Abstract: A tool holder for a tool drive with an outer and an inner concentric drive shaft. A first adapter is detachably held by a conventional clamping system in a receptacle of the outside drive shaft. A second adapter is concentrically mounted in the first tool receptacle of the first adapter so as to rotate with respect to the first adapter. The second adapter has a tool receptacle which can be inclined by a pivoting element. Thus, a tool can be eccentrically inserted and concentrically driven. This makes possible certain machining modes, for example the machining of a hollow shaft, since inner threads can now be turned rather than cut.

Abstract: A portable machine for processing keys, which uses computer-controlled sensors and servo motors to control the position of a bevel scale and the position of a cutting depth scale, so as to accurately control the feeding of a reamer in processing a blank into a key.

Abstract: A long length product is conveyed along a conveyor by a propulsion mechanism into contact therewith. The product is gripped by a first conveyor line vise and cut at its tailing end side to a specified dimension. The product is advanced by the propulsion mechanism against the conveying force of the conveyor and then gripped by the first conveyor line vise and machined. A series of these operations are iterated. Finally, the product is advanced to a second conveyor line, where it is gripped by a second conveyor line vise and subjected to final machining with the propulsion mechanism retracted. Instead of using a process of cutting to cut the leading end side of the product to a specified dimension, the leading end side of the product may be put into contact with the stopper and fed by referencing the leading end of the product.

Abstract: A rotary transfer machine or rotary index table having an outer carriage ring subject to rotation about a central support frame. The rotary transfer machine includes a plurality of machining stations spaced at radial intervals about the carriage ring. The machining stations can provide outside machining stations on the outside of the carriage ring and inside machining stations mounted to the support frame inside of the carriage ring. The rotary transfer machine includes a plurality of pallets mounted around the carriage ring. Each pallet includes a clamp for holding workpieces to be machined therebetween. Each pallet includes a clearance opening which allows for cutting tools to extend through the pallets to machine the back side of the work piece and to allow for machining the work piece from all six sides.

Abstract: A rotary device for changing parts to be machined by a machine-tool. The device includes a supporting table which has at least two pallet supports arranged at regular angular intervals for receiving each a part-carrying pallet, and is rotationally mounted between the machining station of the machine-tool and the post for supplying part-carrying pallets arranged opposite said machining station. The supporting table is pivotally mounted about its central axis and tiltingly between a horizontal position and an inclined position relative to the horizontal plane. The invention is useful for changing parts for a machine-tool.

Abstract: A circulating type milling apparatus for milling a lock core keyway includes a frame with a rotating disc that is intermittently rotated through a pre-determined angle. Lock core seats are equidistantly provided on the rotating disc. A milling disc is mounted to a top plate of the frame and includes cutters, ejecting plate, and detectors mounted thereon. The cutters are lowered to mill a keyway in each lock core. When the cutters are further moved downward and thus disengaged from the lock cores, the rotating disc is rotated by a distance that is equal to a half distance between two adjacent lock core seats such that each lock core seat is in a positioning in alignment with an associated detector yet not in alignment with an associated cutter. When the milling disc is moved upward, the detector checks whether the milled keyway of the lock core meets the required standard. The ejecting plate ejects the finished milled lock core, and a new lock core is fed by a lock core supplying device.

Abstract: A method of and device for removing burrs from metal work-pieces processed by a metal processing machine is provided. The method and device both include the burrs being removed by a high pressure stream of liquid that exits a high pressure nozzle and is directed at the work-piece that is to have the burrs removed. An integration of the burr removal step into the manufacturing sequence of the parts on commercial metal processing machines is made possible by the fact that the high pressure stream of liquid that is used has a proportion of oil of greater than 50% and a high pressure of greater than 400 bar.

Abstract: A device for clamping a knife of a machine center includes a kick member extends through a clamping member which is received in a sleeve. A knife is clamped by pawls extending from the clamping member and the sleeve has an annular flange to hold the pawls. Two bolts connected between the sleeve and the kick member via slots defined in the clamping member. The kick member is pushed by a pushing device which has a pressing member to push the kick member to disengage the annular flange from the pawls so that the knife is not securely held by the pawls and a knife switching arm can easily remove the knife from the pawls.

Abstract: A machine tool comprises a spindle stock and a worktable provided in front of the spindle stock to support workpieces thereon and capable of up-down movement and swivelling movement about a vertically extending center axis. Also employed in the machine tool is a splash guard arrangement which spatially divides the worktable into a machining region disposed in proximity to the spindle stock and a mounting region positioned distal to the spindle stock. The splash guard arrangement includes a rotary guard rigidly attached to the worktable for movement as a unit with the worktable, a stationary guard provided above the rotary guard and a sealing slider elevationally movably held by the stationary guard. The sealing slider remains in pivotal engagement with the rotary guard so that the slider can be subjected to up-down movement together with the rotary guard, while allowing the swivelling movement of the worktable and the rotary guard independently of the slider.

Abstract: A high throughput drilling system for printed circuit board hole formation. Two spindles are disposed at each spindle station, doubling the number of holes produced in a given time period. Each spindle in connected to an overhead linear drive by a mini slide. A first set of the spindles, one for each spindle station, is driven by a first X axis linear drive. A second set is driven by a second X axis linear drive. The work piece table is elongated to support work pieces for all stations, and is supported by a set of bearing guides, with outrigger bearings coupled to the table by flexure mounts that relieve stress due to differential temperature expansion rates between the work piece table and the base table. High speed spindles are employed to obtain higher productivity, with larger holes routed by router tools, eliminating the need for stocking large drill sizes on the system tool changer.

