With Interconnected Means To Simultaneously Feed Tools Patents (Class 408/41)
  • Patent number: 8651775
    Abstract: A vibration-reduction mechanism for a gear cutting machine is provided with a vibration-reduction mechanism that includes balancer shafts arranged in parallel to a crank shaft. The balancer shafts rotate synchronously with the crank shaft at the same speed as the speed of the crank shaft. One balancer shaft rotates in the opposite direction to the rotational direction of the crank shaft while the other balancer shaft rotates in the same direction as the rotational direction of the crank shaft. The vibration-reduction mechanism also includes: main balancer weights detachably attached onto the crank shaft; and sub balancer weights detachably attached onto the balancer shafts. The balancer weights are selected on the basis of a stroke width of the main shaft and on the basis of a lead corresponding to the helical angle to be formed in the workpiece W.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahide Tokawa, Kazutaka Maruyama
  • Patent number: 6595728
    Abstract: A rigid and fragile material drilling machine is provided, its driving means for driving the upper and lower drilling bit approximating the rigid and fragile material includes a control handle; upper and lower rear gears and associated upper and lower first synchronizing wheels, said upper and lower rear gears being engaged with each other; upper and lower first timing chains being wound around said upper and lower first synchronizing wheels and upper and lower second synchronizing wheels, respectively; upper and lower second timing chains being wound around said upper and lower third synchronizing wheels and upper and lower fourth synchronizing wheels, respectively; and drilling rod guiding sleeves, the gear racks thereof being engaged with said the upper and lower front gears, respectively. The rigid and fragile material drilling machine of the present invention, which is simplified in structure with a compact design and low cost, can be conveniently used wherever a power supply is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Inventor: Zhenghua Miao
  • Patent number: 6506001
    Abstract: A radial drilling device (1) for a lathe (5) for radially piercing a turning part (4) supported by the lathe. At least one drill bit (2b) is supported by a mobile drilling jaw (3a, 3b) in a transverse orthogonal plane to the axis of rotation of the part (4) to be drilled. A principal revolving drilling set (ERP) carries the drilling assembly and causes the drilling assembly to rotate around the longitudinal axis of revolution of the part (4), at the same rotational speed as that of the part (4) which is to be drilled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Inventor: Thierry Monnet
  • Publication number: 20010014260
    Abstract: A radial drilling device (1) for a lathe (5) for radially piercing a turning part (4) supported by the lathe. At least one drill bit (2b) is supported by a mobile drilling jaw (3a, 3b) in a transverse orthogonal plane to the axis of rotation of the part (4) to be drilled. A principal revolving drilling set (ERP) carries the drilling assembly and causes the drilling assembly to rotate around the longitudinal axis of revolution of the part (4), at the same rotational speed as that of the part (4) which is to be drilled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2001
    Publication date: August 16, 2001
    Inventor: Thierry Monnet
  • Patent number: 5076090
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing a reciprocating motion. The apparatus has a housing block that contains twin piston guides in spaced apart relationship to one another. The piston guides each contain a piston that has a gear rack. The gear racks are connected by a pinion gear so that the movement of one piston will cause an equal and opposite movement of the other piston. The movement of the pistons is controlled by the application of a fluid pressure to one or both of the pistons. The travel of the pistons is limited by a mechanical stop at one end and a fluid cushion device at the other end. Tools for the altering of a workpiece may be attached to one or both ends of the pistons. In one embodiment, the apparatus is subjected to a rotary displacement achieved through the linear motion of one of the pistons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: Utica Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert W. Cetnarowski
  • Patent number: 5025842
