Conducting Channel Extending To End Of Tool Patents (Class 408/59)
  • 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
  • Patent number: 7025544
    Abstract: A machine tool capable of jetting atomized lubricant (h) forward from the tip of a cutter (17), characterized by comprising a lubricant jetting state detector for detecting the jetting state of the atomized lubricant from the tip of the cutter, the lubricant jetting state detector further comprising a guide member (21) having a straight inner hole (21a), wherein a light detection device for detecting the degree of transmission or reflection of the detection light due to injecting the direction light (c) to a specified position (b) inside the inner hole through a transparent member installed on the peripheral wall portion of the guide member or through the transparent peripheral wall portion of the guide member, and a fluid feed device (23) for feeding clean fluid of rather thin layer flowing in a specified direction along the longitudinal direction of the inner hole is installed near the inner surface of the transparent member or so as to cover the transparent peripheral wall portion, whereby a defective part
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Horkos Corp.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Tadashi Makiyama
  • Patent number: 7004691
    Abstract: A deep hole cutter for a gun drill system includes a tool shank and a cutting head with two or more cutting edges. The tool shank and the cutting head are separate members connected strongly by threads. The shavings produced by the cutting edges can be discharged together with the coolant supplied through the hole cutter. The shaving dischargeability is improved for higher cutting efficiency. The tool shank 1 has one outer axial discharge groove 3. The cutting head 2 has one outer axial discharge groove 6 in linear alignment with the discharge groove 3. The cutting head 2 also has a discharge port 7a formed in its front end. The cutting head 2 further has a bypass passage 7 formed in it and extending between the discharge port 7a and the discharge groove 6. The cutting edges 9a and 9c face the discharge groove 6. The cutting edge 9b faces the discharge port 7a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Unitac Incorporated
    Inventor: Takuji Nomura
  • Patent number: 6997652
    Abstract: The drill bit (14) passes through a drilling bush (2) for guiding said drill bit. The drilling bush (22) is pressed against the workpiece (10). However, the drilling bush does not terminate flush with the workpiece, but comprises a linear supporting edge (28) that overlaps the apex of the curvature of the workpiece. This prevents the drilling bush from sliding off a curvature of the workpiece surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Honsberg Lamb Sonderwerkzeugmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Budde, Andreas Quak
  • Patent number: 6981825
    Abstract: A multispindle machine tool, characterized in that outside cylindrical members (19) having a plurality of spindles (2) and fixed to a support frame (3b) are inserted into the center holes (2c) of the spindles, a mist generator (22) for generating lubricant mist in the spindles and inside cylindrical members (20) having the mist generator fixed to the tip thereof are installed on the inside of the outside cylindrical members so as to be withdrawn the outside cylindrical members held in fixed state so that, under the installed state, the mist generator can generate the lubricant mist since compressed air and liquid lubricant are separately fed from the outsides of the spindles thereto through the outside cylindrical members and the inside cylindrical members and the inside cylindrical members and, under the withdrawn state, the lubricant mist is fed from the outsides to the insides of the spindles through the outside cylindrical members to jet out the mist from the tips of the cutters fixed to the tips of the s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Horkos Corp.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Tadashi Makiyama
  • Patent number: 6948890
    Abstract: A drill for chip removing machining includes a front cutting end, a rear securing portion, and a shank extending therebetween. The cutting end includes at least one cutting edge. The drill has at least one internal chip channel and at least one internal flush channel formed in a longitudinal pillar portion of the drill. All portions of the drill are formed of the same material, such as cemented carbide, wherein the chip channel has a surface roughness no greater than 0.5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Mattias Svensson, Mikael Grönquist, Johnny Bruhn
  • Patent number: 6926478
