Conducting Channel Extending To End Of Tool Patents (Class 408/59)
  • Patent number: 5676506
    Abstract: It is possible to effectively supply mist to a machining point in a case of machining a comparatively deep point in a workpiece. For this purpose, two supply systems s1,s2 are provided to supply air and coolant separately into the spindle 1, and a mist generating device 33 which is able to jet mist by mixing air and coolant which are supplied through these supply systems is provided in the front edge of the spindle 1 or in the tool holder 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: Horkos Corp.
    Inventor: Shinsuke Sugata
  • Patent number: 5676499
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: Sandvik AB
    Inventor: Tommy Tukala
  • Patent number: 5634747
    Abstract: A spiral drill and a method to manufacture a spiral drill with two indexable inserts at different distances from the center line and two coolant channels, where the coolant channels (23,24) run parallel to the center line within the shank part, and where the spiral part has been twisted while heated to form spirally curved coolant channels (17,18), and where exit channels at the tip have been drilled after twisting, and where the exit openings (21,2) are located at different distances from the center line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1997
    Assignee: Sandvik AB
    Inventors: Tommy Tukala, Leif Karlsson, Kent Eriksson
  • Patent number: 5601857
    Abstract: An extruder for extrusion manufacturing one of a hard metal and a ceramic rod with at least one helical inner bore and having a smooth outer surface substantially free of elevations and depressions includes a housing and a die connected to the housing. The mechanism for forcing a plasticized mass through the die is provided wherein the mass is shaped in the form of a billet having a cross-section. A spinner is located in the housing upstream of the die for twisting the mass uniformly over the cross-section of the billet, the spinner being surrounded by an axial flow of the mass. A smooth channel is located downstream of the spinner such that the mass emerges from the channel through the die and a mechanism is provided suspending a filament in the mass wherein the filament follows a twisting movement of the twisted mass so as to form a helical inner bore therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignees: Konrad Friedrichs KG, Gottlieb G uhring KG
    Inventor: Arno Friedrichs
  • Patent number: 5601386
    Abstract: A cutter body includes an elongate, generally cylindrical chuck for gripping a cylindrical cutter, an annular cutting fluid gland surrounding the chuck, and retaining means for securing the gland longitudinally on the chuck. The cutter has a longitudinal bore therethrough defining a fluid passageway. The chuck has a longitudinal bore at least partially therethrough for gripping the cutter and defining a fluid passageway. The bore of the chuck is in fluid communication with the bore of the cutter. The chuck includes opposed ends and a medial portion disposed between the opposed ends. The medial portion includes longitudinally spaced-apart, circumferential lands which define bearing surfaces for engaging the inner surface of the cutting fluid gland. The medial portion has an opening therein defining a fluid passageway. The gland has an opening therein defining a fluid passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: McDonnell Douglas Corporation
    Inventor: Wesley G. Wells
  • Patent number: 5567093
    Abstract: A fluid seal device for preventing fluid from flowing around a tool secured to a tool holder by a collapsible collet having slots extending from a first end of the collet to a second end of the collet and a collet nut is disclosed. The tool has an inner chamber through which fluid is fed to a tool tip. The fluid seal device includes an O-ring positioned around the tool between the tool tip and the first end of the collet. A rigid seal is positioned about the drill bit and the O-ring, and is positioned between the first end of the collet and the collet nut such that fluid flowing within the slots of the collet is prevented from flowing past the rigid seal, thereby providing maximum fluid pressure within the inner chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Inventor: Daryl E. Richmond
  • Patent number: 5560270
    Abstract: The chuck, the bar which operates it, and the cylinder and piston assembly which moves the bar are axially hollow and form a vertical duct which is open at the top next to the workpiece and which is open at the bottom over a conveyor with a filter and a unit for collecting and pumping the cutting fluid. The chips from the piece are channelled and removed downwards through the said duct by at least one jet of fluid at high pressure, which has a location and direction such that it strikes the chip after its formation without interfering with the normal jet of fluid at low pressure which is applied to the tool. The said jet or jets of fluid at high pressure consist of the same cutting fluid as that which is directed against the tool at low pressure. The chips leaving the lower end of the said duct fall on to the conveyor which removes them and separates them from the cutting fluid which, when suitably filtered, is returned to circulation by low-pressure and high-pressure pumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Assignee: Minganti International Limited
    Inventor: Franco Caldana
  • Patent number: 5559713
