Abstract: A service apparatus for use in maintaining a machine including a stator and a rotor is provided. The service apparatus includes a carriage assembly configured to couple to the rotor. The service apparatus is selectively transitionable between a stowed position in which the service apparatus is rotatable with the rotor and an extended position in which the service apparatus is extended toward the stator. The service apparatus also includes at least one maintenance device coupled to the carriage assembly. The at least one maintenance device is operable to perform a maintenance operation on a surface of the stator with the service apparatus in the extended position.

Abstract: An electric oscillating tool has an electric motor having an output shaft, an eccentric shaft that is connected to one end region of the output shaft, and a weight that is connected to the other end region of the output shaft. A blade as a tool accessory is driven to reciprocally rotate around a spindle by reciprocating motion of the eccentric shaft in a transverse direction of the electric oscillating tool. The weight is driven to cancel out the inertial force of the eccentric shaft, so that the output shaft is stably rotated.

Abstract: An ophthalmic lens processing apparatus is provided that includes a housing, a support structure, and ophthalmic lens processing components configured to perform an ophthalmic process on an ophthalmic lens. The housing includes a case and a user access member. The support structure includes a support plate received within and movably connected to the case. At least one of the ophthalmic lens processing components is mounted to and movable with the support plate. Also provided is a method of improving user accessibility to the at least one ophthalmic lens processing components of the ophthalmic lens processing apparatus.

Abstract: A sanding tool is adapted to be attached to an existing wood board molding machine. The sanding tool provides a rotating sanding drum which removes imperfections from the profile of the molding as it exits the molding machine. The sanding drum is height adjustable and is powered by an electric motor.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a railroad track tool apparatus. The apparatus comprises a tool configured to perform an operation to the rail of the railroad track, a clamp assembly, and a coupling. The clamp assembly is moveable between a clamped position and an unclamped position to removably couple the tool with the rail. The clamp assembly is moveable along the rail. The coupling is configured to couple the tool to the clamp assembly. The coupling comprises a pivot, a linkage assembly comprising an arm coupled to the pivot, and a head coupled to the linkage assembly. The coupling is configured such that the tool is moveable between an inner side and an outer side of the rail, rotatable toward and away from the inner side or the outer side of the rail, and rotatable toward and away from an underside of the rail.

Abstract: An oscillation tool includes a grip-portion housing and a front-side housing which are fitted to each other so as to freely slide on each other. In the case that a driving unit and an oscillating unit are distanced from each other, the oscillating shaft is oscillated at a narrow amplitude. On the other hand, in a case that the driving unit and the oscillating unit are approached by each other, the oscillating shaft is oscillated at a wide amplitude.

Abstract: A device has a work piece spindle for accommodating a bevel gear work piece, a tool spindle for accommodating a grinding wheel having an abrasive surface, and a plurality of drives for machining the bevel gear work piece. During machining of the bevel gear work piece, the grinding wheel rotates about the rotational axis of the tool spindle and engages the bevel gear work piece to remove material. The rotation is superimposed with an eccentric movement such that the grinding wheel only engages the bevel gear work piece at n contact regions of the abrasive surface. The device is configured to allow adjustment of the eccentric movement after a first machining phase and to specify m contact regions of the abrasive surface in a further machining pase, wherein the m contact regions do not overlap with the n contact regions.

Abstract: Automated polishing systems include a polisher for polishing the coating on the article and a robotic positioner for moving the polisher relative to the article on an automated path, wherein the polisher polishes at least a part of the coating during movement, a force feedback sensor for determining a force of the polisher against the article during polishing, and a controller for maintaining the polisher within a predetermined force range against the article based at least in part on the force determined by the force feedback sensor.

Abstract: A sampling device for removing a surface portion from a substrate. The device includes a frame structure and a cutter head assembly. The cutter head assembly includes a pivot body having a first end supported at a pivot point on the frame structure, and a cutter supported for rotation about a rotational axis at a second end of the pivot body. The cutter has a semi-ellipsoidal shape and a drive motor is operably connected to the cutter. The pivot point is located in spaced relation to the rotational axis. The cutter is operable to cut a surface portion of a substrate during pivotal movement about the pivot point.

Abstract: An inner surface grinding tool is provided with a plurality of machining units for simultaneously machining inner surfaces of a plurality of portions of a workpiece. The plurality of machining units respectively include expanding and contracting mechanisms and grinding blade portions. In the respective machining units, outer diameters of the respective grinding blade portions are capable of individually expanding and contracting by the respective expanding and contracting mechanisms.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tool for machining hard materials such as metal-matrix or organic-matrix composite materials, comprising a cylindrical sonotrode (22) connected, along the axis (A) of said cylinder, to an assembly vibrating at a predetermined ultrasonic frequency and rotated about said axis, and at least one nozzle (3), on the surface to be machined and at the terminal end (24) of the sonotrode, for ejecting a liquid in which abrasive particles are suspended, said particles being vibrated at said ultrasonic frequency by the sonotrode so as to form a drilling head along the axis (A) of the cylinder, characterized in that the circumference (23) of the sonotrode is covered with particles of a so-called superhard material in order to form a milling head capable of moving in a plane that is substantially perpendicular to said vibratory axis (A).

