Abstract: A motor driven turning device in which a one piece pool stick may be inserted for the purpose of cutting away an old ferrule and tip, adding a new ferrule and tip, machining the latter to a smooth finish and refurbishing the body of the stick.

Abstract: A data carrier in the form of an elastic ring segment has a radially outwardly facing surface to which the data providing tool information, are applied for example by printing. The ring segment has at least one radially inwardly effective connector element that forms a snap-on connector for securing the data carrier in an elastic, releasable manner to a connector area of a tool carrier to provide an elastic, interlocking form-fit between the data carrier and the tool carrier. Thus, the data carrier can be easily exchanged or replaced in accordance with the type of tool carried by the tool carrier.

Abstract: A wire cutting and stripping mechanism (22) for use with a wire processing machine (10) is disclosed. The mechanism includes a pair of cutting and stripping blade (180, 182, 184) tool holders (60, 62) which are slidingly coupled to the frame (16) of the machine. The tool holders are arranged to move toward a wire (12) to be processed in two discrete amounts of movement which are separable by a pause in movement. A pair of cylinders (130, 132) are interconnected to effect these two discrete movements. During the first movement the wire 12 is severed, followed by a pause in movement while the cut wire is repositioned axially with respect to the stripping blades (182, 184). The second movement is then initiated to sever the insulation, the stripping blades (182, 184) being held in position while the wire is withdrawn to strip off the slug (196) of cut insulation.

Abstract: To improve a machine tool, comprising a machine frame, a workpiece holder arranged on the machine frame for a workpiece to be machined, a tool holder arranged on the machine frame for receiving a tool and at least one drive with a slide for executing a relative movement between the tool and the workpiece in the direction of at least one axis, such that it allows as high dynamics as possible, it is proposed that the drive comprise electric linear motors aligned parallel to the axis and spaced from one another in a transverse direction, that the slide extend between the two linear motors, and that a control be provided for simultaneously operating the linear motors for displacement of the slide.

Abstract: A tool magazine disclosed is fundamentally the same in construction as a corresponding prior art tool magazine but is capable of handling tools of diameters greater than those of tools which can be handled by the prior art tool magazine. The tool magazine comprise a magazine body provided with an endless guide groove, and a plurality of tool pots each for holding a tool, fixedly provided with guide members engaging the endless guide groove for sliding movement along the guide groove. Idlers are disposed between and in contact with adjacent tool pots, respectively, and supported in the endless guide groove so as to move along the endless guide groove. A feed mechanism moves the tool pots and the idlers along the endless guide groove with the idlers in contact with the guide members of the adjacent tool pots, respectively. The idlers are substantially the same in shape and dimensions as the guide members.

Abstract: Tools are classified into small type tools that can pass through the space between a pair of grippers in its open position and large type tools that cannot pass through the space between the pair of grippers in the open position, when the headstock supporting a spindle holding a tool is moved to a position corresponding to a tool change position. When the next tool to be used is of the small type, the tool is moved through a standby position to the tool change position during a machining operation using the tool on the spindle, the headstock is moved to the position corresponding to the tool change position in response to a tool changing instruction and a predetermined tool changing operation is carried out.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of producing holes or recesses in a workpiece of fiber reinforced materials using a rotary tool, preferably a rotary end mill, comprising a rear shaft portion and an integral forward cutting portion having a central axis. The cutting portion is a sintered body having at least a pair of longitudinally extending flutes and a corresponding pair of cutting edges made of diamond or cubic boron nitride at the circumference adjacent each flute so as to define the diameter of said tool. The tool is rotated about an axis and fed along said axis until the initial penetration of the tool is made whereby the tool supported after the initial penetration so that its central axis rotates eccentrically to the feed axis of the tool by a distance sufficient to drill a hole of a desired diameter greater than the diameter of the tool. The tool is fed in said direction until the hole has been completed.

Abstract: An accessory carriage unit attachment for electric router, composed of one main elemental component: the slab carriage unit securable to the router at a perpenduclar angle to the major guide side surface, with attachable plastic means for greater slidable movement, with optional; legs, work stock/piece guide fence, and handle for more versatility, hence a mounting platform that need not be removed, thus facilitating most operations of a router, in portable or table router configuration.

Abstract: The turret punch press has a body frame (3); a ram (51) for striking a punch (41) to punch out work (W) in cooperation with a die (35); an upper turret (39) rotatably mounted on the body frame and having a plurality of punches (41), any desired punch being selectively located at a punch area (A1); and a lower turret (33) also rotatably mounted on the body frame and having a plurality of dies (35), any desired die mated with the desired punch being selectively located at the same punch area (A1). In particular, the upper turret (39) is formed smaller in diameter than the lower turret (33), and further the upper turret (39) is dislocated eccentrically from the lower turret (33) toward the punch area (A1) to provide an open die exchange area (A2) over a part of the lower turret (33). Or else, the upper turret (39) is formed with a cutout portion (53) to provide an open die exchange area (A2) over a part of the lower turret (33) when the upper turret is disposed concentrically on the upper turret (39).

Abstract: A pneumatic marking tool (35,123) is attached to one of the punch mounting holes (9) of the upper turret disk (3) of a punch press. When the punching striker (13) is moved down to its lower dead point, compressed air is supplied from a compressed air supply unit (103) to the marking tool to move the marking stylus (49, 129) up and down repeatedly at a high speed. At the same time, the work (W) is moved in a two-dimensional way by the Y- and X-axis work driving mechanisms (27, 29) of the punch press, in synchronism with the repetitive marking stylus motion, to engrave characters and/or symbols as a form of gathered dots all under control of the numerical control unit (33). Therefore, it is possible to mark or engrave any required characters and/or symbols without occupying a number of punch mounting stations of the upper turret disk and without the use of any punch press of high punching frequency, thus eliminating the laborious setting work required whenever the plate thickness of the work changes.

