Conducting Channel Extending To End Of Tool Patents (Class 408/59)
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Publication number: 20090279966Abstract: A drilling or milling tool including a body; a cutting tip at the body; a fluid supply channel extending through the body; one or more tip outlets fluidly connected to the channel; and one or more venturi outlets fluidly connected to the channel, the tip outlets and the venturi outlets having a fluid flow ratio relative to each other such that fluid pressure at the tip does not exceed hydrostatic pressure in a wellbore in which the tool is employed and a method.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventor: STEVEN G. BLAIR
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Patent number: 7614326Abstract: A method of indexing a rotating cutting tool, and a tool for machining. The tool includes a body, and one or more cutting parts, that can be moved relative to the body at least into a first position and a second position. The cutting part is locked into the indexed positions by a pressure medium operated actuator.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2004Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignee: Mandrel OyInventors: Kalle Peltonen, Markus Reinikka
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Patent number: 7572088Abstract: A deep hole boring head is provided which is capable of rotating about a central axis, a body whose front part has at least one cutting edge followed by a recess which leads to a duct inside the body, this duct allowing the chips formed during the boring to be cleared away rearwards, and includes at a front end thereof and at a center portion thereof a pilot drill bit capable of guiding the head during boring. Use for the boring of a production piece is made of titanium, the ratio L/D between the depth L of the hole bored and the diameter D of the latter being greater than or equal to 10, and the diameter D being greater than or equal to 65 mm.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2005Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: Messier-Dowty S.A.Inventor: Albert Biscay
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Publication number: 20090196698Abstract: The present invention relates to a tool system, comprising: a holder comprising a supply device for cooling lubricant, a cutting tool which has a tool cutter and a fixing part, and a tensioning device which has a tension screw by means of which a tension force acting upon the cutting tool can be produced for the purpose of fixing the latter in position on the holder, wherein a support face is realized on the holder for direct bearing contact of the fixing part of the cutting tool that is pressed-on by the tensioning screw, and wherein there is constituted a fluid space which adjoins this support face, is delimited by wall parts of the bearing fixing part of the cutting tool and is fluidically connected to the supply device for cooling lubricant, and from which cooling lubricant can be passed on to the region of the main cutter via a channel which, provided in the cutting tool, comes from the adjoining wall of the fixing part.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2009Publication date: August 6, 2009Applicant: HARTMETALL-WERKZEUGFABRIK PAUL HORN GMBHInventor: Hassan Noureddine
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Patent number: 7563062Abstract: A milling head has a body, a holding device, a driving axle, a spraying device and a tool adaptor. The body has a base, a rear cover, a front cover, a bearing seat and a middle liner ring. The holding device is connected to the body and has a linking arm, a mounting jacket, a bottom cap, a positioning shaft and a locating spring. The driving axle is rotatably mounted in the body and has a transmission shaft and a driving bevel gear. The spraying device is mounted on the base and has a mounting cover and an spraying ball. The tool adaptor is rotatably mounted in the base below the spraying device and has a transmitting bevel gear, a holding head and a connecting segment.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2009Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Inventor: Chin-Chiu Chen
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Patent number: 7556458Abstract: A tool includes a shaft and a blade support which is disposed in a removable manner on the face of the shaft, preferably embodied as a drill bit. One end of the blade support is provided with a transversal rib that extends beyond an end face. It can be inserted into an accommodating device of the shaft, which is delimited by a planar counterface, and can be clamped by clamping screws. In order to ensure sufficient torque transmission even with small bore diameters, the accommodating device is provided with two entraining sections that are separated by a central gap, are disposed in a twofold rotationally symmetric manner relative to the tool axis, and protrude from the counterface of the shaft essentially parallel to the axis. Each entraining section encompasses an axially parallel entraining area for an adjacent transversal rib section, which points in the direction of rotation of the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2004Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignee: Komet Group Holding GmbHInventors: Juergen Heilmann, Uwe Kretzschmann, Peter Leuze
