Abstract: A chip holder and a mounting device for the installation of a chip holder in cutting-tool bodies. The chip holder includes a male thread and one or more through, suitably peripheral recesses for accommodating torque-transferring fingers included in the mounting device, as well as for allowing passage of cooling liquid through a bore formed in the tool body in which bore the holder is placed. The mounting device includes one or more torque-transferring fingers, which have looking hooks in order to provisionally clamp the chip holder upon installation. Furthermore, the invention relates to a cutting-tool unit having an installed chip holder.

Abstract: A machine spindle includes a casing and a clamping mechanism disposed in the casing. The clamping mechanism includes front and rear drawbars which are relatively movable axially within the casing. A gas spring biases the rear drawbar rearwardly, and a force transmitting mechanism transmits such rearward motion to the front drawbar for moving the front drawbar rearwardly. In response to its rearward movement, the front drawbar actuates a clamp for clamping a tool. The gas spring includes a housing disposed in the casing and defining a gas chamber having a front wall through which the rear drawbar extends. The gas spring also includes a piston disposed in the gas chamber for axial movement therein. The piston is releasably connected to a rear end of the rear drawbar by a releasable coupling disposed in the chamber.

Abstract: A machine spindle includes a casing and a drawbar assembly disposed in the casing for clamping a tool in place. The drawbar assembly includes a front drawbar having a tool clamp, and a rear drawbar movable rearwardly under a spring force for pulling the front drawbar rearwardly to activate the clamp. A rearward force from the rear drawbar is transmitted to the front drawbar by a wedge arrangement that includes multiple pairs of wedges that have cooperative sliding surfaces that make surface contact (as opposed to line contact) with one another. The cooperative sliding surfaces are configured to provide an amplified rearward force against the front drawbar during a final stage of clamping.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of steel products and products thus produced, wherein steel is subjected to precipitation hardening in a martensitic structure subsequent to soft annealing and thereafter shaping. The method steps include shaping followed by solution annealing between 1200° C. and 1050° C., quenching from the solution annealing temperature with a quenching speed of at least 5° C. per second to a temperature below 500° C., subjecting said steel to an isothermal martensitic transformation and subsequently hardening the steel at a temperature between 450° C. and 550° C. to precipitate particles out from solution into said martensitic structure.