Abstract: A machine tool is provided with a spindle clamping device for clamping a spindle assembly supported by a spindle head and composed of an outer spindle rotatably supported by the spindle head and an inner spindle disposed inside the outer spindle to be reciprocal along an axial direction thereof. The inner spindle is inserted into an inner hollow portion of the outer spindle so that a space is formed between an inner peripheral surface of the outer spindle and an outer peripheral surface of the inner spindle. The spindle clamping device comprises a pressure applying member such as a pair of pistons or oil ring disposed in the space between the outer and inner spindles for applying a pressure in an axial direction of the outer and inner spindles. The pressure applying member is provided with an oil chamber, and a pair of clamp rings are disposed in the space axially outside the pressure applying member.

Abstract: A hand-held deburring tool comprising a handle member with a distal end having a cavity therein, within which a unirotary ratchet bearing is disposed. The unirotary ratchet bearing has a deburring tip element-receiving bore therein for engaging the shank of a deburring tip element positioned therewithin. A support element is mounted in a lower portion of the cavity in the handle member, for abutting contact with a proximal shank extremity of a deburring tip element positioned within the bore of the unirotary ratchet bearing. This tool accommodates a wide variety of deburring tip elements which are positionable with the proximal shank portion thereof in the bore of the unirotary ratchet bearing and with the proximal extremity thereof in abutting contact with the support element. The deburring tool may be usefully employed to remove burring or flashing from holes or openings in a wide variety of workpieces, e.g., aluminum plate stock.

Abstract: An elongated grooving or threading tool has a cutting section and a rearward cemented carbide section which are held together in axial alignment by a drawbolt which extends through an axially aligned bore in the cutting section and engages the respective sections to hold the connection under compression.

Abstract: In a vertical machining center, a tubular spindle-drive sleeve rotates about its longitudinal axis while axially immovable. A spindle is axially slidable in and rotatably driven by the sleeve. A linear drive, non-rotating ball screw connected to the upper end of the spindle is driven axially by a powered ball nut to advance and retract the spindle in the sleeve. A coupling plug fixed at the bottom of the spindle connects to any one of various toolholders in a turret. Axial movement of the spindle by the ball nut automatically couples and decouples the spindle to and from the toolholder. Gaseous or liquid fluid supply down through the spindle is provided. In one embodiment, an air motor is mounted inside the spindle and coupled to a second spindle in the changeable toolholder to supplement the main spindle drive and drive the toolholder spindle for driving a cutting tool at a much higher rotational rate than is possible with the main spindle alone.

Abstract: Machine tool with a driving spindle held in a carrier, an exchangeable machining head that can be coupled with the carrier and a tool spindle in the machining head that can be coupled with the driving spindle and adjustment and locking means on the carrier for locking the machining head onto the carrier. The machining head can be withdrawn from a magazine for machining heads by means of said adjustment and locking means and it can be coupled with and locked onto the machine tool and, after releasing, it can be brought into any desired angular position relative to the machine tool and locked again.

Abstract: A device for clamping coaxial, first and second spindles of a machine tool to each other. The first spindle is hollow and rotatably supported by a spindle head. The second spindle is rotatably supported in the first spindle and can be moved back and forth in the axial direction of the second spindle. The device includes a space formed between portions of both the spindles; disc springs are provided in the space to exert an axial force; and a pair of clamp rings are disposed on both sides of the springs, for clamping both the spindles to each other due to a wedge action through the force of the disc springs. An oil chamber is formed at one side of the pair of clamp rings in order to release the clamping of both the spindles when oil pressure is applied. A hydraulic pressure source is provided for supplying pressurized oil into the oil chamber through a static pressure pocket provided at the place where the first spindle is in sliding contact with a bush encircling the first spindle.

Abstract: A tool adapted for use with a drill for installing screw anchors in concrete or masonry walls or the like having a sleeve type body, a bit holder slidably located in the body, a drill bit with a handle secured in the bit holder, a coil spring seated on a collar of the bit holder and extending around the bit, a nut driver secured to the front end of the body, a set screw to retain the drill bit in the bit holder and also to serve as a means to advance and retract the drill bit, and a cutout comprised of a longitudinal slot, a retainer notch and at least one depth notch. The longitudinal slot is adjoined by both the retainer notch and the depth notch through the use of curved sidewalls which allow the tool operator to use a smooth, uniform, and efficient motion to adjust extension of the drill bit.