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Publication number: 20090155008Abstract: The invention relates to a drilling tool, in particular for metallic materials, having a clamping shaft and an essentially cylindrical drill body, between whose face side and the clamping shaft at least one groove-shaped chip space extends which is bordered by the side walls, of which one side wall on the face side of the drill body bears a cutting element. The side wall which bears the cutting element has a web which is drawn up from the side wall in the peripheral direction and which extends in the longitudinal direction of the drill.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2007Publication date: June 18, 2009Inventor: Peter Kopton
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Publication number: 20090148247Abstract: A gun drill having excellent cutting efficiency, having high deep-hole drilling efficiency, and having a prolonged blade service life has a cutter head having a coolant discharge port communicating with a coolant supplying path at the distal end face at the distal end of a hollow shank portion having a cutting chip discharge groove, whose section along the lengthwise direction is V-shaped, on the outer surface and having the interior thereof made into a coolant supplying path, wherein a blade portion of the cutter head is made of cemented carbide alloy, and at the same time, the guide pads that are brought into sliding contact with the inner circumference of a cutting bore are composed of a dissimilar material having higher hardness than the cemented carbide alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2006Publication date: June 11, 2009Inventor: Takuji Nomura
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Publication number: 20090142150Abstract: A tungsten steel cutter which is lower cost to use and can increase fabrication efficiency and improve quality mainly includes a shank and a bit screwing at a front end of the shank. Both are made of tungsten steel and formed in an integrated fashion. The shank has a screw hole at the front end and a coupling trough formed at the front end of the screw hole. The bit has a screw bar extended from the bottom end thereof and a coupling neck at the front section of the screw bar. The coupling trough is formed at a depth same as the height of the coupling neck and the coupling trough and the coupling neck are formed at the same size. The bit and the shank have respectively a water discharge passage and a water drawing passage, and a water intake passage that communicate with each other. The water intake passage is formed at a greater diameter than the water discharge passage and water drawing passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2007Publication date: June 4, 2009Inventor: Yang Tsuan Chu
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Patent number: 7537422Abstract: An adaptor (20, 76, 104, 106) secures a cutting head (16) to a tool holder (12, 14) having a passage for fluid. The adaptor (20, 76, 104, 106) has a corresponding passage (68, 94) for fluid to which a nozzle (22) is connected for the distribution of fluid towards a cutting region (54) of the cutting head (16).Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2007Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.Inventors: Assaf Ballas, Carol Smilovici, David Feldman
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Publication number: 20090071723Abstract: Drill with a centering drill insert, and a method of using a drill with a centering drill insert, and the insert therefor. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Inventors: Peter Karl MERGENTHALER, Berthold Heinrich ZEUG, Horst Manfred JAEGER
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Publication number: 20090047080Abstract: The present invention concerns a drill, in particular a deep hole drill, comprising a shaft (1) and a portion (2) which has flutes (6) and the length of which is more than three times the nominal diameter (D) and the front end of which is formed by a drill tip which is defined by main cutting edges (5) arranged in frontal relationship at the front end of the drill.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2006Publication date: February 19, 2009Inventors: Gunter Schweighofer, Peter Muller
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Publication number: 20090016832Abstract: A drill includes a blade portion provided with spiral cutting blades along a cutting direction from a tip end to a rear end, and a shank portion formed consecutively on a rear side of the blade portion. The blade portion includes distal-side cutting blades provided from the distal end of the blade portion along the cutting direction and angled at a constant first torsion angle, intermediate grooves formed at a variable torsion angle that varies gradually from the first torsion angle to a second torsion angle, and rear-side grooves formed at the constant second torsion angle. The rear-side grooves are longer than the distal-side cutting blades in the cutting direction, and the second torsion angle is greater than the first torsion angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2008Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junya Onose, Hiroyuki Fukushima, Masahiro Hakozaki, Shigemitsu Nomura, Takayuki Konno
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Patent number: 7476066Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-bladed deep drilling tool (17) comprising a cooling lubricant channel (19, 20) provided for each chip space (74) allocated to each cutter (71). Said channels (19,20) are supplied with a lubricant independently from each other, by means of either jointly drives or separately drives lubricating pumps (25, 26). Said channels being associated with either the drilling devise (11) or integrated into an adapter (30) which is pivoted with a common flow of lubricant, but which supplies independent individual flows. Lubrication of the individual cutting zones is guaranteed even if the chip removal channel is blocked, by chips for example. The pressure of the cooling lubricant channel increases in said area whereupon the channel in question is cleared.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2003Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: TBT Tiefbohrtechnik GmbH + Co.Inventor: Ernst Topf
