Combined With Means To Apply Fluid Patents (Class 82/50)
  • Patent number: 11724270
    Abstract: In order to provide an aerosol device (100) that makes it possible to provide an aerosol having an optimised composition, in particular optimised droplet size distribution, it is proposed that the aerosol device (100) should include the following: an aerosol casing (102); one or more aerosol nozzles (104) for generating an aerosol stream from a carrier gas and a liquid, wherein the one or more aerosol nozzles (104) are directed into an interior (106) of the aerosol casing (102) and/or are arranged in the aerosol casing (102); one or more carrier duct connection points (156) for connecting one or more carrier ducts (158), by means of which the aerosol is guidable away from the interior (106) of the aerosol casing (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Dropsa BM Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Reiner Haas
  • Patent number: 8881352
    Abstract: A machining device for machining crankshafts has a rotationally driven disk-shaped base body with blade inserts arranged peripherally thereon. A first supply line for a cryogenic cooling medium is arranged concentrically with the axis of rotation and is thermally insulated in at least some sections. The tool has a plurality of second supply lines for the cryogenic cooling medium running across the axis of rotation and leading to the blade inserts, the second supply lines each being thermally insulated in at least some sections. A distributor unit connects the first supply line to at least one of the second supply lines for supplying the cryogenic cooling medium to at least one of the blade inserts. The cryogenic cooling medium can be conducted directly to the blade inserts which are engaged with the crankshaft that is to be machined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Inventors: Moshe Israel Meidar, Wolfgang Horn, Heiner Lang, Holger H. Kolb, Paul Dieter Scharpf
  • Patent number: 8826786
    Abstract: A cutting tool has an internal cutting tool fluid delivery system. The cutting tool has a tool body and a fluid delivery head coupled thereto by a solid coupling member with a continuous male thread. The tool body includes a body coupling bore and the head includes a head coupling bore which communicates with the body coupling bore. At least one of the body and head coupling bores includes a circumferentially interrupted female thread which has a longitudinal thread axis and a radial outer thread boundary. The or each coupling bore having the female thread includes a thread passage which extends along the thread axis. In an axial cross section of the female thread, the thread passage extends both inside and outside the radial outer thread boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Leonid Amstibovitsky
  • Patent number: 8820199
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for discharging a temperature-controlled flow of a resultant fluid (32) containing a throttling gas and cryogenic fluid onto a material (14) for the purpose of maintaining the temperature of the material within a desired temperature range and below the glass transition temperature of the material during machining. Also disclosed is an apparatus and method for deburring or deflashing a machined material by discharging a temperature-controlled flow of a resultant fluid (132) onto a machined material (114) to harden the burrs (134a), then brushing the material (114) to remove the hardened burrs (143a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Ranajit Ghosh, Jeffrey Alan Knopf, Daniel James Gibson, Thomas Mebrahtu, Kevin John Giardiniere
  • Publication number: 20140190321
    Abstract: Pipe machining apparatuses and methods of operating are provided. In one aspect, a pipe machining apparatus includes an advancement mechanism coupled to a frame and adapted to move relative to the frame between a first position, in which the advancement mechanism is in a travel path of an advancement member and is adapted to be engaged by the advancement member to advance a tool, and a second position, in which the advancement mechanism is positioned out of the travel path of the advancement member and is not adapted to be engaged by the advancement member. In another aspect, a pipe machining apparatus includes multiple motors and pinion gears engaged with a gear rack of a tool carrier. In a further aspect, a pipe machining apparatus includes a race wiper. In yet another aspect, a pipe machining apparatus includes a race lubrication member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Pierce, Michael W. Gearhart