    Abstract: A chip buildup detection and control apparatus having a flow transducer and flow monitor to measure and monitor coolant flow to a cutter of a machine tool for detecting excessive chip buildup on the cutter and removing the buildup on the cutter which decreases machining cycle time while increasing cutter life and machine tool production. Excessive chip buildup on the cutter is detected when coolant flow to the cutter drops below a minimum flow rate limit. Buildup is removed upon detection by initiating a "pecking" cycle where the cutter is retracted from its position of engagement with the workpiece being machined for a predetermined dwell period of time. The machining cycle is aborted if coolant flow does not rise above the minimum limit by the end of the dwell period. If coolant flow rises above the minimum flow limit, the cutter is advanced almost to its previous position of engagement with the workpiece and machining is resumed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1996
    Assignee: Western Atlas, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Brown, Dennis G. Rochon
  • Patent number: 5544985
    Abstract: A drilling apparatus for penetrating material includes an elongated rotary tool for boring an aperture in a workpiece by turning about a longitudinal axis and for moving along the longitudinal axis relative to the workpiece during a cutting operation. The tool also includes a cutting head mounted on an end of an elongated, hollow shaft. A fluid circulation system brings a flowable substance temporarily into engagement with the workpiece during the cutting operation. The circulation system forces the flowable substance to flow in a passage defined by an external surface of the shaft and the workpiece toward the cutting head along an entire longitudinal length of the aperture being drilled. The flowable substance exits the aperture through the hollow shaft after flushing material from the cutting head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1996
    Assignee: Autodie International
    Inventor: Jerry A. Lane
  • Patent number: 5516242
    Abstract: A cutting tool particularly adapted for machining brittle plastics in which the cutting head has its cutting edges in the first and fourth quadrants of the x-y axes and contained in a common plane on opposite sides of the axis of tool rotation. The cutting edges are on two planar inserts, which can be either integral or separate elements, which meet at the common plane and each of which is relieved or cut away in the opposite quadrant from its own cutting edge to expose the cutting edges of the other. The walls defining the reliefs have 2 or more non-aligned sections forming different angles with the axis of rotation with the steepest angle beginning at the axis and preferably inwardly of the tip of the tool and, overall, exposing not less than a full quadrant of the cutting edge of the other insert while providing cavities and contours which control the movement of the chips and the flow of coolant fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1996
    Inventor: Randall Andronica
  • Patent number: 5509761
    Abstract: A drill includes a substantially cylindrical bit body 10 having an axis O. The bit body 10 has a flange portion 13 which includes a converging portion 13a which reduces its diameter progressively towards the front end of the bit body and a flange 13b which is provided with a rearwardly facing annular surface 13c. The annular end surface is contactable with the front end surface of a drill holding portion of a machine too. Chip discharging flutes 14A,14B, each having an inner surface constituted by first and second inner surface portions 14a,14b and a third inner surface portion 14c arcuately recessed therefrom, are formed in the front end portion of the tip body 10. An inner peripheral cutting insert 16A and an outer peripheral cutting insert 16B are mounted on the ends of the chip-discharging flutes 14A,14B. The cross-sectional area S.sub.A of the first-mentioned chip-discharging flute 14A is determined to be greater than that S.sub.B of the second-mentioned chip-discharging flute 14B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1996
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Gunter Grossman, Yoshikazu Iwata
  • Patent number: 5497841
    Abstract: A masonry coring system for drilling vertical holes in a masonry wall comprises a drill bit in the form of a thin-walled cylinder having a cutting end face, a plurality of cutting elements fastened to the cutting end face, and a core breaker located within the interior of the cylinder. The coring system further comprises a driver plate fastened to the drill bit opposite the cutting end face, a driver shaft having a small axial hole therein fastened to the upper surface of the driver plate, a hydraulic motor to rotate the driver shaft, a non-rotating plastic pipe slightly larger than and surrounding the driver shaft, the plastic pipe resting on the driver plate and containing a plurality of holes located at the end near the driver plate. An air compressor forces compressed air through the axial hole in the driver shaft. An evacuation system withdraws the drilling dust through the annulus between the driver shaft and pipe and into a dust collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1996
    Inventors: Robert D. Cox, William Mohlenhoff
  • Patent number: 5478176
