Drill Press Cutter
AssigneeRexnord Industries, LLC
InventorMichael E. Beck
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Abstract
A bearing removal tool and method are provided for removing a bearing swaged in a housing with speed and ease of use without damaging the housing, where the bearing removal tool includes a locating fixture having an annular support engaging an outer race of the bearing, with the locating fixture further including a locating mandrel extending axially from a center of the annular support into a center of the bearing locating the bearing outer race relative to the annular support; a cutter head having an axially extending shank extending from one end received in a drill press chuck, with the cutter head having at least one tooth extending axially away from the shank for cutting a swaged lip of the outer race of the bearing on a side of the bearing opposite from the side of the bearing engaged by the annular support.
Claims14
A bearing removal tool for removing a bearing swaged in a housing, said bearing removal tool comprising:
- a locating fixture having an annular support engaging an outer race of the bearing, said locating fixture further including a locating mandrel extending axially from a center of said annular support into a center of the bearing locating the bearing outer race relative to the annular support;
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- a cutter head having an axially extending shank extending from one end received in a drill press chuck, said cutter head having at least one tooth extending axially away from said shank for cutting a swaged lip of the outer race of the bearing on a side of the bearing opposite from the side of the bearing engaged by the annular support.
A method of removing a swaged bearing from a housing, said method comprising:
- inserting a shank of a cutter head into a drill press chuck of a drill press;
- aligning a tooth extending from said cutter head with a swaged lip of a swaged bearing fixed in a housing, aligning said tooth with the swaged lip includes inserting a pilot mandrel extending axially from said cutter head into a center of said bearing;
- engaging said tooth with said swaged lip by moving said cutter head axially toward said bearing;
- rotatably driving said cutter head with said drill press to cut said swaged lip from said swaged bearing;
- and
- urging said bearing out of said housing in a direction away from said cut swaged lip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.