Wedge Moving Perpendicular To Tool-axis Patents (Class 408/179)
  • Patent number: 7322777
    Abstract: A cutting tool with a cutting insert and a pivotable screw and nut combination for holding the cutting insert. The cutting tool also has a feed mechanism to adjust the position of at least one cutting edge of the cutting insert in the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Horst Jåger, Berthold Zeug
  • Patent number: 7311477
    Abstract: A metal cutting tool is provided with at least one cutting insert mounted in an insert pocket in communication with an adjusting mechanism, the cutting insert comprising at least one insert adjusting slot extending between two opposing major faces thereof and opening out to each major face at an adjusting aperture and the adjusting mechanism comprising at least one adjusting member having an adjusting member top face underlying the cutting insert while being visible and accessible therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Iscar Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil Hecht, Oleg Eliezer
  • Patent number: 7029209
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for fine adjustment of the position of the cutting tool. In one embodiment, a boring tool includes a coupling member driven by a CNC boring machine, a cutting tool which is slidably coupled to the coupling member, and a slidable adjustment member. A frictional force resists sliding movement of the cutting tool. The frictional force is sufficient to retain the position of the cutting tool during machining operations. However, the frictional force is insufficient to resist an adjusting force applied by the adjustment member. Sliding motion of the adjustment, either by pulling or pushing it, results in movement of the cutting tool. In one embodiment, the cutting tool and the adjustment member are slidable in different directions. In another embodiment, the boring tool is adapted and configured to convert a first, greater amount of movement by the adjustment member to a second, lesser amount of movement by the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Cardemon, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard A. Cardemon, Joseph Baker
  • Patent number: 7029210
    Abstract: A circulating tool for cutting of workpieces including a carrier element that bears at least one cutter blade insert in an exactly positioned manner. A device is provided for adjusting the position of the insert relative to the carrier element and a clamping device is provided using a clamping claw, with which the insert can be fixed in the adjusted position relative to the carrier element in that the clamping claw presses the insert flat against a support surface. In order to be able to use indexable inserts of any form without providing weakening openings and to obtain the greatest possible measure of free space for configuring the tool and shaving removal with a space-saving configuration of the adjusting and clamping apparatus, the insert is accommodated in a pocket of the clamping claw and the support surface is directly constructed on the carrier element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Dr. Joerg GUEHRING
    Inventor: Uwe Schlagenhauf
  • Patent number: 6802679
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drilling tool comprising a tool holder, on whose front face interchangeable cutting attachments are fixed and which has a shaft part on the opposite end to said attachments and an adjusting device for minimizing the tolerance measurement determined by the drilling system. In order to improve the aforementioned adjusting device, the invention is characterized in that the tool holder (1) has groove-shaped recesses (5, 8), which lie on respective diametrically opposed sides and which are eccentrically arranged on a plane that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the tool holder. Said groove-shaped recesses have a half-cylinder extension on each of the sides facing the longitudinal axis of the tool holder. A bolt (2, 3), whose dimensions correspond to the size of the cylinder, is located in each extension. The first bolt (2) is connected to a tapered adjusting element (9) using a double-threaded screw (11) which is positioned radially in relation to the tool holder (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: Widia GmbH
    Inventor: Markus Heinloth
  • Publication number: 20020081168
    Abstract: A tool for the fine machining of workpieces having at least one cutter tip and at least one setting device acting on the cutter tip. The setting device comprises an adjusting element extending over a region of one side face of the cutter tip. A set screw displaces the adjusting element relative to the cutter tip at least one radially and axially with respect to the body. This moves the cutter tip at least one of radially and axially with respect to the body of the tool. A second adjusting element operably by a second setting device may be provided to act on a second side face of the cutter tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Applicant: MAPAL Fabrik fur prazisionswerkzeuge Dr. Kress KG
    Inventor: Dieter Kress
  • Patent number: 5807037
    Abstract: A tool head, in particular a fine adjustment head for use in machine-tools, may be coupled to a rotary machine spindle (26) and has a slide (16) that may be adjusted transversely to the axis (12) of the base body and is provided with a projecting tool-receiving part (14) on its front face. A measurement arrangement (18) is provided for directly measuring the adjustment path of the slide (16) in relation to the base body (10). The tool head further has an adjustment motor (20) that acts on the slide (16) in the direction of adjustment and an external current supply arrangement (22) for electronic components integrated into the tool head and for the adjustment motor (20). In order to obtain a compact design with high adjustment precision, the adjustment motor (20) is arranged with its cylindrical housing (45) in a recess (46) of the base body (10) that extends transversely to the direction of adjustment of the slide (45) and to the axis of the base body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Komet Praezisionswerkzeuge Robert Breuning GmbH
    Inventors: Eberhardt Schneider, Gerhard Scheer
  • Patent number: 5352075
    Abstract: An adjustable cutting assembly includes a wedge member extending transversely through a clearance opening in a sleeve portion of a cutting element adapter that is slidable supported on a rotary arbor. Radial motion of the wedge member can be used to shift the adapter axially on the arbor, thereby adjusting or controlling the depth of cut of the cutting element. An axially oriented locking bolt is used to clamp the wedge member between opposed guide surfaces on the adapter and arbor, so that during machining operations the tool assembly has the rigidity of a non-adjustable tool assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Valenite Inc.