    Abstract: A spindle device of a machine tool capable of stably injecting atomized cutting fluid from the tip of a tool device 13 when a variation in fluidity of the atomized cutting fluid occurs temporarily in atomized cutting fluid passages e1, e2 or the supply of the atomized cutting fluid into the atomized cutting fluid passage e1 is stopped and restarted, wherein the atomized cutting fluid passages e1, e2 having a single passage cross section are formed in the area ranging from the spindle 1 to the tip of the tool device 13 through the atomized cutting fluid passages e1, e2, and a vacant chamber group transmission layer part 14 having a large number of vacant chambers 142 stacked thereon in multiple stages or in the state of communicating with each other and allowing the atomized cutting fluid to pass therethrough through the groups of the vacant chambers 142 is formed in the atomized cutting fluid passage e1 or e2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Horkos Corp.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Tadashi Makiyama
  • Patent number: 6923604
    Abstract: A spindle device of a machine tool capable of preventing coolant mist from being excessively liquefied in an area between a mist outlet member 23 and near the rear end part of a tool 29, wherein a straight feed pipe 14 formed of a double tube having an inside tube 14a and an outside tube 14b is inserted into an inside hole formed at the center part of a spindle 2 in non-rotating state not coming into contact with the spindle, coolant is fed to the inside tube 14a, compressed air is fed to the outside tube 14b, and a mist generating member 16 is formed of both tubes near the inside tip part of the spindle, a mist outlet member 23 is installed into the outside tube 14b integrally with each on the mist outlet passage c of the mist generating member 16 so as to surround the mist outlet passage and a mist guiding extension member 24 allowed to reach near the rear end part of the tool in the center hole of the tool holder is installed, integrally with the spindle, on the other tool holder 8 side, and the mist guidi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Horkos Corp.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Tadashi Makiyama
  • Patent number: 6905294
    Abstract: The wasting of cutting fluid mists and contamination of a machining environment with cutting fluid mists are prevented by feeding optimum amounts of cutting fluid mists in a variety of machining operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Horkos Corp.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Tadashi Makiyama
  • Patent number: 6902355
    Abstract: A junction is proposed between two tool parts, where a first tool part has a recess in hollow cone shape, and a second tool part has a cone-shaped projection that can be inserted into the recess. The junction is characterized by the fact that the recess (7) and the projection (33) have practically the identical angel of taper, that the projection (33) is structured to be practically non-resilient, and the wall (9) that surrounds the recess (7) of the first tool part (holder (1)), is structured to be resilient, and that the two tool parts (1, 31) are provided with flat surfaces (23, 37) that rest against one another when the two tool parts (1, 31) are connected. It is essential that the two tool parts are secured together in the assembled state of the junction (1), in an axial direction by means of a clamping device in such a way that the wall (9) of the first tool part (1) is expanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Mapal Fabrick fur Prazisionswerkzeuge Dr. Kress KG
    Inventors: Dieter Kress, Friedrich Häberle
  • Patent number: 6899496
    Abstract: A main shaft device for machine tools designed to prevent the wasting of cutting fluid mists and contamination of a machining environment with cutting fluid mists by feeding optimum amounts of cutting fluid mists in a variety of machining operations, comprising a mist feed tube (14) disposed in the rotational center of a main shaft (2) driven for rotation, the front of the mist feed tube (14) being inserted in the rotational center of a tool holder (8) fixed to the front of the main shaft (2) to ensure that the cutting fluid mists flowing out of the front end of the mist feed tube (14) spout from the front end surface of a cutting tool (17) fixed to the tool holder (8), via a mist passageway (h1) in the tool holder (8), the main shaft device being characterized in that the mist feed tube (14) has an adjusting nozzle member (16) removably fixed to the front thereof for controlling the flow rate of the cutting fluid mists flowing out of the feed tube (14) into the mist passageway of the tool holder (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Horkos Corp.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Tadashi Makiyama
  • Patent number: 6896450
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machine reamer, with a shaft-like base body (10) and a reaming head (12), projecting axially from the front face of the base body. According to the invention, the reaming head is in the form of a one-piece exchangeable cutting tip (12), which may be chucked into a tip seat (14) on the front face of the base body (10), in a coaxially self-centering manner, in order to maintain a high precision coaxialism, despite low material and construction requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Komet Praezisionswerkzeuge Robert Breuning GmbH
    Inventor: Achim Rothenstein
  • Publication number: 20040234350