    Abstract: A machine for milling fence rails and the like having a pair of opposed milling units, each having a cutter head with a conically shaped inner surface, cutting knives arranged to taper material inserted into the heads to the shape of the inner surface and to form a projecting tine that is also tapered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Inventor: Frank E. Brimhall
  • Patent number: 4694871
    Abstract: A process is described, with the aid of which panel-type workpieces to be manufactured from a panel blank may also be provided with flat face and/or end face bores in the course of their manufacture. For this purpose, the panel blank is displaced transversely to the cutting plane into a stop position, the flat face bores pertaining to one of the workpieces to be manufactured are subsequently made in the one flat side of the panel blank. To make the further flat face bores for the workpiece, the panel blank is then transported further in a clocked manner through predetermined paths in the same direction and bored after each advance. Upon completion of all of the flat face bores, the panel blank is displaced in a clocked manner in the opposite direction into predetermined positions, fixed after each advance, and lastly severed.For the end face boring, the panel blank is displaced in the direction of advance through a path corresponding to a side length of a workpiece and subsequently clamped and severed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1987
    Inventor: Erwin Jenkner
  • Patent number: 4486128
    Abstract: A workpiece drilling machine includes to be moved to any of several drilling locations along the workpiece. A plurality of indexing detents is formed along the rail coinciding with each drilling location. A cam follower on the drill carriage is engageable with the detents to coarsely position the drill carriage. An index-cancelling device is associated with each detent and controllable by a preprogrammed input device to determine which of the detents is to be available for engagement by the cam follower. The programmed input device has a visual marking thereon corresponding to the information encoded therein and a visually perceptible status readout is controlled by the index-cancelling means to permit visual verification that the index-cancelling devices are arranged in accordance with the desired pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1984
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Irwin G. Baker, Robert L. Fuller, Jr., Dwayne E. Proff
  • Patent number: 4454645
    Abstract: A multiple station drilling apparatus is used for performing a large number of repetitive but variable machining operations, and includes a turntable having a plurality of workpiece holding fixtures distributed in spaced relation around its periphery, a plurality of tool supports mounted around and outward of the periphery to provide a sequence of machining stations, a load/unload station for the mounting of workpieces on the fixtures and their removal therefrom, and a motor for driving the turntable in an indexing fashion to bring workpieces held in the fixtures successively into registry with the machining stations. Each tool support includes at least one X-Y positioner which in turn supports a machining tool such as a reciprocating drill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1984
    Assignee: The O. S. Kelly Company
    Inventor: Brian D. Schissler
  • Patent number: 4380990
    Abstract: A portable lightweight drill assembly is mounted against one side of a sheet of flat glass having a hole or crack to be repaired; the drill shaft extends through the hole or crack to mount cutters on both sides; the cutters are spring biased against the glass to exert equal cutting force and simultaneously rotatable with the drill shaft to cut the hole from both sides to a diameter larger than the hole to be repaired, for insertion of a glass repair plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1983
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventor: Dante S. Giardini
  • Patent number: 4268196
    Abstract: Apparatus is provided for carrying, positioning and operating relatively unwieldy machine tools, such as heavy multiple-head drilling assemblies, upon massive flanged work-pieces, such as structural members for bridges, in order to more efficiently perform required operations upon the work-pieces, such as the pre-drilling of girders and their associated splice plates in a fabrication yard prior to field erection of the structure into which they will be assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1981
    Assignee: Kansas City Structural Steel Co.