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Patent number: 7476067Abstract: A drill bit having a shank portion and a cutting portion, which cutting portion generally has at least one cutting edge and a chip flute that has a helical portion. The drill bit has at least one straight coolant channel that has a coolant exit orifice disposed at least partially in the flute and oriented toward the cutting edges to supply coolant thereto to cool the cutting edges and chips produced during a cutting operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2006Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Bernhard Borschert, Ulrich Krenzer, Rainer Büttner
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Publication number: 20080279644Abstract: A cutting tool insert includes: a body defining a rake face, a flank face, and a cutting edge at an intersection of the rake and flank faces; and a cooling microduct within the body. A portion of the microduct extends along the cutting edge not more than 0.5 millimeter from the rake face, and not more than 0.5 millimeter from the flank face. The microduct has a cross-sectional area of not more than 1.0 square millimeter. The microduct is adapted to permit the flow of a coolant therethrough to transfer heat away from the cutting edge and extend the useful life of the insert. Secondary conduits having cross-sectional area no larger than 0.004 square millimeter may communicate between the microduct and the rake and/or flank face to exhaust coolant behind the cutting edge and further enhance cooling.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2007Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: BOARD OF CONTROL OF MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGYCAL UNIVERSITYInventor: William J. Endres
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Publication number: 20080260479Abstract: A device for supplying coolant into a shank of a rotary tool as well as a rotary tool, in particular a drill. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Inventor: DIRK KAMMERMEIER
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Patent number: 7431543Abstract: A machine reamer has a base and a reamer head configured as a one-piece indexable insert that axially projects beyond the front of the base. The indexable insert can be introduced in a front insert seat of the base with an axially projecting, preferably conical shoulder and can be clamped therein by a tension rod that extends through the center-axis of the base. In order to improve the rotational catch effect between the base and the indexable insert, the indexable insert has a central polygonal opening through which the tension rod engages with a complementary polygonal section.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2002Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: Dihart AGInventors: Otto Buettiker, Roman Eigenmann, Jacek Kruszynski
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Patent number: 7422219Abstract: An interface of a tool is proposed with a first part serving as a seat having a female taper, which part has a first conduit section located concentrically to its center axis, a second part having a hollow shaft taper introduceable into the recess, which part has a second conduit section located concentrically to its center axis, where the center axes of the first and second parts align and having a collet chuck having two chuck jaws which comprises an actuating device coacting with the chuck jaws which can be activated by means of an actuating element. The characteristic feature of the interface is that the actuating device (43) has a caging element (47) which can be shifted to two operating positions and which has a central passage (71) which is located such that the center axes of the first and second parts (3, 5) pass through said passage.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2004Date of Patent: September 9, 2008Assignee: Mapal Fabrik fur Prazisionswerkzeuge Dr. Kress KGInventors: Dieter Kress, Friedrich Häberle
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Patent number: 7422396Abstract: A drill which includes a cylindrical main body and a shank contiguous to each other, and which is to be rotated about an axis of the cylindrical main body in a predetermined rotating direction, for enlarging a hole previously formed in a workpiece through a die-casting process. The cylindrical main body has flutes which are formed in the cylindrical mainbody and extend from an axially distal end portion of the cylindrical main body toward the shank, so as to provide cutting edges in the axially distal end portion of the cylindrical main body. The cutting edges cooperate with each other to define a point angle which is larger than 170° and is smaller than 180°. Each of the cutting edges is substantially straight or is curved to be convexed as seen in the direction perpendicular to the axis.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2005Date of Patent: September 9, 2008Assignee: OSG CorporationInventor: Yoshihiro Takikawa