    Inventor: Ray Stephens
  • Patent number: 5251511
    Abstract: The invention concerns an adjustable tool for use in machine tools, with a slide (14) which can be fitted with at least one cutting tool and which can be displaced relative to the rotating main body (10) perpendicularly to the axis of rotation. The invention also calls for a device (20) for the direct measurement of the displacement of the slide (14), the slide being fitted with an electronically read measurement scale (24). This device comprises battery-powered data-processing electronics (20) and is located inside the main body (10). The displacement reading can be presented on a digital display (26) which is also mounted in the tool head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1993
    Assignee: KOMET Praezisionswerkzeuge Robert Breuning GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Muendlein, Gerhard Scheer, Gerhard Stolz
  • Patent number: 4954024
    Abstract: A precision boring tool for the machining of inner faces of bores with at least one cutting plate, supported by a bracing claw, is disclosed. The cutting plate (2) is tilted versus the plane running through the cutting edge (11) of the cutting plate (2) and the longitudinal axis (17) of the precision boring tool (1). Thus, the bracing claw (3) can be disposed such that it does not protrude into the chip space (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Assignee: Mapal Fabrik fur Prazisionswerkzeuge Dr. Kress KG
    Inventors: Dieter Kress, Friedrich Haberle
  • Patent number: 4930947
    Abstract: A tool holder is disclosed having a body adapted to be rotatably driven about an axis. The body includes an axial bore at one end which is adapted to receive the cylindrical shank of a cutting tool. A radial bore in the body receives a threaded fastener which, upon tightening, abuts against the cutting tool shank to secure the shank to the tool holder body. A pair of alignment members are adjustably secured to the body and each alignment member has an alignment surface which is substantially tangent to the axial bore whereas each alignment member is shaped so that the radial distance between the alignment surface on the alignment member and the axis of the tool holder varies in dependence upon the position of the alignment member. Adjustment of the alignment members and fastener centers the cutting tool to the tool holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1990
    Assignee: M.L.S. Detroit, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Jacobson
  • Patent number: 4850757
    Abstract: A rotary cutting tool including an elongated generally cylindrical holder having a recess into which is fitted a disposable cutting insert. The insert is held in place by a clamping member which bears against a surface of the insert and which is attached to the holder by a clamping screw. Radial adjustment of the insert can be effected by adjusting screws which have camming surfaces which bear against a corresponding camming surface of the insert. In axial cross section, the axis of each adjustment screw is parallel to the axis of the clamping screw and to a horizontal axis of the holder, and an axis of the insert is at an angle relative to a vertical axis of the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: GTE Valenite Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel R. Stashko
  • Patent number: 4786217
    Abstract: A tool for metal-cutting comprises a holder (3) on which is mounted in its front part (3a) a cutting plate (6) and which is formed together with a base body (2) as an integral unit by being connected rigidly to the base body (2) in the region of its rear end (3b), a perforation (9) in the holder forming a parallel-type spring arrangement so that the holder is resiliently deflectable relative to a support (11) formed by the base body (2), and an adjustment device for deflecting the holder in use as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1988
    Assignee: J. Kuhn GmbH & Co. Prazisionswerkzeug KG.
