Abstract: An abrasive article can include a body including a plurality of portions including a first abrasive portion and a second abrasive portion. The first abrasive portion can include a vitreous bond material and abrasive particles contained within the bond material. The second abrasive particles can include an organic bond material and abrasive particles contained within the bond material. The body can have a burst speed of at least 65 m/s. In an embodiment, the abrasive article can include an interior portion coupled to the first and second abrasive portions. In another embodiment, the interior portion can optionally include abrasive particles or a filler material.

Abstract: A method for the dressing of a multi-thread grinding worm by a dressing roll, wherein the grinding worm has at least two screw channels which are arranged parallel to another, which screw channels extend helically around an axis of the grinding worm and wherein the dressing roll has at least two adjacent dressing profiles which are arranged along an axis of the dressing roll, wherein the dressing profiles of the dressing roll are guided simultaneously through adjacent screw channels of the grinding worm during the dressing of the grinding worm.

Abstract: A diamond tool comprises a circular core plate and a peripherally attached cutting segment. The cutting segment comprises a plurality of abrasive particles, a holding body that holds the abrasive particles, and a plurality of non-abrasive inserts. The abrasive particles are dispersed within the holding body and the non-abrasive inserts are embedded in the holding body. The non-abrasive inserts are sized and distributed so that the peripheral average density of the abrasive particles in the holding body of the cutting segment varies across the peripheral edge in discrete steps or continuously.

Abstract: Abrasive articles comprising a reduction layer configured to reduce noise level when the abrasive articles are in use.

Abstract: An abrasive article has an abrasive portion and chopped strand fibers (CSF) with enhanced strength and/or fracture of toughness. The CSF may be coated with a thermoplastic having a loss on ignition of at least about 2 wt %. The CSF can have a primary coating and a secondary coating on the primary coating. At least some of the CSF can have a length of at least about 6.3 mm.

Abstract: An abrasive cut-off wheel with an abrasive cut-off ring (1), the abrasive body (10) of which comprises bound abrasive, wherein the abrasive cut-off ring (1) is fixed in the operating state by means of two circular clamping discs (2, 3) that can be clamped together in axial direction by means of central clamping flanges (4a, 4b) on the machine side, and at least one clamping disc (2) is connected in an anti-twist manner to the abrasive cut-off ring (1) by means of interacting projections (5, 6) and recesses (7, 8), and wherein the projections (5) and recesses (7) respectively arranged on the abrasive cut-off ring (1) are provided on a metal insert (9) of the abrasive cut-off ring (1), which projects beyond the abrasive body (10) in radial direction.

Abstract: An abrasive cutting tool includes a body in a shape of a large diameter disk having an outer diameter of at least about 60 centimeters. The body has an aspect ratio defined as a ratio (D:T) between the outer diameter to an axial thickness of the body of at least about 10:1. The body includes an abrasive portion having a bond material and abrasive particles contained within the bond material. The abrasive portion also includes a first filler having iron and sulfur with an average particle size of not greater than about 40 microns. The body also includes a reinforcing member and a Thermal Adhesion Factor (TAF) of at least about 30%.

Abstract: A resin bonded grinding wheel suitable for grinding polycrystalline diamond compacts is disclosed. The resin bonded grinding wheel uses a high concentration of diamonds based on a volume percent along with a mixture of hard and soft filler particles to effectively grind the polycrystalline diamond compacts while eliminating or reducing the need to continuously dress the outer surface of the resin bonded grinding wheel.

Abstract: In a rotating grinding- or cutting tool, in particular a grinding wheel or grinding roller, on one body, a coating of abrasive material, e.g. cubic boron nitride (CBN) or diamond is applied. The body (2, 12, 22, 32, 42) has two side walls (2a, 12a, 22a, 32a, 42a; 2a, 12a, 22a, 32a, 42a) which are connected to each other on their peripheral region, with the side walls being constructed with fiber-reinforced composite, in particular carbon fiber-, glass fiber- or synthetic fiber-reinforced composite.