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Publication number: 20080213056Abstract: There is provided a method for machining a deep hole, which enables prevention of scattering of a coolant and efficient discharge of shavings. The deep hole machining method includes: feeding a spindle to a deep hole machining start position while jetting a coolant toward a workpiece from an external normal pressure coolant supply line; closing the external normal pressure coolant supply line and opening a spindle normal pressure coolant supply line at the start of machining of a deep hole, and machining the deep hole to a predetermined intermediate depth while supplying a coolant to a machining point; and closing the spindle normal pressure coolant supply line and opening a high-pressure coolant supply line when the depth of the hole machined has reached the intermediate depth, and machining the deep hole to the final depth while supplying a high-pressure coolant to a machining point.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2008Publication date: September 4, 2008Inventors: Kouichi KATOH, Takamasa ITOH
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Patent number: 7393162Abstract: A gun-drill comprises a cutting-head detachably secured to a shank, having a common longitudinal axis and comprising mating peripheral surfaces. A shank coupling portion comprises a forwardly tapering shank fixation surface is formed at a front end of the shank, and a cutting-head coupling portion comprising a forwardly tapering cutting-head fixation surface is formed at a rear end of the cutting-head. Both the shank and the cutting-head coupling portion extend over a peripheral coupling angle ? of more than 180°. The shank and the cutting-head are assembled by positioning the cutting-head leading face in front of the shank trailing face, slidably inserting the cutting-head coupling portion into the shank coupling portion laterally to the axis of rotation A and rotating the cutting-head relative to the shank in a direction opposed to the direction of rotation R so that the cutting-head coupling portion and the shank coupling portion interlock co-axially.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2005Date of Patent: July 1, 2008Assignee: Iscar Ltd.Inventor: Gil Hecht
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Publication number: 20080131221Abstract: A plurality of cutting oil feed holes extend from the proximal side towards the distal side are provided in a drill body located on a reference line that extends towards a circumferential central portion of an outer circumferential surface of the drill body split by a chip discharge groove from an axis in a cross section orthogonal to the axis. A cutting oil feed hole that is located on the radial outermost side is used as a first cutting oil feed hole, and a cutting oil feed hole that is on the radial innermost side is used as a second cutting oil feed hole. Two or more openings of the cutting oil feed holes are provided in one cutting edge as the plurality of cutting oil feed holes are formed in the vicinity of the intersection ridgeline portion between the distal flank face and the second thinned face.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2007Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: Mitsubishi Materials CorporationInventors: Kazuya Yanagida, Masayuki Mabuchi, Hiroyuki Higashi
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Patent number: 7374374Abstract: A tool for chip removing machining has an axial channel, the tool being a one-piece unit, the tool having a first end and a second end, the first end comprising cutting edges, the second end forming an end of a shank of the tool. The second end of the shank is cylindrical and the axial channel has a diminishing cross-sectional area in a direction from the second end towards the first end.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2006Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignee: Seco Tools ABInventor: Karl-Erik Berglow
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Patent number: 7371034Abstract: A drilling attachment for use in wet and dry drilling operations includes a housing having first and second fluid conduits, and a drive shaft mounted within the housing and having fluid transmitting first and second end portions in fluid communication with a respective first and second fluid conduit. In one embodiment, at any time one end of the drive shaft is coupled to a drive unit and the other end of the drive shaft is coupled to a core drill bit. In a dry drilling operation, dust is extracted from the core of the drill bit, is passed through the drive shaft and exits the housing via one of the fluid conduits. In a wet drilling operation, fluid such as water is passed through the other of the fluid conduits, through the drive shaft and into the core of the drill bit.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2003Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Inventor: John Clark
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Publication number: 20080063482Abstract: A disc-shaped mill cutting tool, with a disc-shaped main body which has a central axial through bore for the accommodation of a drive shaft as well as a plurality of pockets for the accommodation of cutting inserts on its perimeter, wherein chip spaces are associated to the pockets and a channel system is arranged between the central through bore and the chip spaces for the passage of cooling fluid which emerges in the chip spaces, characterised in that the disc-shaped main body is formed by at least two sub-discs coaxially sitting close together, which form a concentrically arranged ring channel between themselves, which is connected to the through bore via at least one connection channel, and the ring channel is connected to the chip spaces via relatively short bore portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2007Publication date: March 13, 2008Applicant: Fette GmbHInventor: Achim Engfer