Abstract: A rotary index table assembly including an annular positioning mechanism (22) that cooperates with a lift mechanism (140) to accurately position a rotary index table (14) on a base (12). The annular positioning mechanism (22) includes a base mounted crown gear (24), a table mounted crown gear (26) and a movable crown gear (28) that is moved out of engagement with the base and table mounted crown gears to permit the indexing rotation and that is thereafter moved into engagement with the base and table mounted crown gears to locate the table with respect to the base while the lift mechanism (140) supports the table on the base by the movement of the movable crown gear (28) to permit the accurate positioning.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for washing machining debris from machined parts. The apparatus includes a machine transfer housing with front and rear sidewalls, a top, a bottom, an entrance sidewall defining an entrance, and an exit sidewall defining an exit. A transfer line enters the housing at the entrance, extends through the housing and exits the housing at the exit to transport the machined parts through the housing. A header is attached to the top housing wall for delivering a wash solution to the housing. A solenoid valve controls the flow of the wash solution in the header. One or more rotating nozzles are connected to the header for spraying the wash solution in the housing to remove machining debris from the machined parts and the housing walls.

Abstract: Apparatus for removing tie wires from bales includes a table for receiving a bale having a plurality of tie wires wrapped transversely around the bale, a rear stop engageable with the rear side of the bale when on the table, a main carriage movable transversely of the table towards and away from the rear stop and including a front stop engageable with the front of the bale for firmly holding the bale between it and the rear stop, and a cutter assembly movable longitudinally of the table adjacent to one of the stops for cutting the tie wires of a bale when firmly held between the two stops.

Abstract: A machine tool more particularly for drilling and milling, possesses a machine bed, on which a power driven longitudinal slide is adapted to run horizontally on rails. A machining head having a rotary drive device for at least one table forming part of said head, is power moved on the longitudinal slide in at least one further direction movement. The machine bed possesses two spaced lateral walls, on which the longitudinal slide is at least partly guided and whose intermediate space is designed in the form of a machining zone. On each of the two lateral walls a fastening point is provided for at least one pivoting work holding device, the two fastening points being aligned in a horizontal line, which defines a pivot axis, athwart the longitudinal direction of the guide rails. In such an arrangement the work holding means is readily accessible and is easy to service and furthermore may be simply replaced.

Abstract: Apparatus for shaping conductors critically spaced on a carrier that are bonded to contact locations on a substrate surface. The conductors are cantilevered with each adjacent conductor bonded to a contact location that is a different distance from the carrier. Each conductor remains in the plane of the support of the carrier to the vicinity of its respective contact location where it is shaped to extend nearly vertically toward the substrate then horizontally across the contact location exerting pressure on the contact location.

Abstract: It is possible to effectively supply mist to a machining point in a case of machining a comparatively deep point in a workpiece. For this purpose, two supply systems s1,s2 are provided to supply air and coolant separately into the spindle 1, and a mist generating device 33 which is able to jet mist by mixing air and coolant which are supplied through these supply systems is provided in the front edge of the spindle 1 or in the tool holder 8.

Abstract: A key cutting machine includes a cutter wheel, a key follower and a key positioning fixture for retaining a master key and a key blank in defined positions. Longitudinal and lateral displacement elements displace the cutter wheel and the key blank relative to each other. First and second electronic position sensors generate cutter wheel longitudinal and lateral position signals which electrically define the position of the cutter wheel relative to the key blank blade. A mode control system selectively operates the key cutting machine in either an analog mode where the bit notch pattern of a master key is mechanically traced and duplicated in the key blade blank or in a digital mode in which an electronically defined bit notch pattern is electrically duplicated in the key blank blade without reference to or tracing the master key bit notch pattern.

Abstract: A machine tool assembly having a rotatable element for driving a tool to operate on a workpiece and structure for driving the rotatable element in rotation. The driving structure has a first power source and first structure cooperating between the first power source and the rotatable tool driving element for selectively a) allowing the first power source to be operated at one speed to drive the rotatable tool driving element at a first operating speed with the machine tool assembly in a first state and b) allowing the power source to be operated at the one speed without rotating the rotatable tool driving element at the first operating speed with the machine tool assembly in a second state. Structure is provided for changing the machine tool assembly from one of its first and second states to the other of its first and second states.

Abstract: A hand-held device has motor driven gears for propelling a longitudinally slit, corrugated tube along a guide track to a spreader which spreads the tube apart to enable the tube to encompass an elongated member, such as a cable, which passes through the spreader. A cutter on the device cuts the tube in a direction perpendicular to the tube axis when a sufficient length of the tube has been provided to jacket the elongated member. The cutting occurs only on the corrugation peaks (not valleys) of the tube.

Abstract: A combination magazine and changer for use with a machining head of an electrical discharge machine for rapidly changing a tool. The magazine includes a plurality of separate housings, each of which supports a tool. A retaining means is provided for each housing and creates an attracting force for holding the tools in place. The changer includes a robot arm arranged in proximity to the magazine and which is capable of linear motion relative to the magazine. A mechanical clamping member is mounted to an end of the arm and removes a given tool from the magazine for use in the machining head in a first linear motion and replaces the used tool on the magazine in a second reverse linear motion.