    Inventor: Frank Johne
  • Patent number: 4692069
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cutter head having a substantially cylindrical main body and a plurality of replaceably cutting elements disposed at the periphery of said main body and having at least one cutting edge in the axial and/or radial direction of said main body. For achieving a reliable three-dimensional adjustment of the cutting members within extremely close tolerances, each cutting member is mounted on a carrier member itself mounted on said main body and adapted to be radially and axially adjusted relative to the main body by means of separate adjustment means disposed between said main body and said carrier member, and to be fixed relative to said main body with the aid of clamping means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1987
    Assignee: Walter Kieninger GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Kieninger
  • Patent number: 4631994
    Abstract: A linearly and angularly adjustable holder for a cutting tool having primary and secondary cutting edges includes a basic element, a receptacle element for the cutting tool rotatably mounted on the basic element, and a setting element slidably mounted on the basic element.The receptacle element is mounted on the basic element so as to be pivotal about the point of intersection of the primary and secondary cutting edges of the cutting bit. An adjustment screw 50 whose threaded portion is seated in the basic element and whose head engages a recess in the receptacle element serves to perform the angular adjustment. The linear adjustment is accomplished with the aid of a double threaded adjustment screw which connects a wedge and the basic element and which slidably engages the setting member to control the length of the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1986
    Assignee: Fried. Krupp Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Willi Jester, Norbert Reiter
  • Patent number: 4626149
    Abstract: A rotating toolhead on a preferably longitudinally movable headstock of a machine tool is disclosed. The machine tool includes at least one head carriage radially movable on the toolhead with at least one toolholder on the carriage. A motor for advancing the head carriage is operatively connectable to a drive transmission, and an axially movable driver is associated with the drive transmission and engages a ring arranged rotation-fast and longitudinally movable on a main spindle. An angular drive transfer engages with inclined planar teeth in corresponding teeth of the head carriage for movement thereof. Several groups of toolheads are also disclosed which can be arranged to form a machining line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1986
    Assignee: Machinefabrik Heid Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Holy, Johann Eigner
  • Patent number: 4621548
    Abstract: An interchangeable machine tool holder unit for use in a machining apparatus for the support of a machining element, for example, a cutting bit, which includes an elongated rotary body adapted to be driven in one direction about the longitudinal axis thereof, a tool holder supported in end-to-end fashion by the rotary body for movement in a direction radially of the rotary body, an axially displaceable member axially displaceably carried inside the rotary body, and an indexing mechanism for causing the axially displaceable member to move in the axial direction each time the rotary body undergoes one complete rotation to permit the tool holder to move in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1986
    Assignee: Daishowa Seiki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruaki Kubo, Hidemori Kawashita
  • Patent number: 4526496
    Abstract: A tapered thread cutting machine includes a multi-part rotary machining head, one part including a through-recess and another being a separable interior wear plate. Interacting chaser holders are mounted in the recess and include angled V-shaped slots in which block type chasers may be secured between clamps and locating pins enabling the chasers to be removed and replaced without removing the holders from the recess. The holders are driven by a linear cam for opening and closing movement through a thrust block mounted on a guide rod, such thrust block being fitted in a slot in one holder but otherwise not secured thereto so that binding in the opening and closing of tool holders is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1985
    Assignee: Erico Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Anton M. Kies, Mark V. Samas
  • Patent number: 4505625
    Abstract: A boring head (10; 50) for internal machining of bores in workpieces comprising an insert holder (16; 41) and an operating means (18; 27; 51, 52) resting thereagainst. The operating means is adapted to adjust the insert holder (16; 41) radially when turned about its longitudinal axis. The boring head (10; 50) is associated with control means (21; 28; 63), which are adapted to turn the operating means (18; 27; 51, 52). To advantage the boring head might be provided with a cutting insert, the cutting edge of which comprises a straight forward portion (68) and a convex rear portion (69).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1985
    Assignee: Santrade Ltd.