    Abstract: A metal cutting drill includes a shank having cutting edges at a front end and helical flutes extending rearwardly from respective cutting edges for conductive cutting fluid away from the front end. The cross-sectional area of each flute, as seen in a plane oriented non-perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the drill, becomes progressively smaller in a rearward direction. A helix angle defined by each flute becomes progressively smaller in the rearward direction. An angle formed between the plane and another plane oriented perpendicular to the axis equals the helix angle at the location where the planes intersect each other and the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Robert Stedt, Ronny Karlsson
  • Patent number: 5447397
    Abstract: An apparatus for fixing an annular cutter to an arbor comprises an arbor and a rotation transmitting member coaxially fixed to the arbor. Inclined grooves which receives locking pins extend from the inner peripheral surface to the outer peripheral surface of the rotation transmitting member toward the arbor. A guide ring is axially slidably mounted on the rotation transmitting member and has pressing faces and restricting grooves defined by the pressing faces. Each restricting groove has a dimension which can receive the respective locking pin. A holding mechanism is provided for holding the guide ring in a normal state in which the pressing faces press the locking pins inward along the inclined grooves. The holding mechanism can moved toward the arbor together with the guide ring so as to allow the locking pins to enter the restricting grooves. An annular cutter has a cutter body and a shank connected to the cutter body and inserted into said rotation transmitting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Nitto Kohki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Osamu Asano
  • Patent number: 5420388
    Abstract: Tool-holder (5) makes it possible to rotate a tool at high speed around its axis of symmetry. Its tapered end (26) is engaged in the tapered bore (16) provided in the spindle (6). In a bore of suitable shape a clamp (2) is engaged, adapted to secure the electrode tool end (1) rigidly. An injection chamber (28) communicates with the bore and is connected by radial channels (27) to a fluid inlet. The clamp (2) has radial grooves to bring the cooling fluid (25) from the injection chamber (28) to the surface of the tool (1). A sealed circuit (12,13,15) channels the liquid; it is connected by an input channel of small diameter which passes through the spindle body (10) to a small liquid inlet in the mobile element of the machining head or in the intermediary fixing element mounted on said mobile element. An annular seal (14) of small diameter is mounted in the spindle body around said channel (11').
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1995
    Assignee: Charmilles Technologies
    Inventor: Roger Girardin
  • Patent number: 5415501
    Abstract: A chuck assembly and drill tool for a deep hole drilling press wherein the shank of the drill is of great length and slidably received within the chuck assembly to various depths such that complete removal of the drill for the purpose of substitution with drills of different lengths is avoided. The invention also teaches means for securing the drill within the chuck at various points along the shank's length. Prevention of lubricating and cooling oil leakage is accomplished by novel packing means which are also incorporated into the chuck assembly. In another embodiment, a separate insert may be fitted to the chuck assembly to permit reception of shanks of varying diameter. Both embodiments prevent excessive vibration, fallout and whiplashing of the enclosed drill tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Inventor: Eugene Mariani
  • Patent number: 5288186
    Abstract: An apparatus for high-pressure waterjet assisted machining includes a drive motor, spindle and rotary cutting tool with cutting inserts. The apparatus further includes a high-pressure intensifier pump providing cutting fluid at a pressure greater than 50,000 psi. A cutting fluid conduit system in the rotary cutting tool includes a main flow channel, a distribution manifold, a plurality of radially extending feed channels and a plurality of cooperating nozzles for delivering fluid behind the cutting inserts. The cutting fluid then passes through one or more apertures in the inserts into an interface defined by the inserts of the cutting tool and a chip being cut from the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Assignee: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    Inventor: Radovan Kovacevic
  • Patent number: 5275516
    Abstract: A clamp head of numerically controlled cutting tool comprising front and rear sleeves and a main shaft. The rear sleeve is provided with a channel, while the tapered main shaft is composed of oil groove and hole. The front and the rear sleeves and the main shaft are united as a unitary body. The front and the rear sleeves are further provided with a nozzle apparatus permitting the coolant to be injected with precision on the working point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1994
    Inventor: Jian-Kuen Liaw
  • Patent number: 5238335
    Abstract: A reamer includes a shank portion and a reamer head fixed to the shank portion. A cutting blade is mounted on the reamer head to project axially forwardly from the front end of the reamer head. A bearing guide pad is mounted on the reamer head circumferentially spaced from the cutting blade downstream with respect to the rotating direction of the reamer, and a sizing guide pad is mounted on the reamer head substantially diametrically opposed to the cutting blade. The axial lengths (L2) of the guide surfaces of the bearing guide pad and the sizing guide pad are both not larger than the axial length (L1) of the circle land of the cutting blade, the axial length (L1) of the cutting blade is not larger than the diameter (D) of the reamer, and the width (W2) of the sizing guide pad is not larger than the width (W1) of the bearing guide pad. The axial lengths (L2) of the guide surfaces of the guide pads are preferably 5 mm to 15 mm where the diameter of the reamer is 5 mm to 100 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Toshiba Tungaloy Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takuji Nomura
