Apparatus for superfinishing bearing rollers
AssigneeSupfina Maschinenfabrik Hentzen KG
InventorKarl Wieck
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus are described for superfinishing convex or concave jacket faces of rotationally symmetrical workpieces, in particular of roller bearing rollers, in which the workpiece is received and rotated between two rotatable rollers, at least one of which is driven, while a honing stone is lowered perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the workpiece against the jacket face and thereby executes an oscillation parallel to the longitudinal axis of the workpiece. Along at least a portion of its stroke movement, the honing stone is imparted a further oscillation, synchronous with the first, along a curved path located in the jacket face of the workpiece.
Claims5
An apparatus for superfinishing a cylindrical workpiece, the cylindrical surface of which is rotationally symmetrical and convex defining thereby a cylindrical axis, said apparatus comprising:
- a machine frame;
- two rotatable rollers for imparting rotation to the workpiece about its cylindrical axis;
- an oscillating honing stone;
- a first plate to which the oscillating honing stone is mounted;
- a second plate to which the first plate is pivotably mounted;
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- first drive means and second drive means connected to the first plate and the second plate, respectively, and rotatable with respect to a common axis to impart a synchronous oscillatory motion to the first plate and the second plate, respectively, and to thereby superimpose on the oscillating honing stone a further oscillatory motion along a circular path.
The apparatus as defined in claim 4, wherein each drive means comprises:
- a pair of rods each associated with one of said plates, each rod being rotatably supported at one end;
- a pair of drive disks, each associated with one of said pair of rods;
- a pair of connecting rods, each being eccentrically mounted at one end to a respective one of said drive disks, and connected at their other end to a respective one of said pair of rods at the other ends of said rods;
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- a pair of transmission elements, each being connected at one end to a respective one of said plates and at their other end to a respective one of said rods, said oscillations being transmitted to said plates by said transmission elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.