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the cutting or shaping working of metallic or ceramic workpieces and the use of a preferably submerged tool, whereby during the machining process a cooling agent, comprised at least mostly of carbon dioxide (CO2), is supplied to the working position. The invention further relates to a tool for carrying out said method. According to the invention, the cooling in particular of submerges tools may be improved, whereby liquid CO2 under pressure is supplied internally through the tool and released from the tool in the direct vicinity of the actual machining position, expanding through a pressure drop to atmospheric pressure, to give a cooling flow, comprising cold gas and ice particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: Walter Jager, Alexander Stoll
  • Patent number: 6821061
    Abstract: A drill for chip forming metalworking includes three cutting edge structures spaced circumferentially apart. Each cutting edge structure includes a radially outer cutting edge and a radially inner cutting edge. Each radially inner cutting edge is inclined in a radially inner and axially rearward direction from a radially inner end of its associated radially outer cutting edge. That radially inner end constitutes a breakpoint between each radially outer cutting edge and its respective radially inner cutting edge. The breakpoints lie in a common circle whose center coincides with the center axis of the drill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventor: Stefan Frejd
  • Patent number: 6808342
    Abstract: Proposed is a tool with a tool insert (53) for machining workpieces, comprising a collet (2), designed for manual interchange of tools and for securing in position the tool insert (53) in a tool spindle (89), comprising at least one channel, penetrating essentially in the axial direction of the tool (1), in particular the collet (2), for mediums, in the particular for coolants and/or flushing agents and/or lubricants. The tool is characterized in that a second channel (7, 7′), which is separated from a first channel (5) and which runs essentially in the axial direction, is provided for mediums, in particular for coolants and/or flushing agents and/or lubricants in the collet (2), and that different mediums can be conveyed in the channels (5) and (7; 7′); and that they empty into a mixing device (85).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Mapal, Fabrik für Präzisionswerkzeuge, Dr. Kress KG
    Inventors: Dieter Kress, Friedrich Haberle
  • Patent number: 6792735
    Abstract: Advanced masonry coring systems for coring and grouting masonry walls are disclosed in this patent. The systems include rotating machinery and a drill column in the form of a cylindrical double-piped string of pipe sections, rotating a cylindrical drill body. The drill body mounts cutting end faces having alternative means of employing carbide or diamond cutting and/or pulverizing elements. The double drill pipe weight is made workable through new aerospace composite fabrication. The double pipe permits more efficient routing of air and removal of drill cuttings. Advancement in various system components and means of placing reinforcement into walls is disclosed. Further disclosure is included of advanced means of optimizing resin grouting materials and procedures to fill the wall cavities created by the core drill, integrating the reinforcement into the walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Inventor: William Mohlenhoff
  • Publication number: 20040131434
    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: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Applicant: SANDVIK AB. SANDVIKEN
    Inventor: Josef Giessler
  • Publication number: 20040096283
    Abstract: A deep hole cutter for a gun drill system includes a tool shank and a cutting head with two or more cutting edges. The tool shank and the cutting head are separate members connected strongly by threads. The shavings produced by the cutting edges can be discharged together with the coolant supplied through the hole cutter. The shaving dischargeability is improved for higher cutting efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventor: Takuji Nomura
  • Publication number: 20040091327
    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 &bgr; 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: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Applicant: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Viktor P. Astakhov, Yefim Val, Gregory Link
  • Publication number: 20040091328
    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: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Viktor P. Astakhov, Yefim Val, Gregory Link
  • Patent number: 6698981
    Abstract: A drill has first, second and third teeth each tooth having a cutting edge at its front end. The cutting edge of the first tooth extends all the way to a center axis of the drill; the cutting edges of the second and third teeth have inner ends spaced from the axis to form a space between one another. A cooling channel extends axially through the drill until approaching the front end of the drill whereupon it becomes inclined relative to the axis and forms an exit port in the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Tomas Beno, Curt Muhrén