  • Patent number: 5217332
    Abstract: A high performance drill bit is presented for precision drilling of holes in hard-to-drill materials, such as a carbon fiber reinforced plastic material. The drill is a gun drill type having a pair of flat flutes and a pair of air holes for delivering coolant and/or lubricant. The main feature of the drill is the provision of two pairs of cutting edges formed on the intersecting ridges formed at the leading sides of the flank surfaces with the flute surfaces. At the tip of the drill bit, a pair of primary cutting edges, having a point angle .alpha., is disposed. It is followed by another pair of secondary cutting edges, having a point angle .beta., where .alpha.>.beta.. Physically, this means that the secondary cutting edges are inclined more toward the drill axis than the primary cutting edges. The secondary cutting edge is followed further by another flank surfaces which are even more inclined toward the drill axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1993
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Takasaki, Yasunori Murakami, Hiroshi Kasutani, Koji Hashimoto, Yutaka Adachi
  • Patent number: 5203651
    Abstract: A tapping attachment for driving a tapping spindle constructed to be adapted for both direct drive and reverse drive of the spindle. The drive of the spindle is by way of a resiliently mounted dog ring having rigid radially extending drive dogs, extending radially outwardly and inwardly from a drive ring. The driving dogs are rigid, having slanting sides to accommodate clutching engagement and disengagement. Clutching engagement and disengagement occur as a result of relative axial movement as between the attachment and the drive spindle. The drive spindle has a central bore in which is provided an insert member having an axial bore which is connected to a flexible tube within the bore of the spindle, which accommodates relative axial movement, the flexible tube communicating with a similar bore in a tap itself. These bores provide a channel for continuously supplying coolant to the machine and to the spindle itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1993
    Assignee: Tapmatic Corporation
    Inventor: Allan S. Johnson
  • Patent number: 5197361
    Abstract: There is provided by the present invention a surface contouring tool useful for reaching otherwise inaccessible working surfaces such as large diameter gas turbine engine rotor inner surfaces, the invention including a machining head means extendable from a nonworking position to a working position relative to the working surface and when the machining head means is useful for EDM or ECM machining further includes a fluid flow path for providing a machining fluid to the working surface head and means for rotating the machining head means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1993
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Charles W. Carrier, Frank W. Gorsler
  • Patent number: 5183363
    Abstract: A non-contact coolant supply apparatus for supplying coolant for cutting a workpiece wherein there is relative cutting motion about an axis of rotation between a cutting member mounted on a tool shank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: GTE Valenite Corporation
    Inventors: Lee Reiterman, Dale D. Martin, Joseph Krysik
  • Patent number: 5181812
    Abstract: Guide means are provided enabling a gun drill to be rotatably mounted in a supported bearing structure for operation with reduced bearing failure. The modified guide assembly provides a more effective seal means by reducing entry of chips and lubricant into the rotating bearing when machining a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1993
    Inventor: Richard T. Labinka
  • Patent number: 5176477
    Abstract: A drill is provided having a generally cylindrically shaped body. The body has a rear end structured to releasably connect with a torque transmitting machine in a conventional manner. The body has a forward end which is provided with diametrically opposed seats. Each seat releasably retains a cutting insert. Each cutting insert has a cutting edge projecting forwardly from the forward end of the body. Further, the cutting inserts are oriented so that one cutting edge is at a ten degree positive lead angle and the other cutting edge is at a five degree negative lead angle, the angles being measured normal to the center line of the drill. In operation, the drill is used to provide a bore hole in a workpiece, the bore hole having a predetermined perimeter. As the rotating drill contacts the workpiece, the cutting edges contact the workpiece in a predetermined, progressive manner which thereby creates a plurality of spaced apart circular notches of differing depth in the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1993
    Assignee: GTE Valenite Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth G. Noggle
  • Patent number: 5174692