Abstract: An assembly is provided for cropping the trailing edge tip of a stator zero blade in-situ. The cropping assembly includes a base plate that is secured to the end of the compressor stator blade to be cropped; a removable, rotational guide block; and a drill that is mounted to the guide block and rotatable relative to the base plate to crop the trailing edge tip of a stator blade.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor substrate which can be easily produced with high productivity and prevents the occurrence of image defects, and which has fine grooves formed in the surface thereof and is characterized in that the grooves are curved and discontinuous when the substrate surface is developed on a plane.

Abstract: A sanding or polishing or grinding machine includes one or more sanding wheels supported on a machine base and movable up and down relative to the machine base for grinding the work pieces of different heights or thicknesses. A driving device may be used for driving the sanding wheels to move horizontally relative to the machine base for allowing the work pieces to be suitably sanded or ground by the sanding wheels. The sanding wheels are preferably disposed at different angular position relative to the machine base, for suitably sanding or grinding the work pieces in different angular positions.

Abstract: A method and system for making glass sheets is provided. At least one grinding wheel is provided for grinding a lateral edge of a glass sheet. An airbag and corresponding air pressure regulator are provided for biasing the grinding wheel against the lateral edge of the glass sheet being ground. In certain example embodiments, the airbag is advantageous in that it permits the grinding wheel to be biased against the lateral edge of the glass sheet with a substantially constant pressure, where this pressure does not substantially fluctuate due to small changes in the location of the edge of the passing glass.

Abstract: A polishing tool that includes: an arbor with a shank having a first cylindrical axis; an offset cylinder extending from the shank, the offset cylinder having a second cylindrical axis, the first cylindrical axis being offset from the second cylindrical axis and parallel thereto, the offset cylinder terminating at a distal end thereof with a support surface that is angled in a range of from about 1° to about 20° from perpendicular to the first and second cylindrical axes; and a toroidal polishing head supported on the support surface, rotation of the shank causing an oscillating rotational movement of the toroidal polishing head.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an anti-vibration arrangement (10) for a power sander (1) which comprises a housing (2), a motor (4) arranged in the housing (2), a rotary drive shaft (11), a first outer or ring-shaped pad surface (16) for attaching a first sanding paper (8) and a second inner or circular pad surface (22) for attaching a second sanding paper (9). The anti-vibration arrangement (10) serves to transfer energy from the motor (4) to the pads (16, 22) with out-of-phase motions to dynamically compensate for inertial and friction forces. For this purpose, twin cams (18a, 18b) are fixed on the rotary drive shaft (11). The cams (18a, 18b) rotate the central axes (15, 21) of the pads (16, 22) about the rotary drive shaft axis (12) with a phase differential of typically 180°.

Abstract: In a coarse honing step in a section (101), a honing head (15) provided with coarse honing hones (17) is inserted into a cylinder bore (13) of a cylinder block (11), the honing head 15 is rotated while axially moving it, and the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder bore (13) is thereby ground. In the next idling step in a section (102), the cylinder block (11) is left as it is for (60) seconds to generate a springback (S). In a subsequent finishing honing step in a section (103), a honing head (21) provided with finishing honing hones (19) is inserted into the cylinder bore (13), the honing head (21) is rotated in a reverse direction to a rotational direction in the coarse honing step while axially moving it, and the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder bore (13) is thereby ground. Further, a coolant is supplied to the sections of the coarse honing step, the idling step, and the finishing honing step from coolant nozzles (23), (25), and (27), respectively, using a common coolant supply source (29).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rippled edge beveler comprising a wheelhead feeding mechanism having an upper planker and a grinding wheel, wherein the upper planker 2 is connected to the middle planker which is connected to the lower planker fixed on the grinding wheel beam. A drive motor is joined to the lower part of the grinding wheel beam, the drive motor connected to a driving gear which engages the middle gear. The spin axis is connected to the middle gear. Several driven gears are joined to the middle of the spin axis. The driven gears are connected to the input end of the worm screw decelerator, whose output end is connected to the vertical shaft, whose end is connected to the middle planker. The present structure is reliable to use, convenient and easy to install and pleasing to the eye.