Abstract: In a spindle of a machine tool, a cylindrical member of the spindle adapted to accommodate the shank of a tool is prepared by winding carbon or glass fiber and the wound fiber is impregnated with a heat curable resin. After curing the resin a protective coating layer is applied to the other surface of the cylindrical member.

Abstract: A machine tool with a spindle for machining a large-diameter workpiece in that a servo motor for moving a spindle in the axial direction and a variable reluctance motor for rotating the spindle are installed in a housing, and a synchronous controller for synchronizing and driving the above-mentioned servo motor and the variable reluctance motor is provided. The variable reluctance motor has a characteristic in that a large driving torque can be obtained in a low rotating speed. By using a variable reluctance motor as a spindle motor, therefore, it is possible to obtain a large torque without providing a large size motor, and also possible to realize a large-diameter machining by a small-size unit.

Abstract: A machine tool comprises a spindle stock (11) in which a spindle (13) is seated for rotation about a spindle axis (14). The spindle (13) is provided with a receptacle (20) for the taper (21) of a toolholder (22). A first annular groove (31) is arranged in a stationary ring bearing (12) of the spindle stock (11), adjacent a first end of at least one duct (34) provided in the rotatable spindle (13), the other end of which terminates in a blow-off outlet (35) opening into the receptacle (20). The first annular groove (31) can be connected to a compressed-air source (38). In the stationary condition of the spindle (13), an elastic annular seal (42, 43) can be applied in sealing relationship between the stationary bearing ring (12) and the spindle (13), on both sides axially of the first annular groove (31), by the action of compressed air. A second and a third annular groove (40, 41) are arranged in the ring bearing (12), on either side of the said first annular groove (31) in the axial direction.

Abstract: A spindle structure for a machine tool such as a boring machine, for example, includes a rotatable tubular shaft to be coupled to a rotative drive source, and a spindle axially slidably disposed in the tubular shaft and rotatable in unison with the tubular shaft. Bushings with powder on WC-base cemented carbide thermally sprayed on inner peripheral surfaces thereof are disposed between the tubular shaft and the spindle to prevent fretting corrosion. The WC-base cemented carbide comprises 12.about.18 wt % of Co, 4.about.6 wt % of C, 0.1.about.1.2 wt % of Fe, and 75.about.84 wt % of W.

Abstract: An apparatus for drilling into energized utility components without having to first de-energize them so as to allow continuous service to consumers is provided. The apparatus includes a drive shaft constructed of an insulating material terminating in a drill chuck and drill bit. The drive shaft is supported by an adjacent rod using pillar block bearing assemblies which allow the uninhibited rotation of the drive shaft. This attachment can be powered by a variety of power units.

Abstract: A tool adapted for use with a drill for installing screw anchors in concrete or masonry walls or the like having a sleeve type body, a bit holder slidably located in the body, a drill bit with a handle secured in the bit holder, a coil spring seated on a collar of the bit holder and extending around the bit, and a nut driver secured to the front end of the body. The bit holder is adapted to receive the bit handle and to also serve as a stabilizer for the bit and the coil spring. The nut driver is formed to guide the bit and to shield the front end of the bit from contact with drive members that may be secured in the nut driver.

Abstract: Tooling to form a countersink and counterbore in a workpiece includes:(a) a first part defining an axis and that extends axially forwardly in a bore hole in the workpiece,(b) a rotatable carrier connected with that first part,(c) and a cutter blade on the carrier, the blade projecting radially relative to the first part forming at least one cutting edge spaced outwardly of a cylinder defined by that first part, the cutting edge shaped to form the countersink and counterbore at one end of the bore hole.

Abstract: A rotationally symmetrical tool assembly includes a first component constituted by a tool holder; a second component constituted by a tool head and being removably attached to the first component such that engagement faces of the first and second components are in a contacting relationship with one another and are oriented perpendicularly to the rotary axis of the tool assembly. A fitting bore is provided in one of the components and a guide bore is provided in the other of the components. A securing pin projects from the fitting bore and extends into the guide bore for determining and maintaining a desired angular position of the second component relative to the first component.

Abstract: A tooling assembly comprises a holder and a tool head releasably mounted thereon. The holder includes a forwardly projecting frusto-conical tongue which is tightly received within a correspondingly shaped socket of the tool holder. An actuator is slidably mounted within the holder and is retained within the tool head by means of a bayonet-type coupling. A pair of locking wedges is mounted in the holder and actuated by means of a differential screw to push the actuator rearwardly against a spring bias in a manner drawing the tool head tightly against the holder. Fluid channels in the holder body, actuator, and tool head communicate after the tool head has been mounted on the holder, in order to conduct flushing fluid to flush cuttings from the hole being cut.