    Abstract: A drilling tool, such as, a drill bit or a reamer, including at least two helical flutes about the axis of said tool. The tool is remarkable in that it includes an axial channel opening out at a fixed end of the tool designed to be received in rotary drive means therefor, and a plurality of ducts connecting the axial channel to the bottom of each flute. Each duct opens out into the corresponding flute via an orifice and is inclined towards the free end of the tool, opposite to the fixed end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: Aerospatiale Societe Nationale Industrielle
    Inventor: Guy E. Martin
  • Patent number: 5174691
    Abstract: A drill construction to overcome the problem of high speed (>5000 rpm), high feed rate (>200 inches/minute) chip removal in deep hole drilling of nonferrous workpieces, comprising: (a) a shank for receiving rotary power, (b) an elongate bit extending from such shank coaxially aligned therewith and having a continuous single spiral land occupying one quadrant or less of said bit cross-section with a single spiral flute surrounding said land; (c) a cutting end portion extending integrally from said bit, said end portion having a conically-shaped end surface interrupted by diametrically opposed flutes, one of said flutes being a continuation of the bit flute thereby to define cutting edges, said edges further being defined by arcuate indentations resulting in a plurality of cusps to assist in breaking chips as they are formed; and (d) channels for conducting high pressure (>800 psi) fluid for cooling the bit, end portion, and chips during drilling and for hydrodynamically forcing the broken chips along
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventor: Barry E. Shepley
  • Patent number: 5173014
    Abstract: A twist drill with a novel cutting and configuration is provided that has the center cutting capability of a two flute drill combined with the stability and accuracy of a four flute drill. The drill has four flutes and four lands, but only to complete cutting edges. The two complete cutting edges are formed by two complete lead facets that run all the way to the center axis of the drill, thereby also forming two chisel edges. The other two cutting edges terminate short of the center axis of the drill, each stopping at an intermediate gash located to either side of the chisel edges. The intermediate gashes interconnect the chip removal gashes that serve the four cutting edges, joining them in two pairs. A coolant passage exits each intermediate gash, near the chisel edges. Thus, as the drill center cuts, the chisel edge chips have a clear exit path into the intermediate gash and then out to one of the other chip removal gashes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: John S. Agapiou, Wayne Szostak
  • Patent number: 5160229
    Abstract: In a mist-spouting type drilling device having a mist passage extending through a hollow drill and a hollow shaft, a slender throat nozzle is disposed inside the drill, and a slender anti-counterflow nozzle having an orifice portion is disposed inside the hollow nozzle. The anti-counterflow nozzle is connected to a mist supply pipe through a joint member having a seal. With the orifice portion placed midway of the mist passage nozzles, little atomized water introduced into the mist passage through the mist supply pipe flows backward and is prevented from leaking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1992
    Inventor: Yousuke Yoshino
  • Patent number: 5152641
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling glass drilling in which the starting position for the drill bit is calibrated prior to drilling. The drill bit is initially spaced close to the surface to be drilled and the rotating bit is slowly advanced toward the surface while a cooling fluid is discharged through an axial passage through the bit. Contact between the bit and the surface is determined by sensing either an increase in the fluid back pressure or a decrease in the fluid flow rate. The determined bit position is stored and used as a starting position when subsequently drilling holes. The starting position may be modified for subsequent workpieces to compensate for bit wear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: Royal Tool, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael S. Overmyer, Thomas A. Peitz, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5137098
    Abstract: A diamond tool for combination drilling and routing. The tool has a shaft end and a cutting end with an aperture therein. The cutting end includes abrasive grit on the outer peripheral surface for routing purposes and has abrasive grit on the terminal end and the surfaces forming the aperture for drilling purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1992
    Assignee: Inland Diamond Products Company
    Inventor: Dennis R. Raffaelli
  • Patent number: 5092716
    Abstract: A design of a drill and a method for using the same are disclosed. A groove is formed on the outer periphery of an adapter which is connected to the electric motor. A fluid supply line is also formed on the adapter so as to lead fluid to the groove. Openings are provided at a proximal end of a shank, adjacent to the groove. Guide flutes extending from the openings to a tip of the shank are formed at an outer periphery of the shank so as to define passages for leading the fluid introduced from the openings to the tip of the shank to be sprayed upon the cutting debris. Exhaust ports for discharging the debris and exhaust passages for leading the debris through the shank to the exhaust ports are provided at the adapter. The guide flutes can be formed with milling machine or the like.When the drill is used, the drill is pressed against a material while being rotated. Then, the fluid is introduced into the passages between the shank and a sleeve and is sprayed upon the cutting debris.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1992
