Cylindrical Surface (e.g., Roll) Abrader Patents (Class 451/142)
  • Patent number: 11517944
    Abstract: The cleaning device (20) for cleaning a cylindrical roller (50), for example an anilox roller of a printing machine, includes a cleaning head (30) with a cleaning chamber (110), in which there is housed a mechanical cleaning member (60), and with which there are associated feeding members (70) for feeding a cleaning liquid into the cleaning chamber (110). The mechanical member (60) and cleaning liquid dispensed by the feeding members work in combination inside said cleaning chamber (110) to clean the lateral surface of the roller (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SIMEC GROUP S.R.L.
    Inventor: Emilio Alberto Della Torre
  • Patent number: 9962802
    Abstract: The present invention is a workpiece double-disc grinding method including supporting a sheet workpiece along a circumferential direction from an outer circumference side of the workpiece by a ring holder, and simultaneously grinding both surfaces of the workpiece supported by the ring holder with a pair of grinding wheels while rotating the ring holder, wherein the surfaces of the workpiece are simultaneously ground such that a wear amount of the grinding wheels per 1 ?m of a grinding stock removal of the workpiece ranges from 0.10 ?m to 0.33 ?m. This workpiece double-disc grinding method can reduce nanotopography formed in previous steps such as a slicing step without degrading the flatness in the double-disc grinding step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU HANDOTAI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Usami
  • Patent number: 9879536
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide surface treatment tools, methodologies, and/or treated turbomachine components. A surface treatment tool according to the present disclosure can include a lathe assembly having a lathe chuck for receiving a component thereon, wherein the lathe chuck rotates the component about a first axis of rotation, and wherein the component includes an exposed axial target surface; and a sander or burnishing tool coupled to the lathe assembly and including a sanding or burnishing surface thereon, coupled to a drive system, wherein the sanding or burnishing surface is oriented along a second axis substantially non-parallel with the first axis of rotation, such that the sanding or burnishing surface selectively contacts the target surface of the component to yield a polished target surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Andrew Joseph Colletti, Bruce John Badding, Bryan Edward Williams
  • Patent number: 9751185
    Abstract: An assembly includes a handheld power tool. The handheld power tool comprises a housing, a drive shaft mounted at the housing via a bearing, a drive unit to drive the drive shaft, handles which are fixedly attached to the housing, a fastening device to fasten a roughing disk to the drive shaft, a first sensor to measure a power consumption value or an acceleration sensor to measure positional change information, an evaluating unit to evaluate the power consumption value sensed or the positional change information produced so as to produce an evaluation result, and an outputting device to output the evaluation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: RHODIUS SCHLEIFWERKZEUGE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Mike C. Wolf, Gerald Lichter
  • Patent number: 8905821
    Abstract: A rotary cutting apparatus comprises a frame and a die roll defining a first longitudinal axis and comprising a cutting member. The die roll is rotatably connected with the frame and configured to rotate about the first longitudinal axis. The rotary cutting apparatus further comprises a bearer ring connected with the die roll and an anvil roll defining a second longitudinal axis and comprising an outer radial surface. The anvil roll is rotatably connected with the frame and is configured to rotate about the second longitudinal axis. The bearer ring of the die roll is in contact with the outer radial surface. The rotary cutting apparatus further comprises a reconditioning member comprising an abrasive surface engaged with the outer radial surface of the anvil roll. The outer radial surface of the anvil roll moves relative to the abrasive surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Uwe Schneider, Robert Charles Dreisig
  • Patent number: 8900034
    Abstract: A control unit that relatively moves a headstock and tailstock and a tool to thereby machine a peripheral surface of a workpiece in a radial direction executes control such that a relative feed speed of the tool in the radial direction in a transitional state where an amount of warpage of the workpiece in the radial direction at a machining position increases is faster than a relative feed speed of the tool in the radial direction in a steady state where an amount of warpage of the workpiece in the radial direction at the machining position is constant. By so doing, it is possible to reduce a machining time at the time of the start of machining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiki Kumeno, Masashi Yoritsune, Takashi Matsumoto, Kazuyoshi Ohtsubo
