Conducting Channel Extending To End Of Tool Patents (Class 408/59)
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Patent number: 6319005Abstract: A dental drill, formed of a substantially solid elongate body, includes (a) a longitudinal shank having a proximal and a distal end and having an axially disposed irrigation channel; (b) a working portion comprising (i) an annular boss integrally disposed distally of the shank; (ii) a neck of reduced radius relative to the boss, integrally disposed distally of the boss; (iii) a cutting region of uniform diameter integrally disposed distally of the neck; and (iv) a cutting region having a tapered external geometry, integrally dependant distally of the cutting region of uniform diameter, the cutting regions including at least four integral axi-symmetric flutes formed upon lateral surfaces of the regions, each of the flutes defining co-axial peripheral profiles, each of the flutes separated by substantially co-axial integral channels, each having at least one outlet therein, the working portion of the drill having an irrigation channel extending the entire length and integral with the shank irrigation, the one oType: GrantFiled: September 18, 2000Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: BioLok International Inc.Inventors: Bruce Hollander, Ingo Kozak
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Publication number: 20010041108Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 1999Publication date: November 15, 2001Applicant: SAWABEInventor: TERUO SAWABE
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Patent number: 6299390Abstract: The headpiece is equipped with an aspiration system for continuously sucking up and removing shavings that are formed during machining of a flat board. To the headpiece are attached one or more shaft-like elements, which push on the board that is to be drilled via one of their elastically yielding edges, thus leaving exposed and encompassed between them an area of the board where the holes are to be made. A box, which is open toward the area where the holes are to be made and to which the aspiration system is to be fitted, is attached, over its entire length, to at least one of the shaft-like elements.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1999Date of Patent: October 9, 2001Assignee: Ballado Investments Inc.Inventor: Beat Ammann
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Publication number: 20010022920Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2001Publication date: September 20, 2001Inventors: Gregory Aaron Hyatt, David Wayne Bricker
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Patent number: 6283682Abstract: A helically fluted twist drill device is disclosed for cutting materials. The device includes a cylindrical core having a first diameter, a longitudinal axis and a first and a second extremity, the second extremity defining a cutting point. At least three portions extend helically outwardly away from the core so that the portions define a second diameter. The arrangement is such that adjacent portions define therebetween a helical flute. Each of the flutes has a flute surface which is of S-shaped configuration when viewed as a cross section disposed normal to the longitudinal axis, the cross section being viewed in a direction from the first towards the second extremity. Each of the portions further defines a helical bore connected to a source of a cutting fluid for permitting a flow of the cutting fluid through the bore towards the cutting point. The arrangement is such that in use of the device, the cutting fluid conveys the materials away from the cutting point through each flute.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2000Date of Patent: September 4, 2001Inventor: Jerald D. Plummer
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Patent number: 6270295Abstract: Cutting tool, such as a gun reamer or a drill, with a rotating cutting blade and a rotating support member for supporting the workpiece, where at least one of the cutting blade and the support member are selectively biased. The selective bias on the blade and/or the support member is preferably effected by selectively pressurized fluid which bears on the blade member and/or the support member.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1999Date of Patent: August 7, 2001Assignee: Makino, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Aaron Hyatt, David Wayne Bricker
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Patent number: 6270296Abstract: A tool holder, which has a tool bit pivotal in a recess in one end thereof, extends coaxially through a generally bell shaped piston housing, and through the center of a piston slidably mounted on the holder for limited reciprocation in the housing axially thereof. The piston is urged by a compressing spring to a retracted position against one end of the housing, and has a reduced diameter annular wall that projects coaxially toward the end of the holder containing the tool bit. A tool actuating rod, which is pivotal in an axial bore in the holder, has on one end a lever which extends slidably into an axially extending helical slot formed in the annular piston wall, and is connected at its opposite end to the tool bit. When the piston is in its retracted position, the helical slot in its annular wall causes the actuating rod to swing the tool bit to an inoperative position within the holder recess.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2000Date of Patent: August 7, 2001Assignee: R. Steiner Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Rudolph Steiner, Eugene E. Peek, Randall Beaudin