Abstract: The cutter head of a reamer carries a circular tool bit and two guide members. Each guide member has an outer-most edge at the furthest distance from the center of rotation of the tool and slanted edges inclined at progressively greater angles from the outer edge towards the front of the tool where the initial cut takes place. The first slanted edge, at an angle of less than 10 degrees and preferably between 3 and 5 degrees, intersects the outer-most edge at a point which lags the extreme point on the tool bit by about 0.4 mm in the direction of advance of the tool. The first slanted edge extends at least to the radial plane containing the extreme point of the tool bit. Thereafter, a slanted edge at an angle inclined between 15 and 25 degrees extends in the forward direction, to be followed by a third slanted edge inclined at an angle to the outer-most edge of between 30 and 75 degrees.

Abstract: A centering and chucking system for fixing an interchangeable element to a carrier body. The carrier body is provided with guide elements whose guide surfaces are arranged along a coordinate system through the center of which extends the reference axis, e.g. the axis of a spindle. Due to the arrangement of two centering means along one axis of the coordinate system and of at least another centering means along the other axis, the reference axes of both parts are not displaced relative to each other by changes of temperature. Although the centering means are provided outside the reference axis, the system in said reference axis is determined by them.

Abstract: A holder for supporting motor driven tools against the reaction torque which occurs during operation. Two supports which are spaced from one another are provided for the tool. The supports are rigidly connected with a clamping device. Since only one support is effective at any given time for a given direction of rotation of the tool, the direction of rotation of the latter can be changed without having to modify the holder. The holder, together with the clamping device, is fastened directly onto the workpiece.

Abstract: A hole machining device capable of effecting marking and similar operations as well as drilling and reaming. The device comprises driving shafts attached to the body of the machining device, spindles for installing the drills, springs for invariably urging the spindles forwardly, spindle collars that cover the springs and detecting means for detecting the backward movement of the collars.

Abstract: A drilling stand has an axially extending guide column with a U- or C-shaped transverse cross-section forming an interior space in which a carriage is guided for movement in the axial direction. A drilling unit is mounted on the carriage and includes a drive member supported on the carriage within the interior space and a receiving part forming a holder for a drilling tool, connected to the drive member and projecting laterally outwardly from the guide column.

Abstract: The boring and milling head (11) is designed to receive a boring and mill tool (91) provided with a clamping device (55) having a hollow clamping cone (57) and a conical clamping wedge (61), the device being connected in order to resist torsion, to a drive element (21) which may be coupled with a rotary driven boring bar or with another similar mounting. In order to perform a boring and milling in a single operation with the overmentioned boring and milling head (11), without having to change the tool and/or the position of the boring bar or of the work piece, the longitudinal axis of the clamping device (55) containing the boring and milling tool (91) may pivot with respect to the rotation axis (88) of the drive element (21).

Abstract: A tool couple which is used with a manually-operated threading die to aid in cutting the initial threads on a pipe or bolt. The device is used to force the anterior cutting edge of the die firmly against the outer, unthreaded surface of the workpiece at the outset of a threading operation. The die is kept wedged, as the initial threads are being cut, between the workpiece and a rotatable member of the tool couple so that the die cannot slip backward toward and merely chamfer the leading edge of the workpiece. To keep the die so wedged, the rotatable member is advanced by means of a shaft in the direction of the end of the workpiece at approximately the same rate as the die is moved along the longitudinal axis of the workpiece. Usually only one revolution of the threading die, assisted by the tool couple, is required to establish the starting thread.

Abstract: This invention relates to a coupling comprising female and male members (19, 18) having co-operating wedge surfaces (20,21), which may be urged into contact by tightening means (37). A spring (29) is adapted, upon tightening of the coupling, to accumulate spring force urging the wedge surfaces of the members against each other. The coupling is suitable for interconnection of two or more elements (13, 14) in order to form a longitudinal guide for a boring machine.

Abstract: This invention relates to a holding assembly (10) for connecting a shaft (20) to a drive member (16), the holding assembly has a body (12), first and second end portions (14,18) and a middle portion (21), a member (52) is connected to the body (12) at the middle portion (21) for selectively controllably deflecting one of the first and second end portions (14,18) to preselected relative positions and eliminating runout in the shaft (20). The holding assembly (10) is particularly useful on a boring machine.

