Abstract: A toolholder for holding a cutting tool such as a tap in the spindle of a machine tool includes a torque-limiting clutch to prevent excessive load being applied to the cutting tool. The clutch comprises at least one ball located in sockets in the driving and driven members but there is an arrangement, whereby at a predetermined critical torque, the ball moves axially out of engagement with one of the driving and driven members to disconnect the drive, and a deflecting device engages with the ball and moves it to a position where it does not encounter the socket from which it has been released or any similar sockets. This prevents wear on the clutch.The toolholder also comprises a conduit system for cutting fluid being fed into a bore in the cutting tool. The conduit extends through a telescopic part of the toolholder and includes a flexible part deviating from a straight linear form, so that it can extend by tending to straighten, in order to accommodate telescopic extension of the toolholder.

Abstract: The tool holder, which serves principally for receiving a thread cutting tool, has a length compensation under tension and compression. This purpose is served by two compression springs which comprise massive elements of foamed, open and closed cell polyurethane elastomer. This material has good spring and damping properties. The compression springs operate without fatigue. The tool holder also has a coupling which permits radial movements of the thread cutting tool transverse to the axis of rotation in order to compensate for alignment errors.

Abstract: The rivet shaver driver element of the present invention includes an internally threaded hollow cylindrical body. At one end of the hollow cylindrical body is located a drive slot. Along the length of the driver element are spindle locking slots. Wrench flats are formed on the sides of the drive element. The placement of the drive slot spindle locking slots and wrench flats as such that the driver element is dynamically symmetrical.

Abstract: A tapper/threader assembly for use in a lathe is disclosed. The assembly has a piston member mounted for reciprocal movement with a sleeve housing, a shank member is connected to the piston member and an end extending from the housing. A mounting shaft for a chuck extends from the housing and a spring biases the housing toward the piston member.

Abstract: A tool holder for a gun drill or reamer has internal and external cylindrical rear end pilot portions and a radial pilot flange for precisely connecting coaxially with a rotatable and axially moveable power source. A sleeve confined coaxially within the internal cylindrical portion has an axially extending flat spline surface for effecting driving engagement with a mating flat of a tool shank. A contractible conical split collet at the forward end of the holder coaxially clamps the tool shank when moved axially to a clamping position by means of a non-rotatable nut secured to the collet for cocking out of axial alignment therewith to assure precise coaxial clamping of the tool shaft. The nut is in screw threaded engagement with a rotatable and non-axially moveable collar provided with beveled gear teeth for rotation by a Jacobs type tool.

Abstract: A tap holder e.g. for threading taps, has a drive body (1) intended for connecting to the chuck of a drive motor. The driving power is transferred by a torque-limiting device (2, 9, 11) to a clamping body (8) intended to clamp the shank (12) of the threading tap. By the clamping body having outer (6) and inner (5) jaws with an intermediate elastic member (7), tool shanks of different dimensions may be accommodated by the clamping body.

Abstract: A boring bar assembly for boring large diameter turbine bores in the field, the assembly utilizing a small hydraulic motor which drives a boring bar through an in line double reduction gear drive with a reduction ratio in excess of 100:1 and an output shaft which compensates for as much as 6.degree. angular misalignment between the boring bar and the output shaft of the gear box.

Abstract: A device for honing workpieces. The device includes a rotatable and axially reciprocating honing tool which is guided by an upper and a lower end section in corresponding bearings of a workholding fixture, and also includes a drive rod between the honing tool and a machine spindle. This drive rod is flexible in the radial direction, which prevents out-of-balance at high rotational speeds of the honing tool as a result of excessive mass and excessive play in pivot bearings, while the associated uncontrolled vibrations are also prevented.

Abstract: A quick-change chuck for holding a tap of a tap drill comprises a member connectable to the spindle of the drill and a chuck head for holding the tool. The chuck is further provided with the device for an axial compensation for a difference between the spindle stroke and the pitch of the thread of the tap drill. This device includes a compression-responsive device which makes possible an axial compensation in the case of the compression force directed towards the spindle-receiving member, and a separate independent tension-responsive device which makes possible an axial compensation when a tension force acts on the chuck in the direction away from the spindle-receiving member. Each axial compensation device includes axially displaceable balls positioned in axial cylindrical passages provided in the spindle-receiving member and the chuck head, respectively.

Abstract: A drilling device for removing a spot-welded portion includes a main body casing having a chuck receiving holder, a U-shaped arm one an end of which is connected to a side portion of the chuck receiving holder, a grip handle pivotally connected to a base shoulder portion of the U-shaped arm, a chuck thrusting arm mounted integrally at an end of the grip handle, and a chuck having a drill fixed thereof, the drill facing a free end of the U-shaped arm, and a chuck receiver for receiving the chuck and slidably inserted into the main body casing. The chuck is rotated and projected in the direction toward the free end of the U-shaped arm by movement of the chuck receiver upon depression of the grip handle, the force of which is transmitted via the chuck thrusting arm. The drilling device further includes a projection amount adjusting screw for adjusting the amount of projection of the chuck.

Abstract: A tap holder adapted for attachment to the main spindle of machine tool to cut internal threads in a workpiece, the tap holder including a floating mechanism by which the tap holding spindle is smoothly moved in the axial direction, the floating mechanism being featured by a single coil spring compressible in association with the axial movement of the tap holding spindle, and by its feasibility that a possible error occurring between the lead of the tap and the feed of the main spindle of the machine tool is automatically corrected.

Abstract: A toolholder for a rotary tool has a driving part adapted to be coupled to a machine spindle and a driven part in which a cutting tool may be mounted along a tool axis. The driving part and the driven part are coupled to permit pivotal movement and lateral movement perpendicular to the tool axis by a joint mechanism. This joint mechanism includes a substantially spherically shaped recess in which a substantially spherically shaped body is mounted for pivotal movement to all sides.

