Abstract: A chuck assembly for use in a machine tool for holding a tool element comprises a chuck body having a sleeve integrally formed therewith so as to extend in the direction, which sleeve has a support bore defined therein for the receipt and support of the tool element and also has its outer peripheral surface tapered in a direction away from the chuck body, a fastening nut having its inner peripheral surface tapered in complemental relation to the outer peripheral surface of the sleeve and helically rotatably mounted on the sleeve through a plurality of roll bearings, and a reinforcing nut threadingly mounted on the fastening nut and adapted to be engaged under pressure with the chuck body when the fastening nut has been fastened and the reinforcing nut is then fastened.

Abstract: A receiver body (1) carries a holder shaft as needed and has on one end face an abutment face (4), extending at right angles to the axis of rotation, and a coaxial, conical receiving bore (5). A connection part (14), which is preferably embodied as a tool carrier, likewise has on one end face an abutment face (15, 15'), extending at right angles to the axis of rotation, as well as a coaxial, conical centering stub (16) fitting into the conical receiving bore. In order to assure a high degree of concentric accuracy, even in the event of strong forces exerted laterally upon the connection part, the inner cone (6) surface of the receiving bore (15) has a cone angle that is larger by a predetermined, small difference angle (27) than the outer cone surface (17) of the centering stub (16). This difference angle is such that upon the insertion of the centering stub into the receiving bore, the outer cone comes into engagement with the inner cone surface first in the vicinity of its smallest diameter.

Abstract: A bit holder for automatic printed circuit board drilling machines, the bit holder incorporating a snap ring as a retaining mechanism that releases under abnormally high impact conditions to prevent damage to the bit holder parts.

Abstract: A tool support assembly comprising a rotary spindle which carries a tubular body having a socket therein for the removable accommodation of a coupling member to which any one of a number of tools may be fitted. The coupling member is adapted to be fitted to the tubular body during rotation of the spindle and thereafter to be driven by the spindle. Yieldable, shock absorbing, replaceable plates are carried by the coupling member and the rotary body to cushion the initial engagement therebetween. The coupling member and the socket have axially elongated, complementally tapered and cylindrical surfaces to provide substantial lateral stability for a tool supported by the coupling member.

Abstract: A tool holder of the two-jaw type is provided which has the centering accuracy and gripping power of a three-jaw geared chuck. The tool holder includes a body having ways formed by a polygonal passageway which is perpendicular to the central axis of the tool holder body. The jaw mechanism includes a differential screw which mates, on one end, with the body of the tool holder and, on the other end, with a pair of anvil pieces. The face of the differential screw and the anvil pieces move toward and away from the central axis of the tool holder along the ways formed by the polygonal passageway and provide the tool-gripping means.

Abstract: The tool holder (14) includes a tool holder head (30) having a planar abutment face (38) and a tool holder shaft (40) extending at right angles away from the abutment face (38) and adapted to be clamped in a receiving bore (44) of a tool support (10). A gripper plate (50) lies in abutment against the abutment face (38) all around the tool holder shaft (40) and has two gripping faces (54 and 56) inclined with respect to each other at one side of the tool holder shaft (40) and another gripping face (58) at the opposite side inclined with respect to said two gripping faces. The gripper plate (50) is adapted to be grasped in such manner by a gripper (20) that the tool holder (14) will adopt an exactly predetermined position with respect to the gripper (20), regardless of how the tool holder is designed otherwise.

Abstract: A machine tool has a machine tool body (3), a spindle (1) having a supporting portion (2) and being rotatably supported by the machine tool body (3), and a tool holder (5) having an inserting portion (6) which is attached to the supporting portion (2). A ceramic layer (10, 11) is provided on the supporting portion (2) of the spindle (1) and/or the inserting portion (6) of the tool holder (5).

Abstract: A quick-connect and quick-disconnect mechanism includes a male member which may be received in a female socket member. Cam means is journaled in an eccentric cam follower surface in the socket and is capable of rotation about a second axis displaced from the axis of the socket. A locking surface on the cam means faces in a longitudinal direction opposite the entrance of the socket and opposite that of a lockable abutment surface on the male member. An aperture in the cam means is sufficiently large to accommodate the entrance of the lockable abutment surface on the male member. The cam means is rotatable within the cam follower surface to move the cam locking surface with a radially inward component and a component of movement in a longitudinal direction away from the entrance of the socket to engage the lockable abutment surface to lock the male member in the socket. The cam means may also have an expelling surface to aid in expelling the male member from the socket.