  • Patent number: 8677584
    Abstract: To provide a coolant supply structure for a turret tool rest in which the central part of the intermediate shaft can be utilized effectively as a space and there is no need to allow this shaft to be hollow when a shaft such as a driving shaft is inserted. In a coolant supply structure for a turret tool rest to supply a coolant to a tool mounting part of a turret 12, which is provided in a turret tool rest 1 having a turret 12 with a tool T being mounted thereon, a hollow rotating shaft 15 for rotating the turret 12 and a hollow intermediate shaft 19 arranged within the rotating shaft 15, wherein the coolant supply structure has a cylindrical member 23 inserted into the intermediate shaft 19, and a space served as a passage 24 of the coolant is formed between the cylindrical member 23 and the intermediate shaft 19.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Citizen Machinery Miyano Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Aoyagi
  • Patent number: 8621964
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a tool body having a plurality of pockets for receiving cutting inserts. Each pocket includes a bottom support surface, an axial support surface, a radial support surface and a corner relief between the bottom support surface and the radial support surface. A non-circular recess is formed proximate the pocket, and a coolant passage is disposed within the recess. The recess reduces a tensile stress of the cutting tool during a machining operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Ruy Frota de Souza Filho, Mark Alan Francis
  • Patent number: 8573098
    Abstract: A cutting tool has a cutter body, which carries a cutting insert, and an adapter, which has a longitudinal adapter axis, wherein a locking screw attaches the cutter body to the adapter. A coolant volume is defined in a vicinity of a meeting of the cutter body, the adapter and the locking screw. The adapter contains an axial adapter bore. The locking screw contains a transverse locking screw bore in fluid communication with the axial adapter bore. The locking screw further contains a peripheral transverse locking screw bore passage in fluid communication with the coolant volume and the transverse locking screw bore. The coolant volume and the transverse locking screw bore are in fluid communication with the cutter body coolant passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Brad D Hoffer, Ruy Frota De Souza Filho, Thomas J Long, II, Kevin M Gamble, James M Waggle
  • Patent number: 8342066
    Abstract: The cutting tool for machining an inner surface of a hole is provided with a cutting tool main body extending in the shape of a shaft, a cutting edge portion mounted on a head portion of the cutting tool main body so as to radially-outwardly protrude with respect to the center axis of the cutting tool main body, and a coolant hole formed at the cutting tool main body so as to have an opening at a position apart from the cutting edge portion on a circumferential surface of the head portion of the cutting tool main body, thereby flushing out a coolant from the opening to an axially orthogonal plane orthogonal to the center axis and also along a protruding direction at which the cutting edge portion protrudes. The opening of the coolant hole faces a direction different from the protruding direction of the cutting edge portion in the radial direction with respect to the center axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Shoichiro Watanabe, Hidehiko Nagaya, Norio Aso, Yasuharu Imai
  • Patent number: 8161851
    Abstract: A method and device for trimming components may include mounting a component in a fixture and providing a cutting tool having a cutting portion, wherein the cutting tool is displaceable in at least three axes relative to the fixture. Gas may be supplied through a supply tube to the cutting portion of the cutting tool and the supply tube may be cooled to a first temperature. The component may be cut with the cutting tool while supplying gas to the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Ceradyne, Inc.
