Pressure Shoe with Expansion Chamber
AssigneeThielenhaus Technologies GmbH
InventorHolger Steinwender
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Abstract
A pressure shoe (1) includes a press surface (2) for directly pressing finishing tape onto a radial circumferential surface (3) of a rotating workpiece section (4) during a finishing process. A plurality of expansion elements (5) is formed in the pressure shoe (1). Each of expansion elements (5) are expandable individually and independently of one another radially while deforming the press surface (2) in a direction of the circumferential surface (3) of the workpiece section (4), so that during the finishing process, the shape of the circumferential surface (3) of the workpiece section can be influenced in a targeted manner via different expansion of the expansion elements (5) distributed over the press surface (2).
Claims12
1-11. (canceled)
A pressure shoe (1), comprising:
- a press surface (2) for directly pressing finishing tape onto a radial circumferential surface (3) of a rotating workpiece section (4) during a finishing process;
- a plurality of expansion elements (5) being formed in the pressure shoe (1), wherein each of the plurality of expansion elements (5) are expandable individually and independently of one another radially while deforming the press surface (2) in a direction of the circumferential surface (3) of the workpiece section (4), so that during the finishing process, the shape of the circumferential surface (3) of the workpiece section can be influenced in a targeted manner by different expansion of the expansion elements (5) distributed over the press surface (2).
A method for operating a finishing device with a pressure shoe (1), comprising at least the following steps:
- providing a pressure shoe (1), comprising:
- a press surface (2) for directly pressing finishing tape onto a radial circumferential surface (3) of a rotating workpiece section (4) during a finishing process;
- a plurality of expansion elements (5) being formed in the pressure shoe (1), wherein each of the plurality of expansion elements (5) are expandable individually and independently of one another radially while deforming the press surface (2) in a direction of the circumferential surface (3) of the workpiece section (4), so that during the finishing process, the shape of the circumferential surface (3) of the workpiece section can be influenced in a targeted manner by different expansion of the expansion elements (5) distributed over the press surface (2);
- pressing a finishing tape onto the radial circumferential surface (3) of the workpiece section (4) to be processed, using the pressure shoe (1);
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- expanding at least one of the plurality of expansion elements (5), so that the expansion element (5) deforms the press surface (2) in a radial direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.