Abstract: The invention is directed to a fixture for accurately boring a hole in a workpiece which comprises a base member and a clamping means for mounting the fixture on top of the workpiece. A guide block is mounted in the base member for movement along a path extending across a surface of the workpiece. The guide block has an elongated boring guide hole extending therethrough in a direction towards the workpiece for guidingly receiving a boring bit. A scale or other similar means is affixed to the guide block for accurately locating the boring guide hole at a selectable, predetermiend position relative to the workpiece. One or more set screws or the like are provided on the base member for securing the guide block in place once the boring guide hole has been properly located. A series of detents or holes may also be provide on the guide block to receive the set screws and thereby aid in locating the boring guide hole.

Abstract: An apparatus allows for chamfering and deburring the end edges of a toothed production gear in a single operation and with one and the same tool. The tool includes two pressure wheels. Provided on each pressure wheel, axially side by side, are a ring of guide teeth and a ring of deburring teeth projecting circumferentially beyond the ring of the guide teeth. The rings have a filleted transition between them and together form chamfering teeth by means of which the end edges of the production wheels are pressed radially and axially against the production gear by means of adjusting drives.

Abstract: An adjustable cartridge to be mounted in a boring bar, the cartridge including an anvil rotatably affixed to said boring bar, said anvil including a pocket into which a lay-down indexable insert is affixed. The anvil is secured in an axially oriented slot which includes an arcuate seating face. Rotation of the anvil within the slot effects radial adjustment of the insert.

Abstract: An expandable arbor for sighting a scope on a gun having a body with a conical portion and an axial throughbore. A shaft is journaled in the throughbore, and the shaft carries a knob on one end and a resilient plug on the other end, with a travelling spreader disk on a threaded portion of the shaft adjacent the plug. The plug is inserted into the muzzle of a gun barrel, and the knob is tightened to draw the spreader disk into the plug, thereby causing the plug to expand to hold the arbor in the gun barrel and concentrically align the arbor within the bore. The arbor has a flat on a rear portion for receiving a set screw to mount a bore sighter on the arbor for aligning the scope on the gun.

Abstract: An electrostatic chuck for electrostatically attracting and holding an object such as a semiconductor wafer includes a base plate, at least two layers each including an electrically insulating film and an electrode attached to a lower surface thereof, the at least two layers being disposed as attractive layers on the base plate, and a voltage applying assembly for selectively applying a voltage to at least one of the electrodes to electrostatically attract the object to the insulating film of an uppermost one of the layers. The insulating films may have different insulation resistances to allow for a wider range of temperature changes.

Abstract: A reamer with at least one cutter plate that is held by at least one clamping jaw located in a recess in the head of the reamer and having an opening for a clamping screw is proposed, said reamer being distinguished by the fact that the clamping jaw (5) is shaped essentially as a triangle when viewed from the top, that the opening (23) for the clamping screw (7) is located in a corner of the triangle, and that the lateral surfaces of the clamping jaw (5) starting from this corner form guide surfaces (13, 15), which are provided with contact surfaces in the recess (9) in the head of the reamer. By using this clamping jaw, the cutter plate can be optimally clamped and aligned without weakening the main body of the reamer. Both the flank and lateral surfaces of the clamping jaw interact with the stop surfaces in a recess (9) in such a manner that optimal diversion of the clamping forces in the main body of the reamer also takes place.

Abstract: A boring tool for refinishing the bearing seat of a limited slip differential case having a side opening and having upper and lower bores which are concentric with the bearing seat. Generally frustoconical centering bushings are wedged into the upper and lower bores of the case, and the boring head is inserted into the case through the side opening. Thereafter, a boring bar is slid downwardly through the upper bushing and the boring head and is slid into the lower bushing, the boring head then being secured to the boring bar. When the boring bar is rotated, the bushings hold the boring head in concentric relation with the bearing seat.