    Assignee: Omi Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shohei Omi
  • Patent number: 5092717
    Abstract: The device for producing a drilled hole with an undercut includes a drilling tool having a shank and a drilling head faced with a plurality of diamond chips, a drilling tool-holder structured to hold the drilling tool and a rotatable sleeve having an axial throughgoing passage for the drilling tool and the drilling tool-holder and also having a lateral connecting pipe for a cooling and flushing liquid. So that the drilled hole with the undercut can be made in a single working step using the same drilling tool, the shank of the drilling tool (2) is provided with a stop collar (12) and also a cross-sectionally enlarged portion (17). The shank of the drilling tool (2) tapers uniformly toward the drilling head (11) and also tapers uniformly toward the stop collar (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1992
    Assignee: Fischerwerke Artur Fischer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Artur Fischer
  • Patent number: 5078605
    Abstract: The device comprises a tool 21 with a cutting part 23 and a shaft 25. The shaft 25 is provided with an annular catch groove 25d and carries a sleeve 31 which encloses it and comprises a catch projection 31c which engages in the catch groove 25d so as to be detachable, wherein the shaft 25 and the sleeve 31 are rotatable relative to one another. The sleeve 31 is provided with a coolant inlet 31d which opens into an annular duct 41 enclosing the shaft 25 and communicating with a passage 43. This duct 41 is connected with the passage 43 for guiding a coolant, which passage 43 extends through the tool 21 until its cutting part 23 and opens into the surroundings at the free end of the cutting part 23 or in the vicinity of the latter. The sleeve 31 can be secured against axial displacements by means of a catch projection 31c, which is engaged in a catch groove 25d, without separate connection parts and without taking up much axial space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Assignee: Institut Straumann AG
    Inventors: Franz Sutter, Alexander Frei, Andreas E. Schwammberger
  • Patent number: 5076740
    Abstract: A toolholder for holding a cutting tool such as a tap in the spindle of a machine tool includes a torque-limiting clutch to prevent excessive load being applied to the cutting tool. The clutch comprises at least one ball located in sockets in the driving and driven members but there is an arrangement, whereby at a predetermined critical torque, the ball moves axially out of engagement with one of the driving and driven members to disconnect the drive, and a deflecting device engages with the ball and moves it to a position where it does not encounter the socket from which it has been released or any similar sockets. This prevents wear on the clutch.The toolholder also comprises a conduit system for cutting fluid being fed into a bore in the cutting tool. The conduit extends through a telescopic part of the toolholder and includes a flexible part deviating from a straight linear form, so that it can extend by tending to straighten, in order to accommodate telescopic extension of the toolholder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: Braodbent Machine Tools (Halifax) Limited
    Inventor: Laurence R. Petrie
  • Patent number: 5066173
    Abstract: Piston wrist pin boring tool including semi-finish and finish inserts mounted in individual cartridges adjustably secured in cartridge pockets provided in the boring bar. A carbide shank is brazed to a body provided with a cartridge pocket, and a diamond tip for the finishing insert is provided with a closely controlled flat neutral rake cutting edge supplied with coolant from central passages through the bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1991
    Assignee: GTE Valenite Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Gaffan, Bruno K. Schwarzpech
  • Patent number: 5030040
    Abstract: The cutting edges (16) of a 3-toothed countersink bit (10) lead slightly in the direction of rotation by an amount (t). The rear face (38) of the head (40) of a detachable pilot (30) is concave so as to fit snugly over the forward end of the bit (10). Lubricant is supplied via a bore (28), flats (44) on the pilot shank (32), a chamber (42) at the mesal end of the shank (32) and notches (46) in the tip of the bit to the spaces between the teeth (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: Rotabroche Limited
    Inventor: Brian H. Wood
  • Patent number: 5028176
    Abstract: A glass drilling machine for drilling holes in a sheet of glass in which each hole is partly drilled from one side of the sheet and is then finish drilled from the opposite side. The machine is made up of aligned first and second drilling devices which are attached near the ends of first and second pivotable arms, respectively, the first and second arms being periodically pivoted toward and away from the sheet to bring the drilling devices into and out of drilling engagement with the sheet. The first and second arms are releasably clamped to first and second spindles, respectively, which pivot about first and second axes, respectively, the first and second axes being spaced apart but close to one another and positioned remote from the drilling devices. The position of the first arm is adjustable along its longitudinal axis and the position of the second arm is adjustable along the axis of the second spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1991
    Assignee: Toledo Automated Concepts, Inc.
