Means To Trim Edge Patents (Class 409/138)
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Patent number: 7337523Abstract: An annular core cutting apparatus includes a cutting head including a generally cylindrical sidewall having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end has a cutting edge, and wherein the sidewall includes a plurality of openings having at least one sharpened edge. A spindle is coaxially and rigidly coupled to the second end of the cylindrical sidewall, and the spindle configured to rotate about a rotational axis. In a further embodiment, a generally conical member is disposed within the cutting apparatus to assist with grinding and removal of waste material.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2006Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Michael S. Heuschober, Jeffrey E. Polus
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Patent number: 7305746Abstract: A system is disclosed to use a first rotary milling head to break or cut the bond of a heat transfer fin base to a boiler tube, thereby removing the heat transfer fins from the boiler tube, and a second rotary milling head to bevel the exposed end of the boiler tube, thereby facilitating the more efficient repair of the boiler tube.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2006Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Esco ToolInventor: James Moruzzi
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Patent number: 7305744Abstract: An apparatus for forming a power transmission belt/belt sleeve with first and second shafts around which a belt/belt sleeve preform is trained. The belt/belt sleeve preform is guided and driven in an endless path around the shaft. A cutter bears against the belt/belt sleeve preform to bias cut side surfaces thereon.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2005Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.Inventors: Hirotaka Hara, Akihiro Nagata, Yoshihiro Kanayama, Eisuke Kitamura
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Patent number: 7278806Abstract: A rotating tool for simultaneously deburring two surfaces of a workpiece is disclosed including a rotatable shaft having a first end and a second end with a first deburr surface on the first end facing towards the second end and having a first angle. A second deburr surface is formed between the first end and the second end facing towards the first end and having a second angle. The distance between a first mid-point of the first deburr surface and a second mid-point of the second deburr surface is substantially equal to a width of the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2006Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Inventor: Stephen D. Clayton
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Patent number: 7270505Abstract: A cutting tool and mounting system includes a tool carrier arranged to be mounted onto a workpiece, a cutting tool assembly carried by the tool carrier, and a tracking assembly connected to the cutting tool assembly and positioned to follow the contour of an outer surface of the workpiece. The cutting tool assembly includes a cutting tool arranged to be rotated about a longitudinal axis and a tool driving system connected to and arranged to transmit rotary input motion to the cutting tool. The cutting tool is secured by the tool driving system to be fed along its axis of rotation and transversely of its axis of rotation for cutting a workpiece through a wall thickness of the workpiece to impart a beveled surface to a severed end portion of the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2004Date of Patent: September 18, 2007Assignee: Tri Tool Inc.Inventors: Jerald W. VanderPol, Lane L. Larson
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Patent number: 7231703Abstract: A knuckle 1 has a through hole 3 provided in a fitting hole 4 thereof. A cutting tool 9, which has a diameter being larger than that of the through hole 3 and also has a cutting part having a hemispherical leading end portion, is caused to go into the through hole 3 at an angle at which the tool 9 does not touch the remaining part of the knuckle 1. Then, a burr formed at a fitting-hole-side open end portion 7 of the through hole 3 is removed by rotating the cutting tool 9 while the leading end portion thereof is made to obliquely abut against the open end portion 7 of the through hole 3.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2006Date of Patent: June 19, 2007Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toru Shimosato, Tsutomu Suzuki, Kazuhiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7232280Abstract: A guide attachment for a rotary hand tool is disclosed that comprises a housing, an adapter and a removable base. The attachment is configured to remove grout from between adjacent tiles, such as floor or wall tiles. The housing of the preferred embodiment is configured to permit a tool bit to engage a work surface at the normal intersection of two planes. The removable base of the preferred embodiment permits the attachment to work on flat surfaces. The base is also reversible and contains multiple sets of guide points for guiding the tool bit along grooves that have different widths. The preferred embodiment can also include a vacuum adapter that is attachable to the housing and allows a vacuum hose to be coupled to the guide attachment for removing debris during operation. The configuration of the housing or locking mechanism accommodates adapters having different circumferences.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2003Date of Patent: June 19, 2007Assignee: Credo Technology CorporationInventors: Walter Bernardi, Michael Landt