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Patent number: 6234728Abstract: A mounting attachment for a penetrating tool such as a drilling head on a machine with a machining shaft includes a support provided with means for coupling to a machine; a tool holder provided with means for fixing a tool; means for axially guiding the tool holder relative to the support; means for linking in rotation the tool holder and the support; and elastically deformable suspension means for suspending the tool holder from the support, the suspension means allowing axial translation and self-sustaining reciprocating or vibrating axial movements of the tool holder resulting from a controlled displacement of the support with respect to a workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2000Date of Patent: May 22, 2001Assignee: Institut National Polytechnique de GrenobleInventors: Daniel Brun-Picard, Alexandre Gouskov
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Patent number: 6210083Abstract: A method for supplying the working parts of a cutting tool with a lubricant which both cools and lubricates the cutting tool. A dispenser is connected directly or indirectly to the cutting tool to enable lubricant to be fed to the working parts of the cutting tool through at least one channel in the cutting tool. A cutting tool is also disclosed with a shaft, a cutter, at least one internal lubricant channel and at least one reservoir being fitted as a dispenser for the lubricant. The reservoir is directly or indirectly connected to the cutting tool by mechanical connections and to the at least one lubricant channel to permit the passage of lubricant. In addition, a tool holder designed to hold the cutting tool is disclosed. The tool holder has an internal dispenser for the lubricant. The dispenser is connected, when the cutting tool is fixed in place, to the at least one lubricant channel in the cutting tool to permit the passage of lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2000Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventors: Dirk Kammermeier, Bernhard Borschert
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Patent number: 6200073Abstract: A combination chamfering tool and cutting tool for a milling machine that machines a wall and leaves a chamfered comer including a shaft having one section (12) dimensioned to slip into a mill collet. Another larger cylindrical section (14) is joined end- to- end with the one section and has a conical end (16). A pair of cutting flutes (18) are formed on the conical surface (16). A central bore (20) extends the entire length of the shaft and is dimensioned to accept a mill cutter (22) slip fitted into the bore (20). A set screw (24) secures the cutter (34) in the bore (20). In one embodiment, a part of the bore is threaded and an allen screw (34) is a positioning stop for the cutter (22). In another embodiment, a cylindrical sleeve is journalled onto the shaft forming a chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1999Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Inventor: Henry Chung
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Patent number: 6183173Abstract: A rotary shaft tool for machining bores, particularly blind hold bores, has a shaft with at least one longitudinal conduit for coolant/lubricant, with a cutter head that has at least one cutting edge and a chip space. A chip space section is provided that tapers toward the end of the cutter head.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 1998Date of Patent: February 6, 2001Assignee: August Beck GmbH & Co.Inventor: Otto Ritter
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Patent number: 6161633Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 3, 1998Date of Patent: December 19, 2000Assignee: Cutting Edge TechnologyInventor: Gilbert R. Broom
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Patent number: 6135679Abstract: A thread-cutting chuck for use with minimum amounts of lubrication includes an axially central lubricant channel for connecting an insert sleeve for reception of a collet chuck, especially a quick-change insert, which accommodates a screw tap provided with a longitudinal borehole, with a minimum lubrication source on the machine side, from which the lubricant is passed as an aerosol to the longitudinal borehole of the screw tap. An axially displaceable coolant pipe which brings about a direct connection with the longitudinal borehole of the screw tap is provided in the lubricant channel extending into the junction region leading into the insert sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 1999Date of Patent: October 24, 2000Assignee: Emuge-Werk Richard Glimpel Fabrikfuer Praezisionswerkzeuge vormals Moschkau & GlimpelInventor: Thomas Kazda
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Patent number: 6123489Abstract: A drilling tool includes a tool head having at least one chip groove and a tool shank. A slotted sleeve is placed on the tool shank and closely surrounds the chip groove. The edges adjacent the slot lie on solid material of the tool shank. The chip grooves and the sleeve form channels for carrying away the chips removed at the workpiece machining base. Owing to the slot, the sleeve can be gently spread apart and pushed onto the tool shank from the end having the enlarged tool head.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1998Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignee: Komet Praezisionswerkzeuge Robert Breuning GmbHInventors: Helmut Reccius, Gerhard Stolz
