Abstract: The invention relates to a treatment unit with a cutting tool (1) for treating wood, plastic or the like. Said treatment unit comprises a suction hood (6) with a ring (17) that encircles the tool (1) completely in the circumferential direction and at least partially in the axial direction. The suction hood (6) is located on the side of the drive spindle of the tool (1). A chip receiving opening (10) is provided in the tool (1) in the vicinity of the blade (4), said opening traversing the tool (1) in both the axial and the radial direction. A chip formed at the blade (4) is transported through the chip receiving opening (10) to the suction hood (6) from where the chip is removed by air suction.

Abstract: A sawdust collecting device includes a flexible sleeve having a tapered top section with an open top end, and a bottom section having an open bottom end. A truncated cone-shaped coil spring is disposed in the tapered top section of the flexible sleeve, and abuts against an inner wall of the tapered top section of the flexible sleeve so as to expand the tapered top section of the flexible sleeve. A sawdust collector is disposed below the flexible sleeve, and has an open top end connected to the open bottom end of the flexible sleeve.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for circulating coolant liquid between machine tools and a coolant filtering unit through an overhead return line. A small stream of clean coolant is diverted to a flush tank and the tank is pressurized, e.g., with compressed air. Periodic release of the pressurized liquid from the flush tank through the overhead return line flushes deposited chips and other sediments from the return line.

Abstract: A collapsible chip conveyer includes a conveying member having a forwarding portion and a return portion. The conveying member receives chips discharged from a machining tool at a receiving position set on the forwarding portion, conveys the chips to a discharge position, which is located on the forward portion and spaced from the receiving position by a predetermined distance, and discharges the chips from the discharge position. The conveying member has a guide rail, a frame, and a hinge mechanism. Also, the conveying member includes a plurality of separation portions, each of which includes a part of the guide rail and a part of the frame. The hinge mechanism has a rotation axis, which is located between the forwarding portion and the return portion, and couples the separation portions such that the separation portions pivots about the rotation axis between a collapsed position and an opened position.

Abstract: In order to further develop a process for making a groove in a board-like workpiece by means of a processing machine, wherein the workpiece is placed on a supporting table of the processing machine aligned essentially horizontal for holding the workpiece in a machining plane and wherein a milling unit held on a machining head of the processing machine is displaced and a groove is thereby milled into a workpiece by means of a milling disk rotating about a drive shaft aligned parallel to the machining plane, in such a manner that the groove can be milled more precisely with a defined groove depth it is suggested in accordance with the invention that the milling unit be guided at right angles to the machining plane by means of a touch roller associated with the milling disk and adapted to roll on the workpiece. In addition, a processing machine for carrying out the process is suggested as well as the use of the processing machine for the milling of a groove into a multilayered or composite material board.

Abstract: A machine tool for at least triaxially machining work pieces (15) comprises a work spindle (10) and a working area (14) before the work spindle (10). A z skid (23), which is displaceable in the direction of the spindle (10), is disposed above the working area (14), with a work holding fixture (29) being joined to, and suspended downwards from, the z skid (23).

Abstract: In a method of machining a first and a second surface recess in a workpiece, the workpiece has a longitudinal axis and a first local Cartesian coordinate system. The machine tool has a longitudinal axis and a second local Cartesian coordinate system, the first and second surface recess are associated with a first and second recess longitudinal axis and a non-circular cross-section. The recesses are separated on the surface of the workpiece such that they are mirror images of each other about a plane along the longitudinal workpiece axis. A skew angle is defined between the first recess longitudinal axis and the workpiece axis in the first plane.

Abstract: The aircraft panel detab router to trim tabs from airframe parts such as wing elements, panels and airframe skin structures includes a tool fixture having a clamping mechanism for securing to a panel edge. The tool fixture includes a linear slide to which a sliding assembly is slidably engaged. The sliding assembly includes an eccentric cam ring mount for retaining and position adjustment of a router relative to the panel edge. The router has a cutting tool attached which cutting tool at its distal end is also supported by a support arm attached to the sliding assembly. A vacuum manifold is also attached to the sliding assembly to remove debris created by the trimming action of the cutter tool.