Abstract: A tool of a metal-cutting machine provided with numerical control has an information data carrier for storing various data of tool characteristics such as the length, diameter, service life and other parameters of the tool. The data carrier is formed by an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory which has a large storage capacity. The memory is rigidly inserted in the tool or tool holder and is protected against damage and contamination. Inadvertent release and loss of the data carrier are avoided.

Abstract: A device for attaching a tool to a machine tool is disclosed. A cylindrical hollow portion is provided in a spindle of the machine tool, and a gripper having locking elements is provided at a deep portion thereof. On the other hand, a tool is attached in advance to an installing and removing member which can be inserted into the hollow portion of the spindle. A connecting body having an engaging body is provided at the extremity of the installing and removing member. The installing and removing member to which the tool is attached in advance is inserted into the hollow portion of the spindle and the installing and removing member is rotated through a predetermined angle whereby the engaging body comes into engagement with the locking body to lock the tool to the spindle.

Abstract: A taper adapter assembly is disclosed for attaching a boring bar or the like to a machine spindle. The adapter is made up of a tapered adapter member and a drive ring. The adapter member has a taper of the ordinary type with a bore in its small end to receive a draw bolt and a cylindrical portion on its large end which receives the drive ring and a cylindrical portion that extends out from the first mentioned cylindrical portion. The adapter is made up by inserting the tapered adapter member in the spindle of a machine, applying an adhesive to the enlarged cylindrical part of the taper adapter member and placing the drive ring over the cylindrical part and forcing the ring into place against the face of the spindle with a bonding clamp. The drive ring is thereby affixed to the taper adapter and the reduced size cylindrical portion inserted into a bore in the end of a tool holder. The flange of the taper adapter is bolted to the clamping ring. The tool holder (boring bar) is then bolted to the drive ring.

Abstract: The invention is the precise mounting of a cutting tool on a rotating spindle to prevent eccentric runout between the spindle and tool and comprises mating non-locking taper surfaces at the inner end of the spindle tool combination and diverging angular taper surfaces at the outer end of the spindle and tool combination. A variable diameter wedge engages the diverging taper surfaces for precise and repeatable accurate mounting of the tool to the spindle.

Abstract: A boring head is retained to a connecting shaft by means of a cylindrical fastening spigot, using a retaining screw with a conical end which engages a conical transverse bore in the spigot such that the boring head is tightened by wedging effect against the connecting shaft. The fastening spigot is provided with a cylindrical transverse bore, at an approximate right angle to the conical transverse bore in the spigot, and a longitudinally displaceable drive pin is supported in the cylindrical transverse bore such that the ends penetrate, with slight play, into recesses in the connecting shaft. During the transmission of torque, the drive pin is automatically centered so that the forces developed are evenly distributed between the two ends of the drive pin, so that the device is particularly suitable for the transmission of high torques, whether of a gradually increasing or an impulse type, and is usable either with a clockwise or a counterclockwise movement.

Abstract: A machine tool holder comprising a body is operably mountable on a material working machine. The body is provided with a bore adapted to receive the shank of a tool, which shank has at least two ramp surfaces. Clamping members comprising at least two ramp surfaces are adapted to cooperate with the ramp surfaces of the shank to draw the shank into the bore and secure the shank relative to the bore.

Abstract: A collet assembly for releasably holding a tool shaft of the type having an indexing depression in the surface thereof includes an elongate core having a bore in one end thereof for receiving the tool shaft. A retainer extending transversely through the core is shiftable into a locking position within the depression in order to prevent rotation of the shaft relative to the core. A tapered sleeve longitudinally slidable over the core engages and drives the retainer into the core. A collar threadably mounted on a core draws the sleeve in one longitudinal direction over the core in order to maintain the sleeve in a position locking the retainer in place.