    Inventors: Vasilios Brachos, Vincent Borbone, Paul Crowther
  • Patent number: 8074542
    Abstract: A configurable tooling block for a CNC turret lathe holds a plurality of tools at a single index position of the turret. The tooling block includes a main body, a mounting flange, and a coolant manifold removably mounted on the main body on either a first side face or a second side face of the main body. The main body has a plurality of tool-receiving openings, at least one of which is a rectangular opening for receiving an OD tool. The manifold may be provided with individually operable valves for controlling coolant flow to output ports associated with the tool-receiving opening, and may be made of a material that is lighter than the material used to form the main body to reduce overall weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: KZ Precision Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Zwara, Jerome P. Zwara, Shawn M. Szczygiel
  • Patent number: 7938048
    Abstract: A basic body for tools for chip removing machining, including an internal duct, and an inlet including a female thread for the supply of liquid to the duct. The female thread of the inlet is formed in a cage, which is inserted in a seating delimited by an endless inner wall as well as a bottom, the duct mouthing in the seating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventor: Leif Nyström
  • Patent number: 7931425
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a body having a forward end and a rearward end. The forward end includes an insert-receiving pocket. The body further includes a coolant delivery system comprising a main coolant passage having a main coolant inlet extending from the rearward end toward the forward end, a primary coolant passage in fluid communication with the main coolant passage and having a primary coolant outlet exiting from the insert-receiving pocket, and a secondary coolant passage in fluid communication with the primary coolant passage and having a secondary coolant outlet exiting into the insert-receiving pocket. The primary coolant outlet intersects the secondary coolant outlet to form an outlet having a substantially non-circular shape. As a result, the coolant fluid exiting the outlet is in a fan-like pattern and is evenly distributed over the cutting edge of the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Glenn Morrison, Srikanth Bontha
  • Publication number: 20110048183
    Abstract: A machining process and apparatus capable of increasing removal rates achievable when machining titanium and its alloys. The process includes heating a portion of a workpiece with a laser beam, cryogenically cooling a cutting tool with a cryogenic fluid without flowing the cryogenic fluid onto the workpiece, and machining the heated portion of the workpiece with the cutting tool. The apparatus includes a cutting tool, a device for heating a portion of a workpiece with a laser beam prior to being machined with the cutting tool, and a device for cryogenically cooling the cutting tool with a cryogenic fluid without flowing the cryogenic fluid onto the workpiece. The cryogenic fluid is circulated around the cutting tool to achieve a temperature differential between the workpiece and the cutting tool that is capable of improving removal rates and extending tool life at cutting speeds of, for example, above 100 m/min.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventor: Yung C. Shin
  • Patent number: 7878096
    Abstract: A variable position nozzle assembly for a milling or grinding machine where a nozzle is positioned to target coolant to the cutting area of a chosen tool. Each tool may have a different length or cutting or grinding surface width. The CNC program that directs tool motion and tool changes, re-aims the variable position nozzle assembly based on a chosen tool and the dynamic position of the tool as it traverses a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Anton G. Banks
  • Patent number: 7823487
    Abstract: A cutting tool for machining by chip removal has a supply of a cold-gas flow for cooling the immediate machine-cutting region. Accordingly, in this case, the cold-gas flow is supplied internally and is generated by a low-temperature generator, which is integrated into the tool main body and which, via a vortex tube, converts compressed gas from normal temperature into a cold-gas flow and a warm-gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft M.B.H.
    Inventor: Michael Steiner
  • Patent number: 7762166
    Abstract: A coolant fluid supplying tool post is mounted to a machining system for machine controlled movement and has an internal coolant passage system, a coolant fluid inlet, a coolant fluid outlet and a first dove-tail mount. A multiple machine tool support block has a second dove-tail mount is in supported engagement with the first dove-tail mount. A plurality of machine tool receptacles are defined in the multiple machine tool support block and each is adapted for support of a machine tool therein. Tool retainer members are carried by the multiple machine tool support block for each of the machine tool receptacles and has retaining engagement with a machine tool located within a machine tool receptacle. Coolant passages within the multiple machine tool support block have a coolant supply inlet in fluid communication with the coolant fluid outlet of the coolant fluid supplying tool post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Inventor: Enrico R. Giannetti
