Abstract: A machine tool including a base having a work zone including a drive gear, a work shuttle having a pair of work stations each having at least one work spindle and an idler gear, the work shuttle assembly is mounted on the base and is displaced to alternately locate each of the work stations at the work zone and at a load/unload zone, and each of the work spindles is presented at a predetermined orientation at the work and load/unload zones by means of a gear rack mounted on the base for engaging each of the idler gears as the shuttle is displaced from one to another of the positions, the gear rack having at least a portion of the teeth thereof removed proximate the drive gear whereby the idler gear of the station located at the work zone will be operatively associated with the drive gear but will not be operatively associated with the gear rack, rotation of the drive gear is prevented as the work shuttle assembly is displaced and rotation of the drive gear is allowed when the work shuttle assembly is located

Abstract: An improved throw away insert for a boring tool has a recess at each corner, a small chip breaking projection formed in said recess and a large chip breaking projection formed in the center of the top surface of the insert to control the chip during cutting for large depths of cut.

Abstract: A portable tube end preparation tool includes an improved drive shaft for the cutter head of the tool, the drive shaft comprising a compact, three-piece assembly including two shaft portions that are axially aligned with respect to each other along the tool axis, and a coupling sleeve that fits over and joins the shaft portions together through threaded connections at adjoining ends of the shaft portions. The shaft portions and coupling sleeve cooperate with rolling bearing assemblies to react operational load forces into the tool housing through the bearing assemblies.

Abstract: A milling cutter for a crankshaft milling machine includes a disk, a plurality of generally square-shaped tips mounted on the disk and a plurality of forming tips mounted on the disk. The square-shaped tips and the forming tips are alternately arranged in two rows for effecting simultaneous machining of both end portions of each crank or main bearing.Each square-shaped tip is arranged to machine main and crank bearings and rounded corners of the bearings while each forming tip is mounted to machine side walls of webs between the bearings, shoulders each provided between the respective bearings and webs, the rounded corners and the main and the crank bearings.

Abstract: A tool feeding head is provided, which is adapted for rapid attachment to and detachment from a machine spindlehead. The head includes a shaft which is joinable to a machine spindle of the spindlehead for coupling rotary driving motion from the spindle to either a cross-feed or feed-out cutting tool, the shaft being provided with a bore. An actuating rod is mounted in the bore for engaging the tool, the actuating rod feeding the tool when the actuating rod is reciprocated within the bore by a rod reciprocating mechanism. A system or device for controllably driving the rod reciprocating mechanism is immovably fixed to the machine spindlehead, the driving system operating the rod reciprocating mechanism to cause the actuating rod to feed the selected tool at a prespecified rate. Structure supporting the shaft and the reciprocating mechanism enables an automatic tool changer to selectively join the shaft to the spindle, and place the rod reciprocating mechanism in operative relationship with the driving system.

Abstract: The burnishing tool has a plurality of holes in the planar surface which engages the flexible magnetic disk. Each hole contains a burnishing blade positioned at 45.degree. to the direction of motion. A manifold connects each hole to a vacuum pump which draws air into the holes causing the flexible magnetic disk to fly against the planar surface. The vacuum also removes the debris from the burnishing tool.

Abstract: A tool cartridge to be fastened to a boring bar for line boring operations comprising a pair of split legs on the tool cartridge. Each leg has an insert with a threaded bore having a different pitch. A differential screw comprising two threads on the shaft corresponding to the two different threaded bores on each insert effects a micro-adjustment of the radially moveable leg on the cartridge holding the cutting tool when the differential screw is rotated.

Abstract: There is disclosed an improved cutting tool having a body provided with a threaded borehole, a clamping bolt and a recess, and which is provided with a supporting surface and at least one lateral supporting surface for supporting an indexable cutting insert. The insert is provided with a center hole for receiving the clamping bolt which has a rotationally symmetrical shaped portion for engaging the center hole thereof. The upper end of the clamping bolt has the form approximately of a clipped ball and the lower end is screwable into the threaded borehole of the tool body with the center portion thereof supported on the tool body; the borehole of the tool body being provided with two coaxial upper and lower cylindrical sections of different diameters extending perpendicular to the surface supporting the cutting insert.

Abstract: A skiving tool having a retractable knife for use in combination with a roller burnishing tool for finishing the internal surface of a cylindrical hole. The retractable knife includes a pair of radially extendible knife holders defining a camming path having an axial portion and an angled portion. A push dart has a camming element with complementary camming surfaces which rides along the camming path. Axial actuation of the push dart causes the knife holders to extend radially into a stable, locked position. The roller burnishing tool includes a roller race having a central axis and a frustoconical outer surface tapering radially outward and axially forward. A plurality of frustoconically tapered rollers are arranged about the outer surface for rolling engagement with the outer surface with the smaller ends of the rollers facing forward. The taper of the rollers is such that the outermost surface portion of each roller is parallel to the central axis.

Abstract: An apparatus for turning or milling a workpiece is provided. The apparatus includes a first sleeve having an eccentric bore and a second sleeve positioned within this bore. The second sleeve also has an eccentric bore within which a tool mandrel or spindle is rotatably positioned. The sleeves are rotatable both as a unit and with respect to each other. When rotated with respect to each other, the axis of the mandrel may be moved off center to permit the turning or milling of the workpiece.