  • Patent number: 8376809
    Abstract: A cylindrical grinder is disclosed that includes a support unit including an upper support device and a lower support device, in which an ingot of silicon single crystal is interposed in a direction of axis line between the upper support device and the lower support device and is clampingly held to be rotated around the axis line, and a grinding unit that relatively moves along the direction of axis line of the ingot to traverse grind an outer circumference of the ingot. The upper support device is placed at an upper position and the lower support device is placed at a lower position, so that the support unit clampingly holds the ingot in a state in which the direction of the axis line of the ingot is disposed along a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sumco Corporation
    Inventor: Ryoichi Kaito
  • Patent number: 8272923
    Abstract: A rotary cutting apparatus comprises a frame and a die roll defining a first longitudinal axis and comprising a cutting member. The die roll is rotatably connected with the frame and configured to rotate about the first longitudinal axis. The rotary cutting apparatus further comprises a bearer ring connected with the die roll and an anvil roll defining a second longitudinal axis and comprising an outer radial surface. The anvil roll is rotatably connected with the frame and is configured to rotate about the second longitudinal axis. The bearer ring of the die roll is in contact with the outer radial surface. The rotary cutting apparatus further comprises a reconditioning member comprising an abrasive surface engaged with the outer radial surface of the anvil roll. The outer radial surface of the anvil roll moves relative to the abrasive surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Uwe Schneider, Robert Charles Dreisig
  • Patent number: 8251779
    Abstract: An exemplary grinding device includes a fixed barrel, a rotatable barrel, a grinding plate, an actuator and a cleaning assembly. The fixed barrel defines a chamber and includes a number of inner sidewall substantially parallel to a central axis, each of which defines a holding groove for holding a workpiece. The rotatable barrel is received in the chamber and includes an outer side substantially parallel to the central axis and defines an installation groove. The grinding plate is installed in each of the installation grooves. The actuator is configured for driving the rotatable barrel to rotate and simultaneously move up and down in the first chamber, such that the grinding plates contact the workpieces and grind the workpieces. The cleaning assembly is situated under the fixed barrel for cleaning the workpieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shao-Kai Pei
  • Patent number: 8251777
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method of polishing a surface of an object that includes aluminum. The method includes the step of contacting the surface of the object with a soft polishing pad and a polishing composition. The polishing composition includes abrasive particles, an agent that oxidizes aluminum, and a liquid carrier to polish the surface of the object. The polishing composition includes the abrasive particles suspended in the liquid carrier, and is applied at a pH above about 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Cabot Microelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Moeggenborg, John Clark, Jeffrey Gilliland, Stanley Lesiak, Susan Wilson, Vlasta Brusic
  • Patent number: 8062096
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method of polishing a surface of a substrate comprising aluminum, comprising contacting a surface of the substrate with a polishing pad and a polishing composition comprising an abrasive, an agent that oxidizes aluminum, and a liquid carrier, and abrading at least a portion of the surface to remove at least some aluminum from the substrate and to polish the surface of the substrate, wherein the abrasive is in particulate form and is suspended in the liquid carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Cabot Microelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Vlasta Brusic, Richard Jon Jenkins, Christopher C. Thompson
  • Patent number: 7809463
    Abstract: A machining apparatus, in which a plurality of user set programs in relation to one axis is written and the amount of the infeed motion of the grinding wheel is increased to restrain the change of the load of the grinding wheel, improves a machining accuracy and achieve a longer life of the grinding wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Yonezu, Hiroaki Sugiura, Yoshitaro Osaki
  • Patent number: 7628681