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Patent number: 7326009Abstract: An edge-carrying drill body intended for deep hole drilling, is rotatable around a central geometric axis and comprises a through-channel arranged for internal chip evacuation. The channel mouths in front and rear ends of the drill body. A front channel mouth is bridged-over by a bridge on which a plurality of cutting edges are formed, which edges are made integrally with the rest of the bridge. The front mouth includes inlets disposed in front of respective cutting edges with reference to the direction of rotation of the body.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2004Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventor: Stefan Lindblom
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Patent number: 7322778Abstract: A tool for working a workpiece has a slot provided between a pair of extremities at its distal end. The extremities have cutting blades mounted thereon. The slot is configured to receive a plate. The tool has a conduit running along its axis for communication of pressurized fluid to the slot and plate. The plate directs flow of the pressurized fluid outward toward the extremities. The resulting outward force causes the extremities to bend outward, thereby urging the cutting blades outward for cutting, reaming, or other working of the workpiece. The resilience of the tool causes the extremities to return back inward when the fluid pressure is reduced. A plate may be configured to receive a wafer for transferring force from the pressurized fluid to the extremities.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2006Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Makino, Inc.Inventors: David C. Woodruff, Stan C. Weidmer
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Patent number: 7311479Abstract: The present invention relates to a tool as well as a blank for manufacturing of the tool. The tool is made of solid cemented carbide and includes a shank for mounting in a rotatable spindle and chip flutes. Lines of intersection between the chip flutes and clearance surfaces form cutting edges at a cutting end of the tool. The flush channels extend through the entire tool in order to transfer flushing medium to the cutting end of the tool. The flush channels have varying pitch.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2005Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: Seco Tools ABInventors: Johnny Bruhn, Mattias Puide, Mattias Svensson, Anders Björk, Jimmy Karlsson, Mikael Grönqvist
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Patent number: 7306238Abstract: An assembly generally comprises a collet for receiving a cutting tool shank and a lock nut for creating a gripping force between the collet and the cutting tool shank. The collet has a nose and the lock nut has a front face that is substantially flush with the nose. The lock nut further has a fastening element that mates with a fastening element of a coolant sealing ring for attaching the coolant sealing ring to the lock nut so that the coolant sealing ring may be detached from the lock nut.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2005Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Robert E. Oshnock, Michael R. McCormick, Robert A. Erickson
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Patent number: 7252155Abstract: A power tool (1) having a striking means (5), by which a percussive tool (2) that can be driven at least partially along an axis (A) struck directly and having a flushing bore (4) extending at least partially longitudinally through a tool shank (3), and having a flushing head (6) having a radially inwardly open transverse bore hole (8) connected in a flow-through fashion with a fluid channel (7). The flushing head (6) has at least one hollow cylindrical sleeve-like guide surface (9), which is fitted for an insertion end (10) of the striking tool (2). The striking means (5) sealed by a seal (11a, 11b) is cup-like. The striking means (5) is moveably guided and made fluid tight by the seal (11a, 11b) to embrace the machine-side part of the insertion end (10) having the machine-side open flushing bore (4).Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2005Date of Patent: August 7, 2007Assignee: Hilti AktiengesselschaftInventors: Stefan Goetzfried, Udo Hauptmann, Konrad Artmann
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Patent number: 7244080Abstract: The present invention relates to a quick-change insert (10) for tools (11), in particular thread drills (12), for minimal lubrication, that is designed for detachable installation in a chuck (30) provided with a central lubricant channel (32) and for introducing the lubricant as an aerosol from the lubricant channel (32) into the rear end of a longitudinal bore (14) of an inserted tool (11). A sealing body (40) provided with a central passage (41) is located in a rear receptacle (25) of the insert body (17) such that, when the tool (11) is inserted and installed in the chuck (30), it connects the lubricant channel (32) and the longitudinal bore (14) of the tool (11) with each other in an at least substantially leakproof manner.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2005Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: Bilz Werkzeugfabrik GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Michael Voss, Gerhard Babel
