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US 4,272,927 AGranted
Method of manufacturing a broaching tool
AssigneeThe Babcock & Wilcox Company
InventorsJulius D. Myers, John X. Russell
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Abstract
A broaching tool is manufactured directly from a heat hardened blank of preformed metal by having a grinding wheel of CBN (cubic boron nitride) material cut a broach tooth from the hardened blank by cutting gullets in the blank. The blank is made movable and rotatable relative to the CBN grinding wheel to allow the manufacture of a series of broach teeth forming a broaching tool with various tooth spacings, depths, and angles with respect to the face of the broaching tool.
Claims3
A method of manufacturing a broaching tool comprising the steps of:
- providing a blank piece of steel material suitable for manufacturing a broaching tool;
- heat treating said steel material to harden it to a Rockwell C hardness substantially in the range of 63.5 to 67 thereby;
- grinding a series of gullets directly into the hardened material with a CBN 500 (cubic boron nitride) grinding wheel to form a series of finished broach cutting teeth therein with said grinding with said CBN 500 grinding wheel being done so as to provide the removal of between 0.06 and 0.09 inches of hardened metal per each cyclic pass of said CBN 500 grinding wheel across the surface of said hardened material at a rate of approximately 2 to 6 inches per minute;
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- exhausting a synthetic coolant on the face of said CBN 500 grinding wheel at a rate of substantially 30 gallons per minute during the grinding operation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.