  • Patent number: 7641422
    Abstract: A cutting tool for parting and grooving operations of the kind including a coupling part, which is intended for mounting the cutting tool in a machine tool, and a tool head detachably connected to the coupling part. The tool head includes a basic holder part and, joined to the basic holder part, a blade part, in front portion of which an insert pocket is formed, in which a cutting insert is fastenable. The cutting tool also includes means for supplying cooling agent to the cutting insert. The cooling agent supplying means includes a tube member, which is mounted in a recess, which is transverse to the longitudinal direction of the blade part and arranged in the tool head. The tube member has an inlet for connection to a cooling agent source and an outlet for leading the cooling agent in a direction towards the cutting insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Erik Berminge, Per Hansson
  • Publication number: 20090320655
    Abstract: A machining tool is provided having an insert that includes one or more interface surfaces configured to interact with a workpiece. The machining tool also has one or more distribution passages located within the insert. The one or more distribution passages are situated and sized to direct a fluid to the one or more interface surfaces while maintaining the fluid above a pressure at which the fluid exists in a supercritical state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventor: Marion Billingsley Grant
  • Patent number: 7637187
    Abstract: A cryogenic fluid jet is used in an apparatus and a method for remote cooling of a cutting tool engaged in machining a workpiece under high-energy conditions, such as high-speed machining, hard-turning, cutting of difficult to machine materials, and combinations thereof. The apparatus and method use a stabilized, free-expanding cryogenic fluid jet having a pulse cycle time less than or equal to about 10 seconds. The apparatus and method increase the cleanliness of machined parts and chips and machining productivity of hard but brittle tools, including but not limited to tools which should not be cooled with conventional cooling fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Zbigniew Zurecki, Robert Bruce Swan, John Herbert Frey, George Matthew Harriott, Xiaoguang Zhang
  • Patent number: 7441484
    Abstract: A method for pre-scribing a workpiece to facilitate chip breaking when machining the workpiece on the same machine with the same tooling used for cutting, utilizing an invokable CNC cycle of the CNC machine completing the workpiece machining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Eric R. Larsen, Marion B. Grant, Jr., Michael P. Vogler
  • Patent number: 7252024
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus or machining a workpiece include the use of a cryogenically cooled oxide containing ceramic cutting tool. The method involves cryogenic cooling of the cutting tool during a cutting operation, which cooling results in enhanced wear resistance and fracture resistance of the cutting tool. A preferred embodiment involves jetting a cryogenic fluid directly at the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Zbigniew Zurecki, Robert Bruce Swan, Bruce Edward Snyder, John Herbert Frey, Philip Burton Jewell, Jr., Ranajit Ghosh, James Bryan Taylor
  • Patent number: 6769335
    Abstract: A method for cuffing or hard turning the surface of a workpiece comprising using a cutting tool in which a cooling fluid is supplied to the cutting area by means of at least one jet nozzle. The cooling fluid is supplied as a jet with high pressure leaving the jet nozzle with a pressure above 60 bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: SKFSverige AB
    Inventor: Jacek Kaminski
  • Patent number: 6708590
    Abstract: A cutting tool (2) includes a front part (5), which has a cutting insert (6), as well as a rear part (7), which is detachably mountable in a holder (3) in an appurtenant machine. The tool (2) comprises a plurality of nozzles (13), which have the purpose of spraying jets (4) of high pressure cooling liquid towards the cutting insert (6). Supply of cooling liquid to these nozzles is guaranteed via a duct system positioned inside the tool, which system includes an equally large number of mutually spaced-apart ducts as the number of nozzles, the nozzles being adjusted in order to direct the jets thereof towards different points of impact on one and the same cutting insert. In this connection, it is possible to close the individual ducts inside the tool individually in order to enable spraying of only one jet at a time towards the appurtenant point of impact on the cutting insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Sandvik Aktiebolag
    Inventor: Stig Lagerberg
  • Patent number: 6655245
    Abstract: A method of optimizing the functioning of a machining center for machining, at least one piece, by removal of material by means of at least one cutting tool. The machining center includes a certain number of different components including at least a structure, such as a frame, and at least one motor elements for producing actions of driving and displacement of at least the cutting tool and the piece. Further, the method includes an installation for lubricating and cooling the tool and the piece by means of a fluid, (i.e., lubricant) by determining at least one temperature value for the lubricant, at least empirically, referred to as the reference value, at which the machining center functions in a stable way, (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Tornos SA