Abstract: A high speed spindle is provided which includes a rotor driven by an electric motor and provided with tapered journals received in tapered rubber bearings. Lubricating water flows to the bearings through metered openings in the journals, flowing from the openings through reverse spiral grooves in the journals which have diminishing cross section. The water flowing through the rotor also cools the rotor, as well as the collet driven by the rotor and a tool held by the collet. Rubber seals around the rotor shaft wear to a zero clearance during run-in for confining the water that exhausts from the bearings. Compressed air is introduced into the spindle to cooperate with the seals in preventing water leakage. The compressed air also reacts against a bladder that is arranged to impose an end load on one of the bearings, which is movable, to urge the bearing toward its journal. The force is varied to increase the bearing end load as rotor speed increases.

Abstract: A description is given of equipment for the production of screw-threaded drilled holes (tapped holes) of variable diameters in solid materials in a single-pass operation with the use of an integrated cutting tool and with the use of a commercially-available hand-drilling machine having an electronically-controlled motor drive, or any other type of drive, where the equipment includes a tool spindle which may be attached to the drive shaft of a hand-drilling machine or the like, and which is radially displaceable in relation to its axis and accommodated in a cylindrical housing for the spindle, where the position of said spindle housing may be adjusted axially in a specified manner by means of a screw device in a holder which may be mounted on the tool and has arrangements, on the one hand, for limitation of the axial travel of the tool and, on the other hand, for adjustment of the desire diameter of the tapped hole which is to be produced.

Abstract: A chuck with four differential jaws capable of holding an object of an irregular shape with even fixing force from four jaws by driving all four jaws disposed in a cross at right angle at the same time by a single operation. In the first type chuck, two jaws each are held opposingly on a front face of a chuck body, and these jaws are driven by a differential mechanism through jaw driving cams. The differential mechanism comprises a driving cam movable by movement of a drawing bar in axial direction along the axis and rotatable around the axis and a set of outer and inner differential cams each having a long hole provided so as to engage with the driving cam at the same time. These differential cams transmit an even fixing force to the jaws. The jaw driving cams are formed to be capable of conversion to types for inward fixing, outward fixing, and positioning.

Abstract: A vacuum chuck includes a lower base with vacuum plenums, a permanent metal plate with vertically extending holes which communicate with the plenums, a panel of particle board with vertically extending holes disposed in registry with the holes in the metal plate, and a sheet of open cell foam covering the particle board and defining the top surface of the chuck. When a vacuum is drawn in the plenums, it is disbursed beneath the foam sheet via the holes and acts through the foam sheet to clamp the workpiece tightly with respect to the metal plate. During cutting of the workpiece into individual piece parts, a cutting tool cuts through the workpiece and the foam sheet but is prevented by the particle board from cutting into the permanent metal plate.

Abstract: A device and method are provided for side-drilling of catheters. The method comprises storing side-drilling hole patterns, selecting a side-drilling hole pattern, positioning the catheter at successive locations defined by the pattern, and drilling holes at the locations. The device carries out the method to side-drill catheters.

Abstract: A single-blade reamer (30) is disclosed with a cutter plate having a cutter blade (5) and attached to the base body (20), and with two guide strips (6, 7) disposed at the circumference of the base body. A chip-guide device (8, 9, 10, 11) is disposed between the cutter plate or, respectively, the cutter blade (5), and the first guide strip (6) following at an angular distance relative to the cutter (5) as seen from a point of a fixed external coordinate system when the reamer (30) is rotating in a proper cutting direction and/or between the first guide strip (6) and a second guide strip (7), disposed opposite to the cutter blade (5).

Abstract: A work holding apparatus is a work holder for holding a work in a predetermined position in relation to a basic member. A base column is rotatably supported astride on two sets of base plates. Holding fixtures are removably mounted on each side of the base column, such that different types of works can be supported and clamped by the holding fixtures. An indexing-rotation driving device rotates the base column such that it may be applicable to various types of works, thereby facilitating the holding of many types of works and the replacement of supporters and clamps. Furthermore, the base plate for supporting the base column is divided into two sets to reduce the weight of the base plate moving parts, and a base plate synchronizing means is provided to insure synchronized operation of the two base plates.

