held in a stationary position such that the cam plate cooperates with the holder to tilt or swivel the latter along a portion of its arcuate movement thereby lifting the cutting insert off the surface to be machined. The stopping means may include travel limit elements that comprise a bore in the holder and a protruding pin which engages with the bore. Biasing means is provided in the form of a spring arranged so that it tends to bias the holder into its working position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1978
    Inventor: Jiri Cesal
  • Patent number: 4043229
    Abstract: There is disclosed a self-retracting tool holder assembly for mounting a tool on a machine in a predetermined location with respect to a workpiece, the assembly incorporating a tool holder mounted for pivotal movement about an axis so arranged that when the tool is fed by the machine into engagement with the workpiece the forces created by such engagement will cause the tool holder to pivot about said axis to advance the tool into a seated machining position in which the machining portion of the tool is displaced into the workpiece both in the feed direction and in a direction at right angles thereto, and spring means to automatically retract the tool to an inactive position out of engagement with the workpiece when the feed of the tool stops, whereby when the tool is returned by the machine the tool will not cause a drag line to be formed on the just-machined surface of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1977
    Assignee: DeVlieg Machine Company
    Inventor: Robert M. Ortlieb
  • Patent number: 3966347
    Abstract: A hydraulically operated pivotable cutting tool extends from a machine tool depending from the collet of a rigid spindle machine. The machine tool selectively develops a source of hydraulic fluid under pressure for laterally positioning the cutting tool and for effecting pivotal movement of the cutting implement attached to the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1976
    Inventor: Sanders Chapman Watson
  • Patent number: 3966348
    Abstract: A spindle carrying at its free end one or more transversely extending thread cutters is coaxially inserted into a bore of a workpiece, so that the cutter or cutters will be spaced from the bore wall. An arrangement is provided for rotating the spindle, and another arrangement for tilting the spindle to a position in which it extends skew to the axis of the bore so that the cutter engages and cuts into the bore wall. A further arrangement gradually axially retracts the rotating spindle outwardly of the bore, so that during such retraction the cutter cuts threads into the bore wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1976
    Inventor: Karl Burgsmuller
  • Patent number: 3941497
    Abstract: Tool holder with controlled tool movement, comprising two members adapted to be moved angularly away from each other against a resilient force, one member carrying the tool and being movable away from the other, a push member adapted to control this movement extending through one of said members, at least one lever being interposed between said push member in order to scale the control action between said push member and said tool holder, said lever being housed longitudinally within the central passage of a tubular bore machining bar. The machining bar in conjunction with a corresponding tool-bit constitute the aforesaid members that are movable away from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1973
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1976
    Assignee: Regie Nationale des Usines Renault
    Inventor: Andre Ballini