    Inventor: Patrick Schuettel
  • Publication number: 20030161909
    Abstract: A cutting blade includes a connection portion for connection to a cutting head for rotating the blade, preferably in association with other blades being rotated with the cutting head. The blade body also includes a blade body portion with a leading edge with a cutting blade portion and an upper leading surface and lower leading surface extending from the leading edge to an upper transition zone and lower transition zone respectively. A upper trailing surface extends from the upper transition zone to a trailing edge and a lower trailing surface extends from the lower transition zone to the trailing edge. The upper and lower trailing surfaces converge such that the blade body portion is hydrodynamically shaped. According to a further embodiment, the cutting blade has a sickle shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventors: Judeth Brannon Corry, Cliff Knight
  • Patent number: 6609446
    Abstract: When a bonded substrate stack prepared by bonding a first substrate in which a single-crystal Si layer is formed on a porous layer, and an insulating layer is formed on the single-crystal Si layer to a second substrate is to be separated at the porous layer, serrate defects at the peripheral portion of the separated substrates are prevented. A fluid is ejected from an ejection nozzle (112) and injected into the porous layer of a bonded substrate stack (30) while rotating the bonded substrate stack (30) about an axis (C) in a direction (R), thereby separating the bonded substrate stack (30) into two substrates at the porous layer. When the peripheral portion of the bonded substrate stack (30) is to be separated, the ejection nozzle (112) is located within a range (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuaki Ohmi, Takao Yonehara, Kiyofumi Sakaguchi, Kazutaka Yanagita, Hirokazu Kurisu
  • Publication number: 20030145694
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method are disclosed for reducing a thickness of a thermomechanically-affected layer on an as-machined surface of a hard metal workpiece being machined by a hard cutting tool exerting a thermomechanical load on a surface of the workpiece. The method involves reducing the thermomechanical load on the surface of the workpiece, and the apparatus includes a means for reducing the thermomechanical load on the surface of the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2002
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Inventors: Zbigniew Zurecki, Ranajit Ghosh, John Herbert Frey, James Bryan Taylor
  • Publication number: 20030103819
    Abstract: A tool holder for machine tool capable of surely preventing the cutting fluid oil, fed into a passage through-hole (e) in a tool holder main body (1), from leaking the connection part between a cutter (10) and the tool holder during the machining of a workpiece; the cutter used in the tool holder; and a tool driver used in the tool holder; the tool holder for machine tool, comprising the passage through-hole (e) at the rotating center part (x) of the holder main body (1), allowing the cutter (10) having a cutting fluid path (e5) formed therein to be inserted into the front part of the passage through-hole (e), and being formed so that the cutter (10) is fixed by a fixing means (3) fitted to the tip of the holder main body (1), wherein a cylindrical female surface part for sealing (10b) is formed at the rear end part of the cutter (10), a cylindrical female surface part for sealing (e3a) allowing the cylindrical male surface part for sealing (10b) to be inserted closely therein is formed in the passage through
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Tadashi Makiyama
  • Patent number: 6564682
    Abstract: A cryogenic fluid distributor for turret machine tools (e.g., lathes) directs a stream of cryogenic fluid from an external, pressurized cryogen source to a working position of a machine tool to prevent overheating of the tool. Designed for easy retrofitting and synchronizing with multi-tool turret machines, the distributor allows for a “dual-fluid” machining capability combining a cryogenic fluid and a conventional cutting fluid (flowing via a conventional coolant system built into a given machine tool). Made of low thermal-mass, insulating polymer and metallic parts, the distributor utilizes the different thermal contraction coefficients of the parts to establish cryogenic sealing connections, which eliminates undesired turret plate cooling and assures rapid cryogen flow start-up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Zbigniew Zurecki, Michael David Buzinski, William T. Zaboy, Robert Ellsworth Knorr, Jr., Robert Bruce Swan, Xiaoguang Zhang, George Matthew Harriott
  • Patent number: 6551969