Abstract: An abrasive tool including a bonded abrasive article including a bond material comprising a metal or metal alloy, abrasive grains contained within the bond material, and a reaction agent dispersed within the bond material, wherein the reaction agent chemically reacting with a surface of the workpiece during abrasion to form a reaction product.

Abstract: An abrasive cutting tool has a body in the shape of a small diameter disk. The body has an outer diameter of not greater than about 100 centimeters, and an aspect ratio defined as a ratio of the outer diameter to an axial thickness of the body of at least about 10:1. The tool includes an abrasive portion having a bond material comprising abrasive particles and a resin having a normalized heat soak modulus of at least about 1.05.

Abstract: An abrasive cutting tool has a body in the shape of a large diameter disk having an outer diameter of at least about 60 centimeters, and an aspect ratio defined as a ratio between the outer diameter to an axial thickness of the body of at least about 10:1. The body includes an abrasive portion having a bond material and abrasive particles contained within the bond material. The abrasive particles comprise brown fused alumina. A first filler is contained within the abrasive portion comprising iron and sulfur having an average particle size of not greater than about 40 microns.

Abstract: An abrasive article for use with a grinding wheel including an abrasive body having abrasive grains contained within a matrix of bond material, the abrasive body having a plurality of arm portions defining a twisted path having a plurality of linear portions joined by a plurality of turns.

Abstract: Disclosed therein is a diamond tool fabricated by combining a mesh net with a synthetic resin material, which includes a diamond sintered body integrally coupled with the outer surface of the mesh net and a synthetic resin material impregnated into the inner surface of the mesh net, thereby maximizing a bonding strength and minimizing weight. The diamond tool includes: a diamond sintered body having a diamond tip; a mesh net integrally coupled with the sintered body in such a way that a portion of the sintered body is impregnated therewith; and a synthetic resin material for forming a body in such a way as to couple the mesh net with the circumference of the sintered body to thereby expose the sintered body to the outside.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for making and using tools, for example concrete cutting blades, may use laminations. They may also include inserts, such as structural inserts, damping inserts and fluid flow elements. Fluid flow elements may include a tube, a transition element including an inlet fitting, a fluid pressure containment structure inserted into the channel of the blade, an added material resistant to effects of the fluid including plastics, coatings and films, and other structures. Additional nozzle structures may be included. Methods and apparatus for making and using tools including concrete cutting blades having improved damping characteristics may include inserts, plugs and other structures, including those made from materials softer or more ductile than the tool material.

Abstract: A honing tool for honing holes in workpieces, having an abrasive portion including a first abrasive layer therearound of abrasive particles of a first size, including a region having a second abrasive layer of abrasive layers of a second size sufficiently smaller than the first size, so as to be disposed in interstices between abrasive particles of the first abrasive layer without altering the diametrical size of the first layer, and so as to provide enhanced wear resistance.