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Patent number: 6116825Abstract: A method for supplying the working parts of a boring tool, in particular a drill, with a lubricant which both cools and lubricates the drill. A dispenser is connected directly or indirectly to the drill to enable lubricant to be fed to the working parts of the drill through at least one channel in the drill. A boring tool, in particular a drill, is also disclosed with a shaft, a cutter, at least one internal lubricant channel and at least one reservoir being fitted as a dispenser for the lubricant. The reservoir is directly or indirectly connected to the drill by mechanical connections and to the at least one lubricant channel to permit the passage of lubricant. In addition, a tool holder designed to hold the drill is disclosed. The tool holder has an internal dispenser for the lubricant. The dispenser is connected, when the drill is fixed in place, to the at least one lubricant channel in the drill to permit the passage of lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1998Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Assignee: Kennametal Hertel AG Werkzeuge + HartstoffeInventors: Dirk Kammermeier, Bernhard Borschert
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Patent number: 6106292Abstract: A dental drill is formed of a solid elongate body, having a longitudinal shank including an axially disposed irrigation channel and a working portion having an annular boss and a neck of reduced radius relative to the boss, and a cutting region disposed distally of the neck, the cutting region including at least four axi-symmetric flutes formed upon lateral surfaces of the cutting region, each of the flutes defining co-axial peripheral profiles, each of the flutes separated by substantially co-axial channels, the working portion of the drill having an irrigation channel extending the entire length and having at least one outlet within each of the channels, the one outlet of each channel located proximally to a distal tip of the working portion, the tip defining a surface formed integrally and continuously with ends of the flutes and channels.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 1999Date of Patent: August 22, 2000Assignee: Biolok International, Inc.Inventors: Bruce Hollander, Ingo Kozak
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Patent number: 6095725Abstract: A drilling tool for machine tools includes a drill shank provided with a radially outwardly projecting feed helix. The drilling tool also includes a drilling head disposed at the end of the drill shank and having two segment sections which are delimited radially outwardly by partially cylindrical peripheral surfaces and separated from each other by axially parallel chip grooves which are adjacent in the peripheral direction. The drilling head also includes at least two cutting plates disposed at different radial spacings from a drilling tool axis and each having a cutting edge projecting beyond the drilling head. The chip grooves are delimited on the side of the cutting plates by at least one axially parallel radial chip-deflection surface and by a chip-guide surface disposed on the adjacent segment section.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1999Date of Patent: August 1, 2000Assignee: Komet Praezisionswerkzeuge Robert Breuning GmbHInventor: Frank Stahl
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Patent number: 6056486Abstract: The invention is directed to an improved cutting tool point. In the preferred embodiment, the cutting tool is comprised of a marginal end portion (15), adapted to selectively removed material from a work piece when the tool is moved relative to the work piece and having a leading cutting lip (16), a trailing dam (18), a recessed surface (19) extending into the marginal end portion between the cutting lip and the dam, and a coolant hole (20) communicating with the recessed surface, such that the recessed surface forms a reservoir (40) for coolant (36). The present invention also discloses a marginal end portion having an axis of rotation (42), at least one flute (21), and at least one chip-forming notch (31) extending from the flute into the marginal end portion and beyond the axis of rotation. The present invention also discloses a marginal end portion having a chip former (37) and a chip breaker (32).Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1998Date of Patent: May 2, 2000Inventor: Kevin F. Colvin
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Patent number: 6050756Abstract: The invention relates to a method of cooling and lubricating a metal-cutting rotating tool with a geometrically defined cutting element and/or the workpiece in the cutting zone. A coolant-lubricant and a carrier gas are fed separately into a tool shaft, brought together inside the rotating working spindle as close as possible to the cutting zone and directed via integral feed ducts onto the cutting element and/or cutting zone. Also disclosed is a device for applying this method. The coolant-lubricant and carrier gas are each introduced into a coolant reservoir completely or partially filled with a porous filler where they are mixed; the mixture is then fed directly into the cutting zone.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 1998Date of Patent: April 18, 2000Assignee: Huller Hille GmbHInventors: Reinhard Buchholz, Gunther Spath, Wolfgang Horn
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Patent number: 6045301Abstract: A drill is disclosed with a least one central channel for cooling-lubricant oil feed. The drill has a shaft with at least one flute extending in a spiral around the shaft axis. The oil, fluid, and gas is fed to the point of application of the drill through lateral outlet apertures which are joined to the at least one oil channel by connecting channels.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 1998Date of Patent: April 4, 2000Assignee: Kennametal Hertel AG Werkzeuge +HartstoffeInventors: Dirk Kammermeier, Bernhard Borschert