    Abstract: A mechanism for suppressing grinding-cutting vibration comprises a C-shaped base, a fixed support seat, a clamp device and a vibration absorber. Based on vibration absorbing principle of the vibration theory, the clamp device is connected to the movable cutting machine, so as to move along with the cutting machine during the machining operation, and the clamp force applied to clamp the workpiece is adjustable. By such arrangements, the vibration energy produced at the time of cutting the workpiece can be transferred to the vibration absorber through the clamp device, and then a part of the vibration energy will be absorbed by the vibration absorber, thus achieving the objective of reducing vibration of the cut position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Hiwin Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Fu-Ching Wang, Chih-Chun Cheng, Wen-Nan Cheng
  • Patent number: 7048616
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a grinding apparatus for grinding an out-of-round trunnion tire for a rotating kiln. The present invention is mounted on a trunnion roller such that a tracking wheel and a grinder are in tangent with the out-of-round trunnion tire. The mounting bracket supports a means for angling the grinder so that it is in tangent with the out-of-round tire and making it round. The grinder is part of a grinder head assembly which is mounted on the angling means. The grinder head assembly includes the grinder, a housing and a drive mechanism. The drive mechanism includes a motor which drives the grinder wheel so that it grinds the trunnion tire back into round.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Inventors: Martin A. Gardzinski, Donato L. Ricci
  • Patent number: 6902465
    Abstract: A grinding machine uses a conical grinding wheel (10) to create a non-circularly symmetric surface (defining, for example, a re-entrant cam) on a workpiece. The machine is operable to rotate such a workpiece about a first axis (5) and the machine has drive means for rotating the conical wheel about a second axis (14). A feeding mechanism brings the wheel into contact with the workpiece to define a line of grinding where the wheel contacts the workpiece (i.e. a cutting line). In use, a rocking movement is imparted to the wheel and spindle relative to the workpiece as the latter rotates so as to maintain the orientation of the cutting line relative to the first axis and of the second axis relative to the cutting line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Inventor: Richard Hagan
  • Patent number: 6609997
    Abstract: A rotary die cuter for a box making machine has an abrading cylinder mounted for rotation alongside the anvil for engaging and resurfacing the blanket of the anvil on a virtually continuous basis to smooth, level and even the surface of the blanket. This resurfacing occurs during normal operation of the rotary die cutter so no production is lost. The abrading cylinder has a sheet layer of abrasive material spirally wrapped on the surface of the cylinder and bonded thereto with adhesive material on the backside of the sheet layer. The abrading cylinder is movable towards or away from the anvil by a servo motor and gearbox. The position of the abrading cylinder relative to the anvil is determined by an encoder which sends the information to a computer or programmable controller which calculates the changing diameter of the blanket and the amount of speed change that must be imparted to the anvil to compensate for its changing diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Sun Automation Inc.
    Inventors: Louis M. Sardella, Yury Polikov
  • Patent number: 6439974
    Abstract: The driving device for a circular grinding machine where the workpiece is driven between two stationary centers comprises a driven device allowing a removable attachment of a driver which is adapted to hold and turn the workpiece by means of elastic force. The driver comprises two adjacent, symmetrically disposed annular spring elements whose junction is provided with a through-going opening which forms two prismatic workpiece holders, as well as respective longitudinal openings disposed in the axis of the points of the prismatic workpiece holders which are provided with prismatic ends for receiving respective, correspondingly shaped bolts of the driven device of the circular grinding machine in order to spread apart the spring elements. A driver of this kind offers a reduced weight, on one hand, and a high precision, on the other hand, and it is particularly adapted for grinding small precision parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Fritz Studer AG
    Inventors: Erwin Roth, Ulrich Muehlematter
  • Patent number: 6431961
    Abstract: A grindstone and a wafer are rotated at high speeds in the same direction. The rotating wafer is slowly moved toward the rotating grindstone to thereby gradually chamfer the periphery of the wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Tokyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Katayama, Masatami Iwaki, Kazumi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 6431951