    Inventors: Kent A. Delventhal, Kenith E. Grosjean
  • Patent number: 5028178
    Abstract: A chuck having a spring collet is disclosed. The spring collet has a plurality of pairs of adjacent collet segments with interstices formed between each of the collet segments. The interstices of the collet each having radially extending cutout seats with resilient stoppers received therein which extend between a tool received in the collet and the body of the chuck to prevent coolant from leaking therebetween when flowing through the collet by way of a duct in the tool. The stoppers of the collet are axially spaced from each other so as not to weaken the collet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1991
    Inventor: Mordechai Ronen
  • Patent number: 5022799
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for alignment and mounting in position of a drill stem provided at one end with a cutting tool for use in removing coke from a coke drum. The drill stem is provided in the vicinity of the cutting tool with a drill stem guide carried on a slidably mounted plate. A flange on the drill stem is provided to prevent movement of the plate below a particular point. In a preferred embodiment, automatic clamping means are provided to attach the plate to an end flange on the coke drum when the drill stem guide has been lowered into the coke drum a sufficient distance so that the flange on the drill stem is disengaged from direct or indirect contact with the plate and/or connecting elements of the clamping means provided on an upper surface of the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1991
    Assignee: Atlantic Richfield Company
    Inventors: Daniel L. Torres, Timothy J. Murphy, Guy A. Maakad, Jeffrey R. Roberts, Kent S. Murray
  • Patent number: 5015128
    Abstract: Rotary drill apparatus is disclosed herein which is secured to a turning shaft by an adapter plate. A cylindrical core drill body downwardly depends from the plate to terminate in a plurality of cutting teeth capable of cutting an annular groove to define a core intended to be pulverized. An internal drill bit is carried on the plate in coaxial spaced relationship with respect to the circular arrangement of teeth for forcibly engaging the defined core so as to grind and powderize the core within the core drill body. A circulating coolant system carries the ground and powderized core away from the drill leaving no core chunks or residue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Inventors: Donald C. Ross, Jr., Donald C. Ross, Sr.