Abstract: A portable power planer for planing the top surface of a workpiece. The portable power planer includes a novel base assembly, a carriage elevation mechanism, a cutterhead assembly, a carriage locking mechanism, a setting mechanism, a height scale mechanism, a material removal gauge, a motor, a dust collection mechanism and a power take-off mechanism.

Abstract: A column fixed type machine tool capable of surely suppressing the dispersion of chips and coolant to the outside of a machining space and reducing the entire size thereof so as to increase a workability and improve a working environment, wherein a column (2) is installed fixedly on a bed (1), a spindle head (8) is installed at the front of the column movably in vertical, lateral and longitudinal directions (f1, f2, f3), a jig device (42) is installed on the bed at the front of the column, a column side cover body (cov1) densely covering the front surface of the column is provided so as to protect against the dispersion of chips, the cover body is formed so as to allow the spindle head (8) to be moved in vertical and lateral directions, a jig side cover body (cov2) covering at least the surrounding of a jig main body part (47) is installed, an intermediate cover body (cov3) covering the upper and right and left sides of the spindle head moving range is installed between the jig side cover body and the column

Abstract: A machine tool for metal cutting having a collecting system for chips and liquids. Disposed below the work area is a pan having a transverse groove, a chip conveyor disposed in the transverse groove, a spiral-shaped conveyor element, a liquid collector on one side wall of the pan and a chip outlet disposed on the other side wall of the pan on the outlet end of the chip conveyor. To enhance the separation of liquids even when a large amount of chips is produced, an elongated screen element is disposed in the inner cavity of the spiral-shaped conveyor element, the screen element extending over at least part of the length of the conveyor element and terminating at the liquid collector.

Abstract: A machine tool is provided which is designed so that chips generated by the machining of a workpiece can assuredly be introduced onto a chip conveyer disposed in a trough of a bed through oil pans. The machine tool includes a column provided on one end portion of a bed (11) and movable along an X-axison the bed (11), a spindle head (12) supported by the column and movable vertically up and down along a Y-axis, and a table (13) movable back and forth along a Z-axis with respect to the spindle head (12) on the bed (11). The bed (11) has a center trough (11a) formed in a widthwise middle portion thereof, and a pair of side troughs (11b) formed therein on widthwise opposite sides of the center trough (11a). A first chip conveyer (14) is provided in the center trough (11a), and second chip conveyers (15) are provided in the respective side troughs (11b).

Abstract: A machining machine-tool having a fixed frame with a closed structure. The machining zone is delimited by the fixed frame internal surfaces and includes a machining head supporting the driving unit of a machine-tool. The machine-tool fixed frame has a C-shaped profile, and ends of branches of the C are linked to the machine-tool machining head. The ergonomic arrangement of the machine-tool functional parts is also considered.

Abstract: A machine tool comprises a bed 1 having longitudinal guiding tracks 7, 7 on upper faces of right and left side parts 4, 4 respectively, a cutting unit 2 hung and supported by the guiding tracks 7, 7, moving in a longitudinal direction, and having a cutting part at its front, and a work fixing table 3 integrally attached on the bed 1, cover faces provided between the cutting unit 2 and the work fixing table 3 to surround an upper face as well as right and left side faces of the cutting part 2, and a cover device 14 forming a working space with only the bottom open relative to the cover faces, the work fixing table 3 and the cutting unit 2, wherein right and left side faces “d”, “d” of the cover faces hang below the guiding tracks 7, 7 inside the right and left side parts 4, 4 of the bed 1.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device in the chip-removing machining of a work-piece by means of a rotatable tool with a shaft arranged in a headstock. The tool is displaceable in an axial direction both towards and away from the work-piece, and in a plane substantially perpendicular to the arbor. Arranged around a machining point is an enclosure. The enclosure has a first opening that is designed to press against the work-piece around the point to be or being machined. A second opening in the enclosure is made in a wall substantially perpendicular to the shaft. This opening is designed, during machining, to press against a plane plate arranged behind the tool and around the headstock, substantially perpendicular to the arbor, so that during machining there is a substantially enclosed space in the area around the tool and the machining point. The device includes a line for delivering cutting fluid to the machining point.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for cutting a low density flexible material and passing through a semi-rigid base material simultaneously by means of a rotary milling cutter and simultaneously applying a compressive force to the flexible material to increase the rigidity of the flexible material while cutting the flexible material, the method includes passing the cutter through a part of the semi-rigid material. The compression force is applied by a partial cylindrical shaped compression head having the rotary milling cutter extending therethrough.

