Arrangement for the grinding of rotary profile cutters

Patent 4163345 Issued on August 7, 1979. Estimated Expiration Date:

June 16, 1997. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Patent References

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Inventor

Meili, Max

Assignee

AG fur Automatisierung (CH)

Application

No. 05/807336 filed on 06/16/1977

US Classes:

451/1, PRECISION DEVICE OR PROCESS - OR WITH CONDITION RESPONSIVE CONTROL451/123, Work rotating451/141, Helical blade451/220, Long helix451/374Rotary cutter

Examiners

Primary: Godici, Nicholas P.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Classes

B24B 3/00 (20060101)
B24B 3/02 (20060101)

Foreign Application Priority Data

1976-06-17 CH

Abstract

An arrangement for the grinding and cutting of rotary profile cutters having, in combination mounted on a base, a first reciprocable table on which is mounted a rotatable platen. A rotatable workpiece carrier assembly is fixed to the platen and these have mutually perpendicular axes of rotation. The carrier holds a collet for the milling cutter blank and a programmable indexer for the angular positioning of the blank in successive position. A second table can reciprocate perpendicular to the first and acts as a support for a block carrying a grinding wheel spindle head. The block is capable of oscillation to either side of a vertical position on an axis parallel to the axis of reciprocation of the second table and the grind wheel spindle head can slide perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the block. A rotatable grinding wheel carried by the spindle head can have its plane of gyration moved to either side of the axis of rotation of the block. Means are provided for effecting movement of the tables as are programmable driving mechanisms for controlling the movements.