Patents by Inventor Elio Tacchella

Elio Tacchella has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4348838
    Abstract: Broach sharpening machine in which a slide mobile in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of a broach to be sharpened supports a sharpening slide provided with a grinding wheel head, and a feeler unit arranged to determine the position of each broach tooth relative to the grinding wheel and comprising an articulated parallelogram in which a drag link is provided with a coupling element arranged to cooperate with the broach teeth, and is connected by two resilient cranks to a frame so that it rotates with this latter about a horizontal axis perpendicular to the broach axis; the feeler unit comprising a sensor for detecting the movements of the frame about its axis of rotation and the axial movements of said drag link, and a resilient element arranged to rotate said parallelogram so as to move said coupling element towards the broach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: Tacchella Macchine S.p.A.
    Inventor: Elio Tacchella