Abstract: The cutting head and shank of a floating reamer are connected for joint rotation about the shank axis and limited radial movement of the head on the shank by a reduced axial end portion of the shank being spacedly enveloped by an annular axial flange on the head and fastened to the flange by a pin diametrically passing through a bore in the end portion of the shank which is lined with a tubular ball bearing. The clearance between the flange and the end portion of the shank defines the available radial head movement.

Abstract: A clamp for a tool spindle for rapid interchange of tools without the need to raise the spindle or lower the work further than the end of the tool to allow clearance. The clamp is provided with a recess co-axial with spindle and the tool is provided with an adapter extension movable into the recess in a direction normal to the axis of the spindle or recess. A clamping gate hinged at one side of the recess is then locked to the other side of the recess to complete the recess and lock the tool adapter in position. A locking screw on the gate is then rotated into engagement with a flat on the adapter to integrate the clamping unit and tool. Means are also provided for axial positioning of the tool.

Abstract: A tool holding assembly wherein a self-locking chuck or tool holder is releasably secured in a rotary spindle by a draw bar and collet type tool holder gripping means. The self-locking chuck is provided with a spring-biased, ball locking means that functions as a safety retainer means for holding the chuck or tool holder in the spindle in case of a breakage of the collet type tool holder gripping means. The spindle is provided with a tapered seat against which the balls of the ball locking means are normally urged by a spring biased plunger that is movable to a ball unlocking position by the draw bar.

Abstract: A floating tool holder including a cylindrical shank having a recess in one end thereof, floating structure including in different modifications an outer race or a torque washer and a tool receiver positioned within the recess and held in radially spaced relation to the recess walls by resilient O-rings whereby radial translation of the tool receiver with respect to the shank and pivotal movement of one end of the tool receiver within and relative to the shank are permitted, tool adapter structure received within the tool receiver, and means for releasably securing the tool adapter structure to the tool receiver.In another modification, the floating tool holder includes telescopic, resiliently biased compression structure received over the shank thereof. The floating tool holder may be further modified by a quick-release coupling for securing a tool adapter to the tool receiver portion of the floating structure.

Abstract: A holder for use with a screw cutting diehead of a machine tool, the holder having a recess for the reception of a thread chaser element, which recess has a surface arranged to locate the chaser element therein at a predetermined helix angle, and the holder being adapted to permit the element to be gripped in position therein. The invention also includes the combination of a chaser carrier and separate chaser holder mounted therein.

Abstract: Machine tools utilized in precision machine operations require tool support structures which exhibit minimal deflection, thermal expansion and vibration characteristics. The tool support structure of the present invention is a graphite fiber reinforced composite in which layers of the graphite fibers or yarn are disposed in a 0/90.degree. pattern and bonded together with an epoxy resin. The finished composite possesses a low coefficient of thermal expansion and a substantially greater elastic modulus, stiffness-to-weight ratio, and damping factor than a conventional steel tool support utilized in similar machining operations.

Abstract: The present invention is useful in establishing a plurality of tool elements in a desired configuration in relation to a workpiece surface. A typical device of the invention has a guide member having a flexible section containing tool element guide means, means for deflecting the flexible section to position the guide means in the desired configuration and means for establishing a cooperative relationship between the desired configuration of guide means and the workpiece surface. The invention is particularly applicable to positioning a plurality of drilling elements in a configuration corresponding and in precise relationship to the curvature of the edge of a gas turbine engine blade or vane.

Abstract: A combination work tool and holder therefor, wherein the work tool is stabilized during work movement by the provision of an independently movable stabilizer bar mounted alongside and generally parallel to a tool holding bar, a rigid member clamping the bars together in order to increase the rigidity of the tool holding bar. The ability of the stabilizer bar to be independently moved enables the two bars to be clamped together in various positions in order to eliminate interference with working clearances and the like. Additionally a holding block construction for positioning the bars with respect to each other is disclosed.

Abstract: A tool holder for machine tools particularly adapted for use in turret structures having a plurality of retainers for holding a plurality of such tool holders each carrying a different tool such as a drill, tap, reamer or other metal working tool. The disclosure relates to a mechanically actuated tool holder having mechanical locking means adapted to snap into annular retainers in a turret structure of a mechanical tool and wherein locking means alternately is operable to hold the tool holder in the turret retainer ring and to lock the tool holder onto an annular ledge of a stub means carried by a rotatable and reciprocable machine tool driving spindle.