Convertible From Lathe Patents (Class 409/240)
  • Patent number: 9511463
    Abstract: An article of manufacture, a portable lathe jig device for use with a lathe and hand tools, such as router is disclosed, with a top U-shaped unit with fences and stop plates slidably engaged to a bottom U-shaped unit and the units are movable or locked together with knobs with threaded tightening bolts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Inventor: Joseph De Lessio
  • Patent number: 8353095
    Abstract: The present invention provides a self feeding drill press lathe attachment designed for rotating a workpiece along a horizontal axis to remove material from the workpiece to form it into a desired shape. The drill press lathe attachment comprises a base and a power transfer box along with components commonly found on a lathe, but without a motor. The drill press lathe attachment, or “motorless” lathe, may be mounted directly to the bed of an existing drill press thereby providing an alternative means of achieving turning operations without needing a traditional motor driven lathe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Inventor: James W. Hall
  • Publication number: 20110142562
    Abstract: A system for converting a conventional vertical milling machine into a lathe includes a tool adapted to insert into the vertical spindle of the milling machine and is adapted to present a cutting edge aligned with the center vertical axis of the vertical milling machine spindle. A turning head assembly includes a horizontal spindle driven by an electric motor having an electric cooling fan. The turning head couples to the vertical milling machine so that it is adjustable in both the x and y directions. When used together, the turning bar and turning head enable conversion of milling machine to a lathe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventor: Dan Alexander Sturges
  • Patent number: 7377022
    Abstract: The present invention provides a drill press lathe attachment designed for rotating a workpiece along a horizontal axis to remove material from the workpiece to form it into a desired shape. The drill press lathe attachment comprises a base and a power transfer box along with components commonly found on a lathe, but without a motor. The drill press lathe attachment, or “motorless” lathe, may be mounted directly to the bed of an existing drill press thereby providing an alternative means of achieving turning operations without needing a traditional motor driven lathe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Inventor: James W. Hall
  • Patent number: 6796012
    Abstract: A milling and drilling machine for rod-shaped material. A motor-driven spindle head is movable on a column along a first coordinate axis and includes a work spindle capable of selectively accommodating milling and turning tools. A separating device transversely separates the rod-shaped material. A clamping device, disposed laterally alongside the workspace, has a workpiece holder with a clamping axis along a horizontal coordinate axis. A rotary drive is provided for the workpiece holder. The spindle head is pivotable about a Y axis at the front side of a headstock movable in the direction of the Y coordinate axis. The headstock is disposed on a motor-driven slide movable on the stationary column along an X coordinate axis parallel to the workpiece clamping axis. The clamping device is disposed on an inclined console located on the face of the column and movable along the Z coordinate axis in guides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Deckel Maho Pfronten GmbH
    Inventors: Alfred Geissler, Karl Lechleiter, Reinhold Seitz
  • Patent number: 5586382
    Abstract: A right angled turning attachment (6) connected to the spindle (5) of a milling machine (2). The attachment provides a thru hole clamping mechanism (13) for holding and turning material (10) with various cutting tools (9) mounted in tool holders (8) fastened to the milling table (7). The attachment provides effecient turning capability to manual or computer controlled milling machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1996
    Inventor: Charles F. Ganem
  • Patent number: 5301405
    Abstract: The milling machine lathe attachment is attachable to an existing milling machine so as to eliminate the need for an operator owning both a milling machine and a lathe. It is designed to be mounted to the side of the milling machine and to be used without disturbing a setup in the associated vise. The attachment is also designed to be mounted to the front of a milling machine and allows the programming of the very point of single point tool contact so as to follow whatever contour or steps are desired. This type of cutting is not possible on a lathe with guaranteed accuracy, while on a milling machine it is quite feasible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Inventor: Richard A. Maker
  • Patent number: 5090278
    Abstract: A lathe with a machine bed, a main spindle stock for a motor driven main spindle fixed to the machine bed, a tail stock moveable in the direction of the main spindle axis, and a cross table including a longitudinal table moveable in the direction of the main spindle axis and a transverse table transversely moveable relative to the longitudinal table, with the longitudinal table being operable by a rotatable longitudinal lead screw and with the transverse table being operable by a rotatably drivable transverse lead screw. The longitudinal lead screw and the transverse lead screw are each provided with a hand wheel, which hand wheel is rigidly connected with a driving wheel couplable to an associated drive motor. The drive motors are controllable by a data processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Assignee: Emco Maier GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Mair, Johan Reiner