    Inventors: James E. Harrow, Robert T. Kenney, II
  • Patent number: 4260300
    Abstract: A hole is formed in a workpiece by advancing together a pair of cutter-carrying boring bars from opposite sides of the workpiece. Rotation of the boring bars is synchronized to maintain the cutter-carrying portion of each boring bar in alignment with an axial recess in the boring bar. As the boring bars converge, the cutter-carrying portions enter the respective recesses whereby the cutter bits pass one another axially to complete the hole. The axes of rotation can be aligned to form a circular hole, or mutually spaced to form an oval hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1981
    Assignee: Sandvik Aktiebolag
    Inventor: Dankwardt Pickhardt
  • Patent number: 4208229
    Abstract: A method for repairing panes of glass is provided which enables fractured panes to be strengthened and holes refilled while the pane remains installed in its support structure. The method comprises steps for relieving stress points in a fractured pane, and for applying substantially transparent materials for filling portions of the pane where glass has been removed or separated. The method enables repair of laminated glass panes as well as solid glass panes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1980
    Inventor: Dante S. Giardini
  • Patent number: 4194322
    Abstract: A portable lightweight drill assembly has a cutter mounted against a sheet of flat glass through which a hole is to be drilled; in an alternate embodiment, the drill shaft extends through a hole in the glass and has cutters mounted on both sides of the glass; in each case, the cutters are biased against the glass by a fluid pressure actuated bellows type servo constructed to exert a constant cutting force against the glass surface by means of a self-regulating action of the fluid pressure force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1980
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventor: Dante S. Giardini
  • Patent number: 4179230
    Abstract: A multiple spindle drilling machine for wide flange beams comprising at least a pair of wide flange beam supporting rollers for setting and supporting both the flanges of a wide flange beam, respectively, in a cantilevering manner at the drilling position of the wide flange beam, at least a pair of gripping members for gripping the wide flange beam from both the sides thereof so that the beam is not moved, a plurality of drills disposed so that they can move in the lateral direction and the widthwise direction of the wide flange beam for drilling the wide flange beam, and a device for moving at least one of said wide flange beam supporting rollers, said gripping members and said drills integrally in the widthwise direction of the wide flange beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1979
    Assignee: Miyakawa Industry Company Limited
    Inventor: Toshikatsu Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 4179229
    Abstract: A multiple spindle drilling machine for wide flange beams comprising a guide member vertically movably disposed on a gear box, drills disposed on the guide member in two upper and lower lines, said drills being arranged so that when they are moved and brought close to a wide flange beam together with the gear box, flanges of the wide flange beam are drilled, sensing means having the top end capable of bearing against the web surface of the wide flange beam and attached to a part of the guide member, and a centering device for vertically moving said sensing means together with the guide member and stopping said vertical movement when the sensing means bears against the web surface of the wide flange beam, so that the central position between the two lines of the drills is made in agreement with the central position of the thickness direction of the web of the wide flange beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1979
    Assignee: Miyakawa Industry Company Limited
    Inventor: Toshikatsu Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 4163622
    Abstract: A drilling machine comprising an article holding device and two drilling devices, being characterized that each drilling device has one drill turning in the same direction at a synchronized speed, each drill approaching to or separating from each other symmetrically to make a hole from both sides of a rigid and fragile article made of glass or ceramic e.g. lenses of spectacles at the same time, and that the hole is chamfered and further a groove for fixing the article to the frame is made on the article, as required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1979
    Assignee: Hoya Lens Corporation
    Inventors: Hayao Akaba, Takuzo Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 4153382
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and machine for center drilling rod or rod-like materials, and a method for simultaneous center drilling of both ends of a rod or rod-like materials by using the disclosed apparatus and machine having a frame supporting a first centering cone mounted stationary to said frame, a second centering cone movably mounted to said frame for movement along an axis extending between said first and second centering cones, an adjustable and movable workpiece rest mounted to said frame for supporting a rod-like member along said axis, first and second center drilling means each movably mounted to said frame and each adjacent to and cooperating with a centering cone for center drilling of the ends of a rod-like member, adjustable sensing means for controlling the extent of center drilling at each end of a rod-like member and means for hydropneumatic movement of said movable centering cone along said axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1979
    Assignee: Sprimag Spritzmaschinenbau GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Mueller
  • Patent number: 4146350
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming solid bodies by removing material from solid workpieces. A workpiece is situated between oppositely rotating tools which remove material from the workpiece, these tools having hollow interiors facing each other and each conforming to the configuration of one half of the finished body. The hollow interiors of the tools have teeth for removing material from the workpiece, and while the tools are rotated oppositely the distance therebetween is due so that from the workpiece a body is gradually formed, this body finally becoming almost completely enclosed within the hollow interiors of the tools, whereupon the latter have the distance therebetween increased so that the body formed thereby can be removed. These tools are adapted to form from a workpiece bodies of full circular or ring-shaped configuration, and the hollow interiors of the tools are provided with raised teeth similar to file teeth, for removing material from a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1979
    Assignee: Metzeler Schaum GmbH
    Inventor: Horst Bokelmann
  • Patent number: 4073094
    Abstract: A system for repairing a crack in a pane of plate glass in which a rotatable shaft extends through the glass and carries cutters on both sides for concurrently cutting an aperture therein from both sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1978
    Inventor: Robert A. Walz