Abstract: A grinding machine uses a conical grinding wheel (10) to create a non-circularly symmetric surface (defining, for example, a re-entrant cam) on a workpiece. The machine is operable to rotate such a workpiece about a first axis (5) and the machine has drive means for rotating the conical wheel about a second axis (14). A feeding mechanism brings the wheel into contact with the workpiece to define a line of grinding where the wheel contacts the workpiece (i.e. a cutting line). In use, a rocking movement is imparted to the wheel and spindle relative to the workpiece as the latter rotates so as to maintain the orientation of the cutting line relative to the first axis and of the second axis relative to the cutting line.

Abstract: Apparatus for removing material from a workpiece is described, in which the apparatus comprises means for advancing an abrasive tool towards the workpiece to bring an abrasive surface of the tool into contact with the surface of the workpiece, means for moving the abrasive surface relative to the workpiece to remove material from the workpiece, means for detecting a load applied to the tool by the workpiece, and means for controlling the rate of advancement of the abrasive tool towards the workpiece depending on the magnitude of the detected load.

Abstract: In a method of grinding side end surfaces of substrates, spacers are interposed between the substrates to form a stack of the substrates and the spacers. The spacers are slightly smaller in size than the substrates. The stack of the substrates and the spacers are ground by a rotatable brush or pad on the side end surfaces of the substrates so as to smooth chamfered portions of the substrates together with the side end surfaces.

Abstract: An improved polishing apparatus having a dampening system to prevent fluctuations between the planar head polishing device and the circuit panel. The dampening system includes a load actuation arm having a hydraulic-pneumatic cylinder which is controlled by an connected dampening circuit.

Abstract: Apparatus for sharpening a razor blade with a motor actuated sharpening member mounted in a housing with a slot for receiving the razor head and a cradle assembly for engaging the distal end of the razor handle to hold the razor head in the slot. A carriage assembly holds the sharpening member opposite to the slot with its sharpening surface engaging the cutting edge of a razor blade secured in the razor head. A drive assembly driven by a motor operated by a timing circuit causes repetitive movement of the sharpening surface for a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: There are provided a shaft rotating around the shaft's center in a direction in which a blade rotates, and the blade fixed to the shaft and moving at a rate of movement, wherein the shaft's center rotates at a predetermined rate of rotation with a small radius of rotation rapidly, the rate of rotation being greater than the rate of movement. Thus the blade is pressed against and thus cuts a substrate and produces chips and the blade is disengaged from the substrate and the chips thus move in the direction in which the blade rotates and the chips are thus removed from between the cutting edge of the blade and the substrate. This can provide reduced working resistance and hence enhanced working efficiency and also prevent the blade surface from having significant frictional heat. Furthermore, the generated frictional heat can readily dissipate and the blade can thus have a long life.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rippled edge beveler comprising a wheelhead feeding mechanism having an upper planker and a grinding wheel, wherein the upper planker 2 is connected to the middle planker which is connected to the lower planker fixed on the grinding wheel beam. A drive motor is joined to the lower part of the grinding wheel beam, the drive motor connected to a driving gear which engages the middle gear. The spin axis is connected to the middle gear. Several driven gears are joined to the middle of the spin axis. The driven gears are connected to the input end of the worm screw decelerator, whose output end is connected to the vertical shaft, whose end is connected to the middle planker. The present structure is reliable to use, convenient and easy to install and pleasing to the eye.

Abstract: An edging unit applicable to machines for working the edges of plates, particularly of glass plates, comprising, at least one edge of a plate being worked, a first movable element and a second movable element which respectively support a first grinding wheel and a second grinding wheel. The movable elements are connected to actuators in order to respectively move the first grinding wheel so that it acts on the front edge of the plate being worked and the second grinding wheel so that it acts on the rear edge.

Abstract: An improved polishing apparatus having a dampening system to prevent fluctuations between the planar head polishing device and the circuit panel. The dampening system includes a load actuation arm having a hydraulic-pneumatic cylinder which is controlled by an connected dampening circuit.

Abstract: An improved polishing apparatus having a dampening system to prevent fluctuations between the planar head polishing device and the circuit panel. The dampening system includes a load actuation arm having a hydraulic-pneumatic cylinder which is controlled by an connected dampening circuit.

Abstract: In a roll grinding machine (2) for profile grinding of rolls with a constructionally simple device for a very precise adjustment of a grinding wheels (4) supported on a grinding spindle (7) tangentially with respect to a roll profile, the grinding spindle (7) is arranged in a rotatable sleeve (8) the longitudinal axis (9) of which is inclined at an angle (10) relative to the longitudinal axis (11) of the grinding spindle (7).

