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US 10,603,725 B2Granted
Groover with peening flanks
AssigneeFord Motor Company
InventorsDavid Alan Stephenson, David Garrett Coffman
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Abstract
According to one aspect of this disclosure, a grooving tool is provided. The grooving tool has a body with a plurality of recesses. Plural inserts assembled into each of the recesses. The recesses include a cutting edge for forming grooves in an engine cylinder wall when rotated in one rotational direction. The insert also includes a peening surface extending in the opposite rotational direction from the cutting edge for deforming the upper edges of the grooves when rotated in an opposite rotational direction.
Claims8
A grooving tool comprising:
- a body defining a plurality of recesses;
- and
- plural inserts each assembled into one of the recesses, the inserts including a cutting edge for forming grooves in an engine cylinder wall when rotated in one rotational direction and a peening surface extending in an opposite rotational direction from the cutting edge for deforming an upper edge of the grooves when rotated in the opposite rotational direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.