Abstract: A dwell assembly back spotface for use with a reverse feed drill to provide an accurate depth of cut together with cutter dwell to insure a clean hole.

Abstract: An improved boring tool comprising a generally elongated housing member, an angle drive mechanism providing rotation about an axis at right angles to the housing member, and a unique floating boring bit which is slidably mounted upon the angle drive mechanism for axial movement along the axis of rotation. The boring bit features a central lead screw for drawing the bit axially into and through the workpiece over which the boring bit is placed as permitted by the floating mounting. A telescoping wall structure of the boring bit permits the bit to continue extending axially to complete penetration of the workpiece. An integral power source may be provided or provision made for the attachment of a portable electric drill or other readily available external power source. The cutting head of the boring bit may be removably mounted to facilitate replacement of worn cutting surfaces and to permit substitution of boring bits of different sizes for boring holes of different diameters.

Abstract: A tool holder (10) in which coolant fluid is delivered to a driven tool (115) through a piston (220) which extends through an axial passage in the tool holder (10) and its collet or chuck (170) and is held in contact with the tool (115) by pressure of the coolant fluid. The tool holder advantageously provides an axial float in which springs mount the tool (115) to the tool holder (10) and allow the collet to follow the lead of the tool. The coolant delivery system (200), although acting in an axial direction, does not interfere with the axial "float" of the tool and collet, as the fluid pressure is chosen to be great enough to provide a face seal and small enough not to destroy the float of the tool.

Abstract: Thread-milling machine incorporating one driving and one driven unit (14, 10), between which are provided means for the transfer of torque (22) permitting mutual axial displacement of the two units. Between the two units are mounted spring elements, one of which (36) is tensioned when the units are moved away from one another and the other (58, 60) being tensioned when the two units are moved in the opposite direction to this. The elements (34, 50) mounted between the spring elements are so arranged as to balance the freedom of movement of the units towards or away from each other from an initial position determined by the tension of the springs. The elements (34, 50) mounted between the spring elements are provided with pressure devices (88; 96; 108; 116) so designed as to increase the resistance to axial displacement of the units towards one another regardless of the preset positions of the units (14, 10).

Abstract: A tap holder characterized in that its cylindrical shank is axially movably and non-rotatably keyed within a tubular socket of a housing by keys having rolling engagement with complemental axially extending V grooves in the shank and in drive blocks disposed in axially extending slots of the socket, and engaged within a retainer sleeve which locates the drive blocks and keys coaxially of the shank for uniform distribution of torque loads to prevent high pressure sliding contact of the shank with the socket under torque load during relative axial movement of the housing and tap holder. The shank is additionally spring-connected to the socket by two coil springs both of which yieldably oppose relative axial movement in one direction and but one of which yieldably opposes relative axial movement in the opposite direction.

Abstract: A power tool includes a turret rotatably mounted on a hub, a first shaft rotatably mounted in the hub and a second shaft mounted for rotation in the turret and for aligned rotating engagement with the first shaft in the hub. A sleeve is provided in the hub for limiting wear between the rotating shafts in the hub and for enhancing alignment between the shafts. Means are provided for venting between the first and second shafts.

Abstract: Device for drilling a hole of predetermined depth having an abutment member non-rotatable in relation to the stationary part of the drilling machine and provided with an abutment surface intended to come into contact with the work piece by the displacement of the drill spindle of said drilling machine towards the work piece, a driving member intended to be connected to the drill spindle said driving member being rotatably and displaceably arranged in relation to the abutment member, a holding member intended to hold the drill and being rotatably mounted relative to the abutment member and displaceably but not rotatably connected to the driving member and provided to be secured against axial displacement in relation to the abutment member and a spring provided between said driving member and said abutment member, the driving member being displaceably in a direction towards the work piece against the action of said spring.

Abstract: The holder is intended for fixed application to the tail stock of a lathe, or equivalent machine tool, to optionally mount a die or tap for externally or internally threading a workpiece carried on the rotating head-stock end of such machine tool. Thus mounted and adjustably pre-set, the holder automatically decouples operationally from the workpiece after a predetermined axial length of threading has been cut on the work part, thus causing the latter to rotatively overrun the tap or die on the holder.

Abstract: A Tap Driver Assembly for use between a spindle that is adapted to provide a coolant and a tap that is adapted to conduct such coolant therethrough, the tap driver assembly including a body in which a nose is slidably guided, a collet clamped by a nut in such nose, a slidable drive connection between the body and the nose which enables relative axial movement while providing an angular drive, spring means acting between the nose and the body so that the feed of the tap could lead or lag the feed of the spindle, and a fluid passage in the body leading from the spindle in bypassing relation to the slidable drive connection, bypassing the spring means, and extending through the nose, axially into the collet to the tap.

Abstract: This invention is an apparatus to provide for a tap driver system that maintains alignment of a tap at the start of engagement and permits a limited amount of linear movement by providing a tension spring mounting system to connect the tap holder assembly and the tap assembly.

Abstract: The attachment has a rotatable spindle and the horizontal boring machine has a headstock rotatably mounting an axially reciprocable headstock spindle. A dog clutch includes a first clutch member rotatable with the attachment spindle and a second clutch member rotatable with the headstock spindle. The attachment is arranged to be bolted to the headstock with the clutch members in axial alignment. Rotation of the headstock spindle is halted in a predetermined angular position, and the headstock spindle is advanced toward the attachment. A releasable member is operable to retain the first clutch member in an angular position in which its teeth are in correct meshing alignment with the teeth of the second clutch member for smooth interengagement of the clutch members responsive to the advance of the headstock spindle.