Abstract: A table tool includes one or more tool members disposed in a table, and a shield movably secured on the table. The shield may be moved toward and away from the tool members together with the work pieces for shielding the tool members and for dust collecting purposes, and for preventing the tool members from hurting the workers and the other people. One or more guide members are slidably secured on the table. A housing is secured on the guide members. The shield is pivotally secured to the housing for rotating toward and away from the tool members.

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine or plant with at least one duct or duct profile for draining liquid media, in particular coolants or flushing liquids. The machine or plant is incorporated in a machine tool table. A seal is arranged between the machine tool table and the duct profile. The invention also relates to a method for assembling the duct with a seal.

Abstract: A table tool includes one or more tool members disposed in a table, and a shield movably secured on the table. The shield may be moved toward and away from the tool members together with the work pieces for shielding the tool members and for dust collecting purposes, and for preventing the tool members from. hurting the workers and the other people. One or more guide members are slidably secured on the table. A housing is secured on the guide members. The shield is pivotally secured to the housing for rotating toward and away from the tool members.

Abstract: A vacuum assist system and process for handling cutting fluid and chips collected from a series of machine tools includes a closed header pipe extending below a series of sumps associated with the machine tools, the sumps draining into the header pipe. The header pipe has a down leg extending vertically down to a filter tank which is opened periodically to drain the header pipe, developing a vacuum which assists the flow of liquid down the header pipe so as to insure a sufficient flow velocity in the header pipe to carry the collected chips out of the header pipe and into the filter tank with the cutting fluid.

Abstract: In a finishing apparatus, a plurality of works are retained at distances from each other in a direction of an X-axis. A single spindle is disposed on a table movable in the direction of the X-axis, the spindle has an axis parallel to an axis of each of bores to be finished, and is capable of being advanced and retracted axially. A measuring device is provided that measures an inside diameter of each finished bore and which is advanced and retracted independently from the spindle in a direction along the axis of each finished bore. A combination tool is mounted at a tip end of the spindle and finishes an inner surface of any of the bores to be finished, even if the position of insertion of the combination tool into each of the bores is changed.

Abstract: A boring arrangement is connected to a boring machine equipped with a boring bit for boring a hole in overlapping workpieces. The boring arrangement includes a first sleeve connected to the boring machine, and a second sleeve that is movably connected to the first sleeve so as to allow a relative motion therebetween in a boring feed advance direction. Biasing elements such as springs apply a biasing force between the first and second sleeves so as to exert a pressing force through the second sleeve onto a pressing sleeve connected thereto. The boring bit moves through the interior of the pressing sleeve to bore the required hole in the workpiece. Thereby, the pressing sleeve surrounds the boring site and is seated and pressed against the workpiece with a pressing force that is greater than the boring feed advance force exerted by the boring bit onto the workpiece. A suction arrangement sucks away boring chips and other swarf material arising during the boring process.