Abstract: A tool holder with a coolant inducer and a quick acting locking mechanism is disclosed. The holder body is provided with a tapered bore to receive the tapered shank of a cutting tool. The tapered shank has cam surfaces for engagement with locking pins in the holder body to cam the shank into drive transmitting and fluid-tight engagement with the tapered bore. A locking mechanism locks the tapered shank in the camming relationship with the locking pins and a retaining mechanism holds the mechanism in its locked position. A coolant inducer comprises an inducer ring at the upper end of the holder body and defining a fluid-tight chamber therewith. A fluid conduit is connected through a fitting in the inducer ring to the chamber which communicates with the upper end of the tapered bore in the holder body.

Abstract: Improvements in divided milling cutters comprise a first cutter half (2) and a second cutter half (6) which are adjustable in relation to each other with respect to their mutual distance and are both connected to a common sleeve (1) threadable on to and securable to a cutter spindle or the like which is preferably threaded, at least in part. To make possible a continuous or step-less variation of the distance between the cutting edge holders in a simple way even when the apparatus is mounted on the cutter spindle said second cutter half (6) is fastened to an outer sleeve (8) which is in threaded engagement with an externally threaded intermediate sleeve (13) having a substantially annular flange (14) which abuts an end or shoulder on the common sleeve.

Abstract: An adjustable tool mount positions a rotatable tool on a machine tool spindle by a central tool mount ring having a internal thread machined throughout. The thread engages a pin extending from the tool spindle, so that rotation of the assembly causes axial advancement of the tool mount. The tool mount is clamped and unclamped by a lock nut received on the tool mount which compresses a plurality of nested conical spring rings which are closely fitted to a counterbore within the tool mount and to the machine spindle. Compression of the spring rings tends to enlarge the ring outer diameter and tends to reduce the ring bore, thereby causing a secure frictional grip to be effected between the tool mount and machine spindle.

Abstract: A machine tool having a numerically controlled adjustable arbor for facilitating different straddle milling operations on random workpieces without the need for manual adjustment of the cutter width comprises a frame which carries a power station thereon. The power station has a rotary driven spindle which is journaled within a quill which is movable out from and into the power station under numerical control. A bifurcated arbor, configured of a pair of coaxial shafts which are in sleeved engagement with each other so as to be axially movable to and from each other while rotating co-jointly with each other, is coupled at one end to the power station spindle and is journaled at its distal end in a fixed arbor support. Each shaft of the bifurcated arbor carries a straddle milling cutter thereon in spaced apart relationship with the cutter on the other arbor member.

Abstract: A tool mounting assembly for a gear hobbing machine is disclosed as being mounted between a drive spindle and an outboard bearing support in axial alignment with said drive spindle. The tool mounting assembly comprises a first coupling unit for detachably connecting one end of a hob in driving engagement with said drive spindle, and a second coupling unit for detachably connecting the other end of said hob to said outboard bearing support. The outboard support unit includes a plunger rotatably mounted in the bearing support and axially movable between a hob coupling position and an unload position, and has a drive means for selectively moving the plunger between said hob coupling and unload positions. The second coupling unit includes a first portion secured to the other end of said hob and a second portion secured to said plunger, and includes axial nesting means for self centering the other end of the hob.

Abstract: In a reversible power tool, such as an electric drill, a clutch mechanism is coupled to selectively connect and disconnect a chuck jaw reciprocating means to advance and retract the jaws of a chuck or to allow the chuck jaw reciprocating means to be carried in rotation with the chuck jaws. According to the improvement the clutch mechanism is decoupled as the chuck jaws approach a position of complete retraction, despite actuation of a coupling mechanism which would otherwise prevent the chuck jaw reciprocating means and the chuck jaws from turning together in rotation. The decoupling mechanism prevents damage to the chuck which occurs in prior devices when the chuck jaws are driven longitudinally beyond the designed limit for complete chuck jaw retraction. Also, an annular workpiece holder is releasably secured to the chuck to hold a workpiece in axial alignment with the tool drive shaft to safeguard against accidental injury to the fingers of an individual operating the tool.

Abstract: A tool cutter head of the type having fluid pressure locking means to hold the cutter head on a spindle includes locking pressure indicator means providing visual verification to a machine operator that proper locking pressure is applied.