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Patent number: 7168897Abstract: A planing attachment for a rotary hand tool of the type having a generally cylindrical body with an output shaft at a nose end thereof to which a cutting bit can be attached, the attachment being configured at an attaching end to matingly engage the nose end of the hand tool. The attachment includes a housing having an attaching end portion and a planing tool end portion, wherein the attaching end portion is configured to matingly engage the nose end of the rotary hand tool, and a leading plane and a trailing plane are configured wherein one of the planes is disposed on opposite sides of the cutting bit, and wherein the leading plane is elevated relative to the trailing plane by a distance proportional to the depth of cut made by the cutting bit. The attachment further includes a longitudinal cavity disposed between the leading plane and the trailing plane and is configured to receive the cutting bit therein, a cutting bit support disposed at the planing tool end portion of the attachment.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2004Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Brad M. Baber
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Patent number: 7165920Abstract: A system for attaching an accessory attachment to a rotary hand tool of the type having a body with a generally cylindrical nose end portion through which an output shaft passes. The preferred embodiment of the system has an attachment that has an attaching end which matingly engages the nose end portion of the hand tool, and includes a rotatable coupling with inner threads that engage outer threads on the nose portion. The nose portion of the hand tool also has at least one recess which is configured to receive at least one projection on the attachment which accurately angularly positions the attachment on the hand tool. The preferred embodiment has at least one complementary tapered recess and projection combination which facilitates easy insertion of the projection into the recess during attaching.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2004Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Brad M. Baber
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Patent number: 7150589Abstract: A deburring tool includes a proximal cutter and a distal cutter which form a V-shaped groove within which a workpiece is positioned to remove burrs from both sides of the workpiece simultaneously. The cutting edges of the proximal and distal cutters do not include any under cuts and therefore can be formed using a powdered metal process.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2004Date of Patent: December 19, 2006Assignee: Greenlee Textron Inc.Inventor: William F. Nordlin
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Patent number: 7143673Abstract: Tube ends such as those of boiler tube banks, are prepared utilizing any of various combinations of processes which include a step of micro-diameter tube film removal from a portion of a tube end, including an area below a beveled segment, or segment to be beveled. The micro-diameter film removal step provides the tube with an exposed, clean metal surface which is conducive to a subsequent welding or bonding operation performed on the tube. Preferably, the process is performed with a tube milling tool having interchangeable milling or cutting heads. A specialized milling head is also disclosed and, in one embodiment, is at least used to perform the micro-diameter tube film removal step. Advantageously, the tube film removal milling head also removes a weld overlay on one or both sides of a tube in one embodiment. The tube film removal milling head includes an attached blade having a planar face configuration which enables tube film removal.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2003Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: H&S Tool, Inc.Inventor: J. Randall Hall
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Patent number: 7140816Abstract: A milling head for a rotary tool, which is preferably utilized to process, prepare, or otherwise impart a desired finish to a workpiece, preferably an end portion of a tube. In a preferred embodiment, the milling head includes at least three different cutting or milling surfaces each capable of performing a distinct operation on a workpiece. In one embodiment, the milling head includes a) a membrane milling and/or outer diameter tube film removal element; b) a beveling element capable of imparting a bevel to the tube end; and c) an inner diameter tube film removal element. The milling head milling surfaces are adjustable in order to accommodate tubes of different wall thicknesses and diameters. The milling head is preferably attached to a rotary milling tool, i.e., a drill. Methods of performing operations on workpieces with the milling head are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2004Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: H&S Tool, Inc.Inventor: J. Randall Hall
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Patent number: 7137763Abstract: A pneumatically driven deburring device having a housing and a pneumatic motor mounted therein which is adapted to receive and drive a deburring tool. A pivot bearing is mounted within the housing adjacent the pneumatic motor. A motor support is held within the pivot bearing and extends therefrom where the motor support connects to the pneumatic motor. An air inlet is disposed adjacent the pivot bearing and is communicatively connected thereto. Air for driving the pneumatic motor is directed through the air inlet, and through a hollow portion of the motor support to where air is directed into the pneumatic motor. Because the motor support is supported or contained within the pivot bearing, it follows that the motor support articulates with the pivot bearing and hence the pneumatic motor moves with the articulating motor support.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2004Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: ATI Industrial Automation, Inc.Inventor: Douglas K. Lawson