Abstract: In a chip collecting apparatus for a tip dresser of the present invention, the outer periphery of a dressing body is covered with a chip pickup case for taking hold of chips generated while electrode tips are dressed. A chip discharge port provided at the bottom of the chip pickup case is normally closed with a lid. The chips generated during the dressing operation accumulate on the bottom of the chip pickup case. When collecting the chips, an operator carries a chip collection vessel, opens the lid of the chip pickup case, and collects the dropped chips into the chip collection vessel. Even when a plurality of chip dressers is mounted, the chips can be collected together into the one chip collection vessel.

Abstract: A pneumatic edge trimming machine has a base a center of which having a hole. A sleeve extends upwards from the base for receiving a hollow outer casing. The outer casing has a top and a lower end; and the top and lower end of the outer casing are fixed to an inner casing through a frame. A space penetrating the inner casing and outer casing is formed. The inner casing is used to be installed with a pneumatic motor. A shaft is extended from a pneumatic motor. The shaft has a tool combining portion which exposes out of the hole at the base. The inner casing has an air inlet and a control switch. The inner casing has a vent facing toward a top of the outer casing, and the top of the outer casing being connected to a predetermined space by a tube. Therefore dust can be absorbed automatically in working.

Abstract: Disclosed is a protective hood for a wood-milling machine to cover a milling spindle which projects vertically out of a horizontal machine table. The protective hood is formed of two side walls connected to one another by a cover and a rear wall, and a front, vertically adjustable protective shield. The protective hood has a connection stub for an extraction device and can be attached adjustably to the machine table. A holding member for the removable attachment of a stop plate is releasably attached to each of the two side walls of the protective hood. In this way, the protective hood is permanently available as a basic element, so that when changing from curved milling to milling against a stop, it is easy to fit the stop plates.

Abstract: A wood planing machine includes a rotatable cutting member mounted on an upper end of a machine frame and driven by a first output shaft of a motor which is mounted on a lower end of the machine frame. A shaving collecting member confines a duct with an intake port disposed in the vicinity of the cutting member and an outlet port disposed adjacent to the lower end of the frame. A drive transmission member transmits the driving force of a second output shaft of the motor to a drive shaft of a blowing mechanism to rotate an impeller for drawing wood shavings from the shaving collecting member into the blowing mechanism and out of a discharge port.

Abstract: An apparatus is adapted for discharging wood shavings that are generated during operation of a wood planing machine. The wood planing machine includes a machine base, a cutter support, a rotary cutter, and a drive unit. The apparatus includes a fan unit and a shavings collecting box. The fan unit includes a fan housing, a fan blade, and a drive shaft. The shavings collecting box has an open top disposed below a discharge hole in the cutter support so as to receive the wood shavings that fall therethrough, a closed bottom, and a lateral wall formed with an outlet port adjacent to the closed bottom. The rotation of the fan blade in the blade chamber causes the wood shavings that fall into the box to be drawn into the blade chamber via the outlet port and an inlet port in the fan housing and to be subsequently discharged through a discharge tube in the fan housing.

Abstract: A machine tool with an improved capability of discharging and collecting the cutting chips is disclosed. A bed (13) is provided with troughs (39) extending through the bed (13) in a direction substantially perpendicular to a direction of the movement of a table (15). The cutting chips are collected in the troughs (39) through a plurality of chutes (47) which have openings inclined downward towards the troughs (39) and which are provided below the upper surface of the table 15, to be discharged to the outside through chip discharge means (41) disposed in the troughs (39).

Abstract: A storage and dust port device combines a body having a hollow interior and a vacuum port for vacuuming up dust particles and chips with a device for storing tool bits. The dust collection portion and the storage portion may be part of the same body or may be connected together by various means. A lid may also be provided to protect the stored tools from dust. The storage and dust port device may include a means to secure it to the work table so that the device may be used as a guide or fulcrum so as to minimize the kickback of the work piece as a result of the machining operation.