Abstract: A power chuck for turning machines, comprises a chuck body having an axis of rotation on which is slidably mounted a plurality of radially extending clamping jaws. Each clamping jaw is engaged with its own tangentially extending and slidable wedge bar. Each wedge bar is engaged with a radially extending push bar which is movable by an axially movable control member so that movement of the control member moves the push bar 1 in a radial direction and through the engagement thereof with the wedge bar and the engagement of the wedge bar and the clamping jaw, moves the clamping jaw in an opposite radial direction. The masses and transmission ratios of the push bar, wedge bar and clamping jaw can be selected to equalize the centrifugal force applied to the clamping jaw and push bar so that no excess force is applied to the clamping jaw when the chuck body rotates.

Abstract: A clamping sleeve for tools or workpieces intended to be clamped with a truncated conical surface on a preferably cylindrical rotatable portion with a conical surface and to support the tool or workpiece with a substantially cylindrical surface concentric with the truncated conical surface and arranged to coact with a clamping ring. The clamping ring is arranged with threads to be screwed axially in both directions on the preferably rotatable portion. The clamping sleeve can be tightened by the clamping ring be against the conical surface with its truncated conical surface. The conical surface and the cylindrical surface consist of spaced mantles, which are sealingly combined with each other at the top end of the sleeve, forming a cavity open towards the base surface of the sleeve. Moreover, the thrust collar is axially movable at the base surface relative to the sleeve and provided with an axially directed collar, which is arranged to extend into an orifice of the cavity.

Abstract: A tool chuck for a hammer drill has an inner sleeve and an axially slidable outer sleeve concentrically surrounding the inner sleeve. The inner sleeve has an open leading end adapted to receive a shank of the tool. The shank is clamped in the inner sleeve with a snap action in response to insertion of the shank through the open end. Torque and/or axial impact are selectively imparted to the tool chuck from a drive of the hammer drill. The tool shank is formed with a radially outwardly opening recess closed at both axial ends and shaped to receive a tool-holding element and with at least one axially extending groove. A formation is formed in the inner sleeve which is engageable with the axially extending groove for torque transmission. A ring is positioned between the outer sleeve and the inner sleeve. The ring is movably biased by a spring in axial direction and is provided with a projection engageable with the tool-holding element when the latter is moved outwardly of the recess.

Abstract: A tool holder for a drill capable of performing only rotary drilling or the combination of rotary and percussive drilling includes a tubular retainer member in which the shank of a tool can be inserted. Locking members mounted in the retainer member fit into recesses in the tool shank for holding it in the retainer member. During percussive drilling the locking members are axially displaceable in the recesses and the tool experiences a certain amount of axial play, however, when only rotary drilling is performed the locking members are held against axial displacement by stops so that the tool does not have any axial play. One stop forms a part of the retainer member and another stop is part of a member slidably displaceable relative to the retainer member.

Abstract: In a tool holder for securing a tool in a hammer drill in a form-locking manner, locking elements are radially displaceably mounted in a guide member. An adjustment ring is threaded onto the guide member and by rotating the adjustment ring relative to the guide member, the locking elements can be adjustably tightened or loosened. The locking elements seat in closed end recesses in the shank of the tool to be secured. The adjustment ring can be locked in different rotational positions by an interlocking tooth arrangement. Teeth are provided on the adjustment ring and on a fixing sleeve axially slidably positioned on the guide member. The fixing sleeve can be moved axially between a position for locking the adjustment ring and another position permitting the adjustment ring to be rotated relative to the guide member.

Abstract: An arrangement for quick-mounting and--dismounting of a cutting tool 10. A projection 21 on the machine spindle is fitted into a spacing 33 in a nut element 30 in the cutting tool and by rotation of the nut element 30 axially outwards the projection 21 is forced against an inner wall 39 of the spacing 33, whereby forcing the cutting tool 10 against the machine spindle.