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Patent number: 7082656Abstract: A tool for beveling the end of a pipe is comprised of a hollow, tubular body having a central, longitudinal axis of rotation, an inboard coupling end, and an opposite outboard working end. A plurality of longitudinally spaced, transversely directed latching pin bores of equal size are defined through the wall of the tubular body. A core member is disposed coaxially within the tubular body. The core member includes a beveling cutter head and a longitudinal stem having a radially inwardly directed, circumferential latch position groove. A transversely oriented latching pin is engaged in a selected one of the latching pin bores in the body and with the latch position groove of the core stem. This allows alternative selection of each of the latch position bores for insertion of the latching pin. The particular bore selected determines the longitudinal position of the core stem latch position groove within the body that will be aligned with the latching pin.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2004Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Inventors: C. Warren Duncan, Bill Glynn, Bruce Root
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Patent number: 7070370Abstract: An apparatus for beveling the edges of workpieces, such as flooring strips, as they are advanced along a path of travel on a conveyor. The apparatus has a motor assembly which mounts a cutting wheel, and the motor assembly is mounted for manual adjustment in both the in and out and up and down directions. Also, the motor assembly can float a limited distance in both of these directions. A guide shoe is mounted to the motor assembly and is positioned to ride on the workpieces. Any unevenness in the straightness, thickness, or width of the workpieces is detected by the guide shoe, which causes the motor assembly and thus the cutting wheel to closely follow the changing contour of the workpieces and impart a uniform bevel.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2004Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Inventor: Louis R. Brooks
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Patent number: 7070371Abstract: A chamfering air tool includes a driving shaft in a casing rotated by air pressure, a rotary shaft perpendicularly combined to the driving shaft for rotation, and a cutter fixed to the rotary shaft. Air holes are formed through the rotary shaft in a longitudinal direction. An air discharge groove is formed in the cutter, and a hole communicated with the air hole is formed in a fixing bolt head. An air path is formed in the fixing bolt head to keep a predetermined gap from the cutter. A guide ring having a diameter approximate to a lower end of the cutter is rotatably mounted to the fixing bolt head. Thus, air is blown to the air hole of the rotary shaft, the air hole formed in the fixing bolt head, the air path formed between the cutter and the guide ring, and the air discharge groove of the cutter, thereby eliminating cut chips and cooling the cutter.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2004Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Inventor: Cheol-Hwan Choi
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Patent number: 7055239Abstract: The invention relates to a device for producing a book page index for facilitating the search for certain sections in a book. The device includes a bearing surface (1) on which a pile (3) of pages is placed. According to the invention, an index notch or thumb section (31) is to be formed on the upper region of the pile, along the front edge (7). To this end, preferably a circular, disk-shaped cutter head (17) is used, the cutter head having a cutting contour (21) on the circumference thereof. The device includes at least one displacement device (19) for moving the support and the cutter head towards or away from each other, so that the notch or thumb section to be formed can be produced on the front edge by means of the cutter head. The height of the thumb index can be set by lowering the bearing surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2001Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: Ochsner & Co. BuchbindereimaschinenInventor: August Ochsner
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Patent number: 7029212Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for guiding the bit of a rotary hand tool along a corner of a work surface formed by two or more abutting surfaces, through use of a corner cutting apparatus which includes a corner cutting guide having a housing, defining an axis of the housing, and adapted for attachment of the rotary tool with the axis of the rotary tool extending through the housing along the axis of the housing. The housing also includes first and second guide walls, for engaging abutting walls at a corner of the work surface. The first and second guide walls are disposed substantially perpendicular to one another, and have respective outer surfaces which, if projected, would intersect to form a line lying in a common plane with the axis of the housing and oriented at an acute angle to the axis of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2004Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Nomis LLCInventors: Edward Adkins, Patrick J. Barkdoll