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Patent number: 7226254Abstract: The invention relates to a rod-shaped tool made of sintered material that is used to machine a workpiece. Said tool comprises a rod center axis (1), a shaft area (6) and a chip space area (5) adjacent thereto in the direction of the rod center axis (1). The tool has at least one outside chip space (4), which encircles the rod center axis (1), in the chip space area (5) but not in the shaft area (6). The chip space (4) is situated at a minimum distance (a) from the rod center axis (1). A central recess (7) extends in the direction of the rod center axis (1) over the shaft area (6) whereby leading up and into the chip space area (5).Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2002Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Inventor: Arno Friedrichs
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Patent number: 7214012Abstract: A multi-shaft spindle head, wherein a plurality of spindles (11) having tools at the tips thereof are disposed in the same direction, the rear ends of cutting fluid feed passages (21a) formed as the inner holes of cutting fluid feed tubes (21) installed in a non-rotating state at the rotating center parts of the spindles (11) are allowed to communicate with a common closed chamber (8) formed at the rear parts of the spindles (11), and atomized cutting fluid fed into the common closed chamber (8) is jetted from the tips of the openings at the rear end of the cutting fluid feed passages (21a).Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2003Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: Horkos Corp.Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Tadashi Makayama
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Patent number: 7207752Abstract: The present invention discloses a reamer (20) and a method for reaming, for enlarging a pre-existing hole in a workpiece by rotational and axial cutting. The reamer (20) includes a body (24) extending from a shank (22). The body (24) has a first flute (30) providing a first flute cutting edge (32) at a distal end (34) of the body (24) for imparting a first cutting operation to the workpiece. The body (24) has a helical flute (42) providing a helical flute cutting edge (46) in the body distal end (34), radially spaced apart from the first flute cutting edge (32) for imparting a helical cutting operation to the workpiece. The first flute and helical flute cutting edges (32, 46) concurrently and collectively perform the first and helical cutting operations to a sculpture surface of the workpiece, thereby improving tolerances of the cutting operations, varying loads imparted to the workpiece and the reamer (20), and reducing heat generated therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2004Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: Star Cutter CompanyInventor: Paul Martin Schulte
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Patent number: 7207755Abstract: In a cutting tool arrangement and a tool for chip removing machining, the cutting tool arrangement comprises a tool, fastening arrangement, and a shank. The tool is a one-piece unit. The axial channel is of non-circular cross-section to provide a key grip. An end of the axial channel comprises material at least partly blocking the axial channel.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2004Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: Seco Tools ABInventor: Karl-Erik Berglöw
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Patent number: 7201543Abstract: A twist drill and method for producing is provided. The cutting edge structure has a first portion at the drill tip portion and a second portion disposed away from the drill tip portion. The flute wall extends further into the land structure at the second portion of the cutting edge structure than at the tip portion to provide a greater amount of drill material at the tip portion than at the second portion of the cutting edge structure. The flute wall extends further into the land structure at the second portion of the cutting edge structure than at the tip portion to provide a greater flute volume per length at the second portion of the cutting edge structure than at the drill tip portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2002Date of Patent: April 10, 2007Assignee: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Dieter Mühlfriedel, Bernhard Borschert, Jürgen Schwägerl
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Patent number: 7195428Abstract: A method of forming deep holes and a gundrill therefore is disclosed. The gundrill has an elongate tubular shank and a cutting tip, each provided with a tubular central region supplying pressurized drilling fluid and a non-circular fluid cross-section defining a drilling fluid return path in conjunction with the hole being formed. The cutting tip flute defines a primary rake surface terminating in an offset point, and a secondary flank surface for forming an outlet with the hole being drilled, sized to maintain fluid pressure in the bottom end space to cool the cutting surfaces and to effectively remove chips as they are formed. A localized relief passage, sized relative to the outlet passage to cause a significant amount of drilling fluid to flow therethrough, is formed behind a peripheral rake edge of the primary rake surface for drilling fluid to exit the end space and cool the tip.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2003Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Viktor P. Astakhov, Yefim Val, Gregory Link