  • Patent number: 6682275
    Abstract: A deep hole drill for chip-removing drilling in a workpiece includes a body which has a cutting head and an integral cutting part. The body defines a longitudinal axis of rotation and has a longitudinal internal channel which opens into an end face of the cutting head for receiving cuttings that are entrained in a cooling medium. A chip removing insert is disposed on the cutting head. A support pad and a guide bar are disposed on a generally cylindrical outer peripheral surface of the cutting head and are arranged in circumferentially spaced relationship to one another. Cooling ducts are formed in the outer peripheral surface and are oriented generally parallel to the axis. The cooling ducts are open at the end face for conducting cooling medium thereto. The cooling ducts are situated adjacent the support pad and guide bar, respectively, for cooling same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Sandvik Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Stefan Lindblom, Åke Danielsson
  • Patent number: 6663326
    Abstract: A cutting tip having a three-layer laminated structure is provided. The tip is made from a disc-shaped three-layer laminate wherein a second layer consisting of a hard sintered compact of CBN or diamond is sandwiched by a first layer and a third layer consisting of a tool material such as cemented carbide. Prismatic blanks of rectangular cross-section are cut out by cutting the three-layer laminate in strips. Semi-completed tips of a desired shape are obtained by cutting up the prismatic blanks. Desired cutting edges are formed on the semi-completed tips to produce completed tips. Because prismatic blanks are obtained from a three-layer laminate and semi-completed tips are cut out from the prismatic blanks like this, the semi-completed tips can be obtained in large numbers, yield is high, and the manufacturing cost of the tip can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Minoru Hiroyasu, Satomi Isibasi, Masatomi Ito, Hiroyuki Nomura, Shigemitsu Nomura, Hiroyuki Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20030215295
    Abstract: A rotationally driven tool for deburring bore holes, which join laterally into a substantially cylindrical recess. The tool contains a cutting head seated on a shaft, wherein the cutting head contains at least one cutting edge, which extends in the axial direction at least one some sections. In order to perform the deburring process reliably and with as little effort as possible, the tool contains at least one inner flow-enhancing agent channel, from which at least one cutoff channel extends, which joins in the area of the cutting head in an outer circumferential surface thereof preferably at a circumferential distance to the at least one cutting edge. Because the diameter of the cutting head is selected such that it can be introduced into the recess with radial play, the feeding of pressurized flow-enhancing agent leads to a radial excursion of the tool shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Inventors: Gilbert Gaiser, Harald Hebisch
  • Patent number: 6648565
    Abstract: A coolant tube (21) is to be arranged in a tool holder, the coolant tube (21) having an inlet opening (23) for coolants, a cover (31) at the inlet opening (23) for preventing chips from entering into the coolant tube (21), and an exchangeable insert tube (59) arranged within the coolant tube (21) and holding the cover (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Chiron-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Anton Schweizer
  • Patent number: 6644900
    Abstract: A spindle device of a machine tool stably spouting spray coolant from the tip of a tool (26) in a tool holder (25) and suppressing a waste of the spray coolant, wherein the tool holder (25) is fixed to the tip part of a spindle (2) mechanically detachably through a clamp device (KR), an extension passage (101) is formed in the state that an in-spindle spray coolant passage (100) formed in the center part of the spindle (2) is extended forward (f2), and the in-spindle spray coolant passage (100) is formed to communicate with an in-holder spray coolant passage (102) formed in the center part of the tool holder (25) through the extension passage (101).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Horkos Corp.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Yoshihide Seo, Takashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6626614
    Abstract: In order to improve durability, machining stability, machining accuracy, etc. of a throwaway cutting tool in which a cutting head having a cutting edge is detachably mounted to the tip of a tool body using a clamping tool so that its function can be regenerated by replacing the cutting head, protrusions 8, 16 having their height gradually increasing and recesses 9, 15 having their depth gradually increasing from the center toward outer periphery of the tool are formed alternately with each other in a radial arrangement on the front surface of the tool body 2 and a support surface of the cutting head 3, which is formed by sintering, respectively. The protrusions and recesses, which are provided so that their positions correspond to each other, are conically engaged, thereby centering the cutting head and preventing its movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Naohiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20030180111