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Patent number: 6045305Abstract: A helically fluted twist drill device is disclosed for cutting materials. The device comprises a shank having a first and a second end. A cylindrical core has a first diameter and a first and a second extremity, the core extending coaxially relative to the shank and from the second end of the shank, the second extremity defining a point. At least three portions extend helically outwardly away from the core so that the portions define a second diameter. The arrangement is such that adjacent portions define therebetween a surface of a helical flute. Each of the portions further define a helical bore connected to a source of a cutting fluid for permitting a flow of the cutting fluid through the bore from the shank towards the point. The arrangement is such that in use of the device, the cutting fluid conveys the materials from the vicinity of the point through each flute towards the shank. The first diameter has a dimension within a first range which is 20-35% of a dimension of the second diameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1997Date of Patent: April 4, 2000Inventor: Jerald D. Plummer
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Patent number: 6030155Abstract: The invention concerns a drilling tool for machine tools. The drilling tool comprises a drill body with two chip-conveying grooves which are delimited at their flanks by helically curved ribs. Disposed at the end of the drill body is a drill head which comprises two segment parts, which are separated from each other by opposite axially aligned chip spaces, and two cutting plates which are each disposed in a recess in the segment parts in the region of an axially parallel radial chip-guide surface at different radial spacings from the drill axis with mutually partially overlapping working regions. At a transition point, the chip-guide surfaces merge into the flanks of the adjacent chip-conveying grooves. Disposed at at least one of the transition points is a transition surface which is gradually recessed so that it widens the cross-section of the chip space and merges into a flank of the adjacent chip-conveying groove.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1998Date of Patent: February 29, 2000Assignee: Komet Praezisonswerkzeuge Robert Breuning GmbHInventors: Gerhard Scheer, Konstantin Baxivanelis
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Patent number: 6012881Abstract: A drilling tool comprises a drill tip, a chip removal part which axially adjoins the drill tip, and a drill shank which is positioned at the end of the chip removal part. Two chip flutes extend in a helical manner over the chip removal part starting at the main cutting edges of the drill tip. The drilling tool is separated into two parts in the region of the chip removal part and consists of a base body which is connected to the drill shank as one part and an exchangeable tip made of a harder material which is connected to the drill tip as another part. The exchangeable tip is connectable to the base body in a form-fitting and/or frictional-fitting manner at an axial separation point.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1997Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: Komet Praezisionswerkzeuge Robert Breuning GmbHInventor: Gerhard Scheer
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Patent number: 5993119Abstract: A drill for metal chip-removing machining includes a shank which defines a longitudinal axis of rotation and has front and rear ends. The front end carries cutting edges defined by respective inserts. Two chip flutes extend rearwardly from respective cutting edges for conducting chips. A cooling channel includes a main portion extending through the shank between the two chip flutes. At a location spaced from the front end of the shank, the main portion of the cooling channel splits into two branch portions which terminate in the front end of the shank. The main portion of the cooling channel is arranged such that a center axis thereof lies parallel to, and radially offset from, the axis of rotation, and such that the axis of rotation lies within the main portion of the cooling channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 1998Date of Patent: November 30, 1999Assignee: Seco Tools ABInventor: Claes Moller
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Patent number: 5993120Abstract: A thread-producing tool for producing an internal thread includes a body forming a rear shank portion and a front cutting portion. Provided in the body is a lubricant storage chamber for storing liquid lubricant which is driven toward the cutting portion through discharge passages under the action of centrifugal force during a thread-cutting operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1998Date of Patent: November 30, 1999Assignee: Sandvik AktiebolagInventor: Josef Giessler
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Patent number: 5975817Abstract: The present invention provides a tool holder which realizes an improved applicability to tools with different diameters and attains high sealability and is capable of efficiently supplying a fluid at a predetermined position even when a fluid of high pressure is supplied. The tool holder comprises: an engaging member 4 provided on the top end side of a tool holding portion of a holder body 2 and comprising an inclined face 15 constructed in a manner such that the inside diameter becomes smaller toward the top end of the tool 10 held by the holder body 2; and an elastic member 5 as a stopper provided between the inclined face 15 and the outside periphery of the tool 10.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1998Date of Patent: November 2, 1999Assignee: Big Alpha Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tsuyoshi Komine