    Abstract: A cutting method in which a solution is sprayed or jetted to a machining portion when machining by use of a water-insoluble cutting oil, wherein recovered liquid is collected and stored in one recovery tank, and separated into the water-insoluble cutting oil and another solution on the basis of the specific gravity difference, and are re-used. Stable machining is enabled by using the water-insoluble cutting oil, and measures against disaster are fully taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Taiyu Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuo Kato
  • Patent number: 6543319
    Abstract: A tool for machining workpieces by removing material, the tool can be coupled to a tool holder. A storage chamber provided in the tool and/or in the tool holder accommodates a lubricant and/or coolant. A slide is displaceably introduced into the chamber. An actuator provided with the switching unit and can be coupled to the slide to move the slide to expel lubricant and/or coolant from the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Mapal Fabrik fur Prazisionswerkzeuge, Dr. Kress KG
    Inventors: Dieter Kress, Friedrich Häberle
  • Patent number: 6539827
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing chips from a workpiece on a lathe including a spindle with a through hole formed therein, a chuck having a through hole formed therein and affixed adjacent a forward end of the spindle, a cutting mechanism cooperative with the chuck so as to remove metal chips from a workpiece mounted on the chuck, and a coolant line connected to the cutting mechanism and directed generally toward the through hole of the chuck so as to drive metal chips through the through hole of the spindle and outwardly of a rear end of the spindle. A guide sleeve is positioned within the through hole of the spindle so as to be fixed and nonrotatable therewithin. The coolant line includes a high pressure coolant line and a low pressure coolant line. The cutting system includes a turret with a cutting tool affixed to a station of the turret. The coolant line is connected to the turret and extends so as to have an outlet adjacent to the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Japan Machine Tools, Corp.
    Inventors: Ryoichi Yamaji, Toshio Yato
  • Publication number: 20020189413
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for machining a workpiece include the use of a cryogenically cooled oxide-containing ceramic cutting tool. The method involves cryogenic cooling of the cutting tool during a cutting operation, which cooling results in enhanced wear resistance and fracture resistance of the cutting tool. A preferred embodiment involves jetting a cryogenic fluid directly at the cutting tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2001
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: Zbigniew Zurecki, Robert Bruce Swan, Bruce Edward Snyder, John Herbert Frey, Philip Burton Jewell, Ranajit Ghosh, James Bryan Taylor
  • Publication number: 20020166422
    Abstract: A method of optimizing the functioning of a machining center for machining at least one piece by removal of material by means of at least one cutting tool, this machining center, on the one hand, comprising a certain number of different components including at least a structure, such as a frame, and at least motor elements producing actions of driving and displacement of at least one of the elements which are the tool and the piece, and, on the other hand, implementing
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Applicant: TORNOS SA
    Inventor: Patrick Schuettel
  • Patent number: 6443672
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a nozzle for directing coolant toward an insert seat disposed in the tool. The nozzle includes a bore which directs coolant toward a location on the seat that is spaced from a center hole in which the nozzle is mounted. A rear end of the nozzle is pressed against a fixed surface of the tool by the pressure of coolant. The bore in the nozzle is in non-coinciding relationship relative to the axis of the hole in which the insert is mounted. The bore can be angled relative to axis of the hole, or the bore can be parallel to, but radially offset from, the axis of the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Sandvik Aktiebolag
    Inventor: Stig Lagerberg
  • Publication number: 20020038586
    Abstract: A cutting method in which a solution is sprayed or jetted to a machining portion when machining by use of a water-insoluble cutting oil, wherein recovered liquid is collected and stored in one recovery tank, and separated into the water-insoluble cutting oil and another solution on the basis of the specific gravity difference, and are re-used. Stable machining is enabled by using the water-insoluble cutting oil, and measures against disaster are fully taken.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Publication date: April 4, 2002
    Inventor: Kato Yasuo
  • Publication number: 20020007706
    Abstract: A liquid coater which includes a mist feed tube (5) for feeding oil mist into an airtight container (2), an air hose (10) for feeding air into the airtight container (2) and a mist conveyor pipe (11) for conveying the oil mist pressurized by air inside the airtight container (2) to the outside of the container. Therefore, droplets and large mist particles can be trapped inside the container from the mist feed tube (5), and the mist can be conveyed at a high speed. The liquid coater has excellent applicability. The mist feed tube (5) has a double tube structure comprising an air tube (7) in which air flows, and an oil tube (6) which extends in the air tube (7) and in which the oil flows. The distal end of the oil tube (6) is positioned more inward than the distal end of the air tube (7), so that the oil mist can be fed by a simple construction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Applicant: Fuji Koeki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Hattori
