Method and device for the surface machining of a structure such as a cellular structure
AssigneeEads Airbus SA
InventorsDenis De Mattia, Bernard-Albert Colin
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Abstract
In order to make notches in partitions separating substantially aligned recesses issuing onto the surface of a structure (10), use is made of a machining head (26) having a cutting tool (28) and at least one rotary member (52) adjacent to said tool. The rotary member (52) is provided with protuberances (54) supported in recesses of a row of recesses adjacent to that which is being machined, during the displacement of the machining head (26). The latter is connected with slackness to a tool holder by a mechanism, a lateral and height positioning of the tool (28) being ensured during machining.
Claims16
Method for machining a structure having at least one row of substantially aligned and regularly spaced recesses issuing onto the surface to be machined, wherein machining takes place by a relative displacement between a machining head and the structure to be machined, bearing successively in at least some of the recesses of said row of recesses, so as to machine the surface in accordance with a trajectory parallel to said row.
Device for the surface machining of a structure having at least one row of substantially aligned and regularly spaced recesses issuing onto the surface to be machined, said device comprising a machining head and guidance means carried by the machining head and which can be successively supported in at least some of the recesses of said row of recesses, during a relative displacement between the machining head and the structure to be machined, so as to machine the surface in accordance with a trajectory parallel to said row of recesses.
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