    Abstract: A spindle device of a machine tool capable of stably injecting atomized cutting fluid from the tip of a tool device 13 when a variation in fluidity of the atomized cutting fluid occurs temporarily in atomized cutting fluid passages e1, e2 or the supply of the atomized cutting fluid into the atomized cutting fluid passage e1 is stopped and restarted, wherein the atomized cutting fluid passages e1, e2 having a single passage cross section are formed in the area ranging from the spindle 1 to the tip of the tool device 13 through the atomized cutting fluid passages e1, e2, and a vacant chamber group transmission layer part 14 having a large number of vacant chambers 142 stacked thereon in multiple stages or in the state of communicating with each other and allowing the atomized cutting fluid to pass therethrough through the groups of the vacant chambers 142 is formed in the atomized cutting fluid passage e1 or e2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Tadashi Makiyama
  • Publication number: 20030175085
    Abstract: There is now provided a rotary cutting tool, particularly a drill, that has at least two cutting edges that respectively comprise a main cutting edge and that respectively are disposed, particularly symmetrically, with respect to the central axis of a cutter portion, whereby the radius of the main cutting edges is less than the maximal cutting edge radius of the cutter portion. A secondary cutting edge is associated with a main cutting edge, this secondary cutting edge is curvilinear in at least a portion and is configured as smooth finishing cutting edge, this secondary cutting edge comprises a plurality of curve-forming radii, whereby in an outer smooth finishing region within the region of the maximal cutting edge radius, the curve-forming radius of the smooth finishing cutting edge is greater than the maximal cutting edge radius. The cutter portion that is adjacent to the outer smooth finishing region is tapered by a taper that diminishes the size in the direction away from the main cutting edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventor: Hermann F. Prokop
  • Patent number: 6602031
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for machining a workpiece, which comprises the steps of: separately supplying compressed air and a liquid into a through-hole longitudinally extending through a drawbar within a spindle of a machine tool; allowing the compressed air and the liquid to separately flow through the through-hole; mixing the liquid with the compressed air in a distal end portion of the through-hole so as to make the liquid into a mist form; ejecting the resulting mist from a distal open end of the through-hole to supply the mist to a distal end of a tool along an outer periphery of the tool or through the inside of the tool; and machining the workpiece while ejecting the mist from the distal end of the tool to supply the mist to a machining part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Japan Speed Shore Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsugu Hara
  • Patent number: 6601857
    Abstract: A seal assembly for a toolholder with a collet clamping member having a forcing ring in which at least in part the clamping member can be positioned, and a seal ring with a tool insertion opening including a surrounding O-ring holder that can be removably engaged with the forcing ring to place this seal ring in a selected position therein. An O-ring is provided in the seal ring O-ring holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Inventor: Daryl E. Richmond
  • Publication number: 20030129032
    Abstract: A tool including a working portion with a working member, a side surface and an end surface. The working portion includes a passage passing through the side surface and the end surface. At least one seal is adapted to restrict fluid flow through the side surface and the end surface and at least partially defines a pressure chamber. The working member is adapted-to be selectively pivotally positioned by selectively pressurizing the pressure chamber. The tool similarly enables unique methods of working workpieces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Inventors: Gregory Aaron Hyatt, David Wayne Bricker
  • Patent number: 6582167
    Abstract: A spindle device and a tool holder of a machine tool stably ejecting spray coolant from the tip of a tool (19) in a tool holder (18) and suppressing a waste of the spray coolant, wherein the tool holder (18) is fixed to the tip part of a spindle (2) mechanically detachably through clamp means (KR), an extension passage (104) is formed in the state that an in-spindle spray coolant passage (102) formed in the center part of the spindle (2) is formed to communicate with the in-holder spray coolant passage (103) through the extension passage (104).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Horkos Corp.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Yoshihide Seo, Takashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6575672