Abstract: In a grinding wheel in which abrasive tips for rough grinding and abrasive tips for finish grinding are alternately bonded to a periphery of a disk type base rotating about a rotation axis, each abrasive tip includes the abrasive layer formed by bonding abrasive grains and a lower layer overlaid and integrally for led with the abrasive layer. The abrasive tip is attached to the periphery of the base at the lower layer. A Young's modulus of the lower layer of the abrasive tip for finish grinding relative to a load acting on the grinding surface of the abrasive tip in an inward direction of the grinding wheel is less than that of the abrasive tip for rough grinding. Thereby, the surface of a workpiece can be both rough-ground and finish-ground with superhigh-precision surface roughness with using one grinding wheel.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a rotating polishing tool with high durability that can finish a polished surface with desired surface roughness. As means thereof, a substantially cylindrical polishing member 3 is constituted by a pair of polishing units 9 at opposite ends, and an intermediate portion 10 provided between the pair of polishing units 9. The polishing member 3 is rotatably supported around the central axis thereof, and polishes a polished surface with a peripheral surface thereof. The polishing unit 9 includes a plurality of abrasive cloth/paper sheets 7 pressingly held by an inner metal fitting 8, and forms peripheral edges of the abrasive cloth/paper sheets 7 into a serpentine shape. The intermediate portion 10 includes a plurality of laminated abrasive cloth/paper sheets 7 axially pressingly held by the polishing units 9.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting segment of a diamond tool for cutting or drilling a brittle workpiece such as stone, bricks, concrete and asphalt, and a diamond tool having the same. The invention allows superior cutting rate and lengthy useful life without suffering from R wear during cutting. In the cutting segment, a number of diamond particles are arranged in a plurality of plate-shaped layers stacked perpendicular to a cutting direction. Each of the diamond particle layers has a plurality of particle rows on a cutting surface. Further, at least two of the diamond particle layers are superimposed on at least one side of the cutting segment seen from the front of the cutting segment in cutting direction. The invention ensures uniform cutting by significantly reducing R wear that arises during cutting and thus enables superior cutting rate and longer useful life.

Abstract: In a rotating grinding- or cutting tool, in particular a grinding wheel or grinding roller, on one body, a coating of abrasive material, e.g. cubic boron nitride (CBN) or diamond is applied. The body (2, 12, 22, 32, 42) has two side walls (2a, 12a, 22a, 32a, 42a; 2a, 12a, 22a, 32a, 42a) which are connected to each other on their peripheral region, with the side walls being constructed with fibre-reinforced composite, in particular carbon fibre-, glass fibre- or synthetic fibre-reinforced composite.

Abstract: A processing tip and a cutting tool employing the same, including a tip body of a mixture of metal and abrasive material, and at least one projection coupled to the tip body, the projection extending in a direction perpendicular to a direction of a plane of contact between the tip body and a shank.

Abstract: A bonded abrasive grinding wheel is provided with a bonded abrasive disc including abrasive grain disposed within a bond matrix, and a mounting plate integrally fastened to the disc. In various embodiments, the mounting plate has a plurality of non-metallic first threaded fastener portions disposed in a predetermined pattern therein, and is fabricated from a composition including a polymeric material. The non-metallic first threaded fastener portions are each configured for respective engagement with a plurality of second threaded fastener portions disposed along a face plate of a grinding machine.

Abstract: A cutting tip for a diamond tool and a diamond tool having the same which serve to cut or perforate various brittle materials such as stone, brick, concrete and asphalt. In particular, the cutting tip for a diamond tool and the diamond tool have diamond particles which are suitably arrayed to improve the cutting rate. A cutting tip for a diamond tool having diamond particles which are distributed in the cutting tip, wherein the diamond particles are inclined in respect to a cutting direction in a plane parallel to a cutting surface, and arrayed whereby grooved channels are formed successively overlapped on a brittle substance in cutting operation.

Abstract: An improved circular saw blade designed for cutting fiber cement workpieces, which are becoming more and more prevalent on the construction site, includes a PCD/carbide tip (16) mounted in the rim (31) of the saw blade (10) at six, rather than the usual for locations, equally spaced around the blade. The tips are mounted adjacent a relatively large-diameter, semi-circular gullet (20), which itself is preceded by a chip and dust minimizer (18). The minimizer includes several alternating hills (52) and valleys (54) formed in the rim of the saw blade, each hill and valley having the same radius, producing a sinuous array essentially centered on the rim of the blade. It has been discovered that such a dust and chip minimizer reduces the level of dust and chips produced by the blade and clears the same from the kerf generated in the blade-workpiece interface.

Abstract: Cutting-off wheel (1), in particular with a diameter above 500 mm, which is provided laterally with steel sheets or steel grids (2) with a minimum thickness of 0.5 mm.