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Patent number: 7011122Abstract: An edge-routing unit has a routing tool (4) on a shaft (9) of a routing motor (6), which is arranged on a rest (10), and which is controlled approximately along a workpiece outline in a workpiece feed-through direction, an X-axis, and in a workpiece thickness direction, a Z-axis. Furthermore, by way of a feeler wheel (5), which is coaxial to the routing tool (4) and which travels over a workpiece surface adjoining an edge strip (3), the rest (10) is supported on the workpiece (1) for follow-up of the routing tool (4) according to a contour sensed. In order to be able to change adjustment of the routing tool (4) relative to the feeler wheel (5) during machining operations, a positioning slide (15) is arranged on the rest (10), on which the positioning slide (15) and the routing motor (6) sit together with the routing tool (4) and which is traversable in a motor-operated program-controlled manner relative to the rest (10), in a direction of the X-axis and in a direction of the Z-axis.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2002Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Assignee: IMA Klessman GmbH HolzbearbeitungssystemeInventors: Martin Rose, Karl-Heinz Schekelmann
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Patent number: 6974286Abstract: A robotic deburring tool having a housing. Mounted within the housing is a pneumatic motor that includes a backwall and a drive shaft. Secured to the terminal end of the drive shaft is a deburring tool. A pivot-bearing is mounted in the housing adjacent the backwall. A connector extends from the backwall of the pneumatic motor and connects to the pivot bearing, thereby permitting the pneumatic motor to freely articulate radially in any direction while preventing free rotation about the bearing's longitudinal axis. A compliance device extends around the pneumatic motor at a location between the backwall and the deburring tool secured to the drive shaft. The compliance device restricts the movement of the pneumatic motor while applying a compliance force to the pneumatic motor as the pneumatic motor moves with the pivot bearing.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2003Date of Patent: December 13, 2005Assignee: ATI Industrial Automation, Inc.Inventor: Douglas K. Lawson
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Patent number: 6843622Abstract: An apparatus for the automated profiling the edge of successive optical disks, and including an optical disk supply assembly for holding a supply of optical disks to be profiled, a turntable for receiving an optical disk to be profiled, and for reciprocating between an optical disk loading position and an optical disk profiling position. A clamping assembly is provided for clamping the optical disk in a stationary condition to the turntable during movement between the loading position and the profiling position. A profiling cutter profiles the edge of the optical disk into a predefined shape when the turntable is in the profiling position.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2002Date of Patent: January 18, 2005Assignee: Concept Design Electronics and Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Paul Eugene DeMint, Richard Lee Clark
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Patent number: 6811362Abstract: A method for reusing profile insert blades maintains axial, radial and profile dimensions of a cutting tool. The method includes duplicating an original profile on a used profile insert blade by sharpening a profile edge of the used profile insert blade to form a sharpened profile edge with a new profile that is shifted longitudinally along a length of the profile cutter blade relative to an original profile position. Material is removed from a reference edge of the sharpened profile insert blade to form a new reference edge, for positioning the resharpened blade in a longitudinally changed position so that the new adjusted profile has similar axial, radial and profile dimensions as compared to the original profile.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2001Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: E. W. Tooling, Inc.Inventors: Ernest R. Wallin, Jerome E. Deyle
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Patent number: 6749377Abstract: A process for edge-machining an optical (spectacle) lens including preliminary machining of an edge of the lens rotatable in controlled manner about a rotational axis of a workpiece by a first edge-machining tool adjustable radially relative to the rotational axis of the workpiece, whereby the lens is given a circumferential contour which corresponds to the circumferential contour of a lens holder apart from a slight degree of oversizing, contactless measurement of the preliminarily machined lens edge, and finish-machining of the lens edge, taking account of the detected edge data of the preliminarily machined lens, by means of a second edge-machining tool adjustable radially relative to the rotational axis of the workpiece, whereby the lens is provided with a circumferential contour substantially complementary to the circumferential contour of the lens holder.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2002Date of Patent: June 15, 2004Assignee: Loh Optikmaschinen AGInventors: Lutz Gottschald, Jochen Wagner
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Patent number: 6733216Abstract: A hand-held milling machine (1) has a cutting tool (9, 10) which protrudes from a machine support (3) on the side facing the workpiece. A screw-type clamping mechanism allows the cutting tool (9, 10) and the machine support (3) to be positionally adjusted relative to each other by the relative rotational movement of clamping sections (6, 18) on both sides around a drive axis (13) in the direction of the projection of the cutting tool (9, 10) relative to the machine support (3). The clamping sections (6, 18) are positioned opposite each other in the radial direction of the drive axis (13). A tensioning device (35) allows the two clamping sections (6, 18) on both sides to be secured against relative rotational movement around the drive axis (13).Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2003Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: Trumpf Grusch AGInventor: Claus Böhringer