Abstract: A chuck assembly and collet for retaining a commercially-available large-diameter, high-torque end mill (or similar) tool against axial pullout and against radial (or rotational) movement with respect to the assembly. The tool includes two axially spaced flat surfaces along the shank, one of which is coupled to the collet to prevent axial pullout and the other of which is coupled to the chuck to prevent rotation with respect to the chuck. The coupling to the chuck is accomplished by a ballclamp screw which extends through an aperture in the collet to the flat surface on the tool. The ballclamp screw has a flattened ball that is pivotally mounted in the screw's engagement and the pivotal mounting accommodates a few degree misalignment between the shank's flat surface and the screw without significantly affecting the coupling therebetween.

Abstract: The subject invention relates to an assembly for facilitating the mounting and ejection of a rotatable cutting tool adaptor on a machine tool. More particularly, the subject invention allows a cutting tool adaptor to be manually interlocked with a rotatable spindle permitting standard cutting tools to be rapidly mounted on a machine tool. The assembly includes an elongated tapered tool adaptor shank, with one end thereof being defined by a flange having a V-shaped channel formed circumferentially therearound. The flange includes a pair of opposed slots interrupting the flange and in communication with the channel. A rotatable cylindrical spindle is configured to receive the tapered end of the adaptor shank. A cylindrical nut is provided for interconnecting the adaptor shank to the spindle. The inner surface of the nut includes a threaded portion which engages a threaded portion provided on the outer surface of the spindle. In addition, the nut includes two opposed projections extending radially inwardly.

Abstract: A high speed machine tool spindle assembly for firmly retaining a cutting tool therein, notwithstanding machine tool vibration, includes a spindle having an axially extending bore therethrough. Integrated to each end of the spindle is a tool gripping collet, each collet being urged radially inward against the shank of a cutting tool disposed in the spindle bore by a respective one of a pair of collet nuts which each threadedly engage the spindle adjacent to a separate one of collets at each spindle end. Each of a pair of collet nut drivers is carried by the spindle adjacent to a separate one of the pair of collet nuts and each is slidable along the axis spindle to jointly engage a separate one of the pair of collet nuts and the spindle.

Abstract: Tool with automatic exchange of different working fixtures on a main holder of a machine tool, particularly adapted for digitally controlled coordinate machine tools, where the exchange, selection, and clamping of a required working fixture, stored in a storage container of working fixtures, proceeds automatically according to a prior determined program without manual attention by an attendant.

Abstract: A tool holder for carrying a cutting tool is attached to a drive spindle. For purposes of making possible a rapid and easy exchange of the tool holder while at the same time there is required a small working space the tool holder is carried by an adapter, which interiorly guides a pin on the tool holder. The tool holder is clamped against the adapter by applying a clamping force on a transversal abutting surface on the tool holder.

Abstract: A tool-clamping device for a hand tool machine with a rotary drive spindle includes a tool-clamping set having an outer sleeve mounted on an inner sleeve which serves to clamp a tool to be used and a locking plate which is pivotal relatively to a housing of the tool machine to lock the outer sleeve when the latter is adjusted on the spindle to a predetermined position in an axial direction or to release the outer sleeve for enabling an operator to quickly change a tool to be used in the hand tool machine.

Abstract: A toolholder for supporting thin rotary tools is disclosed, utilizing first and second tool rings having flange portions for respectively clamping and driving the sides of a rotary tool such as a thin grinding wheel, wherein the respective tool rings have generally circular tool support sections adjacent to their flange portions, and the circular tool support sections are relieved so as to form facial teeth or lugs on the two rings, and the respective teeth of the one ring engage the tooth spaces of the other ring and vice versa, when the rings are clamped against a thin tool.

Abstract: A needle-roller type chuck for machine tools which includes a chuck body having a chuck barrel integral with the leading end portion of the chuck body. The chuck barrel has a leading end portion and an outer peripheral surface tapered to form a conical surface, and includes a plurality of holes extending from the leading end of the chuck barrel toward the chuck body. A rotatable clamping ring is positioned over the chuck barrel and has an inner conical surface extending in the axial direction of the chuck and parallel with the outer periperal surface of the chuck barrel. A needle-roller assembly having a plurality of needle rollers is positioned between the chuck barrel and the clamping ring in rotatable contact with the conical surface of the chuck barrel and the clamping ring.

