Abstract: Method of grinding a concentrically clamped crankshaft, a crankshaft grinding machine for carrying out the method, and a crankshaft of high-alloy steel or cast material. The method provides for pin journals and main journals of the crankshaft to be ground in one set-up such that first, at least the main journals are rough-ground and then the pin journals are finish-ground and after that the main journals are finish-ground. The crankshaft grinding machine forms a machining center by means of which corresponding rough-grinding and finish-grinding is possible in a single set-up.

Abstract: An apparatus for grinding center bearings of crankshafts includes a clamping unit for clamping and driving a crankshaft; a grinding spindle, positionable perpendicular to the crankshaft; a plurality of grinding wheels on the grinding spindle, corresponding to the number of center bearings to be ground; a plurality of steadies, for supporting the crankshaft, opposite the grinding spindle; and an additional processing unit for performing preliminary grinding on the center bearing, by forming an elevated bearing seat for the steadies, opposite the bearing, such that the steadies are continuously guidable during grinding of the center bearings. In a method for grinding center bearings of a crankshaft using the apparatus, the center bearings are simultaneously ground using a multilayer grinding wheel set, and prior to a final grinding of the center bearings to their final dimensions, a bearing seat for a steady is ground on at least one center bearing.

Abstract: During centerless cylindrical grinding, attention must be paid to the fact that the workpiece (3) is placed in a very specific position between the grinding wheel (1), the regulating wheel (2) and the support guide (4). The optimal position of the workpiece (3) initially set cannot be maintained as a result of the progression of the grinding process and the changes caused by said process in the diameter and contour of the workpiece (3). The invention provides a solution to said problem, whereby height adjustment and/or the oblique position of the support guide (4) are automatically modified in accordance with the progression of the grinding process and during said grinding process with the purpose of achieving operationally optimal readjustment. The progression of the grinding process can be detected using measuring techniques, e.g. by measuring the diameter of the workpiece (3) or its deviation from roundness and using said measurement as output variable for adjusting the support guide (4).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for grinding convex running surfaces and exact outside diameters on undulated workpieces. In a clamping, a first convex running surface is ground on a discoid partial section of an undulated workpiece during a first grinding operation while using a first grinding wheel that comprises at least one concave lateral surface. A second grinding wheel is used to grind a desired outside diameter on the discoid partial section as well as on other partial sections of the undulated workpiece during a second grinding operation.

Abstract: A method for controlling the process during rough grinding of a workpiece provides that the workpiece is measured during grinding by a sensor to ascertain an actual size, and the measured actual size is corrected in a continuously automatic manner to attain a predetermined specified size according to grinding time. Additionally, a grinding machine for carrying out the method comprises a grinding wheel for rough grinding a workpiece on a grinding spindle head. The grinding machine also has a sensor for detecting a ground workpiece dimension, and a machine controller. The workpiece is held between a workpiece spindle and a tail spindle. The sensor is arranged primarily in a plane defined by a current contact area of the grinding wheel on the workpiece which rotates, and during rough grinding, the sensor continuously transmits measurement signals to the machine controller.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for grinding fluted tools (10) that have an essentially circular envelope curve, in particular, for grinding spiral fluted tools. The device provided with a steady for guiding the tool to be ground comprises a guideway (8) with at least two inner lateral faces. The lateral faces each extend in planes in a manner that is essentially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tool to be ground and they form an angle for accommodating the tool to be ground, whereby the tool to be ground rests each time with at least two circumferential points (a11, a12) of its essentially circular envelope curve at least on two of the inner lateral faces of the guideway. In order to carry out the inventive method, a tool to be ground is appropriately clamped and pressed into the guideway by means of at least one grinding wheel (41) while the flutes are ground.