Abstract: An abrasive cutting-off wheel for stationary use is comprised of two partial abrasive wheels which are joined to each other. Each of these partial abrasive wheels comprises an interior supporting disk and a radially adjoining interior layer of abrasive grain. It further comprises an exterior layer of abrasive grain and an exterior supporting disk which is located radially there-within. A reinforcement layer is provided between the supporting disks and the layers of abrasive grain. Another reinforcement layer can be disposed between the supporting disks and the interior layers of abrasive grain.

Abstract: A grinding wheel including: (a) an annular core body which includes a multiplicity of aggregate particles and a resin bond that holds said aggregate particles together; (b) an abrasive layer which is disposed radially outwardly of said annular core body and which includes a multiplicity of abrasive grains and a vitrified bond that holds said abrasive grains together; and (c) an impermeable coating which is formed of a synthetic resin, and which is disposed on said annular core body.

Abstract: A rotary cutting saw including: (a) a base disk which has a plurality of apertures formed therethrough and opening in axially opposite end surfaces thereof; (b) a plurality of abrasive segments which are fixed to an outer circumferential surface of the base disk; and (c) a plurality of axial-runout restraining members which are received in the apertures. Each of the axial-runout restraining members has a size which is smaller than a size of each of the apertures, such that a clearance is defined between the periphery of each of the apertures and a corresponding one of the axial-runout restraining members which is received in the each of the apertures. A ratio of a size of the clearance to the size of each of the axial-runout restraining members is 5–150%.

Abstract: In a depressed-center abrasive wheel assembly a reinforcement layer of polygonal shape is located between a front face of the abrasive wheel and a front flange. The reinforcement layer is dimensioned to entirely cover the depressed center portion of the wheel. An example of polygonal reinforcement layer has a hexagonal shape and is made of fiberglass cloth. A polygonal shape reinforcement layer can also be employed between the front flange and the front face in an abrasive flat wheel assembly that employs a wheel without internal reinforcement.

Abstract: A saw blade for cutting hard workpieces, such as concrete or stone, characterized by improvement of the shape of a shank of the saw blade providing a plurality of cutting tips of the saw blade with a rotational force while the cutting tips are securely attached to the shank. The saw blade comprises a disc-shaped shank having an insertion hole formed at the center thereof, through which a rotating shaft of an electric-powered tool is inserted, and wave-shaped portions formed over a prescribed portion of the radius of the disc-shaped shank, and a plurality of cutting tips attached to the outer circumference of the shank for cutting a workpiece. The wave-shaped portions are spaced a prescribed distance from each other and alternately arranged on the front and rear surfaces of the disc-shaped shank. The prescribed portion of the radius of the disc-shaped shank is at a distance from the center of the insertion hole. The cutting tips contain particles of high hardness.

Abstract: A grindstone exhibiting good abrasive properties while being inexpensive and including stacked layers. The stacked layers include at least one layer of abrasive grain, which in turn includes juxtapose zones of different abrasive grains, one of these zones being proximate to the center of the at least one layer and another of the zones extending along the outer periphery of the at least one layer. A method for forming the at least one layer makes a blank of a first type of abrasive grains and a ring of a second type of abrasive grains. Respective inner and outer contours of the blank are geometrically similar. The ring and the blank are positioned in an inserting position, and then in a subsequent step for making the grindstone, the stack of layer is pressed. Such a grindstone and method can be useful for making cutting-off and surface-treating wheel, as an example.

Abstract: A grinding wheel including (a) a cylindrical main body having a grinding surface on its outer circumferential surface, and (b) a pair of synthetic resin layers disposed on respective axially opposite end faces of the cylindrical main body. Each of the synthetic resin layers covers at least a radially outer end portion of a corresponding one of the axially opposite end faces. The cylindrical main body has an abrasive layer which constitutes a radially outermost layer thereof so that the abrasive layer provides the grinding surface.