Abstract: In this application for protection rights a new deburrer is presented, in which the deburring device working on a slab (1) or a billet (1), as a stationary design moves the work piece with an integrated pusher drive or includes a pusher drive when designed as a travelling device.

Abstract: A semi-automated machine and method for singulating individual surgical needles from an bulk supply and attaching a suture to the surgical needle is described. Each of the surgical needles has a suture receiving opening formed therein for receiving a suture. The machine includes a singulation station having a sliding surface that assists an operator in singulating needles and depositing them in a pair of drop locations for subsequent automatic handling. Indexing conveyors, an articulated robot and a precision conveyor are used with a precise positioning station for orienting each needle for automatic handling. A universal gripper mounted on a rotary indexing device automatically receives each individual needle in a predetermined orientation and conveys the needle for sequential processing from station to station to form the needle-suture assembly.

Abstract: A method for producing a fillet on a gear as a function of a plurality of design criteria points in disclosed. The present method includes the steps of fitting a polynomial curve to the design criteria points, and producing the fillet on the gear, the fillet having a curved shape corresponding to the fitted polynomial curve. As a further step for control of the fillet, the actual shape of the fillet produced can be inspected and compared to the fitted curve, using a coordinate measuring machine or other suitable device. According to a further aspect of the invention, the fillet is produced using a tool having a curved surface corresponding to the polynomial curve.

Abstract: The present invention provides a tool changer which can be placed on the table of an existing machine tool, while utilizing the existing control computer of the machine tool to automate the tool changing process. This simplified tool changer allows the owner of an entry level machine tool to automate the machine tool at a relatively low cost and without many modifications to the machine tool as compared to current alternatives. The tool changer of the present invention requires no external power, no additional motors, and no modifications to the spindle of the machine tool.

Abstract: A cutting machine assembly is disclosed having a motor assembly with a motor housing, a motor shaft and spaced bearings which rotatably mount the motor shaft to the housing at opposite ends of electrical motor windings. A cutting tool is detachably secured to a forward end of the motor shaft. A casing is disposed around the motor and this casing has a first axial end secured to the motor housing adjacent the forward end of the shaft such that the casing forms an annular chamber between the casing and the motor housing. At least one and preferably several openings are formed in the first axial end of the casing adjacent the cutting tool and these openings are open to the annular chamber formed between the casing and the motor housing. An air vacuum is fluidly connected to the opposite axial end of the annular chamber so that, upon actuation, the air vacuum inducts air through the casing openings and through the annular chamber.

Abstract: A machining system has a frame forming a working station and a mounting plate movable relative to the frame in and adjacent the station in a first main direction, in a second direction transverse to the main direction, and in a third direction transverse to the first and second directions. A machine tool head is mounted on the mounting plate and a plurality of struts have outer ends swiveled on the mounting plate and extending inward away from the plate. A mechanism acting on the struts moves the plate and tool head in the three directions. A main panel is movable only in the first and second directions and the head is mounted in the panel for movement relative thereto only in the third direction. In addition a pair of side panels of changeable length each have an inner edge connected along a respective inner axis parallel to the third direction to a respective outer edge of the main panel and a respective outer edge connected at a respective outer axis parallel to the third direction on the frame.

Abstract: A deburrung method, in which a laser (3) is directed towards the edge of a workpiece (1) so that the position of a first surface (5) and a second surface (6) joining the first surface at an angle, can be deternined, after which extrapolation of a cutting curve (8) between the first surface (5) and the second surface (6) is performed and in that the burr (2) is removed along the cutting curve (8).

Abstract: A tool carousel comprising a plurality of wheel sections which can be joined together to form a carousel wheel and a plurality of tool-holding portions. Each tool-holding portion and wheel section is configured such that each tool-holding portion can be journalled to a respective wheel section for rotation between a tool-storage position and a tool-accessing position in which a tool can be installed thereupon or removed therefrom.

Abstract: In known hexapodal machining centers, a movable support is supported and the individual struts are articulated on the support in one plane. For permitting a greater movability of the support, especially in the rotational degrees of freedom, and for improving the absorption of the forces, a hexapodal machining center having a stationary frame and a movable support is provided, in the case of which the six connecting struts of adjustable length are articulated on the support. Three articulation points respectively define a common plane of application so that two separate planes are defined. Also, the articulation of the struts on the frame is effected in two separate planes of application.

Abstract: An automatic cutting and crimping apparatus has a wire transporter, a cutting/stripping unit, and a terminal crimping unit. The wire transporter includes a guide tube, a nozzle, a holder, and bolts for removably holding the guide tube and the nozzle to the holder. The nozzle is disposed so as to communicate with and end of the guide tube. The holder includes a holding member and a cover. The holding member is divided into two side walls, and has a hollow that extends in the direction of wire feeding. One of the side walls is formed so as to be lower than the other, so that a space occurs between the cover and the lower side wall. The cover is disposed so as to cover the hollow. The bolts includes a bolt for tightening the cover onto the top of one of the side walls, and a bolt for holding the cover to the other side wall. The end of the guide tube and the base end of the nozzle are housed in the hollow, and are surrounded by the holding member and the cover.