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Patent number: 7182556Abstract: A drill improving the aligning accuracy of an insert and achieves a stable machining operation while maintaining the strength of the drill main body. The drill includes a drill main body rotatable about an axis, and a throwaway insert detachably attached to the drill main body. The drill main body includes a concave groove opening at a distal end face thereof, the concave groove includes guiding grooves extending in the direction of the axis on an inner surface thereof, the throwaway insert includes convex portions on an outer surface that are engageable with the guiding grooves, and the concave groove is formed so as to accommodate the throwaway insert. The throwaway insert is attached to the drill main body by insertion into the concave groove in a direction from the distal end face to the concave groove while engaging the convex portions with the guiding grooves.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2002Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials CorporationInventors: Syoji Takiguchi, Yasuhiko Kawade
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Patent number: 7156589Abstract: A tool holder of a machine tool, wherein a holder rear end part is fixed to the front end part of the spindle of the machine tool, a tool receiving surface part (8d) for receiving the rear end face of a shaft-like tool (11) fixed to a holder front end part so that a closed space in contact with the rear end face can be formed and mist cutting fluid passages (8f, 9c) for leading mist cutting fluid fed from the front end part of the spindle to the closed space (12) are formed in a holder body at a center of rotation, and exhaust passages are formed for opening a part of the tool receiving surface part in contact with the closed space (12) to the atmosphere, whereby even when the shaft-like tool (11) is small in diameter and the amount of the mist cutting fluid flowing out to the atmosphere through a passage hole (11a) in the shaft-like tool is small, the liquefied cutting fluid can be prevented from being accumulated in the mist cutting fluid passages by maintaining the flow velocity of the mist cutting fluid iType: GrantFiled: May 12, 2003Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Horkos CorpInventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Tadashi Makayama
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Patent number: 7147411Abstract: A method of forming deep holes and a gundrill therefore is disclosed. The gundrill has an elongate tubular shank and a cutting tip, each provided with a tubular central region supplying pressurized drilling fluid and a non-circular fluid cross-section defining a drilling fluid return path in conjunction with the hole being formed. The cutting tip flute defines a primary rake surface terminating in an offset point, and a secondary flank surface for forming an outlet with the hole being drilled, sized to maintain fluid pressure in the bottom end space to cool the cutting surfaces and to effectively remove chips as they are formed. The drilling fluid exiting an orifice of the cutting tip, forms a maximum angle ? relative to the hole axis when viewed radially, which is greater than sixty-six degrees in order to minimize drilling fluid stagnation in an elongate fluid return path.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2003Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Viktor P. Astakhov, Yefim Val, Gregory Link
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Patent number: 7134813Abstract: A drilling tool comprising at least one machined groove and at least one web which extend from a tip of the tool to the shank of the tool. A main cutting edge and an inner cooling channel are formed on each web. Said cooling channel extends from the tip to an opposite drill end and has a continuously extending cross-sectional contour enclosing an imaginary circle with a center point. The cross-sectional contour preferably comprises two maximum curvature values whose distance to the drill axis is greater in the direction of a line between the center point and the drill axis or equal to the distance of the center point to the drill axis. Preferably, minimum wall thicknesses exist between the inner cooling channel and (1) the outer periphery of the drill, (2) the machined surface and (3) the non-machined surface, between a minimum and a maximum.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2005Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: Joerg GuehringInventor: Gilbert Kleiner
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Patent number: 7131790Abstract: An extension rod has an interior end and an exterior end. The exterior end is formed with male screw threads. A primary bit has a cylindrical interior end and a conical exterior. Female threads at the interior end releasably couple with the extension rod. A secondary bit has a cylindrical interior end and a conical exterior end. Female threads at the interior end releasably couple with the extension rod. A length of line is coupled to the exterior end of the secondary bit. A coupler has a rearward end couplable to a linear member. A forward end is couplable to the rearward end of the secondary bit. In this manner the line, secondary bit and linear member may be pulled through the bore hole.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2004Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Inventor: Jorge L. Cordoves
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Patent number: 7131795Abstract: A tool, a device, and a method for drilling capable of very easily forming a hole part in a drilled matter by extremely smoothly discharging chips produced at drilled positions so as to maintain an excellent drilling efficiency. By using a drilling tool having a shaft with a spiral groove part formed in the outer peripheral surface thereof and a bit fixed to the tip part of the shaft, the hole part is formed in a drilled matter by rotating the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2002Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Assignees: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Nippon Diamond Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Mazaki, Isamu Nagai