Abstract: The chuck assembly and the collet for retaining an end mill tool against axial pullout. The collet includes a radially compressible body having a tapered outer surface, a central bore and a radial aperture extending from the outer surface into the central bore. The radial aperture has an undercut or larger diameter medial portion with a movable pin mounted therein, said pin being movably mounted and, adapted to extend into the bore to retain the tool. The pin has a hole drilled through with a spring bar mounted therein. The ends of the spring bar are compressed to a length smaller than the diameter of the radial aperture and inserted into the larger undercut portions where the expansion of the spring bar retains the pin. The hole in the pin is larger than the diameter of the spring bar to allow the pin to move along its axis (radially into the collet bar).

Abstract: An arrangement and method for mounting a cutter body, especially a milling cutter, in which the cutter and power driven spindle have a common axis of rotation. An arbor shank is used to interconnect the cutter with the spindle with one end of the shank mating with a shouldered bore formed in one of the spindle and cutter. Radially moveable clamp elements are provided to expand and engage the shoulder so as to urge one face of the cutter body into firm abutment with one end of the spindle. Keying means are also provided between the cutter body and the power driven spindle.

Abstract: An improved hub assembly is utilized to rotatably mount a grinding wheel. The hub assembly includes a hub which engages a first major side surface of the grinding wheel. A circular clamp member is mounted on the hub by a plurality of fasteners. An annular flange ring circumscribes the clamp member and engages a second major side surface of the grinding wheel. The clamp member has radially extending arms which engage the flange ring and press it against the grinding wheel. A cover is mounted on the flange ring and extends over the fasteners. When the grinding wheel is to be removed from the hub assembly, the fasteners are loosened by inserting a suitable tool though openings in the cover. Loosening the fasteners enables the annular flange ring to be rotated relative to the clamp member until the radially extending arms on the clamp member are aligned with radially extending recesses formed inside the flange ring.

Abstract: An adaptor for securing a tool to a spindle includes a first member which can be secured to the spindle, and a second member attachable to the first member; the first and second members have through-going bores, respectively, for receiving the tool, and the second member acts as a cam for a cam follower which is received by the second member. A holding device for holding the cam follower is disposed within the second member, and a locking member may be attached to the first member. The cam follower cooperates with the locking member, and may be moved from an unlocked position, wherein the tool is locked to the spindle, to an unlocked position, wherein the tool is released from the spindle.

Abstract: A cutting tool including a cutter and an arbor head. The cutter can be attached to and detached from the arbor head in an extremely simple manner without the need of removing the bolt.

Abstract: A mounting device for machining tools, preferably milling cutters, which are secured to the mounting device (11, 30) by means of a connecting means (12). For making possible a rapid exchange of machining tools (10), such as milling cutters having different diameters and entering angles, the mounting device comprises an adapter (11, 30) which is attached to a drive spindle (13) and carries the machining tool (10), and an operating means (15; 31, 41), arranged in the adaptor (11, 30) and manually shiftable between a blocking position and a releasing position. In its blocking position the operating means (15; 31; 41) actuates a blocking means (19; 33; 38) to engage the machining tool (10) for carrying same when the connecting means (12) is loosened. In its releasing position the operating means (15; 31; 41) allows removal of the machining tool (10) from the adapter (11, 30).

Abstract: A spring actuated chuck wherein a slotted flange, tapered shank tool adapter is clamped to a holder by a spring actuated clamping and ejecting nut assembly which includes a nut having threaded engagement with the holder, a clamping ring rotatably adjustably secured to the nut having clamping lugs to engage the flange of the adapter to clamp the adapter to the holder, an ejector axially retained in the nut and non-rotatably axially slidably engaged with the holder to engage the flange of the adapter thus to release the adapter from the holder, and a latch member extending axially from the holder and engaged with the clamping ring operative upon movement by the flange of the adapter to release the nut assembly for spring actuated clamping movement. Release of the adapter is effected by rotation of the nut in the opposite direction against spring pressure for engagement of the ejector with the flange of the adapter and for re-engagement of the latch member with the clamping ring.