Abstract: A swarf management system to remove cut material (swarf) from the surfaces of a cutting machine comprises a fluid receptacle, pump means to deliver fluid from a sump to the receptacle, and a flow line extending from the receptacle from which fluid flowing from the receptacle may be directed across a machine surface for the removal of swarf therefrom. Outflow means is provided, conveniently in the form of one or more syphons to cause fluid to flow from the receptacle only intermittently, thereby producing intermittent large volume flow of fluid over the machine surface.

Abstract: The invention relative to a device for machining workpieces comprising: a chip removing, rotating tool (2) configured substantially as a hollow body including at least one cutter (4), a portion of the tool adjoining the cutter (4) being penetrated by a chip receiving opening (6) for communicating chips into a tool cavity; and an exhaust means including a stationary exhaust housing (10) configured substantially as a hollow body communicating with the cavity (8) at least in part and in connection with at least one exhaust air source; the communicating portion of the exhaust housing (10) comprising in the region of the cutter (4) a chip communicating window (26) porting into an exhaust passage (36) of the exhaust housing (10); and the exhaust passage comprising in an exhaust passage section upstream of the chip communicating window (26), relative to the exhaust direction, at least one auxiliary air infeed opening. The invention relates furthermore to a method for machining workpieces by means of one such device.

Abstract: A fixture for use with a rotary cutting tool for deburring, chamferring or beveling a work piece utilized with a drill comprises a member having opposite sides with a recess defined a first of the sides by two surfaces at right angles to each other to define guide surfaces for a work piece. The opposite side resides in a plane essentially perpendicular to a plane bisecting the angle between the surfaces. A semi-cylindrical recess is defined in the member in the opposite side intermediate the ends thereof about an axis which is essentially perpendicular to a plane bisecting the angle between the surfaces. The passage extends through a portion of the surfaces and defines an opening in the surfaces whereby a rectangular cross section work piece contacting the guide surfaces will extend through the opening into the passage.

Abstract: A hand-held power tool, such as a spiral cutting tool, with improved operator control and visibility. The power tool includes a motor contained in a motor housing. The motor may be a variable speed motor controlled by a speed control user interface mounted on the housing. Each time a speed control button is actuated, the motor speed is changed. A display provides the operator of the tool with an indication of the motor speed selected. A detachable handle is provided with a moveable mechanism for easily, quickly, and securely attaching the handle to the housing and removing the handle therefrom with one hand. The detachable handle may include one or more storage compartments formed therein. The detachable handle includes a trigger switch mounted therein for operating the cutting tool motor. The trigger switch is mounted in the detachable handle in a position such that the switch is operated by the little finger and ring finger of an operator's hand.

Abstract: A machine tool includes a spindle-headstock structure with a horizontal axis which is displaceable along three mutually orthogonal axes. The headstock structure is mounted so that it slides along an axis Z parallel to the axis of the spindle on a slide. The slide is mounted so that it slides according to a horizontal direction X orthogonal to the axis of the spindle beneath a cross member. The cross member moves vertically between the two uprights of a fixed portal frame.

Abstract: A cleaning device for a machine tool is provided wherein the machine tool is provided with an automatic tool change mechanism for replacing a tool attached to a main shaft by another tool, and a cutting fluid nozzle for emitting coolant supplied from a coolant pump to a cutting location where a workpiece is machined by a tool. The cleaning device has at least one cleaning nozzle from which clean coolant is sprayed toward portions of the machine tool where adherence of machining chips affects changing of tools. The cleaning nozzle includes a nozzle hole that is open downwards, and an inclined wall that faces the opening of the nozzle hole and is inclined in a direction pointing to the tool. During changing of tools, clean coolant is supplied from the coolant pump to the cleaning nozzles through a filter.

Abstract: The combination of at least a first base, a first machine tool assembly placed in an operative position on the at least first base, and a second machine tool assembly placed in an operative position on the at least first base above the first machine tool assembly.

