Multi-chambered fluid balancing apparatus
AssigneeGebr. Hofmann KG
InventorsDieter Birkenstack, Otto Jager
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Abstract
A balancing apparatus, particularly for a grinding wheel, whereby the wheel has four chambers disposed around its axis of rotation with each chamber connected to one face of the ring shaped container by a slot formed in a circular recess at a different radius so that the wheel can be balancing by injecting cooling fluid or the like into the slots to temporarily add fluid to selected chambers.
Claims8
In an apparatus for compensating for the unbalance of a rotating body including a machine tool, with several chambers arranged around the axis of rotation, which rotate together with the rotor and into which, controlled by a control unit, a balancing fluid may be injected, the improvement wherein the chambers are disposed in a ring-shaped container at one side of which fluid inlets are provided, arranged on different radii, whereby each inlet on a certain radius is assigned to a certain chamber and one fluid feed pipe is provided for each radius.
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