  • Patent number: 6318219
    Abstract: A cutting method in which a solution is sprayed or jetted to a machining portion when machining by use of a water-insoluble cutting oil, wherein recovered liquid is collected and stored in one recovery tank, and separated into the water-insoluble cutting oil and another solution on the basis of the specific gravity difference, and are re-used. Stable machining is enabled by using the water-insoluble cutting oil, and measures against disaster are fully taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Taiyu Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuo Kato
  • Publication number: 20010037706
    Abstract: A method for cuffing or hard turning the surface of a workpiece comprising using a cutting tool in which a cooling fluid is supplied to the cutting area by means of at least one jet nozzle. The cooling fluid is supplied as a jet with high pressure leaving the jet nozzle with a pressure above 60 bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Publication date: November 8, 2001
    Inventor: Jacek Kaminski
  • Publication number: 20010023628
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing chips from a workpiece on a lathe including a spindle with a through hole formed therein, a chuck having a through hole formed therein and affixed adjacent a forward end of the spindle, a cutting mechanism cooperative with the chuck so as to remove metal chips from a workpiece mounted on the chuck, and a coolant line connected to the cutting mechanism and directed generally toward the through hole of the chuck so as to drive metal chips through the through hole of the spindle and outwardly of a rear end of the spindle. A guide sleeve is positioned within the through hole of the spindle so as to be fixed and nonrotatable therewithin. The coolant line includes a high pressure coolant line and a low pressure coolant line. The cutting system includes a turret with a cutting tool affixed to a station of the turret. The coolant line is connected to the turret and extends so as to have an outlet adjacent to the cutting tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Applicant: Japan Machine Tools, Corp.
    Inventors: Ryoichi Yamaji, Toshio Yato
  • Patent number: 6209429
    Abstract: A process including providing a hollow cvlindrical substrate, the substrate having a dry outer surface describing a curvilinear plane, a dry inner surface describing a curvilinear plane, a first end opposite a second end, and an imaginary axis extending from the first end to the second end, supporting the substrate, machining at least a portion of at least one end of the substrate with at least one dry polycrystalline diamond cutting tool in the absence of liquids to remove material from the substrate, and simultaneously maintaining, during machining, the dry inner surface of the cylindrical substrate free of the material machined from the at least one end of the substrate by the at least one dry polycrystalline diamond cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Charles J. Urso, III, Thomas M. Wilbert, Charles R. VanCassele, James A. Hirliman, Michael A. McManus, Garry O. Glanzel, Richard B. Duong, Sidney L. McCoy
  • Patent number: 5901623
    Abstract: An apparatus for cutting chips from a workpiece includes a cutting tool having a rake face and a flank face, the rake face including a cutting edge. A chip breaker is positioned adjacent the rake face for lifting a chip from the rake face after the chip is cut from the workpiece. A supply head is positioned adjacent the chip breaker and a chamber for receiving cryogenic coolant may be formed between the supply head and the chip breaker. A primary nozzle is positioned for directing cryogenic coolant from the chamber onto the rake face and under the chip cut from the workpiece. The primary nozzle may be formed by one or more nozzle channels recessed into the rake face of the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: The Edison Materials Technology Center
    Inventor: Shane Y. Hong
  • Patent number: 5775854
    Abstract: A metal cutting tool comprising a cutting insert and a cutting insert holder is described. The insert has a body portion and a head portion. The head portion has an upper rake surface, a front relief flank surface, and a cutting edge defined between the first two. The holder is formed with a pair of jaws which clamp the insert. The first jaw abuts an upper surface of the insert adjacent the rake surface while the second jaw abuts a lower surface of the insert, adjacent to a base edge of the relief flank surface. A portion of this second jaw extends beyond the base edge, forming a projection. The holder is provided with a coolant flow channel having an input adapted to be coupled to a coolant source. A downstream portion of the channel terminates in a coolant flow outlet formed in the projection. The downstream portion and the outlet are arranged such that a coolant outflow from the outlet is directed substantially parallel to the relief surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Iscar Ltd.