Abstract: A chip suction type machine tool continuously removing chips produced during work machining by air suction, comprising a tool attaching part (200) in which a vent hole (s1) is formed and a spindle head (100) having an air suction hole (s2) communicating with the vent hole (s1) wherein, with the tool attaching part (200) installed on the spindle head (100), a telescoping cylinder means (201) which is formed in an inclined surfaces crossing at an angle (&thgr;) of approximately 60° or below, and facing closely, the direction of the spindle, allows at least one of the downstream end part of the vent hole and the upstream end part of the air suction hole to be deformably telescoped and, in free state, is held in a retracted state so that these downstream and upstream end parts are departed from each other by elastic member (205) which is provided between the downstream end part of the vent hole (s1) and the upstream end part of the air suction hole (s2).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device in the chip-removing machining of a work-piece by means of a rotatable tool with a shaft arranged in a headstock. The tool is displaceable in an axial direction both towards and away from the work-piece, and in a plane substantially perpendicular to the arbor. Arranged around a machining point is an enclosure. The enclosure has a first opening that is designed to press tightly against the work-piece around the point to be or being machined. A second opening in the enclosure is made in a wall substantially perpendicular to the shaft. This opening is designed, during machining, to press tightly against a plane plate arranged behind the tool and around the headstock, substantially perpendicular to the arbor, so that during machining there is a substantially enclosed space in the area around the tool and the machining point. The device includes means of delivering cutting fluid to the machining point.

Abstract: A wood planning machine includes a rotatable cutting member mounted to a machine frame and driven by a motor. A drive transmission member transmits the rotating force of the cutting member to a drive shaft to operate a blowing member when the motor is actuated. A shaving collecting member is disposed above and in the vicinity of the cutting member for collecting wood shavings during a wood planing operation. The shaving collecting member is further turnable relative to the machine frame between open and closed positions.

Abstract: A machine tool is provided which is constructed so that a table pivot mechanism and cables such as a power supply line connected to the pivot mechanism are protected from chips and a coolant. The machine tool comprises: a column movable along the X-axis on a bed (11); a main spindle (12) supported by the column via a spindle head and vertically movable along the Y-axis; and a rotatable table (13) which is movable back and forth with respect to the main spindle (12) along the Z-axis on the bed (11). The table (13) is pivotally supported by a table frame which is movable along the Z-axis along slideways provided on the bed (11). A pivot mechanism such as including a servo motor and a reduction gear mechanism for pivoting the table (13) is provided on an outer side of the table frame. The bed (11) has a center trough in which a chip conveyer (18) is provided. The slideways and the table pivot mechanism are completely separated from a machining space by movable covers (22).

Abstract: A device for holding a nozzle of a hose of a vacuum source to a drill press. The device includes a first portion for attaching to the drill press and a second portion operatively connected to the first portion for holding the nozzle of the hose of the vacuum source in a predetermined orientation to a work piece. The first portion is T-shaped and includes a first tube for attaching to the drill press and a second tube that extends perpendicularly-outwardly from the first tube thereof and which is internally threaded and has a pair of throughslots that extend axially therealong. The second portion is substantially T-shaped and includes a tube for holding the nozzle of the hose of the vacuum source and an appendage that extends perpendicularly-outwardly from the tube thereof.

Abstract: The invention relative to a device for machining workpieces comprising: a chip removing, rotating tool (2) configured substantially as a hollow body including at least one cutter (4), a portion of the tool adjoining the cutter (4) being penetrated by a chip receiving opening (6) for communicating chips into a tool cavity; and an exhaust means including a stationary exhaust housing (10) configured substantially as a hollow body communicating with the cavity (8) at least in part and in connection with at least one exhaust air source; the communicating portion of the exhaust housing (10) comprising in the region of the cutter (4) a chip communicating window (26) porting into an exhaust passage (36) of the exhaust housing (10); and the exhaust passage comprising in an exhaust passage section upstream of the chip communicating window (26), relative to the exhaust direction, at least one auxiliary air infeed opening. The invention relates furthermore to a method for machining workpieces by means of one such device.

