Patents by Inventor Macel Aarts

Macel Aarts 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).

  • SHRINK-FIT TOOL WITH MECHANICAL RETENTION MEMBER, AND METHOD OF MOUNTING A TOOL TO A TOOLHOLDER
    Publication number: 20110193299
    Abstract: A shrink-fit tool (21) includes a tool and a toolholder, one of the tool (23) and the toolholder (25) having a male shank portion (27) and the other one of the tool (23) and the toolholder (25) having a body portion (29) including female opening (31) for receiving the shank portion (27), the female opening (31) being adapted to change in size upon heating the body portion (29) to receive the shank portion (27) and upon cooling of the body portion (29) to clamp the shank portion (27) by an interference fit. The shrink-fit tool (21) also includes a mechanical retention member (33) disposed between the shank portion (27) and the body portion (29) for mechanically retaining the shank portion (27) in the female opening (31) so that the shank portion (27) is in its only predetermined orientation relative to the body portion (29).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Alain Freyermuth, Macel Aarts