Abstract: A rotatable drum 4 is supported by rollers 5 on a travelling frame member 1, and surrounds a pipe 3 gripped by the frame member. Swing levers 6, 6' coupled at their one ends to and driven by fluid pressure cylinders 10, 10' are pivotally mounted on the drum at journals 7, 7', and guide rollers 11, 11' and associated cutting and chamfering members 9, 9' rotatably driven by motors 8, 8' are mounted on the swing levers and extend inwardly towards the pipe. Pressure fluctuations in the cylinders are absorbed by accumulators 13, 13', whereby the chamfering and cutting members are sequentially driven into engagement with and smoothly follow the uneven contours of the pipe surface.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for machining a pre-selected contour in a surface of a workpiece, such as an end face of the workpiece. The workpiece is rotated on a lathe about its longitudinal axis and a cutting tool, mounted on a movable cross slide of the lathe, is positioned parallel to the longitudinal axis of the workpiece for cutting a contour into the workpiece end face. A probe, also mounted on the cross slide, is positioned perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of a pattern for continual contact with the outer surface of the pattern, which is being rotated about its longitudinal axis. Upon rotation of the pattern and workpiece and movement of the cross slide, the probe moves towards and away from the longitudinal axis of the pattern in accordance with a change in the distance from the point of probe contact with the pattern outer surface to the longitudinal axis of the pattern.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for shaping on the end of one right circular cylinder, a compound curvature corresponding to the compound curvature of intersection between the one right circular cylinder and second larger right circular cylinder.

Abstract: A lathe type machine for turning pistons, in which the cutting tool is caused to follow the surface contour of the cam which corresponds in shape to the desired contour of the piston to be machined. The cutting tool and a cam follower are mounted in spaced relation on an arm supported on a tool slide by means of an eccentric pivot pin, which when rotated in opposite directions shifts the tool toward and away from the axis of the work supporting spindle. Means are provided for automatically rotating the eccentric pivot pin through an arc of fixed angular extent in one direction when the tool slide reaches one end of its stroke and in the opposite direction through the same arcuate extent when the tool slide reaches the other end of its stroke. Means are also provided for rotating the eccentric pin slightly when desired to effect a change in size without affecting the extent of arcuate movement of the pin at opposite ends of the stroke of the tool slide.

Abstract: A tool actuating mechanism in which first and second main cam shafts are driven by first and second numerically controlled drive means, respectively, and at least one auxiliary cam shaft is selectively engageable with one of the first and second main cam shafts by a clutch means. A plurality of master cams are carried on the first, second and auxiliary cam shafts and a plurality of connecting mechanisms including actuators are associated with the master cams, respectively. The clutch means and the actuators are operable to transmit the motions of selected ones of the master cams carried on the first, second and auxiliary cam shafts to selected ones of a plurality of tool holders, whereby the selected ones of the tool holders are allowed to be concurrently fed toward a workpiece by the first and second drive means at given feed rates.

Abstract: A mechanism for moving a cross slide in a multiple-spindle automatic machine has a rotary face cam which is driven by a gear and is angularly adjustable with respect to the gear, a first lever which is pivotable on a first shaft parallel to the axis of the cam and which has a first arm carrying a roller follower for the cam and a second arm having a slot for a sliding block which is mounted on a pin-shaped carrier. The carrier extends through one or more slots of a second lever which is rigid with a second shaft, and the carrier can be fixed to the second shaft in a selected position by means of washers and nuts. The second shaft is rigid with a gear segment which meshes with a toothed rack affixed to and adjustable lengthwise of the slide. The first lever may be a bell crank lever or a straight two-armed lever, and the second lever may have a single arm with a single slot for the carrier of the sliding block or a bifurcated arm with two aligned slots for the carrier.

Abstract: An automatic camshaft lathe having a plurality of machining tools mounted on tool slides fed and oriented by cam-actuated mechanical transmissions and located to simultaneously machine a plurality of cam surfaces on camshafts mounted at two machining stations in the lathe. The two machining stations are arranged symmetrically relative to the longitudinal vertical centerplane of the lathe. A single shaft mounted above the respective machining stations supports and drives the feed and orienting cams for the tool slides at each machining station. A common gear train drives the shafts operating the control cams for each machining station.