    Abstract: The invention relates to a superfinishing tool having a shank (2), as well as at least one rigid cutting edge (16) and at least one guide rib (30) on the periphery. In addition, or alternatively, the cutting edge (16) and/or the guide rib(s) (30) can be configured to form a single-piece solid tool with the shank (2). The guide beads or ribs guarantee steady, stable functioning of the tool in spite of high rotational speed and/or hardness of the workpiece. An additional advantage is provided by producing the tool as a solid tool, i.e. made of solid hard metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Hartmetallwerkzeugfabrik Andreas Maier GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Maier
  • Publication number: 20030103820
    Abstract: A drill for chip forming metalworking includes three cutting edge structures spaced circumferentially apart. Each cutting edge structure includes a radially outer cutting edge and a radially inner cutting edge. Each radially inner cutting edge is inclined in a radially inner and axially rearward direction from a radially inner end of its associated radially outer cutting edge. That radially inner end constitutes a breakpoint between each radially outer cutting edge and its respective radially inner cutting edge. The breakpoints lie in a common circle whose center coincides with the center axis of the drill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventor: Stefan Frejd
  • Patent number: 6554550
    Abstract: A tandem tap for cutting screw threads into a bore comprises straight flutes with a spiral point along the front section for pushing the chips generated thereby forward and spiral flutes along the rear section for removing the chips generated thereby rearward in an opposite direction. The tap prevents build up of chips in the transition area between front and rear cutting sections of the tap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: North American Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Penny E. Chapel, Ricky D. Rath
  • Patent number: 6540452
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drilling tool for machine tools and to a method for the production thereof. The drilling tool has at least one chip conveyor groove (16) and at least one functional channel (20). In order to produce the body of the drill (10), the wall of a tubular metal blank is simultaneously impinged upon by substantially radially oscillating form-giving forces in several forming sections spread over the periphery, moving in an axial direction along the surface of the blank, whereby at least one chip conveyor groove (16) is shaped and at least one functional channel (20) is formed. When the chip conveyor grooves (16) are formed on at least two interspaced forming sections in a peripheral direction in the wall of the blank (50), the parts of the wall in the area of two opposite-lying chip conveyor grooves (16) come to rest against each other in a sealed manner, defining at least two functional channels (20, 24) on the inner surfaces thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Komet Praezisionswerkzeuge Robert Breuning GmbH
    Inventors: Dietmar Bolkart, Gerhard Scheer, Konstantin Baxivanelis, Michael Koecher, Jacek Kruszynski
  • Patent number: 6536998
    Abstract: A tool including a working portion with a working member, a side surface and an end surface. The working portion includes a passage passing through the side surface and the end surface. At least one seal is adapted to restrict fluid flow through the side surface and the end surface and at least partially defines a pressure chamber. The working member is adapted to be selectively pivotally positioned by selectively pressurizing the pressure chamber. The tool similarly enables unique methods of working workpieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Makino, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Aaron Hyatt, David Wayne Bricker
  • Patent number: 6524034
    Abstract: A tool tip and tool body assembly includes a tool tip having a first end for contacting a workpiece and a second end, the second end having a patterned surface of recesses and protrusions, and at least one through hole extending through the tool tip from the second end. A tool body has a first end having a patterned surface corresponding to the patterned surface of the tool tip for mating with the patterned surface of the tool tip, and at least one threaded hole adapted to align with the at least one through hole in the tool tip. At least one fastener having a threaded end and a securing end is provided, the fastener extending through the at least one through hole such that the securing end abuts against a surface in the at least one through hole, the threaded end mating with threads in the threaded hole. Torque is transmitted between the tool tip and the tool body solely by the at least one fastener and the patterned surface of the tool tip and the patterned surface of the tool body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Sandvik AB
    Inventors: Jörgen Eng, Sven Engstrand, Jonas Svensson, Anna Hedberg