Abstract: A description is given of an apparatus and a method for grinding a workpiece, in particular a shaft part. According to the method, the workpiece is clamped in place for the grinding working and its geometry is subsequently ground in such a way as to maintain its dimensions and shape. According to the invention, at least part of the surface of the workpiece is precision-worked at least partly at the same time as the grinding. The apparatus according to the invention has a work-spindle headstock and a tailstock for clamping the workpiece in place as well as a grinding unit with a grinding wheel for grinding the workpiece. The grinding unit and workpiece are arranged movably in relation to each other in a controlled manner. The apparatus according to the invention additionally has a precision-working unit, which can be moved according to the geometry of the workpiece in such a way that at least part of the surface of the workpiece is able to undergo precision working.

Abstract: The present invention provides a drive for a grinding wheel of a cam grinding machine, in which case an electric motor is provided with a drive wheel, the drive wheel is provided with equispaced, annular recesses, the annular recesses are fitted on the radial surfaces with permanent magnets, a grinding spindle rotor is provided with equispaced, annular recesses, the radial surfaces of the annular recesses are fitted with permanent magnets, and the annular recesses, fitted with permanent magnets, of the drive wheel and the rotor intermesh.

Abstract: A system for loading and unloading a machine tool provides a loading unit having a loading unit chassis. Two fixing devices each have a fixing piece disposed on the machine tool and having a receiving section, and a mating piece mounted on the loading unit chassis and having a configuration for engagement with the receiving section. The fixing devices are disposed vertically displaced from one another permitting simultaneous engagement. A bearing structure has rollers and supports the loading unit chassis on a surface. The bearing structure is vertically displaceable relative to the loading unit chassis to permit lifting and lowering of the loading unit chassis for engagement and disengagement of the first and second fixing devices. In an embodiment the receiving sections are slots arranged in a bottom of each of the fixing pieces and the configuration of the mating pieces is an upwardly directed engagement member.

Abstract: A system for loading and unloading a machine tool provides a loading unit having a loading unit chassis. Two fixing devices each have a fixing piece disposed on the machine tool and having a receiving section, and a mating piece mounted on the loading unit chassis and having a configuration for engagement with the receiving section. The fixing devices are disposed vertically displaced from one another permitting simultaneous engagement. A bearing structure has rollers and supports the loading unit chassis on a surface. The bearing structure is vertically displaceable relative to the loading unit chassis to permit lifting and lowering of the loading unit chassis for engagement and disengagement of the first and second fixing devices. In an embodiment the receiving sections are slots arranged in a bottom of each of the fixing pieces and the configuration of the mating pieces is an upwardly directed engagement member.

Abstract: A grinding machine includes a bed, structure for supporting a camshaft on the bed, a carriage displaceably mounted on the bed to permit movement relative to the camshaft in a radial direction of the camshaft, first and second grinding spindles respectively having a rough-grinding disc and a finish-grinding disc, a headstock having the first and second grinding spindles mounted therein and the first and second grinding spindles respectively having first and second spindle axes aligned to intersect each other at an angle. The second grinding spindle also has a third grinding which has a third diameter smaller than a first diameter of the rough-grinding disc, greater than a second diameter of the finish-grinding disc and equal to substantially twice a concavity radius and of a cam to be ground and a width narrower than a cam width.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a device for regrinding tools having straight or helical grooves with the help of a positioning head, which is provided with a feeler pin, which engages a groove and which, in the direction of advance, is disposed in front of the grinding disk. In order to make it possible to regrind the tool over the whole of its length, it is proposed pursuant to the invention that a positioning head with two feeler pins be used, the first feeler pin, which leads the grinding disk, being retracted from the groove before entry into the groove outlet or, if this groove runs out into the open, before leaving this groove and the second feeler pin, which is rigidly connected with the positioning head, trailing the grinding disk and, after removal of the first feeler pin from the groove, taking over the guidance of the spindle sleeve of the spindle head of the workpiece.