  • Patent number: 4911043
    Abstract: A device and method for milling a trochoidal rotor having a predetermined trochoidal configuration. The trochoidal rotor is used in a trochoidal rotary device in which working chambers are defined between the rotor and a housing. The rotor device has inlet and outlet ports for passing a fluid or gas. The rotor is made by first planetating a rotor blank having a predetermined width and having an edge region about a predetermined axis. The cutting blade is provided which has a predetermined geometry and which is located at a predetermined fixed distance from the axis. The cutting blade is engaged with at least a portion of the edge region of the rotor blank. The cutting blade traverses the edge region of the rotor blank to cut the edge region into a predetermined trochoidal configuration. When the cutting blade is a helical flute, the engagement of the cutting blade with a portion of the edge region results in cutting at a predetermined location within the portion of the edge region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: Compression Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ralph M. Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 4852434
    Abstract: A machine tool having a work spindle with an electrically actuated clamping unit including a three-phase motor with a stationary stator. The motor is supplied with electricity from a control unit operating with frequency conversion, and the control unit is alternatingly also used for triggering a spindle drive motor. A sensor detects clamping force applied to a workpiece, and produces a signal used to reduce motor speed of the three-phase motor until a predetermined clamping force is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1989
    Assignee: Paul Forkardt GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hubert Bald
  • Patent number: 4709604
    Abstract: A portable multipurpose device for refacing both the make-up shoulder and the secondary shoulder of a two-shoulder tool joint, and for milling the outside surfaces of tool joints and pipes. The device uses a fixed cutting blade and rotates the tool joint to reface the make-up shoulder. The device holds the tool joint steady and uses rotating cutting blades to reface the secondary shoulder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1987
    Inventor: John M. Rogers
  • Patent number: 4706529
    Abstract: A clamping ring for use in pipe joints has an inside surface which is formed with generally peripherally extending indentations for axially fixing a pipe. In order to prevent an occurrence of dangerous stress concentrations in pipes in contact with such clamping rings and to permit such rings to be manufactured economically, the clamping ring is formed on its inside surface with a multiplicity of generally peripherally extending indentations, each of which extends only along part of the periphery of said inside surface, and said indentations are offset from each other in said peripheral directions and adjoint or overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1987
    Assignee: E. Hawle & Co.
    Inventor: Erwin Hawle
  • Patent number: 4546531
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a set of components for a machine tool including at least one elongated machine bed and one spindle stock, with a drive motor, adjustably guided on the machine bed, with components connectible with the machine bed being held to the machine bed by a groove and spline guide running in the longitudinal direction of the bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1985
    Assignee: Maier & Co.
    Inventor: Josef Maleschew
  • Patent number: 4538945
    Abstract: In an apparatus for machining polygon profiles, comprising a workpiece spindle and a tool spindle (12) driven in synchronism therewith and carrying an eccentric tool (22), wherein the transmission ratio between the workpiece spindle and the tool spindle as well as the lateral distance therebetween are adjustable, the invention provides for additional adjustment of the eccentricity of the tool. This permits one and the same tool to be employed for pre-cutting various polygon profiles of any standard nominal size in a rational manner and with close approach to the final profile shape. The cutting speed is increased by providing a disk-shaped counterweight (21) with adjustable eccentricity located on the tool spindle adjacent the tool. A common adjustment means (18, 24 to 27) is effective to automatically adjust the eccentricity of the counterweight in correspondence to the respective eccentricity of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1985
    Assignee: Krones Ag Hermann Kronseder Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Paul Godecke, Otto Meichel
  • Patent number: 4515191
    Abstract: A radial universal tool which is designed to perform the functions of a tablesaw, wood lathe, metal lathe, drill press, horizontal boring machine, milling machine and disc sander, which includes a light-weight frame having a pivoting end member and a non-pivoting end member at opposite ends, a top, middle and bottom way system in cooperation with a radial head stock, a radial tail stock, a tilt table and a cross slide vise. In a preferred embodiment the universal tool frame is fitted with wheels at one end to facilitate ease of mobility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1985
    Inventor: James R. Fetty