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Patent number: 7090448Abstract: A tool holder assembly for a cutting tool. The tool holder assembly includes a tool holder, a locating member, and a spring. The spring is configured to bias the locating member to engage the cutting tool to inhibit fluid leakage.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2004Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Ford Motor CompanyInventors: Alexander Stoll, Ed Exner, George Nordstrom
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Patent number: 7090445Abstract: A tool for working a workpiece has a slot provided between a pair of extremities at its distal end. The extremities have cutting blades mounted thereon. The slot is configured to receive a plate. The tool has a conduit running along its axis for communication of pressurized fluid to the slot and plate. The plate directs flow of the pressurized fluid outward toward the extremities. The resulting outward force causes the extremities to bend outward, thereby urging the cutting blades outward for cutting, reaming, or other working of the workpiece. The resilience of the tool causes the extremities to return back inward when the fluid pressure is reduced. A plate may be configured to receive a wafer for transferring force from the pressurized fluid to the extremities.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2005Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Makino, Inc.Inventors: David C. Woodruff, Stan C. Weidmer
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Patent number: 7083367Abstract: An adapter device is disclosed for holding a blade having a first and a second side onto a distal end of a holder of a spade drill. The adapter device includes a body of generally cylindrical configuration, the body having a first and a second extremity. The body defines a first flute and a second flute which is disposed diametrically opposite to the first flute. The body also defines a bore which extends from the second extremity of the body for the flow therethrough of coolant. Additionally, the body defines a first and a second branch bore, the branch bores extending from the bore to the first extremity of the body. The second extremity of the adapter removably cooperates with the distal end of the holder and the first extremity of the body defines a diametrical slot disposed between the flutes.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2003Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Inventor: Gene Delett
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Patent number: 7073988Abstract: A threading tool for generating a thread in a workpiece, includes a threading part which defines a longitudinal axis. A cooling channel extends inside of the threading part along the axis to a front end surface thereof for supplying a coolant. Longitudinally extending passages are disposed in an outer periphery of the threading part for the return of coolant exiting the coolant channel. A diversion element is positioned at the front end surface for diverting the exiting coolant in a laterally outward direction along the front end surface toward the passages.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2003Date of Patent: July 11, 2006Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventor: Josef Giessler
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Patent number: 7070371Abstract: A chamfering air tool includes a driving shaft in a casing rotated by air pressure, a rotary shaft perpendicularly combined to the driving shaft for rotation, and a cutter fixed to the rotary shaft. Air holes are formed through the rotary shaft in a longitudinal direction. An air discharge groove is formed in the cutter, and a hole communicated with the air hole is formed in a fixing bolt head. An air path is formed in the fixing bolt head to keep a predetermined gap from the cutter. A guide ring having a diameter approximate to a lower end of the cutter is rotatably mounted to the fixing bolt head. Thus, air is blown to the air hole of the rotary shaft, the air hole formed in the fixing bolt head, the air path formed between the cutter and the guide ring, and the air discharge groove of the cutter, thereby eliminating cut chips and cooling the cutter.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2004Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Inventor: Cheol-Hwan Choi
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Patent number: 7048481Abstract: A spindle device of a machine tool, which can prevent the liquefaction of atomized cutting fluid in atomized cutting fluid passage downstream of a straightening unit 14, enhance a responsiveness to an ejecting start or stop instruction, and prevent a waste of cutting fluid. The spindle device for a machine tool has atomized cutting liquid passage (e1, e2) each having a single-shape passage section and formed inside the device ranging from the spindle 1 to the tip end of a cutting tool 13 mounted thereto in one piece, and is operated so as to eject atomized cutting tool 13 via the atomized cutting fluid passages (e1, e2), wherein a straightening unit 14 formed with a plurality of small-diameter passages h are provided in the middle of the cutting liquid passages (e1, e2).Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2001Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: Horkos Corp.Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Tadashi Makiyama