Grinding method and device for the same

Abstract

The present invention supplies coolant to a grinding wheel surface and reliably guides the coolant to a grinding point on the grinding wheel surface, thereby significantly reducing the amount of coolant to be used. In a grinding method and device for supplying coolant while grinding a workpiece W with a rotating grinding wheel 1, a fluid nozzle 2 is disposed upstream from a grinding point 11 on the circumferential surface 10 of the grinding wheel 1. The fluid nozzle 2 blows a jet of fluid across an air layer 12, which is a layer of flowing air dragged along the circumferential surface 10 of the grinding wheel 1, from one lateral side of the air layer 12 to the other lateral side thereof. A grinding fluid nozzle 3 supplies coolant to a region between the grinding point 11 and a cutoff position 13 at which the fluid jet from the fluid nozzle 2 has deflected the air flow from the air layer 12. The coolant supplied from the grinding fluid nozzle 3 contacts the grinding point 11 on the grinding surface 10.

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