  • Publication number: 20030026666
    Abstract: Rotary cutting tool, in particular for high speed machining with nano-lubrication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Yves Toublanc
  • Patent number: 6514019
    Abstract: The invention relates to a boring tool comprising a retaining device which extends in the direction of a longitudinal axis and which comprises a shaft section and a head section. A groove which runs orthogonal in relation to the longitudinal axis and in the direction of a transversal axis is configured in said head section. The boring tool also comprises a cutting insert which is inserted in the groove, and comprises a clamping element. Said clamping element passes through a receiving boring configured in the cutting insert and through a boring configured in at least one of the groove limbs. In addition, the clamping element clamps the cutting insert against the at least one groove limb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Dr. Joerg Guehring
    Inventor: Armin Schulz
  • Publication number: 20030002936
    Abstract: A rotating tool (10) with a body (11, 12) has an inner path (15, 16) for circulation of a cooling fluid. The tool is provided with a cutting edge (13) made of an insert of hard material (14). The path of the cooling fluid comprises at least one cavity (17) in the body/insert interface so that the fluid flowing along the path grazes at least part of the rear surface of the insert before coming out to the outside at an insert extremity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Applicant: Camozzi Holding S.p.A.
    Inventor: Ettore Camozzi
  • Tap
    Patent number: 6499920
    Abstract: A cutting tap comprises a threaded portion including a lead whose thread diameter gradually decreases toward a front end of the lead, a complete thread portion continued from the lead, and four flutes arranged at equal intervals in a circumferential direction. In the cutting tap, a first cutting edge portion for processing a prepared hole is formed at a front end surface of the lead, and a second cutting edge portion for finishing a minor diameter of an internal thread is formed in a part of an outer periphery of the complete thread portion, the second cutting edge portion being one or more pitches long. The cutting tap can perform processing of a prepared hole, tapping, and finishing of a minor diameter by a single step, and can also perform tapping even if a prepared hole for an internal thread is a blind hole or the like and does not have enough space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Tanoi Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Teruo Sawabe
  • Patent number: 6500383
    Abstract: A tapping tool comprises a threaded portion and an upper gripping shank, and presents an axial bore which has its base wall proximate to the end of the threaded portion and opens at the end of the shank, there being present in proximity to the base wall at least one duct which connects the bore to the outer surface of the threaded portion, and makes available on one side of the outer rim of the duct a sharp edge for removing the material, which then by passing through said duct collects inside the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: PI.EFFE.CI DEI F.LLI Vernasca E C. S.N.C.
    Inventor: Raffaele Zinelli
  • Patent number: 6497540
    Abstract: An endmill having a shank and a milling head having cutting teeth continuous from a peripheral surface toward a forward tip face, wherein the endmill has a through hole extending from the forward tip face of the head to the shank past the head along a rotation axis of the endmill. The head and shank comprise separate component parts and the head is mounted on the shank by inserting a screw member from the tip end face into the hole and fixing the screw member to the shank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shikata, Shoichi Kishita, Nobuhisa Ujiie
  • Patent number: 6450739
    Abstract: A tool for chip-forming machining is made by passing first and second compounds through first and second coaxial dies, respectively, whereby the first material forms a center core of the tool, and the second material forms an outer rod of the material. The material of the core is tougher and less wear-resistant than the material of the outer rod. The coaxial first and second compounds are passed through a shaping die and then through a flute-forming structure which forms chip flutes in the outer rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Mattias Puide, Johnny Bruhn, Mikael Grönkvist
  • Publication number: 20020121392
    Abstract: A rotary drill bit for boring a hole through a solid body is disclosed. The drill bit comprises a collar and a penetrating member. At a proximal end, the collar is attachable to a drill shaft. At a distal end, the collar is attachable to the penetrating member. The penetrating member has a connecting end for attachment to the collar and a cutting end for engaging the solid body. A pilot drill is fixedly attached to the cutting end for initiating contact with the solid body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Publication date: September 5, 2002
    Inventor: Gilbert R. Broom