Tool for trueing and dressing a grinding wheel
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorRangachary Komandure
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Abstract
A grinding wheel dressing tool having a dressing edge consisting essentially of a side dressing edge angle ranging between 30.degree. and 75.degree. wherein the side dressing edge is at least about 0.5 millimeter in length, an end dressing edge angle between 5.degree. and 30.degree. wherein the end dressing edge is at least about 0.5 millimeter in length, and a straight secondary dressing edge of at least 1 millimeter in length joining the side and end dressing edges, said dressing edge having a lip angle ranging from 90.degree. to 120.degree., and engaging the periphery of a rotating grinding wheel with said dressing tool at a negative side rake angle ranging from -5.degree. to -35.degree..
Claims5
A tool for trueing and dressing a grinding wheel at a negative rake angle, having a dressing edge consisting essentially of a side dressing edge angle ranging between 30.degree. and 75.degree. wherein the side dressing edge is at least about 0.5 millimeter in length, an end dressing edge angle ranging between 5.degree. and 30.degree. wherein the end dressing edge is at least about 0.5 millimeter in length, and a straight secondary dressing edge of at least about one millimeter in length joining said side and end dressing edges, said dressing edge having a lip angle ranging from 90.degree. to 120.degree., and said dressing tool comprising a tool shank and a polycrystalline compact mounted at one end of said shank, said compact comprising bonded crystals selected from the group consisting of diamond, cubic and wurtzite forms of boron nitride and mixtures thereof.
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