Abstract: A lapping system includes a shaft. A stabilizing member is coupled to the shaft. A lapping tool is coupled to the shaft and spaced apart on the shaft from the stabilizing member. An adjustable force device is coupled to the shaft, the stabilizing member, and the lapping tool. The adjustable force device is operable to be adjusted in order to cause the stabilizing member to support at least some of the weight of the lapping tool. The lapping system may be coupled to a valve body having a valve face to ensure alignment of the lapping tool and the valve face while providing a controlled, vertical force from the lapping tool to the valve face.

Abstract: A gasket removal and cleaning tool includes a drive rod rotatably retained within a sleeve enabling the rod to be driven by a die grinder. The opposite end of the drive rod projects from the sleeve and includes an abrasive element that may be used to remove a seal from a sealing surface and to polish or clean the surface.

Abstract: The invention features a self-contained, portable apparatus for performing precision grinding operations on metal disks of up to, e.g., 54 inches in diameter. The apparatus can be attached to the surface of the disk to be refinished and is leveled using special precision leveling adjusters. During operation, the adjusters are turned in precision increments to set the depth of cut. The grinder is then rotated on an arm about the center of the disk, by the use of a hydraulically driven speed reducer, rotor, bearing assembly. In a further aspect, the invention includes a dressing assembly for performing dressing-truing on a vitreous wheel when the wheel is in grinding position. The in position dressing assembly dresses a grinding wheel at up to 0.00125-inch increments.

Abstract: A device for grinding an end face at an edge of a workpiece bore of a workpiece has a driven grinding tool and a guide pin, connected to the grinding tool, for insertion into the workpiece. The guide pin is dimensioned so as to precisely match the workpiece bore. The guide pin has a central axis. The grinding tool has a grinding surface extending angularly to the central axis. The grinding tool is periodically displaceable transverse to the central axis.

Abstract: A lower side of a rotatable grindstone spindle is connected directly to a PZT (Piezoelectric element). By changing electric drive supplied to the PZT, reciprocating movement can be applied to the grindstone through the grindstone spindle in addition to rotational movement. As a result, the grinding locus of an abrasive grain of the grindstone on a taper surface of a workpiece becomes a sine wave, and therefore, the grinding locus can be shifted in a direction other than in a peripheral direction. In this way, the removed amount of the taper surface increases, and circularity of the taper surface can be made to equal to 0.3 .mu.m or less.

Abstract: A new process in which a valve closing body is produced with a predetermined inclination in relation to a longitudinal tool axis. The valve closing body is set in rotation and thereby carries out a precessing motion so that the tool body that rests against the sealing seat produces a narrow ball zone that always assures a sealing contact between the sealing seat and the valve seat face, even when a valve closing body is guided in the valve with guidance play. The process and the device are particularly suited for machining sealing seats on valve closing bodies of fuel injection valves for fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines.

Abstract: An apparatus for the precision grinding of conical valve seats of nozzles, for example, injection nozzles for internal combustion engines. The body is entered hydraulically on a mandrel and a driver has a rubber O-ring braced against the nozzle body to frictionally engage it is rotation while passing through the mandrel for the shaft of a grinding tool which is located at the end of the mandrel. The system avoids radial clamping stresses on the workpiece and hence allows, precision low tolerance finish grinding to be achieved.

Abstract: A non-contact polishing tool that combines two orthogonal slurry flow geometries to provide flexibility in altering the shape of the removal footprint. By varying the relative contributions of the two flow geometries, the footprint shape can be varied between the characteristic shapes corresponding to the two independent flow regimes. In addition, the tool can include a pressure activated means by which the shape of the brim of the tool can be varied. The tool can be utilized in various applications, such as x-ray optical surfaces, x-ray lithography, lenses, etc., where stringent shape and finish tolerances are required.