Abstract: A drill chuck has a chuck body provided with jaws that are surrounded by a tightening sleeve which can be rotated on the body to tighten or loosen the jaws. This sleeve has an array of radially inwardly projecting sleeve teeth spaced above an annular surface on the body and normally bearing downwardly on top of similarly constituted teeth of a bearing ring bearing via balls on this bearing surface of the body. The bearing ring can be fitted underneath these teeth bayonet-fashion by passing its teeth through the gaps between the teeth of the sleeve and then rotating it. Thereafter a locking element having fingers engaging axially in the gaps between the teeth of the ring and the sleeve locks these two elements rotationally together.

Abstract: A drill chuck has a chuck body defining a chuck axis and provided with a plurality of generally angularly equispaced and radially displaceable tool-engaging jaws. A tightening ring and sleeve rotatable on the chuck body about the chuck axis have formations that radially displace the jaws to grip a tool. An eccentric is rotatable on the chuck body about an eccentric axis radial of the chuck axis. This eccentric has an eccentric surface spaced from the ring and engageable via a locking member axially on the tightening ring to lock this ring in the chuck body. This eccentric is rotated about the eccentric axis by insertion of a non-cylindrical tip of the standard chuck-tightening key into a correspondingly shaped recess of the eccentric.

Abstract: A chuck has a tightening sleeve rotatable on a chuck body about the chuck axis to radially displace a plurality of tool-clamping jaws on the chuck. A bolt is slidable radially in the chuck between an outer position engaged between teeth at the edge of the tightening sleeve preventing rotation of this tightening sleeve relative to the chuck body, and an inner position permitting such rotation. This bolt is urged radially outwardly by a spring and can be radially displaced inwardly when a key is fitted to the chuck to tighten or loosen it.

Abstract: A chuck has a chuck body defining a chuck axis and carrying three angularly equispaced and radially displaceable jaws. A tightening sleeve is rotatable on this chuck body about the axis thereof and is connected via formations to the jaw and chuck body so that when it is rotated in one rotational sense it displaces the jaws radially inwardly and when rotated in the opposite rotational sense it allows outward displacement of these jaws. An axially centered array of ratchet teeth is formed on the sleeve and a ratchet is pivoted on the chuck body and has an end engageable with the ratchet teeth so that when engaged the sleeve can only rotate in the one rotational sense for tightening of the jaws relative to the chuck body. A radially outwardly displaceable counterweight is carried on this ratchet to urge it into engagement with the teeth when the chuck is rotated, but the ratchet can be manually moved out of engagement with the teeth to allow manual loosening of the chuck.

Abstract: A chuck has a chuck body rotatable about an axis and formed with a plurality of angularly spaced radially extending inner guides and a plurality of angularly spaced and radially extending outer guides. An inner jaw part wholly received within the chuck body is radially displaceable in each of the inner guides and an outer jaw part projecting axially from the chuck body is radially displaceable in each of the outer guides. An operating element is engaged with all of the inner jaw parts to jointly radially displace them. A coupling member is axially displaceable in each of the inner jaw parts between a coupling position in which each of the inner parts is locked for joint radial movement with the respective outer part and an axially offset decoupling position allowing relative radial displacement of the outer jaw parts and the respective inner jaw parts. These coupling members may be independently operable, or jointly operable by means of a cam ring.

Abstract: A radial-jaw chuck for lathes and like turning machines comprises a chuck body having a central jaw-tightening member, e.g. a sleeve, which by respective projections engages respective axially displaceable pins. The pins, in turn, are connected with chordal wedge bars by respective wedge mechanisms so that axial displacement of the pins shifts the wedge bars along the respective chords. The wedge bars, in addition, are connected with the respective chuck jaws by inclined-tooth arrangements so that the axial displacement of the tightening member causes radial displacement of the jaws.