Abstract: A center shaft machining apparatus includes: a grinding structure that moves on a machining central axis while rotating about the machining central axis and machines an end surface on one end side of a workpiece arranged on the machining central axis; an end portion support structure that supports an opposite end side of the workpiece; and a shaft portion support structure that supports a shaft support portion set at an intermediate portion of the workpiece. The end portion support structure includes an eccentric mechanism capable of supporting an opposite end of the workpiece in a state where a workpiece central axis of the workpiece is eccentric with respect to the machining central axis.

Abstract: Disclosed is a grinding wheel for online measurement of a grinding force, including a grinding wheel part with a grinding wheel base, CBN abrasive sheets and grinding wheel cover plate, and an acquisition part with tangential, axial, radial strain gauges and a signal unit for signal acquisition and transmission. A concave side end face of the grinding wheel base is provided with a signal unit mounting groove, the grinding wheel cover plate is sealed with the concave side end face, and the CBN block abrasive sheets are bonded on an outer circumferential surface of the grinding wheel base; the tangential, axial and radial strain gauges are respectively arranged on the outer circumferential surface along tangential and axial directions and in the signal unit mounting groove along radial direction; signal output ends of the tangential, axial and radial strain gauges are respectively connected with an input end of the signal unit.

Abstract: A loading device for a plunge-cut grinding machine for centerless external cylindrical grinding includes a receiving frame, a support body, and a displacement actuator. The receiving frame is open in a gravitational direction and is for receiving a blank workpiece to be machined. The support body forms a support base for the blank workpiece. The displacement actuator is for axially displacing the receiving frame relative to the support body and into a grinding gap of the plunge-cut grinding machine. The receiving frame includes a conveying stop on an axially facing end face. The conveying stop is for axially expelling a final workpiece arranged in the grinding gap.

Abstract: A machining apparatus has a vertical support frame defining two machining stations spaced apart in a direction, holders in the stations for rotating respective workpieces each about a respective station axis, and a transfer device for loading rough workpieces into the holders and for taking finished workpieces out of the holders. A single machining tool can be shifted in the direction between one position engaging the workpiece in one of the stations and out of engagement with the workpiece in the other of the stations and another position engaging the workpiece in the other station and out of engagement with the workpiece in the one station.

Abstract: A device for grinding spinning cots has a rotating grinding roller and a carriage that is linearly movable relative to the grinding roller. A pivot arm is pivotably supported on the carriage and movable between a loading position and a grinding position. A workpiece receptacle is mounted on the pivot arm and adapted to receive a spinning cot to be ground. A feed device is provided that is actuatable in accordance with progression of a grinding process performed on the spinning cot toward a grinding surface of the grinding roller. The pivot arm is moveable by the feed device relative to the carriage. A device is provided that is actuatable independent of the feed device for manual adjustment of the carriage into a desired linear position relative to the grinding roller.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hard finishing machine (1). The machine has one tool (4) which is arranged on a tool spindle (3) and a rotary table (5) with an axis of rotation (6) which is aligned vertically, and a workpiece spindle (7) arranged on the rotary table (5) which carries the workpiece (2). To increase the flexibility of the machine, the rotary table (5) has a first rotational position (1) in which the workpiece (2) can be machined by the tool (4), a second rotational position (II) where the workpiece is loaded on the workpiece spindle (7) at a first station (8), and a third rotational position (III) where the workpiece is unloaded at a second station (9).

Abstract: Method and apparatus for positioning a workpiece in a spindle of a machine tool and/or removing a workpiece from the spindle. The machine spindle includes an axis of rotation and the workpiece includes a centerline extending between a first end surface and a second end surface. A mechanism is provided for grasping the workpiece, preferably on its centers, in a position proximate the spindle whereby the workpiece centerline is coincident with the axis of rotation of the spindle. The spindle is moved relative to the workpiece in the direction of the axis of rotation whereby the workpiece is inserted into the spindle or removed from the spindle.

