Abstract: A portable apparatus for configuring a wheel associated with a track is provided. The apparatus is in a fixed position with respect to a rail associated with the track when in operation. The apparatus includes a tool configured to engage the wheel, a position system for positioning the cutting tool in at least two axis, and a computer control. The computer control is coupled to control the positioning system. The positioning system is controlled so that the wheel is configured in accordance with a profile.

Abstract: A coaxial drive apparatus for multidirectional control, including: a housing; a stage pivotally installed in the housing, with the object laid on the stage; a rotary shaft connected to the stage and rotated to cause the stage to pivot; a rotation transmitting unit transmitting a rotating force of the rotary shaft to the stage; a sliding pipe coaxially fitted over the rotary shaft so as to be moved along a lengthwise direction of the rotary shaft or to be rotated on a central axis of the rotary shaft; a moving unit moving the object laid on the stage in the lengthwise direction of the rotary shaft according to a movement of the sliding pipe, and moving the object in a transverse direction of the rotary shaft according to a rotation of the sliding pipe; and a controller providing a driving force to the rotary shaft and to the sliding pipe.

Abstract: Apparatus including a saw mill cutter for removing risers or excess material from castings such as for engine blocks, cylinder heads, cam carriers, transmission housings and the like, with the saw mill cutter simultaneously cutting the riser from the casting body while milling the cut surface to form a finished and/or semi finished surface and with a method for utilizing such a saw mill cutter and forming such finished and/or semi-finished surface and with one form of the method including feeding the casting widthwise to the cutter such that it is cut and milled along its length.

Abstract: An apparatus for precision linear positioning of material along a frame, having carrier means for carrying the material juxtaposed above the frame, means for linearly moving the carrier means along the frame having a plurality of pneumatic cylinders each having an extendable and rectractable piston, the cylinders connected to each other in a series and including a first end pneumatic cylinder attached to the frame and a last end pneumatic cylinder attached to the carrier means, such that the carrier means is moved by the amount of the cumulative extension and retraction of the pistons, stopping means associated with each the pneumatic cylinder for limiting the extension of each the piston, and means for providing a controllable amount of air to each pneumatic cylinder to selectively control extension and retraction of each piston.

Abstract: A tenoner provided with two driven milling cutters positioned opposite each other on both sides of a traveling carrier for a workpiece. Each cutter is carried in a carriage mounted in a supporting element which comprises a base displaceable on the frame in two mutually perpendicular directions. The carriage is tiltable around two mutually perpendicular axes for setting the location and angular position of a tenon.These axes intersect each other at an imaginary point coinciding with the root of the tenon, which is i.e. the center of the common attachment plane of tenon and workpiece. The cutters each make a stepwise revolution and a rectilinear reciprocating motion around the root in producing a tenon. Because of this arrangement, the angular setting of the cutter can be quickly adjusted.

Abstract: A machine for milling a tenon to the straight end of wooden workpieces, like a strip or a beam, wherein two wooden workpieces disposed upon two sledges or tables moving in transverse position to and fro in between abutments, are milled one after another in one single pass through the machine by means of a driven cutter carried upon a support structure which periodically performs a revolving movement over 180.degree., each time said cutter reaches a side face of the tenon to be produced, said pivotal movement being initiated by a signal from a pulse transmitter cooperating with the sledge or table such that said signal is dependent upon the position of the relative sledge, and so that said cutter always cuts toward the tenon being cut.