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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7258515 | Tool holding fixture and insert tool The invention is based on a tool holder for a power tool (i0), in particular for a hand-guided power angle grinder, having a slaving device (12) by way of which an inserted tool (14), which has a disklike hub (64), can be operatively conn... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7258348 | Machining fixture for centering and holding workpiece A centering and holding fixture includes a base, a piston disposed within a piston chamber at least partially located within the base, and a radially flexible ring connected to the piston by force transmission apparatus operable to contract and expand the radially f... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7204493 | Lathe chuck with stepped jaws A chuck for mounting wheel castings having different diameters upon a wheel lathe for machining the casting to final shape is provided. The chuck includes stepped jaw inserts that cooperate with corresponding stepped part supports to securely mount the wheel casting... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7188420 | Method for manufacturing bevel gears A method for manufacturing a bevel gear member, comprises the steps of providing a bevel gear blank having a gearhead, forming gear teeth on the gearhead of the bevel gear blank by simultaneously cutting gear tooth top land, gear tooth side profile and a bottom land... | 03/13/2007 |
| 6997656 | Device and assembly for holding an object A device for holding an object, and an assembly for holding and rotating an object. The device includes a base, a series of posts, each of which is equidistant from a center point of reference and further pivotably holds a follower rotationally linked to all other f... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6994000 | Fixture and locator device for supporting a rotatable member There is provided a locator device and an associated fixture and method for supporting a rotatable member. The locator device has a base and a plurality of flanges extending from the base in an axial direction and arranged circumferentially to define an aperture for... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6918599 | Anti-deflection tooling Anti-deflection tooling is provided for a pull back chuck. Equally spaced gussets are disposed between the riser body and the face plate of the chuck, to minimize or eliminate deflection of the face plate when a workpiece is clamped into the chuck. Adjustment device... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6332734 | Method and apparatus for mounting a supply roll or recording media to a support shaft in an imaging system A method and apparatus for mounting a supply roll to a rotatable support shaft in an imaging system. The apparatus includes a first collet/collar assembly for accurately positioning the supply roll at a desired location on the support shaft, and a second ... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6283686 | Supporting and centering device for use in the production of double-toothing sprocket wheels or pulleys and method of using same Centering device acting upon an already present first ring (14a) of a straight or double helical toothing of gears, sprocket wheels or pulleys to obtain the second ring (14b) of the toothing generated by a pinion shaped cutter (16), a central groove (19) ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 5251510 | Ring gear fixture and machining process therefor The present invention relates to a fixture and method for positioning and holding a gear to be machined, as for example in a ring and pinion gear set for vehicle axles. The fixture includes a base, a clamp and a locator. The base has a surface against whi... | 10/12/1993 |
| 4996758 | Method and apparatus for spur and helical gear manufacture A method is described for assuring concentricity of a gear's pitch circle with its axis, the pitch circle having a non-constant radius about the axis. The method comprises the steps of: determining the gear's pitch circle and its position of maximum radia... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4671520 | Device for holding workpieces during machining operations It has been hitherto customary durig machining of workpiece, such a grinding of gear wheels, to slip a roller cage over the gear wheel. The chuck jaws of the chuck then hold the workpiece by way of the rollers in a roller cage. The time concuming operatio... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4483105 | Device to hold workpieces for the honing of their axial center bore A device to hold workpieces, in particular gears, to hone an existing axial center bore, consisting of a workpiece support member, which may be loaded and unloaded from one side. Levers supported pivotably in grooves formed in the workpiece support member... | 11/20/1984 |
| 4416459 | Collet chuck for splined workpieces A chuck for splined workpieces includes at least two collets, the resilient fingers of which are circumferentially interdigitally related. The work-engaging surfaces of circumferentially adjacent fingers of the chuck are spaced apart a distance at least s... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4415172 | Friction welding machine having an expanding mandrel backstop assembly An improved mandrel chuck for the backstop assembly of a friction welding machine holds a first interiorly lobed workpiece as a second rotating workpiece is displaced into forceful engagement therewith. The improved chuck comprises a main body portion, an... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4384466 | Hydraulic control circuit for loader of thin-wall spline rolling machine A hydraulic control circuit (10) for operating a loader (12) of a machine for splining an annular thin-wall sleeve of a power transmission member is disclosed as including valving (116) for communicating supply and return conduits (102,116) with load and ... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4383428 | Loader for thin-wall spline rolling machine A loader (12) for a spline rolling machine wherein die and mandrel teeth (26,42) mesh with the thinwall sleeve (44) of a power transmission member (30) located therebetween to form splines therein is disclosed as including a loading member (58) with a loc... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4320675 | Mandrel for the coaxial external machining of workpieces with internal toothing In a mandrel for the coaxial external machining of workpieces with internal toothing, a reception sleeve with an external toothing corresponding to the workpiece toothing and having openings along the clamping length extending only on a portion of the cir... | 03/23/1982 |
| 4316614 | Holding chuck A multiple jaw holding chuck (10) is provided which is quickly and easily adjusted to grip workpieces (W) on either the interior or exterior surfaces thereof. The holding chuck comprises a housing (12) having a plurality of bores (34) formed therein in wh... | 02/23/1982 |
| 4312513 | Gear holding hydraulically actuated chuck This application discloses a work-holding chuck particularly for gears with their exterior teeth finished or substantially finished as by grinding, shaving and the like. This chuck has a plurality of hardened and finished pins which are moved and secured ... | 01/26/1982 |
| 4067586 | Diaphragm chuck A diaphragm chuck having a plurality of circumferentially spaced jaws fixedly mounted on the diaphragm and a ring releasably interengaged with the jaws. The ring has a plurality of radially movable pins thereon which, when the diaphragm is flexed, are ada... | 01/10/1978 |