Abstract: A molded tooth design of generally pyramidal form made of various hard grit materials for use on a grinding wheel for grinding non-metal materials. The tooth structure generally includes a raked face having a neutral to positive rake angle that terminates to a sharp point. The tooth structure also includes on the raked face edge portions below the point extending from both sides thereof having a predetermined clearance angle to increase penetration and reduce friction of the tooth during the grinding process. The tooth structure may also include at a top end of the rake face a truncated clearance surface which will produce a wider cutting edge that is flat, for use in attacking the work surface of the work piece being ground. The rake face of the tooth generally may also be formed to have positive rake in the truncated surface.

Abstract: The rotary tool for producing profiles or cuts in hard fragile materials such as marble, granite, stone, glass and the like comprises at least one rotationally symmetrical body (1, 2) involving a configuration defined by the envelope of a multiplicity of circular parts (6-13) externally provided with diamond means. The circular parts are separated by grooves (20 to 25) and the configuration corresponds as a negative of profiles or cuts to be produced in the above-mentioned hard fragile materials, the arrangement being such that the production of profiles or cuts is effected jointly by abrasion on the part of the diamond means and by fragile-fracture breaking on the part of the grooves, and possible breaker inserts (30) with a metal pin which is hard or covered with industrial diamond.

Abstract: The invention provides an aqueous dispersion comprising fumed alumina particles, at least one zirconium compound, and water. The invention further provides a coating composition and a recording medium incorporating the inventive dispersion, as well as a method of preparing the recording medium.

Abstract: An abrasive article including from about 40 to about 80 volume percent interconnected porosity, the article being useful as a segment for a segmented grinding wheel, and a method for fabricating the same. The method includes blending a mixture of abrasive grain, bond material and dispersoid particles, the mixture including from about 40 to about 80 volume percent dispersoid particles. In one embodiment the mixture includes from about 50 to about 80 volume percent dispersoid particles. In another embodiment the mixture includes an organic bond material and from about 40 to about 80 volume percent dispersoid particles. The powder mixture is then pressed into an abrasive laden composite and thermally processed. After cooling the composite is immersed into a solvent, which dissolves substantially all of the dispersoid particles, leaving a highly porous, bonded abrasive article.

Abstract: In a depressed-center abrasive wheel assembly a reinforcement layer of polygonal shape is located between a front face of the abrasive wheel and a front flange. The reinforcement layer is dimensioned to entirely cover the depressed center portion of the wheel. An example of polygonal reinforcement layer has a hexagonal shape and is made of fiberglass cloth. A polygonal shape reinforcement layer can also be employed between the front flange and the front face in an abrasive flat wheel assembly that employs a wheel without internal reinforcement.

Abstract: A grinding wheel including: (a) an annular core body which includes a multiplicity of aggregate particles and a resin bond that holds said aggregate particles together; (b) an abrasive layer which is disposed radially outwardly of said annular core body and which includes a multiplicity of abrasive grains and a vitrified bond that holds said abrasive grains together; and (c) an impermeable coating which is formed of a synthetic resin, and which is disposed on said annular core body.

Abstract: An abrasive molding composed of a mass of inorganic particles, said mass having pores intervening among the inorganic particles, which molding has abrasive area to be placed in frictional contact with an article to be abraded, and non-abrasive area on a abrading surface of the abrasive molding. The abrasive area has exposed pores having a diameter of not larger than 1 &mgr;m, the total area of said exposed pores having a diameter of not larger than 1 &mgr;m occupying below 15% of the total area of abrasive area, and the non-abrasive area occupies 20% to 60% of the sum of the abrasive area and the non-abrasive area.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an abrading tool having a rotatable body of revolution having an axis of rotation. A peripheral workface is fixedly attached to the body of revolution. The workface is formed by a plurality of discrete, geometrically-shaped segments disposed in a contiguous relationship. Lines-of-juncture are formed by opposed edges of adjacent segments, whereby any diametrical plane, having at least one coplanar line-of-juncture, has a discontinuous coplanar curve, at least a portion thereof being the at least one coplanar line-of juncture, and whereby any longitudinal plane, having at least two coplanar lines-of-juncture, has opposed ends of the at least two coplanar lines-of-juncture being spaced apart.

