Conducting Channel Extending To End Of Tool Patents (Class 408/59)
  • Publication number: 20090279966
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventor: STEVEN G. BLAIR
  • Patent number: 7614326
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Mandrel Oy
    Inventors: Kalle Peltonen, Markus Reinikka
  • Patent number: 7572088
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Messier-Dowty S.A.
    Inventor: Albert Biscay
  • Publication number: 20090196698
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: HARTMETALL-WERKZEUGFABRIK PAUL HORN GMBH
    Inventor: Hassan Noureddine
  • Patent number: 7563062
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Inventor: Chin-Chiu Chen
  • Patent number: 7556458
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Komet Group Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Heilmann, Uwe Kretzschmann, Peter Leuze
  • Publication number: 20090155008
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventor: Peter Kopton
  • Publication number: 20090148247
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventor: Takuji Nomura
  • Publication number: 20090142150
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventor: Yang Tsuan Chu
  • Patent number: 7537422
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventors: Assaf Ballas, Carol Smilovici, David Feldman
  • Publication number: 20090071723
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: Peter Karl MERGENTHALER, Berthold Heinrich ZEUG, Horst Manfred JAEGER
  • Publication number: 20090047080
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2006
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: Gunter Schweighofer, Peter Muller
  • Publication number: 20090016832
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junya Onose, Hiroyuki Fukushima, Masahiro Hakozaki, Shigemitsu Nomura, Takayuki Konno
  • Patent number: 7476066
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: TBT Tiefbohrtechnik GmbH + Co.
    Inventor: Ernst Topf
  • Patent number: 7476067
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Bernhard Borschert, Ulrich Krenzer, Rainer Büttner
  • Publication number: 20080279644
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: BOARD OF CONTROL OF MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGYCAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: William J. Endres
  • Publication number: 20080260479
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventor: DIRK KAMMERMEIER
  • Patent number: 7431543
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Dihart AG
    Inventors: Otto Buettiker, Roman Eigenmann, Jacek Kruszynski
  • Patent number: 7422219
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Mapal Fabrik fur Prazisionswerkzeuge Dr. Kress KG
    Inventors: Dieter Kress, Friedrich Häberle
  • Patent number: 7422396
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: OSG Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Takikawa
  • Publication number: 20080213056
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Kouichi KATOH, Takamasa ITOH
  • Patent number: 7393162
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Iscar Ltd.
    Inventor: Gil Hecht
  • Publication number: 20080131221
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Yanagida, Masayuki Mabuchi, Hiroyuki Higashi
  • Patent number: 7374374
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventor: Karl-Erik Berglow
  • Patent number: 7371034
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Inventor: John Clark
  • Publication number: 20080063482
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: Fette GmbH
    Inventor: Achim Engfer
  • Patent number: 7326009
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventor: Stefan Lindblom
  • Patent number: 7322778
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Makino, Inc.
    Inventors: David C. Woodruff, Stan C. Weidmer
  • Patent number: 7311479
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Johnny Bruhn, Mattias Puide, Mattias Svensson, Anders Björk, Jimmy Karlsson, Mikael Grönqvist
  • Patent number: 7306238
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Oshnock, Michael R. McCormick, Robert A. Erickson
  • Patent number: 7252155
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesselschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Goetzfried, Udo Hauptmann, Konrad Artmann
  • Patent number: 7244080
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Bilz Werkzeugfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Voss, Gerhard Babel
  • Patent number: 7226254
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Inventor: Arno Friedrichs
  • Patent number: 7214012
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Horkos Corp.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Tadashi Makayama
  • Patent number: 7207752
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Star Cutter Company
    Inventor: Paul Martin Schulte
  • Patent number: 7207755
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventor: Karl-Erik Berglöw
  • Patent number: 7201543
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Dieter Mühlfriedel, Bernhard Borschert, Jürgen Schwägerl
  • Patent number: 7195428
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Viktor P. Astakhov, Yefim Val, Gregory Link
  • Patent number: 7182556
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Syoji Takiguchi, Yasuhiko Kawade
  • Patent number: 7156589
    Abstract: 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 i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Horkos Corp
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Tadashi Makayama
  • Patent number: 7147411
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Viktor P. Astakhov, Yefim Val, Gregory Link
  • Patent number: 7134813
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Joerg Guehring
    Inventor: Gilbert Kleiner
  • Patent number: 7131790
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Inventor: Jorge L. Cordoves
  • Patent number: 7131795
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Nippon Diamond Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Mazaki, Isamu Nagai
  • Patent number: 7090448
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Alexander Stoll, Ed Exner, George Nordstrom
  • Patent number: 7090445
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Makino, Inc.
    Inventors: David C. Woodruff, Stan C. Weidmer
  • Patent number: 7083367
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Inventor: Gene Delett
  • Patent number: 7073988
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventor: Josef Giessler
  • Patent number: 7070371
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Inventor: Cheol-Hwan Choi
  • Patent number: 7048481
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Horkos Corp.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Tadashi Makiyama