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Patent number: 6725515Abstract: Using machines, equipment and devices for mechanical scarfing off of oxygen cutting burr from workpieces of steel, the deburring will be safer with a better deburring ratio, lower cost and with better, advantageous maintenance and wear part situations. The scarfing process performs even if limited, step by step continuously, following in every height level of the cutting oxygen burr with a tool continuously moving from down to up with a suitable adjustment.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2001Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Gega CorporationInventor: Horst Karl Lotz
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Patent number: 6722004Abstract: A welding gun electrode reshaping device includes a head with satellites supported by a satellite holder to identify between them opposing seats for the gun electrode tip. The satellite holder is powered to be rotated around the seats to move the satellites around the electrode tip zone and cause reshaping of the electrode tip. In the seats there is a support member for the electrode tip with a surface designed for simultaneous smoothing of a ‘lense’ zone on the electrode tip. A movement mechanism enables positioning of the head in an operational zone.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2002Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Advanced Technologies s.r.l.Inventor: Antonio Recupero
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Publication number: 20030165367Abstract: A hand-held milling machine (1) has a cutting tool (9, 10) which protrudes from a machine support (3) on the side facing the workpiece. A screw-type clamping mechanism allows the cutting tool (9, 10) and the machine support (3) to be positionally adjusted relative to each other by the relative rotational movement of clamping sections (6, 18) on both sides around a drive axis (13) in the direction of the projection of the cutting tool (9, 10) relative to the machine support (3). The clamping sections (6, 18) are positioned opposite each other in the radial direction of the drive axis (13). A tensioning device (35) allows the two clamping sections (6, 18) on both sides to be secured against relative rotational movement around the drive axis (13).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2003Publication date: September 4, 2003Inventor: Claus Bohringer
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Patent number: 6604895Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2001Date of Patent: August 12, 2003Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Monte L. Schroeder
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Patent number: 6564111Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for forming a bevel on the edge of a glass lens using a lens-edge machining apparatus with computer numerical control.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2000Date of Patent: May 13, 2003Assignee: Wernicke & Co. GmbHInventor: Lutz Gottschald
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Publication number: 20030086769Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for producing a curved tooth. Apparatus are adapted to perform a method that includes the steps of providing a workpiece, providing a tool, and providing relative movement between the tool and the workpiece such that the tool moves along a first curved path relative to the workpiece to define a first curved surface of a tooth in the workpiece. The relative movement can be accomplished by substantially simultaneous translation of at least one of the tool and the workpiece along a first linear axis and a second linear axis that is perpendicular to the first linear axis. Methods are also disclosed for compensating for deviations in a tool path.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2002Publication date: May 8, 2003Inventor: Gregory A. Hyatt
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Patent number: 6557227Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel cutting equipment, which automatically cuts hard plastic pipes produced from an extruder, having a table, an input V shape leading wheel, an input fixing clamp apparatus mechanism, a cutting mechanism, a bearing transmission mechanism, an output fixing clamp apparatus mechanism, a V shape leading plate, a leading wheel, a cuttings collector, and an electric control system, which are assembled to a novel means of a hard pipe cutting machine.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2001Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Assignee: Nan Ya Plastics CorporationInventor: Shin-Fa Chang
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Patent number: 6517298Abstract: A method for selectively relieving sharp edges in tools used in die cutting web or sheet-type work material which includes providing a machining apparatus for supporting the tool thereon, where the machining apparatus includes a rotary cutter mounted thereon and moveable relative to the tool. The method also includes providing a controller having machine readable shape data corresponding to at least one of the tools stored therein, and operating the controller to determine, responsive to the stored shape data, locations of edge segments defined by the tool against which the work material will impinge as the work material is advanced onto the tool in a first direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1999Date of Patent: February 11, 2003Assignee: Gerber Scientific Products, Inc.Inventor: Wolfgang M. Strobel
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Patent number: 6450741Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2000Date of Patent: September 17, 2002Inventor: Victor Cannelli, Jr.