Abstract: A chip conveyor includes an endless carrier that circulates in a predetermined direction such that chips discharged by machine tools are collected at a collecting position, are carried to a discharging position, which is spaced from the collecting position by a predetermined distance, and are discharged at the discharging position. The carrier follows an upper path from the collecting position to the discharging position and returns through a lower path from the discharging position to the collecting position. A reservoir tank is provided to correspond to the lower path of the carrier. The carrier passes through the reservoir tank, and chips attached to the carrier are separated from the carrier in a liquid in the reservoir tank.

Abstract: A method for lengthening the machining travel of a machine-tool operating at a very high speed, including a tool-carrying ram mobile on three axes. The method combines with the machining movements of the tool-carrying ram along one or several axes, one or several rectilinear movements of the part to be machined by parametering and digitising the relative travels and speeds of the part to be machined with respect to the tool-carrying ram. The invention also concerns the device for implementing this method and the machine-tool using such a device.

Abstract: A machine tool for metal cutting having a collecting system for chips and liquids. Disposed below the work area is a pan having a transverse groove, a chip conveyor disposed in the transverse groove, a spiral-shaped conveyor element, a liquid collector on one side wall of the pan and a chip outlet disposed on the other side wall of the pan on the outlet end of the chip conveyor. To enhance the separation of liquids even when a large amount of chips is produced, an elongated screen element is disposed in the inner cavity of the spiral-shaped conveyor element, the screen element extending over at least part of the length of the conveyor element and terminating at the liquid collector.

Abstract: A collet assembly for a tool comprising a collet nut rotatably connectable to the tool; a collet operatively connectable to the collet nut; and a collet wrench movably connected with the tool and engageable with the collet nut for tightening and loosening the collet.

Abstract: A machining apparatus has a frame, a conveyor on the frame extending in a workpiece travel direction and adapted to support a flat workpiece, a tool mount displaceable on the frame transversely of the direction, a material-removing tool on the mount for machining the workpiece with generation of particles, and a drive roller engageable with an upper surface of the workpiece upstream of the tool for advancing the workpiece in the direction past the tools. A shield is provided above the conveyor extending transverse to the direction upstream of the tools and downstream of the drive roller. At least one actuator serves for pressing the shield against the workpiece between the tools and the drive roller during machining of the workpiece. Nozzles immediately adjacent the shield are connected to a supply of compressed gas for directing a gas current at the workpiece and blowing particles thereon downstream in the direction.

Abstract: A cutting method in which a solution is sprayed or jetted to a machining portion when machining by use of a water-insoluble cutting oil, wherein recovered liquid is collected and stored in one recovery tank, and separated into the water-insoluble cutting oil and another solution on the basis of the specific gravity difference, and are re-used. Stable machining is enabled by using the water-insoluble cutting oil, and measures against disaster are fully taken.

Abstract: A machining system includes a plurality of machine tools, a transfer apparatus configured to move a workpiece and a plurality of chip conveyors. Each of the plurality of chip conveyors includes a feeding device, a discharging opening and at least one of a first opening and a second opening. The first opening communicates with the discharging opening of an adjacent chip conveyor of the plurality of chip conveyors. The second opening receives chips generated by at least one of the plurality of machine tools. The discharging opening is for discharging the chips in the chip conveyor. The feeding device is configured to move the chips in the chip conveyor toward the discharging opening. A total length of the chip conveyors is easily regulated by changing the number of the chip conveyors so that the machining system is easily and quickly reconstructed.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for cutting a low density flexible material and passing through a semi-rigid base material simultaneously by means of a rotary milling cutter and simultaneously applying a compressive force to the flexible material to increase the rigidity of the flexible material while cutting the flexible material, the method includes passing the cutter through a part of the semi-rigid material. The compression force is applied by a partial cylindrical shaped compression head having the rotary milling cutter extending therethrough.