Abstract: A ball screw spline actuator includes a shaft, a ball nut, and a ball spline. The shaft includes a helical groove and a spline groove intersecting the helical groove forming intersections having a least one ridge including a first surface finish formed by a first manufacturing operation. The ridge is subsequently reformed through a second manufacturing operation to include a second surface finish to reduce stress concentrations in the ridge from cyclical loading from at least one of the ball nut or the ball spline. In one example, the second manufacturing operation reforms the ridge to include a surface finished edge.

Abstract: A core slabbing machine for the removal of paper wound on a mill roll core, to thereby permit reuse of the core. The machine includes a horizontal core-receiving mandrel and a carraige which moves horizontally back and forth above, and aligned with, the mandrel. The carriage carries a freely rotatable cutting wheel which is forced downwardly by a pneumatic cylinder onto the paper to be removed from a core. Each horizontal pass of the rotary cutting wheel cuts through a number of layers of paper determined by the force on the cutting wheel. This action is automatically controlled and continues until the cutting wheel reaches the core surface exterior after a number of cutting passes. The freely rotatable cutting wheel exerts a force on the core and paper substantially at right angles to the core and its supporting mandrel, thus obviating the need to anchor the core relative to the mandrel.