Abstract: A taper correcting apparatus for a grinding machine comprises: workpiece supporting means for supporting a workpiece in parallel with a grinding wheel spindle; a cutting and feeding device which moves back and forth a cylindrical grinding wheel with respect to said workpiece; a wheel slide which is attached to a bed so as to be movable back and forth with respect to said workpiece; a pair of grinding wheel bearing pedestals which rotatably support ends of said grinding wheel spindle via bearings with respect to said wheel slide, respectively; a first grinding wheel bearing pedestal support which is fixed to said wheel slide, and which clampingly supports one of said grinding wheel bearing pedestals; a second grinding wheel bearing pedestal support which is attached so as to be rotatable about a round shaft, and which clampingly supports another one of said grinding wheel bearing pedestals, said round shaft being attached below said grinding wheel spindle to said wheel slide in parallel with the center line of

Abstract: An oscillating belt sander or spindle sander is disclosed. The sander includes a motor shaft that extends upwardly through a worktable that supports a workpiece. The motor shaft supports a belt sander or spindle sander sanding surface. A combined motor and mechanical drive transmits rotational and reciprocating motion to the motor shaft which includes input and output motor shaft ends. The motor operates to impart rotational motion through the output motor shaft end while the mechanical drive is connected to the input motor shaft end and also imparts reciprocating motion through the output motor shaft end. The output motor shaft end facilitates interchangeable mounting of a spindle sander sleeve or a sanding belt. Thus, the sander is readily adaptable for conversion to a belt sander or spindle sander, as may be desired.

Abstract: In a hand-held orbital sander with a housing (12) and with a sanding tool (10) received in a tool holder (22), which is seated by means of a pivot bearing (21) on a rotating eccentric journal (20) protruding from the housing (12), an oscillating device (23), having an inner ring (26), an outer ring (27) and a formed part (28) made of elastic material connecting the two with each other is provided as a security against relative rotation, wherein the inner ring (26) is fastened on the tool holder (22) coaxially with the pivot bearing (21), and the outer ring (27) is maintained, fixed against relative totation, in the housing (12). The oscillating device (23) provides a symmetrical force distribution and makes it possible to set the torque of the tool holder (22) with the sanding tool (10) as needed in respect to the hardness or thickness of the elastic formed part (28) (FIG. 1).

Abstract: When a face portion of a CRT glass panel is polished by fixing the glass panel on a rotating table and pushing a rotating cylindrical drum type polishing tool, which is supported by a supporting frame, to the face portion, the supporting frame is swung around a pivotal point so as to swing the polishing tool along an arc line on the face portion of the glass panel, and the polishing tool is moved reciprocately in a horizontal direction in association with an angle of rotation of the glass panel. Therefore, the face portion is polished while the distance between the rotation axis of the polishing tool and the center of the glass panel is changed. Since deflection of wearing of the polishing tool is decreased, the service life is prolonged, and further efficiency of polishing is improved.

Abstract: A circular grinding machine wherein a reciprocable carriage supports a first rotary tool spindle for a relatively large grinding wheel and the housing including the bearing for the first spindle mounts a carrier which is pivotable about the axis of the first spindle by a fluid-operated motor and supports a second tool spindle for a relatively small grinding wheel. The carriage can be advanced to a first position to move the relatively large grinding wheel into coarse material removing contact with a rotary workpiece (such as a camshaft), and the carriage is thereupon retracted to a second position in which the carrier can be pivoted about the axis of the first spindle to move the relatively small grinding wheel into precision-finishing engagement with the pretreated workpiece.

Abstract: A surface finishing apparatus for in-line outer surface finishing of elongate cylindrical stock. The stock, such as tubing, is fed through the finishing apparatus from an infeed to an outfeed position and rotated about its longitudinal axis. The outer surface of the stock is finish treated as the stock is fed through the apparatus. The finishing apparatus includes a rotatable finishing wheel having a finish-treating peripheral surface for being applied in an in-line orientation against the outer surface of the stock as the stock is simultaneously fed and rotated through the finishing apparatus. The wheel is mounted on an axis of rotation which is variable within a predetermined range of motion from one side to the other of the longitudinal axis of the stock. The finishing wheel is oscillated back and forth within the predetermined range of motion while in continuous contact with the stock.

Abstract: A combined motor and mechanical drive that is used with an oscillating spindle sander is disclosed. The oscillating spindle sander has a worktable for supporting a workpiece. A spindle extends upwardly through the worktable and has a sanding surface. An electrical motor is supported by the worktable and includes a shaft for imparting rotational motion to the spindle. The mechanical drive is contained within a housing that is supported by the motor and is connected to the motor shaft for imparting reciprocal or axial motion in addition to rotary motion to the spindle. The mechanical drive includes a speed reducer that is coaxial with the motor shaft. The speed reducer drives a cam follower that engages a cam in the housing for imparting reciprocal motion to the spindle at a rate much less than the rotational speed imparted to the motor shaft by the motor. The speed reducer includes a cycloidal gear that engages a complementary ring gear provided in the housing.