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Patent number: 5971674Abstract: The drill bit according to the present invention provides an advanced, carbide tipped, coolant feed, two-fluted deep hole drill capable of drilling a wider variety of materials deeper and faster than presently known drills of similar construction. Specifically, a deep hole drill bit includes a cutting tip with a fitting end having "V" shaped profile with an apex edge extending along a plane which is substantially aligned with the cutting edges of the cutting tip. The drill bit additionally includes a drill shaft having a distal end adapted to be matingly fitted to the fitting end of the cutting tip. This joint structure allows the shaft to naturally push behind the drill tip to provide enhanced strength and support during drilling. In this manner, the contact area between the drill tip and the shaft is maximized, with the contact area being greatest towards the base of the "V", where the compressive forces are also greatest, i.e., along the cutting edges.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1998Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Assignee: Drill Masters of VermontInventor: Doug Holley
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Patent number: 5954459Abstract: A throwaway drill capable of machining a workpiece stably in a balanced manner even under high-efficiency, high-load conditions and capable of disposing of chips efficiently and smoothly. The drill carries an outer insert and an inner insert. As shown, each insert has a plurality of cutting edges each having a curved crest, a first slope, and a second slope which is at least partially a curved line. The inner and outer inserts are arranged so that the cutting area to be cut by the outer insert alone is partially cut by a cutting edge portion of the inner insert near its corner, and the cutting area which to be cut by the inner insert alone is partially cut by the crest of one cutting edge of the outer insert.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 1998Date of Patent: September 21, 1999Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuo Noguchi, Masaaki Jindai, Kazuyoshi Kimura, Kazuchika Nasu
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Patent number: 5951217Abstract: An operating device for a hollow drill (1) including a housing (2), a drill receiving chuck (3) supported in the housing (2) for rotation relative thereto, a drive unit (4) for rotating the chuck (3), a bottom element adjoining the chuck (3) at a side of the chuck facing in a direction opposite to a drilling direction, and an arrangement for lifting the bottom element off the chuck (3).Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1998Date of Patent: September 14, 1999Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Peter Ostermeier, Rudolf Reitberger
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Patent number: 5947972Abstract: A surgical tool for resecting bone has a pneumatic motor within a tool body which rotates a coaxial tool implement. The tool implement is provided with irrigation fluid from a fluid reservoir. The reservoir and the motor are charged with pressurized air from a pressurized air source. A fluid control valve is located between the reservoir and the tool, and an air control valve is located between the air pressure source and the motor. The air control valve is controlled by a variable foot pedal or hand valve so that the speed of the motor is variably actuated by the foot valve.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1998Date of Patent: September 7, 1999Assignee: Midas Rex, L.P.Inventors: Gary B. Gage, Glenn T. Carlson
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Patent number: 5947653Abstract: A helix drill for metal chip removing machining includes a shank which defines a longitudinal rotary axis and has front and rear ends. The front end carries two cutting edges. Two chip flutes are formed in an outer periphery of the shank and extend helically rearwardly from respective cutting edges for conducting chips. Two coolant channels extend within the shank for conducting cooling fluid. A major part of the length of each cooling channel is straight and oriented parallel to the axis. A total helical twist of each of the chip flutes along the length of the shank is about 30.degree..Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 1998Date of Patent: September 7, 1999Assignee: Seco Tools ABInventor: Jens Hamberg
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Patent number: 5947657Abstract: A drill jig assembly for accurately supporting a drill relative to a workpiece is provided that includes a drill having a cylindrical shank, a chuck having a cylindrical exterior, and a hydraulically-operated collet for detachably gripping the drill shank, a housing tube for slidably and rotatably supporting the cylindrical exterior of the chuck, and a drill guide mounted on the distal end of the housing tube. The drill guide is formed from a carbide bushing having a pilot bore for rotatably receiving the cylindrical shank of the drill and maintaining a pilot concentric alignment between the bushing and the shank during a drilling operation. The use of hydraulic chuck in combination with the pilot bore of the carbide bushing allows the drill to accurately bore holes in a workpiece to very tight tolerances in a one-step, extend and retract drilling operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 1998Date of Patent: September 7, 1999Assignee: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Steve P. Lipohar, William C. Magill, William B. Tunis