Abstract: A rotatable shell cutter has a cylindrical member which advances to cut into a pipe. A plurality of cutting elements are arranged in a circle at one end of the cylinder. Each cutting assembly comprises a cartridge fixed as one piece to the cylindrical member, such as by brazing or the like, a seat positioned thereon through dowel pins, a cutting insert mounted on the seat through a cooperating V-shaped projection and recess, and a clamp engaging, positioning and securing the cutting element against the seat and also secured to the cartridge for urging all of the cutting assembly elements together.

Abstract: A cutting tool bit holder for a machine tool removably secures a bit having a dovetail base in cutting position on a rotary tool fixture by means of a removable clamp bar and an opposed gib surface. The clamp bar is secured by removable fasteners and the tool bit may be reversable and standardized.

Abstract: A fluidically operable hollow rotary clamping apparatus such as for use in lathes, has a housing wall and a piston portion located therein with the surface thereof together with the seal packing secured to the housing wall form a double-acting cylinder. This double-acting cylinder is impacted via two pressure medium inlets. A flange secured to the housing wall and the piston portion which is displaceable in only longitudinal direction, each support a group of ball bearings in which a rotary part is mounted. This rotary part contains symmetrically arranged gearwheels of a racked-bar differential drive, whereby the outer pair of gearwheels acts on a pair of racked bars on a guide tube and the inner gearwheel having a larger or smaller diameter and a greater or lesser number of teeth acts through slots in the guide tube on a racked bar on the actuation tube. The actuation tube is in operational engagement with a collet or the like.

Abstract: A radial cutting tool driving apparatus for a lathe comprises oppositely disposed first and second sliders supported slidably on a frame, and adapted for moving to or away from the work positioned therebetween, a servo motor and a ball screw and nut assembly which drive the first slider, a first piston and cylinder assembly provided in the first slider, and having a piston secured at one end to the second slider, an arm supported rotatably on the frame, a second piston and cylinder assembly provided intermediate the ends of the arm, and including a piston having one end engaging the first slider, a cam follower attached to one end of the arm, and engaging the second slider, and springs urging the second slider away from the first slider.

Abstract: A form tool holder having a dovetail slot for mounting a form tool cutter, a clamping rod for exerting concentrated clamping pressure laterally against the dovetail portion of the cutter adjacent one end of the slot, and a back-up block for exerting a holding force against the inner end of the cutter all in combination with a detachable tool base having a transverse key having provision for angular adjustment to align the cutting edge of the cutter precisely with respect to a workpiece, all of the actuators for the clamping rod, the back-up block, and the key being readily accessible for quick and easy actuation and adjustment of the parts referred to when the holder is mounted on a machine tool.

Abstract: A pipe end preparation and cutoff tool includes a generally annular, fixed housing and a relatively rotatable tool carrying ring that is connected to the housing by means of orthogonal sets of roller bearings travelling in continuous bearing races that are likewise disposed in orthogonal planes. The bearing arrangement enables the ring to transmit radial and thrust loads to the housing and the structural arrangement of elements is intended to prevent gross contamination of the bearing assemblies.

Abstract: In an apparatus for automatically feeding bar stock material into a numerically-controlled automatic lathe, a bar is rotatably clamped and borne by the clamp jaws of several bearing clamps disposed in a row at intervals along the bar and orientated at respectively different angles about the bar, each clamp jaw comprising three pulleys in triangular formation and an endless belt supported on these pulleys, one of which is driven, the bar being clamped between a span of the belt between two pulleys of one jaw and that of the other jaw of each bearing clamp. The bar is thus held at clamping positions that vary helically about the bar as it is fed by a feed pipe into the lathe.

Abstract: Rotary slot cutting tools comprising disc shaped tools having cutting elements peripherally disposed on the discs. The cutting elements include chip forming means for narrowing the width of the chip below the width of slot being cut.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting tires is disclosed that employs: a base on which there is disposed two upstanding shafts (one rotatable), and first and second plates to sandwich therebetween the tire casing. Both plates have upstanding teeth members, an off-center hole and a center hole. The rotatable shaft is disposed in the center hole of both plates and the other shaft is disposed in the off-center hole of the first plate. On the same side of the first plate on which the upstanding teeth means are disposed, there is affixed an upstanding member which is received in the off-center hole of the second plate. A cutter bar is provided that has a cutting means and a rotatable handle on one terminal portion. The cutting bar also has a handle and it contains an elongated rectangular shaped slot. The terminal portion of the rotatable shaft is rectalinear in cross section and is disposed in the cutter bar slot so that upon rotation of the shaft, the cutter bar also rotates.

Abstract: An auxiliary support device for a workpiece is connected to a bracket mounted on a side face plate of a steady rest. The support device includes a member extending from the end of the steady rest for abutting the workpiece diametrically opposite the machine tool to provide additional backup forces during machining operations. Preferably, provision is made for adjusting the angle of the support device relative to the workpiece and for moving the abutment member in unison with the fingers of the steady rest.