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US 10,035,200 B2Granted
Gear cutter with radial adjustability of stick blades
AssigneeThe Gleason Works
InventorsHermann J. Stadtfeld, Anthony J. Norselli
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Abstract
A bevel gear manufacturing face cutter head (2) for face hobbing and face milling wherein the cutter head includes positive blade seating surfaces (16, 18) and the capability to clamp the blades (8) tight to the positive seating surfaces and to adjust the cutting blades radially after they are pre-clamped and axially located.
Claims12
A bevel gear face cutter head for face hobbing and face milling of bevel and hypoid gears, said cutter head being generally disc-shaped and rotatable about a cutter head axis, said cutter head comprising:
- a top surface and a bottom surface,
- one or more cutting blade positioning slots arranged in said cutter head with each of said blade positioning slots extending between said top surface and said bottom surface,
- said blade positioning slots each having at least one blade seating surface extending between said top surface and said bottom surface,
- said at least one blade seating surface having a modified shape and extending from said top surface to said bottom surface wherein said modified shape departs from the shape of a continuous straight seating surface extending from said top surface to said bottom surface,
- wherein rolling of a cutting blade having a blade tip on the modified seating surface allows for radial adjustment of the blade tip of the cutting blade.
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