Abstract: A grinding machine, in particular a centerless cylindrical grinding machine, comprising: a supporting table, at least one wheel disposed on at least one wheel carriage, a device for holding a workpiece to be machined, the wheel carriage being movable in each case in a controlled way toward the holding device for the workpiece to be machined and away therefrom, and at least one dressing device. For dressing, the respective dressing device and the corresponding wheel are adjusted relative to one another in a controlled way. The dressing device is disposed on a carriage which is movable along a first axis aligned substantially parallel to the rotational axis of the respective wheel. During the moving of the dressing device along the first axis, a stationary guide way determines a reference position of the dressing device with respect to the wheel to be dressed in orthogonal direction to the first axis.

Abstract: This invention is related to a steady rest, which employs a pair of parallel, sliding, linear moving clamping bars for moving wear pads or rollers toward a workpiece.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing wire or needles having a taper point and mechanically drilled suture mounting holes in the proximal ends. Needle or wire blanks are cut from a roll of wire and mounted to a carrier strip. The carrier strip and needles are moved through a succession of forming and trimming and grinding stations. The blanks are coined in a coining die to produce lateral wings of constant thickness. The blanks are preferably rotated in the strip while being ground. The strip and needle blanks are then moved to a bank of at least two drills wherein the proximal suture mounting ends of the needles are drilled.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing wire or needles having a taper point. Needle or wire blanks are cut from a roll of wire and mounted to a carrier strip. The carrier strip and needles are moved through a succession of forming and trimming and grinding stations. The blanks are preferably rotated in the strip while being ground.

Abstract: A retrofit kit for the regulating wheel drive of a centerless grinder. The kit includes a controller, an electric motor controlled by the controller, a cycloidal speed reducer driven by the electric motor, a belt sprocket provided on the output shaft of the speed reducer, a further belt sprocket carried by the spindle of the regulating wheel, and a toothed belt for engagement with the belt sprockets. The retrofit kit is installed by removing a cover plate on the housing of the grinder to expose an access opening, disabling the existing regulating wheel drive system by removing idler sprockets and drive chains, mounting a new belt sprocket on the regulating wheel spindle, positioning the gear motor on the housing proximate the exposed access opening with the gear reducer extending through the opening into the interior of the housing to position the speed reducer belt sprocket within the housing, and training the toothed belt around the speed reducer sprocket and the spindle sprocket.

Abstract: A rod-shaped workpiece W is supported at its circumferential surface by a shoe 14 and a pair of rolls 16 and 17, and is rotated by the rolls 16 and 17. The rod-shaped workpiece W is ground by being abut against a backing plate 19 at its one end by the rotation of the rolls 16 and 17, and put in abrasive contact with a sectionally arch-shaped groove-like circumferential surface 20b of a grinding wheel 20 at its other end surface. A floating plate 37 is provided so that a slight gap takes place is in a guide hole 42 of a housing 36. A sphere 39 supported by a support member 38 is provided in a retaining recess 47 on a rear end surface of the floating plate 37, and the floating plate 37 is swingably supported.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing wire or needles having a taper point. Needle or wire blanks are cut from a roll of wire and mounted to a carrier strip. The carrier strip and needles are moved through a succession of forming and trimming and grinding stations. The blanks are preferably rotated in the strip while being ground.

Abstract: A grinding wheel is fixedly supported on a machine bed by bearings at each end of the wheel with a friction bearing slide mounted on a swivel plate mounted on the machine bed for movement toward and away from the grinding wheel. A headstock mounted to the slide rotates a cantilevered grinding arbor such that the slide is moved toward the grinding wheel for simultaneously grinding multiple sleeves axially received on the arbor. Sleeves are automatically handled by a first arbor mounted to a sleeve conveyor trolley for unfinished sleeves and a second arbor also mounted to the trolley for finished sleeves. The trolley is operated to deposit finished sleeves and pick up unfinished sleeves on one side of the system, and to pick up finished sleeves and position unfinished sleeves for grinding on the other side of the system. Finished sleeves are deposited onto a pivotally mounted finished sleeve receiving arbor when the arbor is pivoted to a first position.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing wire or needles having a taper point. Needle or wire blanks are cut from a roll of wire and mounted to a carrier strip. The carrier strip and needles are moved through a succession of forming and trimming and grinding stations. The blanks are preferably rotated in the strip while being ground.