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Patent number: 6367136Abstract: An apparatus for taper-boring a bevelled surface (16) into an inner wall of a pipe fitting (10, 32). The apparatus comprising support means, in the form of rollers (24, 26, 28), for supporting the fitting on the apparatus; drive means for rotating the fitting wit respect to the apparatus and a rotatable milling head (40) located at least partially within the fitting being supported by the support means. The arrangement of the support means and the milling head is such that the fitting is rotatable with respect to the milling head.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Inventor: Solomon Joel Tucker
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Publication number: 20010056014Abstract: A rolled plate joining apparatus for joining rolled plates by cutting one surface of the tailing end of a preceding rolled plate and the other surface of the leading end of a succeeding rolled plate while traveling in the width direction and by overlapping the resulting cut surfaces to be joined. The joining apparatus includes machining apparatuses each having a cutter for cutting the undersurface of the tailing end and the upper surface of the leading end, a traversing apparatus for running said machining apparatuses in the plate width direction to move said machining apparatuses to waiting positions outside of the plate width, and cutter cooling apparatuses provided in said waiting positions for cooling said cutters.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2001Publication date: December 27, 2001Inventors: Nobuhiro Tazoe, Toshio Iwanami, Masami Oki, Kouiti Sakamoto, Toshihiro Mori
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Patent number: 6309152Abstract: A tool unit is guided by a handling unit movable in several planes for cutting out recesses or bores and de-burring the work-pieces in one operational step. A de-burring cutter is mounted in a support arm for the tool which is movable about a central axis and is engaged by two spring arrangements disposed on opposing sides of the support arm and is returned to the original position following displacement. The springs of the spring arrangement can be replaced to adjust the spring pressure to various work materials and work-pieces. The cutting angle of the tool cutter is set automatically via the pressing force. Radial movement of the cutter is possible as are resilient deflection and precise return. A spring pressure pin arrangement is provided for balancing the cutter.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2000Date of Patent: October 30, 2001Inventor: Johanna Prösl
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Patent number: 6302625Abstract: A portable device for refurbishing an edge of an airfoil is provided that has an edge shaper and airfoil positioners that positively engage the airfoil. A method for refurbishing an edge of an airfoil is also provided that includes the steps of (a) providing the portable refurbishing device; (b) locating the edge shaper and the airfoil edge relative to one another with the positioners; and (c) moving one of the device or the airfoil relative to the other along the airfoil edge.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1999Date of Patent: October 16, 2001Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Patrick R. Carey, Richard M. Murphy, Dennis C. Shooter, Douglas E. Duke, Zonda L. Feulner
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Publication number: 20010022921Abstract: In a burr removing method and apparatus of the present invention, a burr located at an edge of a steel piece is cut with a cutter by disposing the cutter such that the flank of the cutter is substantially in parallel with the surface of the steel piece on which the burr exists and the angle between the cutting edge of the cutter and the edge of the steel piece which the burr intersects is at least 45° and relatively moving the cutter toward the outside of the steel piece along the lengthwise direction of the burr; or by disposing the cutter such that the flank of the cutter is substantially in parallel with the surface of the steel piece on which the burr exists and the angle between the cutting edge of the cutter and the edge of the steel piece which the burr intersects is at least 90° and cutting the burr located at the edge of the steel piece by relatively moving the cutter perpendicularly to the lengthwise direction of the burr.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2001Publication date: September 20, 2001Applicant: NKK CorporationInventors: Koji Yamashita, Hiromasa Hayashi, Susumu Okawa, Koji Okushima
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Patent number: 6257812Abstract: There is provided a rolled plate joining apparatus equipped with a truck that can travel reversibly in the rolling direction, tailing end pinch rolls that are mounted on the truck and can be moved vertically with the tailing end of a preceding rolled plate pinched horizontally, leading end pinch rolls that are mounted on the truck and can pinch horizontally the leading end of a succeeding rolled plate, machining apparatuses for cutting one surface of the tailing end of the preceding rolled plate and the other surface of the leading end of the succeeding rolled plate, and a pressure welding apparatus for compressing the preceding rolled plate and the succeeding rolled plate with the machined surfaces of the preceding rolled plate and the succeeding rolled plate overlapped to reduce them approximately to the thickness of the rolled plates, including a tailing end centering apparatus placed between the tailing end pinch rolls and the pressure welding apparatus for pressing the opposite width ends of the tailingType: GrantFiled: August 27, 1999Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignees: Shikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Metal Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuhiro Tazoe, Toshio Iwanami, Masami Oki, Kouiti Sakamoto, Toshihiro Mori