Abstract: Disclosed is a structure of a turret head provided with turning tool mounting mechanisms and revolving tool mounting mechanisms on the turret, wherein a turning tool can be mounted on the revolving tool mounting mechanism rotatably mounted on the turret. The turning tool is mounted on the turret at a holder of the tool for positioning and at the same time is tightly affixed to the revolving tool mounting mechanism at the tapered portion of the tool.Also provided is an engaging and disengaging mechanism for engaging and disengaging a gear of a unit drive shaft relative to a gear of a revolving tool mounting mechanism in preparation for mounting a revolving tool different in direction.This feature enables a revolving tool different in direction to be driven.Another feature is a provision of a lock gear. Locking the lock gear allows the revolving tool mounting mechanism to be employed for turning tools. The revolving tool mounting mechanism can be used for revolving tools when the lock gear is unlocked.

Abstract: A turret tool post for a machine tool has a turret having a plurality of turret faces each equipped with a tool for machining, a turret shaft for rotating the turret, a cam follower provided on the turret shaft, a cam having a cam surface engaged with the cam follower to cause the cam follower to rotate, and an indexing motor for driving the cam to index the turret faces. A straight raceway portion is formed on the cam surface of the cam so that the cam follower is not driven to rotate through a predetermined angle. Also disclosed is an apparatus for controlling indexing of the turret tool post which has a turret controller for controlling the rotation of the indexing motor. The speed of the indexing motor is controlled in accordance with whether a door attached to a cover covering the turret and other elements is open or closed.

Abstract: A pressure controlled cutter bit or drill bit retainer in the form of a revolving drill head with hydraulic precision adjustment of the drill bit arranged at a central extension, which is displaceable from its original position by small amounts around a pivot axis by a pressure motor, wherein this displacement occurs without any parts mechanically rubbing against each other and the dimensioning of the pressure motor and extension defining the transmission ratio conditions are selected in such a way that the travel of the drill bit guided along a curved path is greater than the travel of the pressure motor output produced by volume change, and wherein the overall volume of the pressure motor is selected to be slightly greater than the volume required for moving the pressure motor output.

Abstract: A collet clamp and releasing yoke apparatus having a support block and a cylindrical sleeve for receiving a collet. The collet is axially fixed, and the sleeve moves for contracting the collet to clamp a workpiece therein, and a yoke is employed for the clamping and releasing movement of the sleeve. A plurality of these assemblies can be positioned within the block so that a plurality of workpieces can be retained and worked upon.

Abstract: A mounting head for fitting a socket with an electronic component comprising a mounting tongue located between two jaws having at least one intake port for holding a component, a first lifting device for shifting the mounting torque between the two jaws in a first direction, a first supporting headpiece for the jaws which is movable in the first direction toward the socket until the jaws come to rest against the socket after which the tongue may be shifted in the direction of the socket, a centering plate extending transversely to the jaws retained on a first headpiece together with the jaws and tongue, the headpiece being comprised of the first lifting device, the first headpiece being supported by a second headpiece which is situated at the side of the centering plate, the second headpiece being comprised of a second lifting device for shifting the first headpiece transversely to the centering plate and transversely to the first direction.

Abstract: The insertion head of the present invention is for a wire trimming and inserting machine, i.e., a machine or apparatus for loading color-coded, or otherwise coded wires into a connector half. It includes a platform with an appendage coupled thereto. The appendage has a channel formed therein to receive and guide wire therethrough to a terminal of a connector half. The insertion head includes a spring biased guide, which bears against the channel-received wire, and imposes a movement-retarding force or drag on the wire to insure that the latter is held taut until engaged with the connector terminal.