  • Patent number: 5006021
    Abstract: High pressure gas cutting process useful for drilling large numbers of holes in large surface area workpieces such as air frame components and the like. The procedure utilizes a cutting tool which has an internal fluid passageway extending through the shank portion thereof and terminating in at least one discharge port adjacent a cutting edge of the tool. As the cutting tool is rotated and advanced into the workpiece in the course of the cutting operation, a high pressure gas is supplied into the cutting tool passageway under an applied pressure of at least 500 psia. The gas, which may be an inert gas such as nitrogen, is discharged from the cutting port into the tool with an expansive cooling effect. The gas then flows outwardly through the hole and exits the hole with sufficient velocity to entrain and remove the drill cuttings from the hole. A liquid lubricant can be employed to prolong the life of the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: LTV
    Inventor: Michael J. Wheetley
  • Patent number: 4979853
    Abstract: A fast tool change holder is provided for holding a tool adapter onto an internally delivered coolant spindle. The holder comprises an expandable split collet which can be inserted into the tool adapter and expanded in order to hold the adapter onto the spindle. The split collet has an expandable bladder therein which receives a coolant fluid from the spindle and expands under the pressure of the coolant fluid radially outwardly for expanding the split collet. The bladder enables the coolant fluid to assist mechanical and centrifugal forces associated with the split collet to hold the tool adapter onto the spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1990
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventor: Nathaniel L. Field
  • Patent number: 4966502
    Abstract: A hollow drilling tool includes a tubular support with cutting members inserted in axially extending recesses in its leading end. The cutting members alternately project radially outwardly from and radially inwardly from the outer and inner surfaces of the support. An effective removal of drilled materials is possible by partly annular gaps between the cutting members and the borehole surface and the surface of the drilled core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1990
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Eugen Magyari
  • Patent number: 4966503
    Abstract: A drill bit for drilling a hole in layered material where the first layer encountered by the bit is softer than the second layer and where the second layer encountered by the bit produces chips capable of abrading the first layer. The drill bit comprises a solid shaft having a cutting tip, an internal bore for conducting flushing fluid to the tip and a flute for conveying the fluid and the chips away from the tip. A collar fixed to the outer surface of the shaft prevents the chips from contacting the bore drilled in the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1990
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Jerry W. Davidson
  • Patent number: 4955767
    Abstract: A boring attachment has a boring head with a transversely adjustable slide for setting the boring cutter. The slide has a bore for receiving (clamping) a holding device, at a length which is adjustable in the axial direction, so that the holding device is longitudinally displaceable by an amount equaling at least twice the diameter of the recess. Loading at the cutter holder is essentially completely eliminated when the holding device is located in a transversely displaced position which is within the principle operating range of the boring head by providing appropriate bores in the body of the boring head. A relatively small overall height for the boring head contributes to optimal stability of the boring attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignee: Heinz Kaiser AG
    Inventors: Heinz Kaiser, Rudolf Stadelmann
  • Patent number: 4955764
    Abstract: Described is a boring tool cooled from within made of a tool spiral and a clamping cylinder. The tool spiral is received in an interlocking way in a recess of the clamping cylinder and is supplied with coolant over its proximal end, which lies in the recess. The tool spiral (4; 44; 74) is received in a spring chuck (12) which, on the side facing away from the clamping cylinder, carries a drive disk (22; 62; 92) that engages in an interlocking way into the grooves. Further, the chuck body (14) has a central internal thread (26) in which an adjusting screw (24) having a central recess (32) is provided, an adjusting screw (24) against which the tool spiral under sealing of its coolant channels (8; 48; 78) can be pressed against the inner space (34) of the spring chuck (12). Tool spirals consisting, for example, of hard metal can be used more economically in this way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignee: Gottlieb Guhring KG
    Inventor: Josef Reinauer
  • Patent number: 4950108
    Abstract: A drill for metal working comprises a drill body and a replaceable drill tip. The drill tip carries cutting elements and is releasably fastened to the drill body by means of fasteners which are provided on opposite sides of the centerline of the drill. A rear surface of the drill tip is provided with a central and at least partially conical, recess which is intended to receive a central tap extending forwardly from a mainly planar front surface of the drill body in order to center the drill tip in relation to the drill body. The tap engages the partially conical recess, and includes an elastic portion enabling the tap to yield axially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1990
    Assignee: Sandvik AB
    Inventor: Aage V. Roos
  • Patent number: 4944638
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a drill head having removable spindles. The spindles include a shaft adapted for receiving and rotating a drill. The shaft is also removably rotatable with the drilling unit. A mechanism for providing a coolant to the workpiece is coupled with the spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Inventor: Lawrence F. Brohammer
  • Patent number: 4943236
    Abstract: A drill for forming a hole in material has a shank with at least a base surface positioned at an angle to a longitudinal axis of the shank and a side surface. A cutting element having first and second ends is eccentrically connected to the base surface in such a manner that a longitudinal axis of the cutting element is situated at a predetermined distance from a longitudinal axis of the shank. An outer surface of the body of the cutting element is defined by at least a front surface and a rear surface intersecting each other along at least a cutting edge. The rear surface is tapered toward the longitudinal axis of the shank so that only the cutting edge and the drill point engage the material and a substantial open area exists between the outer surface of the cutting element and the hole during the entire process of drilling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1990
    Assignee: Vent-Plant Corporation, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard I. Linkow, Anthony W. Rinaldi, Michael Gambale