Abstract: A quick-action clamping cylinder is described which has a housing and a cover which covers the housing and has a center opening for receiving a retractable nipple that is arranged on the lower side of a workpiece pallet. The retractable nipple is locked in a spring-loaded manner in the housing by way of a plurality of locking balls that are spring-loaded in the locked position on the outer periphery of the retractable nipple. The locking balls are disengaged from the retractable nipple in the unlocked position by displacing a piston actuated by a pressurized medium. The disclosed examples provide a simple, small clamping system. To this end, the locking balls convert the spring force exerted by the springs into a multiple of the retraction force acting on the retractable nipple, by way of a lever arm transmission.

Abstract: A quick-action clamping cylinder is described which has a housing and a cover which covers the housing and has a center opening for receiving a retractable nipple that is arranged on the lower side of a workpiece pallet. The retractable nipple is locked in a spring-loaded manner in the housing by means of a plurality of locking balls that are spring-loaded in the locked position on the outer periphery of the retractable nipple. The locking balls are disengaged from the retractable nipple in the unlocked position by displacing a piston actuated by a pressurized medium. The aim of the invention is to obtain a simple, small clamping system. To this end, the locking balls convert the spring force exerted by the springs into a multiple of the retraction force acting on the retractable nipple, by means of a lever arm transmission.

Abstract: A quick-action cylinder with safety device to prevent blocking is described, wherein the quick-action cylinder provides a mechanical lock for a center draw-in nipple (2) in a center bore (23) in a housing of a quick-action cylinder, wherein in the locked position one or more locking members (3) are urged into contact with an exterior periphery of the draw-in nipple by a force of a spring assembly (12) which is arranged in the housing in one or several spring compartments (13), and wherein the unlocked position of the draw-in nipple (2) is attained by applying pressure to a locking piston (7) which operates to oppose the force of the spring assembly. The safety device prevents self-blocking of the locking device of the draw-in nipple (2) in the center bore (23) when the pressure medium enters the spring compartment (13) of the spring assembly (12) from the cylinder space (11) of the locking piston.

Abstract: Disclosed is a high-pressure coupling device for directing media such as oil, water, gases, fats, and similar through quick-change systems. Said high-pressure coupling device comprises a bottom part and a top part. The bottom coupling part is provided with a firmly anchored, stiff valve thorn in the form of a valve screw which creates the sealing effect for delivering the medium along with a spring-loaded slide valve sleeve while the top coupling part is provided with a spring-loaded valve plate that creates the sealing effect for the side of the coupling device, which is to be supplied with high-pressure medium, together with a stiff valve body such that a stiff valve element actuates the spring-loaded valve element of the opposite part in the high-pressure coupling device in a valve-actuating manner when the bottom coupling part and the top coupling part are joined.

Abstract: A rotary cutting tool, e.g. a drill bit, has a generally cylindrical working head consisting of ultrahard incisive material such as cubic polycrystalline diamond or boron nitride. The working head has at least peripheral cutting edges which may extend onto an adjoining carrier of hard metal secured thereto along a transverse interface; the carrier may be bonded at another junction to a tool body or may itself constitute such a body. Also disclosed is a method of making such a tool, particularly a drill with a working head of 5 mm or less, according to which a prefabricated block, consisting of interconnected ultrahard and metallic blanks for the head and its carrier, is soldered inside an aligning sleeve onto a cylindrical extension of the tool body whereupon the extension and the block are jointly machined to form the tool.

Abstract: A drill bit of the multigroove type has a shaft with at least three flutes forming respective lateral cutting edges and as many generally radial frontal ridges, one of them extending to or possibly beyond the shaft axis while the others terminate short of same. Each frontal ridge forms an outer and an inner cutting edge adjoining each other at an obtuse angle in a forwardly pointing peak, these peaks lying at different distances from the axis. The peak closest to the axis is axially foremost and the corresponding inner cutting edge includes the smallest angle with the axis to act as a centering blade; with more than three ridges this centering blade can be duplicated in diametrically opposite positions. The outer cutting edges all lie on a common conical surface centered on the axis.