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Patent number: 5941664Abstract: A toolholder is provided for receiving, pressurizing, and conducting an external stream of coolant to a rotating cutting tool without mechanical containment between the toolholder and the coolant stream. The toolholder includes a shank attachably connectable to a rotatable drive shaft, an adapter, such as a collet chuck, for connecting a rotatable cutting tool to the shank, and a coolant inducer mounted between the shank and the adapter. The coolant inducer is formed from an impeller assembly having a plurality of uniformly spaced, coolant receiving openings around its periphery for receiving an uncontained coolant stream. A passageway is provided along the axis of rotation of the adapter for receiving and conducting the coolant pressurized by the impeller assembly to a cutting tool secured in the adapter. The impeller-type coolant inducer eliminates the need for fluid seals or other friction-generating mechanical interfaces between the rotating toolholder and the source of pressurized coolant.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 1997Date of Patent: August 24, 1999Assignee: Kennametal Inc.Inventor: Gary L. Morsch
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Patent number: 5934385Abstract: A threading attachment for internal or external threading includes a spindle head (1) which is intended to be attached to a spindle on a machine tool and also a tap holder (5) with a holder body (6) in which a tap (13) is arranged during the threading work, the spindle head (1) and the tap holder (5) being extended along a joint axle. The tap holder (5) and the holder body (6) respectively have in threading position a power transmitting connection to the spindle head (1) via driving members (15, 16 and 28, 29, respectively) and have in back out position freely rotatable in relation to the spindle head (1) and arranged to be effected by a compressed medium via a driving member (18). The driving member can be a reaction turbine or an action turbine.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1997Date of Patent: August 10, 1999Assignee: Svenska Precisionsverktyg ABInventor: Gustav Svensson
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Patent number: 5904939Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a rod of hard metal or ceramic with at least one helical inner bore. A plasticized mass of hard metal or ceramic is simultaneously forced through a die and twisted. Either the mass is twisted uniformly over the cross-section of the billet by a spinner immersed in the mass or the spinner is rotated by the mass. The mass emerges either subject to torsion or entirely or mostly without torsion from a smooth downstream channel through the die. A filament-shaped material extends or is injected into the mass to produce the inner bore or bores.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 1997Date of Patent: May 18, 1999Assignees: Konrad Friedrichs KG, Guehring oHGInventor: Arno Friedrichs
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Patent number: 5873687Abstract: A tool unit according to the invention has an arrangement wherein a shaft-like mount portion having a step is disposed on one of a tool body or a tool holder. The other of the tool body or the tool holder, includes a recessed fitting portion or bore shrinkage-fitted on the mount portion and having a step. The fitting portion includes a hydraulic feed passage for externally feeding a high-pressure oil to a gap defined between the step of the mount portion and the step of the fitting portion. In mounting the tool body to the tool holder, the high-pressure oil is externally fed to the gap through the hydraulic feed passage. Thus, a thin layer of the high-pressure oil is formed between the shrinkage-fitted surfaces, while on the other hand, the tool body and the tool holder are drawn close to each other. This facilitates the correction of inclination or axial displacement of the fitting portion relative to the mount portion, which occurred during the shrinkage-fit process.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 1997Date of Patent: February 23, 1999Assignee: Mori Seiki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Michio Watanabe
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Patent number: 5865574Abstract: A spiral drill includes a rear shank portion; a front tip; and a spiral (helical) middle portion extending therebetween. Spiral ribs are formed in the middle portion, and coolant channels extend through the drill to the tip for conducting coolant fluid. The coolant channels form exit openings in the tip which are spaced at different radial distances from a centerline of the drill. Each coolant channel extends spirally through a respective rib, and the portion of each coolant channel disposed in the shank is straight. Those straight portions are spaced by different radial distances from the centerline.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 1997Date of Patent: February 2, 1999Assignee: Sandvik ABInventor: Tommy Tukala
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Patent number: 5851094Abstract: A tool for rotary chip removal machining includes a cutting head, a retention element and a shank. The cutting head includes a rear mounting portion and the retention element includes a front retaining portion. The mounting and retaining portion present forwardly facing and rearwardly facing surfaces, respectively, which engage one another for retaining the cutting head in the shank. The hook of the cutting head is asymmetrical with respect to the axis and is larger than the hook of the retention element. The cutting head includes a central flushing channel for conducting a flushing medium. The channel extends through the mounting portion of the cutting head for reducing the mass of that hook. The retention element includes a central channel which does not extend through the retaining portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 1997Date of Patent: December 22, 1998Assignee: Seco Tools ABInventors: Bengt Strand, Karl-Erik Berglow