    Abstract: Upper and lower working rolls 2a, 2b are ground while moving respective grindstone devices 3a, 3b in reverse directions, whereby the region of grinding for the upper working roll 2a and that for the lower working roll 2b are maintained in symmetry with respect to the center of rolls, one on the operating side and the other on the driving side. By this arrangement, it is possible to equalize the coefficients of friction on the operating side and the driving side, and to prevent meandering of the rolling stock 6 as well as drawing (squeezing) or bad product shape due to the meandering from occurring. The timings to start grinding by the grindstone devices 3a, 3b are set to be substantially the same, and the velocities of movement of the grindstone devices 3a, 3b in the axial direction of the working rolls are set to be equal, whereby the difference in frictional coefficient due to grinding in the longitudinal direction of the rolls can stably be kept small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Onose, Shigeru Mori
  • Patent number: 6287183
    Abstract: A vacuum-hydrostatic shoe especially suited for supporting a workpiece in metalworking operations is disclosed. The vacuum-hydrostatic shoe is comprised of a body with a support surface confronting the workpiece. Preferably the support surface is shaped to substantially conform to the workpiece shape. The shoe body comprises hydrostatic pockets. Each hydrostatic pocket has a first pressure opening defined in the support surface and a second pressure opening fluidly connected to a respective first pressure opening. The second pressure openings are also fluidly connected to a supply of pressurized fluid so that a flow of pressurized fluid can be created between the shoe body and the workpiece. The shoe body further comprises a vacuum pocket. The vacuum pocket has a first vacuum opening defined in the support surface and a fluidly connected second vacuum opening. The second vacuum opening is also fluidly connected to a source of vacuum to create a vacuum pressure between the shoe body and workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: The University of Connecticut
    Inventors: Bi Zhang, Yanhua Yang
  • Patent number: 6234885
    Abstract: In a roll grinding machine (2) for profile grinding of rolls with a constructionally simple device for a very precise adjustment of a grinding wheels (4) supported on a grinding spindle (7) tangentially with respect to a roll profile, the grinding spindle (7) is arranged in a rotatable sleeve (8) the longitudinal axis (9) of which is inclined at an angle (10) relative to the longitudinal axis (11) of the grinding spindle (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Waldrich Siegen Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Haferkorn
  • Patent number: 6200204
    Abstract: A roll grinder system including a roll grinder bed of high dynamic stiffness, having a roll support and a grinding wheel support fixedly mounted to the roll grinder bed. The roll grinder bed is comprised of a monolithic epoxy granite block with a steel plate embedded in the top surface and a steel plate embedded in the bottom surface. The bed for the support for the roll being ground is rigidly affixed to the top plate. The bed for the traversing carriage of the grinding wheel head is also rigidly affixed to the top plate. A bed for the caliper is affixed to a lateral side of the block. The grinding wheel and the caliper traverse along the axis of the roll being ground. Vibration isolators are disposed below the bottom plate of the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Paper Technology North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Dale Helgren
  • Patent number: 6159074
    Abstract: Disclosed is a caliper assembly for measuring a diameter of a roll received on a roll support of a grinding machine which includes a frame positionable adjacent the roll support and a linear guide connected to the frame. A pair of measuring arms is connected in spaced relation to the linear guide. The linear guide is configured to enable each measuring arm to move relative to the frame and parallel to the longitudinal axis of the linear guide. A linear motor is connected between the frame and the pair of measuring arms. The linear motor is configured to supply to the pair of measuring arms a motive force which causes the pair of measuring arms to move together or apart. If one of the measuring arms contacts a workpiece with a force in excess of a predetermined force, the linear motor terminates supplying motive force thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Inventors: Samuel C. Kube, Albert A. Plekker
  • Patent number: 5997389
    Abstract: In-line grinding device for mill rolls and/or pinch rolls, arranged in cooperation with the working surface of the working rolls (11) and/or support rolls (12) and/or intermediate rolls of a rolling stand for sheet, strip and/or wide plate, or in cooperation with pinch rolls placed downstream of the rolling stands and upstream of the winding reels, comprising a plurality of grinding units arranged at intervals on a single support (13) and defined by a grinding tool (17) rotating on a longitudinal axis (14) substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the roll (11, 12) to be ground, the grinding tools (17) covering in their entirety a substantial part of the length of the relative roll, each grinding unit (16) having the specific axis of rotation which is movable independently and autonomously with respect to the other grinding units (16) associated with the same stationary support (13), in a substantially radial direction with respect to the longitudinal axis of the roll (11, 12) to be ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Danieli & C. Officine Meccanich SpA