Abstract: A grinding tool and method is provided for shaping an edge of sheet glass. The grinding tool includes an arbor and a wheel being of a unitary construction and including an axis of rotation. The grinding tool further includes a recess extending along a periphery of the wheel, with a bonded abrasive being disposed therein. The bonded abrasive is sized and shaped for being profiled, to shape an edge of a glass sheet upon rotation of the tool about the axis. The bonded abrasive may further be sized and shaped for being re-profiled after use. The grinding tool of this invention may provide for both improved quality and reduced cost sheet glass.

Abstract: A beveling operation is applied to a spectacle lens to blunt the sharp edges of its contour. Compensation means having a capacity for elastic deformation are operative between an active periphery of a beveling tool and its support shaft during the beveling operation. Applications include numerically controlled grinding machines.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-layered diamond dicing blade. More particularly, the blade is a multi-layered dicing blade comprising an inner layer with a first set of diamond particles and an outer layer overlying the inner layer. The inner layer extends to the outermost periphery of the dicing blade. The outer layer comprises a second set of diamond particles having a size smaller than the first set of diamond particles.

Abstract: Methods for orienting fibers and an apparatus for orienting fibers are provided for the fabrication of improved thin abrasive wheels utilizing uniform non-woven fiber reinforcement discs. The wheels are more resistant to hub push-out failure during grinding than wheels reinforced with woven fiber cloth.

Abstract: An abrasive tool includes a superabrasive grain component, a filler component that comprises hollow bodies and a vitreous bond. Natural and synthetic diamond, cubic boron nitride and combinations thereof can be employed as the superabrasive grain component. The vitreous bond component includes zinc oxide and at least two alkali metal oxides. The vitreous bond component can further include barium oxide. A method for producing an abrasive tool includes combining a superabrasive grain component, a filler component that includes hollow bodies and a vitreous bond component that includes zinc oxide and at least two alkali metal oxides. The combined components are fired at a temperature in a range of between about 600° C. and about 850° C., preferably in an ambient air atmosphere.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-layered diamond dicing blade. More particularly, the blade is a multi-layered dicing blade comprising an inner layer with a first set of diamond particles and an outer layer overlying the inner layer. The inner layer extends to the outermost periphery of the dicing blade. The outer layer comprises a second set of diamond particles having a size smaller than the first set of diamond particles.

Abstract: There is here disclosed a metal-less bond grinding stone for protrusion of grains on the grinding stone by electrolytic dressing, comprising abrasive grains and a bond portion for holding the abrasive grains, wherein the bond portion comprises a carbon-containing nonmetallic material alone. Furthermore, this metal-less bond grinding stone is used, whereby a current which is allowed to flow between the grinding stone and the electrode is controlled within a desired range. In this way, environmental pollution with a waste liquid containing heavy metal ions and metal contamination of device wafers can be prevented, and a mirror-like high-quality level ground surface can be obtained with a satisfactory efficiency.

Abstract: A vitrified grindstone having a vitrified abrasive structure which has pores and which includes abrasive grains and an inorganic bonding agent that holds the abrasive grains together, wherein 10-95% of a total volume of the pores is filled with a cured resin. The vitrified abrasive structure may further include an aggregate such that the abrasive grains and the aggregate are held together by the inorganic bonding agent.

Abstract: A polishing apparatus for reducing the roughness and abrasive shedding of coated tapes comprises a cylinder having coaxial channels or grooves of various forms, which are advantageously thread-like. Axial grooves may be additionally provided.

Abstract: A grinding wheel having a main body and a tubular bushing member which is fitted in an inner circumferential surface of a mounting hole formed through the main body, so that the grinding wheel is mounted on a wheel spindle of a grinding machine, with the bushing member being fitted on the wheel spindle. The bushing member includes an urethane resin as a main component thereof.