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Patent number: 5829926Abstract: A rotary drill comprising a shaft of full carbide metal which shaft is to be connected to the driving spindle of a machine tool. The shaft contains helically extending ducts which run adjacent to one another through the shaft, substantially longitudinally, for transporting cooling fluid to the cutting edge of the drill. At least two of the ducts are covered by a common sealing plate adjacent the cutting end of the shaft, with the sealing plate being a distance from the cutting edges of the drill, to create a closed fluid flow path between the ducts to permit dry operation of the drill.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1996Date of Patent: November 3, 1998Assignee: Kennametal Hertel AGInventor: Dirk Kammermeier
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Patent number: 5823275Abstract: A high-speed drill for rock stake engineering includes an outer tube and an inner tube fixed in the outer tube, and an annular space is formed by the outer and the inner tube for pressured air and water to flow down from a power shaft connected with an upper portion of the outer tube. An annular cushion block is connected with a bottom of the outer and the inner tube, having many through holes. Further, cutters are fixed under a bottom surface of the cushion block, rotating together with the outer tube rotated by the power shaft, cutting into rock and cooled and washed synchronously by the pressured air and water coming through the annular space down from the power shaft.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 1997Date of Patent: October 20, 1998Inventors: Chun-Yi Ku, Chao-Hsiang Ku
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Patent number: 5802126Abstract: A remotely operated drilling tool is configured to produce holes in a core shroud support plate inside of a nuclear reactor vessel. The tool includes a support base that is securely mounted directly above the location where the hole will be formed. In a first operation, a drilling tool is secured to the support base and drills a hole through about 90% of the shroud support plate. The drilling tool includes chip capturing structure to prevent chip created by the machining process from contaminating the water in the reactor vessel. After about 90% of the hole is drilled with the drilling tool, an EDM tool is secured to the support base to machine the remainder of the hole using an EDM process. The EDM tool includes structure for machining the remainder of the hole, removing the slug from the hole, and performing a spotface on the underside of the shroud support plate.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 1997Date of Patent: September 1, 1998Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jack T. Matsumoto, Benedict Kazirskis, Vernon W. Pence, James F. Kasik
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Patent number: 5788431Abstract: The invention relates to a drilling tool (11), comprising a drill shank (22) which has an inner chip space (13) and an outer chip space (14) which extend axially along the drill shank (22) and which in each case accommodate at least one indexable insert (21, 22), the drill shank (12) having a left-hand twist for damping vibrations and increasing the cutting capacity.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1996Date of Patent: August 4, 1998Assignee: August Beck GmbH & Co.Inventor: Andreas Basteck
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Patent number: 5788433Abstract: A holder for a tool comprises a tapered hollow shaft, having an upper opening, for clamping into a tool receptacle, and a coolant tube arranged in the interior of the tapered hollow shaft for delivery of coolant to the tool. The coolant tube comprises an inlet opening for coolant, facing the upper opening, as well as an upper tube section having a cylindrical outer enveloping surface with which, when the holder is clamped into the tool receptacle, a sealing ring, which is arranged in a delivery tube for coolant which then at least partly overlaps the coolant tube, is in contact. A cover for the inlet opening is provided, which prevents chips from getting into the coolant tube. In addition, a further tube section, the outside diameter of which is smaller than that of the upper tube section, adjoins the upper tube section at the bottom.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1997Date of Patent: August 4, 1998Assignee: Chiron-Werke GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Peter Grund, Rudolf Haninger
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Patent number: 5782587Abstract: The invention relates to a drilling tool (11) for bores in solid material, comprising a drill shank (26) which has a radially inner indexable insert (13) at an inner chip space (21) and a radially outer indexable insert (14) at an outer chip space (22), the working areas of which indexable inserts (13, 14) overlap, the inner chip space (21) having a cover (36) which extends at least partly along the shank longitudinal axis (20), and the inner chip space (21) merging into the outer chip space (22), so that the chip discharge is effected via a common chip space (23) in the rear area (32) of the drilling tool (11).Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1996Date of Patent: July 21, 1998Assignee: August Beck GmbH & Co.Inventor: Andreas Basteck
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Patent number: 5780063Abstract: An extruder for extrusion manufacturing a rod of hard metal or ceramic with at least one helical inner bore. A plasticized mass of hard metal or ceramic is simultaneously forced through a die and twisted. Either the mass is twisted uniformly over the cross-section of the billet by a spinner immersed in the mass or the spinner is rotated by the mass. The mass emerges either subject to torsion or entirely or mostly without torsion from a smooth downstream channel through the die. A filament-shaped material extends or is injected into the mass to produce the inner bore or bores.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1995Date of Patent: July 14, 1998Assignees: Konrad Friedrichs KG, Gottlieb Guhring KGInventor: Arno Friedrichs
