Abstract: A carriage 3 is movable in a feed direction A on guideways 1, and carries an ultrasonic machining device 4, 5 loaded with an adjustable force in the feed direction by a first fluid cylinder 7. A cylinder 15 is attached to the carriage, around which is looped 16 a rope 17. One end 18 of the rope is preloaded by spring 20 against a stop 21 which is attached to a frame 2. The other end 22 of the rope is attached to the piston rod 24 of a second cylinder 25. By means of the second cylinder the tool 5 can be lifted or retracted from the workpiece 6 during the machining operation, independently of the position of the carriage. After the tool has been lifted off, the tool touches down gently again on a renewed abrasive layer.

Abstract: An ultrasonic machining device 10 is attached to a movable carriage 3, and has a borehole 11 to whose free end a differential screw 14 is threaded. To clamp a tool 20, first the device is returned to a neutral position whereat a wrench 25, which is mounted stationarily in a frame 2, engages the differential screw which rests on a shoulder of the wrench with low prestress. The wrench is then rotated until the screw projects a specific amount beyond the end of the device. The tool is then threaded onto the screw until it abuts the device 10, and finally the screw is tightened by a pneumatic cylinder 32.

Abstract: The apparatus includes at least one membrane filter (32) for filtering a machining liquid which has been contaminated by its use in electroerosive or electrochemical machining of workpieces. The apparatus also includes a device for cyclical cleaning of the soiled membrane filter, which device irradiates the membrane filter (32) with ultrasonic waves (33) and loosens the contaminant particles in the filter pores as well as means (20, 23, 24, 25, 35, 36, 41) for the backwashing of the membrane filter and for removal of the contaminant particles. The contaminant particles are fed by means of throughflushing intervals from the concentrate chamber (30) into the sedementation vessel (12). As a result of this combination of ultrasound and backwashing, extremely small durations of the cleaning cycles and uniform cleaning of the complete filter area are insured without concern for the nonuniform contaminants topography of the filter surface resulting from the contaminants.