Abstract:
The invention concerns a securing device for securing a chuck, in particular a power-operated chuck, on a rotating spindle of a machine, wherein a rotating element and at least one chucking-slide assembly are provided in a main body in such a way that, when the rotating element turns, the chucking-slide assemblies change their radial position such that, in a chucking position, they force the chuck against the securing device in the axial direction.
Abstract:
A device for clamping a collet in a machine tool having a rotatable spindle and a spindle nose thereon includes a mounting portion fastenable to the spindle and a clamping portion extending from the mounting portion. A bore is defined through the clamping portion and the mounting portion. At least one moveable ring is located within a portion of the bore defined by the clamping portion, the moveable ring being configured to receive the collet or any other appropriate clamping tool. At least one screw is mounted in the clamping portion and can be tightened against the moveable ring. The collet or clamping tool is attachable to the spindle nose of the machine tool and is drawn into the bore of the clamping portion. A method of clamping a collet includes providing the clamping device, attaching the device to the machine tool, inserting the collet into the clamping device, and attaching the collet to the spindle nose.
Abstract:
A chuck device is disclosed having two or more jaws for gripping an object, and an adjustment mechanism for adjusting the rotational centre of the object gripped in the jaws. The adjustment mechanism can have two adjusting devices, which can adjust the position of the rotational centre of the gripped object after it has been gripped in the chuck, and optionally a sensor mechanism for detecting the position of the object gripped within the jaws. The chuck device can typically sense the actual rotational centre of the gripped device at the location to be cut, by obtaining the measurement information from the sensor devices, and can then move the rotational centre of the jaws gripping the object to ensure that the object is centred at the position to be cut, and not necessarily at the chuck. The chuck device is suitable for use in machining devices in which the gripped object is held stationary and the cutting tool is moved rotationally and axially, and in this case, the chuck device is employed to move the gripped object to a position that is concentric with the rotational axis of the cutting tool. However, it is also applicable to other machining devices in which the gripped object is rotated relative to a cutting tool that is moved radially and axially but is not rotated.
Abstract:
A clamping device for a machine tool for processing workpieces, comprises a clamping body having at least one clamping face for clamping an object to be clamped, in particular a tool or a workpiece, and a sensor arrangement for measurement of a planar setting of a face of the object to be clamped on at the least one clamping face or a possible gap between the face of the object to be clamped and the at least one clamping face. In the case of the clamping device for the machine tool there is a provision such that the sensor arrangement has at one planar setting sensor for the detection of a distance between the at least one planar setting sensor and a portion of the object clamped in the clamping device, projecting laterally in front of the at least one clamping face, and that the at least one planar setting sensor is arranged on a portion, which is set back in relation to the at least one clamping face, of the clamping body.
Abstract:
A chuck body has an internal cam unit eccentrically mounted within antifriction bearings, and the cam unit includes a workpiece gripper. A radial pin extends through the chuck body into a peripheral slot of the cam unit. When rotating in a first rotary direction, the chuck body and cam unit rotate in unison and a first workpiece diameter may be machined. When the rotation of the chuck body is reversed, inertial forces acting on the cam unit prevent immediate reversal of the cam unit rotation, and the pin moves through the peripheral slot, contacting the opposite end and driving the cam unit in reverse rotation; this relative motion between the chuck body and cam unit causes the workpiece to become offset, displacing the first workpiece axis from the chuck body axis of rotation. Consequently, as the reverse rotation is continued, a second workpiece diameter may be is machined about the chuck axis of rotation; the second diameter will be eccentric to the first diameter.
Abstract:
An adjustable rotational coupler includes a housing having an interior bore concentric with a central axis of the housing. The housing is mountable to a mounting member. Threaded adjusters can be used to adjust the housing with respect to the mounting member such that an attitude of a plane perpendicular to the central axis of the housing is adjustable with respect to an attitude of a plane perpendicular to a central axis of the mounting member. A rotatable inner race is adjustably disposed in the interior bore of the housing such that a face plate is mountable to the inner race. Threaded adjusters can be used to adjust the inner race with respect to the housing such that a central axis of the face plate is transversely adjustable with respect to the central axis of the housing.
Abstract:
A clamping device for workpieces or tools with a high concentricity utilizes a shank part supported in a cylindrical borehole of a base body, and an adjusting device disposed in the support area of the shank part includes several tapped holes, especially tapered tapped holes in the base body, which are distributed in a radial plane, as well as tapered bolts which can be screwed into the tapped holes.
Abstract:
The present invention is a device for adjusting eccentricity of the design axis of rotation of a rotary tool (12) with regard to the axis of rotation of a drive spindle (10). The device includes male and female members (22, 24), one matable to each of the spindle (10) and the tool (12). The male and female members (22, 24) are adjustable relative to each other to vary the eccentricity and to maintain the tool (12) wherein it is not canted relative to the axis of rotation of the spindle (10).
Abstract:
An article is molded in a mold cavity where the article has a profiled bore extending axially therethrough which has a precisely centered small diameter bore section at one end thereof. A mold cavity is defined by lower and upper mold halves and has a cavity axis, and a core pin having a precisely centered needle-like tip section at the upper end extends upwardly from the lower mold half coaxially through the mold cavity. Its needle-like tip section extends into a precisely centered small diameter bore of a nose piece at the upper end of the mold cavity when the mold halves are closed. The nose piece can be adjusted vertically within the upper mold half to vary the distance the core pin tip extends thereinto to vary the length of the forward end of the molded article.
Abstract:
A lathe is provided with a chuck transfer mechanism which includes a head having a circular opening to receive a chuck for transfer. For holding the chuck in the opening there is a plurality of fluid actuated plunger devices around the opening with the devices interconnected to permit displacement of fluid from one device to another. This allows transverse movement of the chuck relative to the head to allow a toothed locating device on the chuck to align itself accurately with a complementary toothed locating device on the work spindle.