Abstract: An apparatus for grinding particularly a crankshaft is proposed, the apparatus having a workpiece headstock and a tailstock with, in each case, a bearing, which is disposed in the extension of the crankshaft axis and is intended to accommodate the crankshaft at its axial end points. Moreover, the workpiece headstock and the tailstock each have a spike, in which the crankshaft is mounted and fixed free of axial pressure.

Abstract: A rough grinding wheel has a plurality of annular grooves with widths at the surfaces of the grooves that are less than the widths thereof at the bottoms of the grooves. This feature provides a space for fluid during the grinding process. A finishing wheel may be mounted on a common shaft with the rough grinding wheel. The rough grinding wheel is intended for use in a method for grinding the outer contour of a cam wherein the cam is rough-ground with the roughing wheel; after a first radial infeed, the rough grinding wheel is withdrawn and axially displaced for a second infeed; this process is repeated until the cam is rough-ground.

Abstract: An apparatus for gas purification is provided by means of charge build-up in an ionization means and subsequent electrostatic separation of ionized dirt particles in a separation means, which comprises collection surfaces arranged along lanes which are passed by the gas flow. These lanes are formed between fixed voltage-carrying plates and rotatable, grounded discs. The plates and the discs have substantially the same spacing to one another where a substantially stationary cleaning means strips off the deposited dirt particles on the discs. The arrangement provides an operation essentially independent of the contaminant or pollutant, high efficiency and uncomplicated production.

Abstract: Apparatus for internally grinding rotationally-symmetrical workpieces, the grinding disc of which only abuts against the end face of the workpiece and has a generatrix which extends in a substantially flat manner and, by subtending a small clearance anle, is guided towards the area of the workpiece to be machined, a further clearance angle being formed by an offset disposition of the axes of the grinding disc and of the workpiece relative to one another, the point of contact between the grinding disc and the completely ground workpiece face being offset by a dimension D relative to the central axis of the workpiece.

Abstract: Apparatus for internally grinding rotationally-symmetrical workpieces, the grinding disc of which only abuts against the end face of the workpiece and has a generatrix which extends in a substantially flat manner and, by subtending a small clearance angle, is guided towards the area of the workpiece to be machined, a further clearance angle being formed by an offset disposition of the axes of the grinding disc and of the workpiece relative to one another, the point of contact between the grinding disc and the completely ground workpiece face being offset by a dimension D relative to the central axis of the workpiece.

Abstract: A bearing system for high speed spindles of machine tools, particularly grinding machines, comprises at least one front bearing arranged close to the spindle flange and a rear bearing, which in each case have three support rolls acting equiangularly on the spidle and having a larger diameter than the latter. In order to obtain a clearance-free bearing system in the case of speeds up to 150,000 rpm satisfying the precision requirements made on precison machine tools, the support rolls are fixed and mounted with roll journals provided on either side in small diameter precision ballbearings in the casing receiving the spindle and the support rolls. The spindle has as bearing surfaces conical portions inclined against one another and with resepct to which the axis of the support rolls is parallel. At least the support rolls of one bearing are adjustable axially parallel to the spindle for prestressing or pretensioning purposes.

Abstract: A method of clamping rotationally symmetrical workpieces for their circumferences to be ground, whereby the radial positioning, the clamping and the axial positioning of the workpiece are effected independently of one another, so that the positioning operation is not affected by the clamping operation and is accurately maintained. In addition, a clamping device for implementing the method includes a first member which radially positions the workpiece, a second member which clamps the workpiece for transferring torque, and a third member which axially positions the workpiece.

Abstract: In a method and an apparatus for high speed profile grinding of rotatably clamped rotation symmetrical workpieces, a grinding disk of an essentially flat surface line is being guided against the surface of the workpiece so that during the grinding process, the grinding disk touches the circumference of the workpiece in the region of the finished diameter only at a point which lies perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the workpiece, whereby the surface line of the grinding disk forms a clearance angle with the circumferential line of the ground surface of the workpiece.