Abstract: A toolholder assembly incorporated in a portable power tool having a housing and a drive disposed therein. The assembly includes a toolholder body, a first releasable securing arrangement for attaching the toolholder body to the drive for oscillating the toolholder body in a longitudinal direction; a second releasable securing arrangement at the front end of the toolholder body for attaching a tool bit to the toolholder body, longitudinal guide faces provided on the toolholder body between the two releasable securing arrangements and a bearing member mounted in the housing and provided with longitudinal counterguide faces which slidably cooperate with the longitudinal guide faces of the toolholder body for taking up forces transverse to the direction of the longitudinal oscillation of the toolholder body.

Abstract: PCT No. PCT/US80/00137 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 11, 1980 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 11, 1980 PCT Filed Feb. 11, 1980This invention relates to an arbor assembly (10) for attaching a cutting tool (14) to a machine spindle (12). Replacing large cutting tools on multiple spindle milling machines has, heretofore, been a costly, frustrating and time-consuming job that is often aggrevated by the inaccessable placement of the tool-holding spindles on a machine.The above problems are effectively solved by providing an arbor assembly (10) having a spindle adapter (16) attachable to a machine spindle (12) and a mating cutting tool adapter (18) that is attachable to a cutting tool (14). The cutting tool adapter (18) is laterally separable from the spindle adapter (16) and is of particular use with vertically oriented spindles on multiple spindle milling machines.

Abstract: A chuck assembly and collet for retaining a commercially-available large-diameter, high-torque end mill (or similar) tool against axial pullout and against radial (or rotational) movement with respect to the assembly. The tool includes two axially spaced flat surfaces along the shank, one of which is coupled to the collet to prevent axial pullout and the other of which is coupled to the chuck to prevent rotation with respect to the chuck. The coupling to the chuck is accomplished by a ballclamp screw which extends through an aperture in the collet to the flat surface on the tool. The ballclamp screw has a flattened ball that is pivotally mounted in the screw's engagement and the pivotal mounting accommodates a few degrees misalignment between the shank's flat surface and the screw without significantly affecting the coupling therebetween.

Abstract: A milling tool for machining cylindrical sections of crankshafts comprises a rotatable tool drum adapted to be mounted so that it surrounds the workpiece and to be driven and which at one end carries an internally cutting, annular primary cutter head and adjacent thereto is formed in its shell with apertures for the removal of chips. An internally cutting, annular supplemental cutter head has axially projecting claws and is detachably but rigidly secured to the primary cutter head and is axially supported against the latter by the claws. In such tool, a satisfactory removal of chips is ensured, and the supplemental cutter head can be simply and quickly removed to convert the multiple cutter tool to a single cutter tool.

Abstract: A hub is disclosed for mounting the spindle of a rotary tool, particularly a grinding or polishing wheel for ophthalmic lenses. The hub comprises a cylindrical bore and a plurality of radial centering arms arranged around the bore with their free ends lying in a common circle concentric with the axis of the bore. The centering arms each have a hinge or pivot which may be formed by a portion of reduced section at their bases. The pivot or hinge axes of the centering arms are tangent to another common circle concentric with the bore. Each of the centering arms is of elastically deformable construction fixed, or formed in one piece, with the rest of the hub. The hub is divided by a radial groove into a rigid, one-piece part and a deformable flange formed by the centering arms. A tightening ring with a preferably planar thrust or engagement face is adapted to apply an axial force against the centering arms so that they come into retaining engagement with the spindle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for setting up tools, work pieces and similar (11, 12, 19) on a rotatable spindle (10) by means of a clamp bushing comprising a double walled sleeve (2, 3) which is closed at both ends and which has at one end a fixed radially outwards directed collar (5) and at the opposite end means (6-9) for axially securing the tools or similar (11, 12, 19) on the clamp bushing, and in which the bushing is formed with means (16, 17) for providing a pressure in a recess (4) formed between the outer wall (2) and the inner wall (3) of the bushing and for releasing the pressure from said recess.

Abstract: The present gang cutter for crankshaft milling machines comprises a plurality of disk cutters spaced from one another on a common, rotational axis by spacers which may be bearings. The gang cutter is divided into a plurality of partial units corresponding in number to the number of disk cutters. Each unit comprises a disk cutter and a center drum member. Adjacent units are operatively connected to each other whereby an adjustment disk may be inserted between adjacent units. A certain number of drum members corresponding to the number of bearings is constructed as bearing rings.