Turret Patents (Class 451/149)
  • Patent number: 9114497
    Abstract: A device for fine-machining a peripheral workpiece surface which is arranged eccentrically in relation to a workpiece axis of a workpiece, in particular of a pin bearing of a crankshaft, includes a rotary drive device for rotatably driving the workpiece about the workpiece axis, a pressing device for pressing a fine-machining tool against the peripheral workpiece surface, and a bearing device for supporting the pressing device on a frame. The device further includes a force application device which applies deceleration and/or acceleration forces on a bearing member of the bearing device, with the bearing member moving back and forth between two reversal positions when the workpiece rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: SUPFINA GRIESHABER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Oliver Hildebrandt, Christoph Weber
  • Patent number: 8789444
    Abstract: A method of producing an endodontic file that involves grinding in a plane substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of a rotating dental instrument blank. By grinding the dental instrument blank in this manner, the torsional strength of the resulting endodontic file is not eroded during its production, thereby providing a file that is less susceptible to breakage during its use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventor: William B. Johnson
  • Patent number: 8413330
    Abstract: A method of producing an endodontic file that involves grinding in a plane substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of a rotating dental instrument blank. By grinding the dental instrument blank in this manner, the torsional strength of the resulting endodontic file is not eroded during its production, thereby providing a file that is less susceptible to breakage during its use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Inventor: William B. Johnson
  • Patent number: 5868602
    Abstract: The invention is based on the method for the resharpening of knives used in size-reduction machines described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,525,094 in which the knives remain installed in a rotatable knife carrier. With this invention the process has been further developed in so far as the cutting edges S are ground one after another respectively at one stop position of the knife carrier 8 in which the radial ray MS of the cutting circle with the direction mS of the grinding feed v at the knife cutting edges S encloses the clearance angle .phi.. So the invention offers the possibility to choose for the cutting edges any clearance angle matching the properties of the material to be flaked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Inventor: Wilhelm Pallman
  • Patent number: 5630748
    Abstract: The apparatus, especially a grinding machine, comprises a frame (14) on which two working planes (A, B) are used, at least two oscillating elements (11, 12) disposed on one of the planes and each including at least one tool device (15, 16), at least one further tool device disposed on the other plane, and at least one means for generating oscillating motion (20) whereby a reciprocating movement can be generated at the level of each of the oscillating elements, so that the resultant of the vectors representing the dynamic forces associated with the movement of each of the oscillating elements is substantially equal to zero. There is then little or no induced vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1997
    Assignee: Voumard Machines Co., S.A.
    Inventor: Maurice Guenin
  • Patent number: 5525094
    Abstract: A method of resharpening the knives in a chipping machine while they are installed in the knives' rotor is disclosed. For this purpose all knives are moved forward one after another to their functional position by an amount that corresponds to the wear of the edges. As part of this, the radial grinding feed which is required in order to achieve the desired protrusion of the edges above the relevant area of the knives' rotor is pre-programmed based on the detected state of wear. A device to implement this method is also disclosed. The device comprises a rotational disk for the knife rotor placed on top of a machine frame and where an equipment table is provided that supports a cross-wise translatory moveable grinding unit, as well as a radially moveable adjustment device which has a sensor to determine the state of wear of the relevant area of the knife rotor 8 and a stop face to limit the knife feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignee: Pallmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wilhelm Pallmann