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Patent number: 5775853Abstract: An improved device and method for use in machining a workpiece, which includes a tool body with a machining tool having two machining surface, wherein one of the machining surfaces is being selectively movable between a retracted position and an extended position. A supporting mechanism is sized and configured to substantially restrict movement of the machining tool relative to the tool body while the one machining surface is positioned in the retracted position. Preferably, the supporting mechanism includes an interior surface having a frustoconical-shaped tapered configuration, and the reciprocable machining surface has an engageable surface sized and configured to be frictionally engaged against the interior surface. In a preferred embodiment, the interior surface has an angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the tool body from about 20 to about 50 degrees, and more preferably about 40 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 1996Date of Patent: July 7, 1998Assignee: Makino Inc.Inventors: Gary L. Keefer, Stanley C. Weidmer, Kazuyuki Hiramoto, Gregory Aaron Hyatt
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Patent number: 5733076Abstract: The invention relates to a rotating shank-type tool (11) with a shank (12), in which at least one main channel (21) for coolant/lubricant extends in the longitudinal direction of the shank and from which, in the end region of the main channel, at least one branch channel (22) leads outward and forms a mouth (23). A cutting head (13) is connected to the shank (12) and has chip grooves (15) and a groove run-out region (16). A sleeve (19) engages over the mouth (23). The end region of the sleeve (19) covers at least the groove run-out region (16) of the cutting head (13). The branch channel mouth (23) is positioned in the shank at a distance from the cutting head (13).Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 1995Date of Patent: March 31, 1998Inventor: Andreas Basteck
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Patent number: 5707186Abstract: A chuck-actuating spindle assembly has a hollow shaft extending along and rotatable about an axis, a clamping bar parallel to and rotatable with the shaft and axially displaceable relative to the shaft to clamp and release an object carried on the shaft, and a rotary union for transmitting a fluid to the object carried on the shaft. The union has in turn a union housing nonrotatable about the axis, an annular bar seal face on the clamping bar, and a sealing member axially movable in the union housing independently of the bar face, forming a pressurizable space with the union housing, and having an annular member seal face axially confronting and axially engageable with the bar seal face. The seal faces form a portion of a passage extending from the space along the bar and shaft to the object. Rotation of the sealing member about the axis relative to the union housing is inhibited and the member is braced against the union housing axially away from the bar seal face with a predetermined biasing force.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 1996Date of Patent: January 13, 1998Assignee: Gat Gesellschaft Fur Antriebstechnik mbHInventors: Jurgen Gobell, Stephan Ott
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Patent number: 5704740Abstract: Cutting elements or cutter chips (7, 8) are located on a tool body (1). Cutting chip removal spaces (14, 15) are formed in the tool body in three segments. A first segment (I) adjoins the end face (4) of the drill body and includes at least one cutting element seat (10, 11); a chip removal space extends axially, i.e. straight, or slightly obliquely fluted. A second segment (II), adjacent thereto, is formed partially helically with a twist (21) of less than 90.degree. relative to the tool body axis; the second segment (II) terminates axially at a point where, in operation, the direction of radially acting cutting forces coincides essentially with the primary axis of inertia (0-0) of the geometrical moment of inertia. A third segment (III) adjoins the second segment (II); it is essentially straight-fluted.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1995Date of Patent: January 6, 1998Assignee: Walter AGInventors: Sebastian Ebenhoch, Lothar Fauser, Siegfried Bohnet
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Patent number: 5688163Abstract: This invention relates to a vibration dampening grinding cup for handheld grinding machines for the grinding of hard metal buttons on button bits, comprising a grinding head and a shaft made with a common axial channel for cooling medium, which distinguishes in that the shaft is formed with a driver part at its free end and an annular groove between this part and the grinding head, and that a bushing of rubber is arranged on the shaft adjacent to the grinding head, and a holder for such a grinding cup, which distinguishes in that it comprises a substantially cylindrical socket with an axial through channel, whose one end is connected with the rotor of the handheld grinding machine and through the other end of which shaft of the grinding cup is intended to be entered for installing the driver part of the shaft in a correspondingly formed driving part of the channel of the socket and to be fastened through introduction of balls situated in holes in the wall of the socket at the other end of the socket into theType: GrantFiled: February 21, 1995Date of Patent: November 18, 1997Assignee: Uniroc ABInventor: Jan Siden