    Inventors: Giacinto Dal Pan, Fausto Drigani
  • Patent number: 5957756
    Abstract: A process for regrinding the rolls installed in hot-strip roll stands using rotating pot-shaped grinding tools which are movable in an oscillating manner parallel to the roll axis. The grinding tool is fastened to the end of a grinding shaft which is driven in rotation so as to be axially displaceable transversely to the roll, guided coaxially in a grinding sleeve and connected at its opposite end with a displacing drive supported directly at the housing. The contact pressing force of the grinding tools at the roll is applied by compressed air which is supplied to the displacing drives. The air pressure, which is preset corresponding to the desired contact pressing force, is changed within a narrow range until the torques of all grinding tools or of one of the grinding tools measured at the drive motors for the grinding tools which are driven in rotation are identical and constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Mannesmann Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Figge, Peter Jollet
  • Patent number: 5800247
    Abstract: An apparatus for non-contact gauging in precision machining, which comprises a sensor arm, a sensor head, a display device, a data entry device, a rotary encoder, and positioning device. The sensor head has a coarse contact sensor and a fine non-contact sensor for initial positioning and precision control, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Centerline Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael J. Harms
  • Patent number: 5738570
    Abstract: An arrangement for working or machining rolls which are mounted through chocks in roll housings. The arrangement includes a unit with abrasives for each roll, wherein the unit is mounted so as to be rotatable relative to the roll and so as to be adjustable relative to the roll. The adjustable unit includes a roller mounted in the chock of the roll to be subjected to grinding, wherein the roller is adjustable through bearings thereof relative to the roll to be subjected to grinding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: SMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Rosenthal, Gunter Kneppe
  • Patent number: 5672092
    Abstract: A grinding machine comprises a grinding shaft which is rotatably mounted on the grinding shaft stock for rotation about a longitudinally extending shaft axis. The grinding machine includes at least one grinding disk fixedly mounted to the shaft and at least one bearing movably disposed between the grinding shaft and the grinding shaft stock for rotatably supporting the grinding shaft. Finally, the grinding machine includes an adjustment means with an adjustable piezoelectric actuator which is disposed between the bearing and the grinding shaft stock. The grinding machine can be used to grind selective regions of a workpiece which is mounted to a workpiece stock so as to define a fixed longitudinally extending workpiece axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: NAXOS-UNION Schleifmittel- und Schleifmaschinenfabrik AG
    Inventor: Paul Berberich
  • Patent number: 5618224
    Abstract: A device for cleaning or polishing a roll (4), mounted for rotation about an axis and comprising a cleaning roller (41) mounted for rotation on a support device comprising two parallel arms (15, 16) extending, respectively, between an inner end (15a, 16a) and an outer end (15b, 16b), and which can be moved between a position in which the roller (41) is applied against the roll (4) and a retracted position, and an arrangement for controlling the rotation of the roller (41) about its axis x'x. The outer ends (15b, 16b) of the two support arms (15, 16) are articulated about an axis y'y parallel to the axis of the roll (4) respectively on two fixed, aligned bearings (7, 7') which are simultaneously pivotable about the axis y'y in order to apply the roller (41) against the roll (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Assignee: Clecim
    Inventor: Bernard Dumas
  • Patent number: 5616068
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for grinding grooves in the peripheral surface of rollers roller guides for rolling mills. The roller (2) of a roller guide is caused to rotate while retained on its own bearing (8,9,10) as the peripheral groove is ground.The invention also relates to an apparatus for carrying out the method, and to a roller guide structure with which the method can be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignee: Morgardshammar AB
    Inventor: Lennart Soderberg