US 4,762,037 AGranted

Face and internal turning head

AssigneeK. R. Pfiffner Engineering

InventorKurt Stoffel

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Abstract

The apparatus has a drive hub with a fixing pin and driving flange. A cross slide carrying a tool is displaceably guided in the flange. Displacement takes place by a guidance roller, which fits into a guidance groove of a planetary web of a planetary gear constructed as a cam plate. Together with a further similar planetary gear, the first planetary gear forms a planetary power split transmission, on which is superimposed the rotary movement of an annular motor. As a result of the rotary movement of the cam plate with the guidance groove the displacement of the cross slide is brought about. Using an envelope drive, the rotary movement of the motor is transferred to a tachoalternator with a pulse generator. The pulses of the pulse generator are processed in a processor, which controls the motor and therefore the displacement movement of the cross slide. Compared with known apparatuses, the apparatus is characterized in that the motor housed in annular manner in the casing and the transmission constitute an independent unit requiring no additional drive parts outside the apparatus.

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Dependent claims

A face and internal turning head comprising:

cylindrical drive means including a fixing pin adapted to be mounted on the front face of work spindle of a cutting machine;
a casing surrounding the drive means;
a rotary motor disposed in the casing and surrounding the drive means in annular manner, the motor having a rotor;
a tool slide mounted on the front of the driving means outside of the casing and radially displaceable with respect to the driving means;
a planetary transmission disposed in the casing and surrounding the drive means, the transmission being axially displaced from the motor, the transmission including first and second series-connected identical planetary gears and a sun wheel common to both gears, the first gear having a web coupled to the drive means and having a hollow wheel which is connected to and is rotated by the rotor, the second gear having a web mounted in rotary manner on the drive means and arranged on the side of the tool slide, the second gear web having a bearing sleeve, the sun wheel being guided in a rotary manner by the bearing sleeve, the second gear web being constructed as a disk cam having a frontal guidance groove in the form of an archimedeon spiral or a spiral with a random pitch ratio.

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