    Inventor: Nils G. Lundvall
  • Patent number: 4279550
    Abstract: The cutting head of a boring tool has a cylindrically arcuate face about the axis of rotation and a radially and axially open groove for release of cooling fluid and chip removal. A single cutting plate is releasably recessed in one wall of the groove and a clamping jaw in the other wall in abutting engagement with the blade whose edge has a primary cutting portion axially projecting from an end portion of the cutting head and a secondary cutting portion radially projecting from the arcuate carrier face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1981
    Assignee: MAPAL Fabrik fur Prazisionswerkzeuge Dr. Kress KG
    Inventors: Dieter Kress, Friedrich Haberle
  • Patent number: 4278372
    Abstract: An adjustable multiple blade boring bar with diametrically disposed overlapping blade blocks, each adjustable in and out and a control cartridge having actuator pins movable in opposite directions in response to rotation of a differential screw, the pins being oriented in relation to slots on the blade block to move in a camming relationship to shift the blocks in and out. A differential screw associates the control cartridge and the boring bar to permit radial equalization of the blade block when installed initially or after sharpening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1981
    Assignee: Fansteel Inc.
    Inventor: Marvin M. Heisner
  • Patent number: 4162867
    Abstract: In the machine tool art, a dual cutter boring head which comprises a cylindrical body having side-by-side, tool-holding slides mounted diametrally thereon; the slides at their outer ends being fitted with cutters disposed exteriorly of the periphery of the body, and micro-adjustment mechanism within the confines of the body arranged to impart simultaneous, opposed, reversible motion to the slides whereby to precisely and equally adjust the slides and the cutters thereon outwardly or inwardly, selectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1979
    Assignee: Carando Machine Works
    Inventors: Donald J. Calcaterra, Robert A. Rhinefrank, Donald W. Barton
  • Patent number: 4125342
    Abstract: The rotating cutter head of a reamer is formed with a recess, open in a radially outward direction and one circumferential direction relative to the axis of rotation, and a blade is retained in the recess between opposite, radially extending faces of the head and of a clamping shoe that may be adjusted inward of the recess. Two face portions of the blade are engaged by the respective faces of the head and shoe in area contact in planes which converge in a radially outward direction at a small acute angle to prevent movement of the blade from an initial, radially adjusted position under cutting stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1978
    Assignee: MAPAL Fabrik fur Prazisionswerkzeuge Dr. Kress KG
    Inventor: Dieter Kress
  • Patent number: 4043696
    Abstract: A boring tool has a cutter mounted on a holder adjustable relative to the boring tool body. Adjustment of the cutter holder is effected by displaceable wedging surfaces in engagement with each other, one of such wedging surfaces being provided on the cutter holder and the other being provided on an adjustably displaceable wedge piece, the cutter holder body being substantially cylindrical but prevented from rotating by the wedge piece having a plane surface in engagement with a plane surface of the cutter holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1977
    Assignee: Emil Wohlhaupter u. Co.
    Inventor: Gerhard Wohlhaupter
  • Patent number: 4030176
    Abstract: A cartridge for adjustably mounting cutter bits on a toolholder is provided. Lateral adjustment of the cartridge is achieved before or after insertion of the cartridge in the toolholder by sliding interaction of adjusting wedge means and a mating surface on the cartridge body actuated by a rotatable eccentric pin. Longitudinal cartridge adjustment is by adjustable means mounted in the end of the cartridge body. The cutting edge angularity of the insert is maintained at all times. Additionally, full mounting surface contact is preserved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1977
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Ronald E. Michonski
  • Patent number: 4011025
    Abstract: An expanding machine reamer whose cutter head has an imperforate core portion and three axially elongated rib portions radially projecting from the core portion in circumferentially spaced relationship. The rib portions are each formed with three bores approximately perpendicular to a common axial plane. A first bore receives a clamping screw engaging a clamping shoe which holds a cutting blade against a flank of the rib portion, second and third bores hold wedge-shaped abutment members radially engaging the blade and backing screws by means of which the radial position and the inclination of the cutting edge of the blade may be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1977
    Assignee: MAPAL Dr. Kress KG
    Inventor: Dieter Kress