    Inventor: Rafael Wertheim
  • Patent number: 5592863
    Abstract: A method for producing discontinuous chips during the machining of a work piece by a cutting tool is provided. The method includes the steps of engaging the cutting tool into the workpiece to produce a continuous chip and directing a stream of cryogen toward the continuous chip, so as to rapidly cool the continuous chip and fracture the continuous chip into the discontinuous chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy R. Jaskowiak, Daniel R. Gilmore, III, Thomas L. DiGravio
  • Patent number: 5228369
    Abstract: In machining a substrate surface of a photoreceptor by the use of a cutting machine which supplies cutting lubricant from a reservoir to a cutting tool of the cutting machine, the method comprises a measurement of a cutting tool temperature by a sensor and a control of both the temperature of cutting lubricant and a flow rate thereof. The control is responsive to the cutting tool temperature and suppresses a temperature fluctuation of the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Itoh, Sunao Kawada, Masataka Inagi, Takayoshi Hashimoto, Toyotsugu Itoh
  • Patent number: 4825736
    Abstract: Apparatus for and method of clearing scrap from the opening of a workpiece in which a jet of fluid is directed over the opening, causing the scrap to be entrained in fluid streaming out of the opening to join the fluid jet. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the fluid jet is pulsed in order to maximize its efficiency. In an alternative embodiment, a vacuum is used to collect the entrained scrap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventor: John A. Catanese
  • Patent number: 4693149
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device for the automatic cutting of circular tubes of small, medium and large thickness, obtained by gluing together several strips of fibrous, cellulose, metallic, or plastic materials, and generally speaking any materials in strips, and made by using a spiralizer, a profiler or an extruder.This device for automatic cutting is characterized by the fact that it comprises a fixed mandrel (2) on which the circular tube (4) coming from the spiralizer, profiler or extruder turns freely and is driven without constraint either side of the cutting line by counter-rollers (8, 9) subject to a rotary movement synchronized with the speed of rotation of the circular tube (4), this fixed mandrel (2) cooperating for the cut with at least one cutting group provided with a knife milled with two bevelled edges which are very sharp (43) which is immobile in rotation at the moment of cutting.The invention concerns disposable packs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1987
    Inventor: Georges Sireix
  • Patent number: 4213359
    Abstract: The shaped block in the path of the fluid from the nozzle of a high pressure fluid jet to be located below the material to be cut or slit by a jet including, preferably, a curvo-linear passage or bore through the block having an entry port aligned with the nozzle for receiving and directing the flow of fluid from the jet after it has slit the material and preventing the fluid from returning to or splashing upon the material after it has entered the passage and a replaceable slug for insertion into the block in the area where the high pressure fluid impinges as it enters the passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1980
    Assignee: Lever Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: Clayton Bogert, John D. Alexander, Leonard Krautheim
  • Patent number: D310673
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1990
    Inventor: Jerry Glaser