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Patent number: 6231577Abstract: A bone cutter is provided for creating cylindrical bone plugs for patella-patellar tendon-tibia grafts and comprises a support having a pair of bone cutting wheels mounted thereon about a vertical axis. Each of the cutting wheels have an hourglass shape to define a circular opening therebetween. An adjustable plug guide is provided forwardly of the cutting wheels for guiding the harvested bone plug into proper engagement and alignment with the rotating cutting wheels.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1999Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Inventor: James T. Canedy
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Patent number: 6179532Abstract: A flexible deburring tool for removing burrs from a metal component made of unitary construction having a handle and a tool head with a flexible shaft extending between them that allows the tool head to be positioned in hard to reach or tight fitting situations. The tool head is provided with a recess to receive a tool bit such as a deburring bit. The shaft is narrower than the handle and allows a range of flexation greater than 90 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 1999Date of Patent: January 30, 2001Inventor: Steven V. Oldham
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Patent number: 6086294Abstract: An integral cutting tool (10) for trimming a flash portion (12) from a peripheral edge (14) of a blow-molded plastic part (16). The cutting tool (10) has a main section (18) which has a circular cross-section. The cutting tool (10) also has a cutting tip (20) with a distal end (22) and cutting edges (24). Between the main section (18) and the cutting tip (20) is an intermediate contoured section (26) which has a smooth surface. The cutting edges (24) on the cutting tip (20) extend from the end (22) of the cutting tip (20) up to the smooth contoured section (26). The contoured section (26) engages the shape of the part (16) to position the cutting tip (20) relative to the part (16) during the cutting of the flash (12).Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1999Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignee: FANUC Robotics North America Inc.Inventors: Denis Danchine, Laxmi P. Musumur
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Patent number: 6086295Abstract: This invention is of an automated flash removal apparatus which features counter-rotating trimming wheels which are positioned against the molded flexible urethane part or the molded flexible polyvinyl chloride part. The force of the trimming wheels against the part undergoing the flash removal process is adjustable and is controlled by opposing tension springs. The trimming wheels may by set at any angle to the part so as to enhance the flash removal characteristics. The trimming wheels are guided along the sides of the part by interchangeable guide bars which may be profiled to accommodate parts which present surfaces that are not substantially straight. The trimming wheels utilize a textured pattern which operate to abrade the flash from the part, thereafter polishing the part on the return pass.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1997Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Inventors: Norm Novak, Eric Bailey
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Patent number: 6079302Abstract: A saw for simultaneously cutting and beveling including a cut-off saw, a cutting blade, and a beveling blade. The cutting blade cuts simultaneously while the beveling blade bevels. The beveling blade preferably has a head with two faces annularly connected by an annular slanted circumference. The head has at least one notch suitable for accommodating a respective at least one tooth insert interconnected with a respective at least one cartridge. Each cartridge is interconnectable with a respective tooth insert.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 1999Date of Patent: June 27, 2000Inventor: Gustave F. Gudleske
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Patent number: 6042311Abstract: A chamfering apparatus for chamfering a work has an adapter which surrounds a tool support, has one end fixed to a casing and the other end projecting from the casing, and is arranged coaxially with the axis of a rotating shaft. This chamfering apparatus includes an eccentric ring rotatably mounted around the adapter, a lock plate rotatably mounted around the eccentric ring, a work guide attached to the lock plate and having a predetermined guide direction to guide a tool support along the work, and keeping means for keeping the angle between the guide direction of the work guide and the output shaft of a motor at a predetermined value when the lock plate and the work guide are translated with respect to the axis of the rotating shaft by rotating the eccentric ring with respect to the adapter.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1999Date of Patent: March 28, 2000Assignee: Nitto Kohki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiki Yokoyama, Munenori Yamaguchi, Yasuo Kazama
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Patent number: 6027288Abstract: A working apparatus comprising, a base, a work piece supporting and rotating means on the base to hold and rotate a work piece, a working tool unit on the base to hold a working tool to be rotatable and which forwardly and rearwardly moves in horizontal direction toward the work piece via a slider mechanism, a pressing means to press the working tool unit in horizontal direction at a constant pressing force toward the work piece, and a profiling means on the working tool unit to forwardly and rearwardly move by profiling an outer periphery of the work piece through being in contact with the work piece in horizontal direction and thereby to move the whole working tool unit in forward and rearward directions.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 1998Date of Patent: February 22, 2000Assignee: Senjo Seiki CorporationInventor: Motohiro Senjo
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Patent number: 5971680Abstract: Disclosed is an automatic printed circuit board two-bevel forming machine which includes a conveyer, a first cutter assembly which is disposed above the conveyer, and a second cutter assembly which is disposed below the conveyer. The first cutter assembly includes a first rough and a first fine bevel cutter. The second cutter assembly includes a second rough and second fine bevel cutter. The rough and fine bevel cutters of the first and second cutter assemblies incline at a suitable angle toward the upper and lower edges of the PCBs being conveyed. The rough and fine cutters stretch or shrink to a suitable position controlled by a pneumatic driving device. When the PCBs pass through the first and second cutter assemblies sequentially by means of the conveyer, the rough and fine bevel cutters of the first cutter assembly cut and grind the upper edge to form an upper fine bevel, and the rough and fine bevel cutters of the second cutter assembly cut and grind the lower edge to form a lower fine bevel.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1998Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Assignee: Der Lih Fuh Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hsien-Li Kuo
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Patent number: 5921729Abstract: A double surface machining system for machining both side surfaces of a workpiece comprises, in an operational state, a pair of upper and lower spindle heads to be vertically positioned and driven, respectively, a pair of upper and lower spindles provided for the upper and lower spindle heads, respectively, in parallel to each other, to be rotatable about horizontal axes thereof, the upper and lower spindles having front ends to which tools are mounted, respectively, a pair of upper and lower workpiece supports for supporting the workpiece therebetween, which are vertically positioned and driven on one side of the upper and lower spindle heads as viewed from a workpiece feed direction, respectively, and another pair of upper and lower workpiece supports for supporting the workpiece therebetween, which are vertically positioned and driven on another one side of the upper and lower spindle heads as viewed from a workpiece feed direction, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1997Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Japan Atomic Energy Research InstituteInventors: Mitsuru Kikuchi, Koya Watanabe, Yutaka Noda, Masanao Shibui
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Patent number: 5882155Abstract: The present invention comprises a ceiling tile cutting apparatus for the cutting and edging of successive tiles with corresponding angular cuts in a corresponding manner. The apparatus comprises a plurality of vertically arranged support legs connected by a plurality of horizontal members and a planar table member of generally rectilinear configuration attached at the upper end of the support legs. The table member has a first or proximal edge, a second or distal edge parallel to the first edge, a left hand edge and a right hand edge generally parallel to the left edge. An elongated slot extends through the table member parallel to the right hand edge of the table. A pair of guide rails supported over the elongated slot, and a motorized cutting tool mechanism is arranged to slide on the guide rails, with a cutting tool extending into the slot. An adjustable telescopable ruler is pivotably arranged on the table.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1997Date of Patent: March 16, 1999Inventor: Vincent M. Testa, Jr.
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Patent number: 5871313Abstract: A cutting assembly and an apparatus for self-aligned chamfering of a workpiece are disclosed. The chamfering apparatus includes a mechanism for releasably securing the workpiece in preparation for a chamfering thereof, a cutting assembly, and a mechanism for moving the cutting assembly proximate the securing mechanism between a first position and a second position, wherein the cutting assembly traverses along an edge portion of the workpiece to be chamfered.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 1997Date of Patent: February 16, 1999Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Anton Nenadic, David Scott Graboski, William A. Cavaliere, James Edward Tersigni