Clamping device for locking the workpiece-carrying collet in automatic machine tools
AssigneeGildemeister Italiana S.P.A.
InventorEnrico Ronzoni
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Abstract
A clamping device for locking the workpiece-carrying collet of an automatic machine tool has a spring made of flexible plastic material. The spring has a flat elasticity characteristic and cooperates with an adjusting nut and an indicator nut. Pivotable closing levers that cooperate with a profiled abutment sleeve are also provided.
Claims4
In a clamping device for locking a workpiece-carrying collet in an automatic machine tool, the clamping device having a movable traction device (21) and linkage means (1) moving a traction rod (2) with the movement of the traction device for collet closing, clamping and opening operations, the improved linkage means (1) comprising:
- a plastic prestressing string (3) having a relatively flat elasticity characteristic, the spring consisting of a sleeved-shaped component;
- a dish-like component (4) having a bottom (4a) that receives one end othe the spring (3);
- a disc (5) abutting an opposite end of the spring (3);
- a pressure sleeve (16) that extends through the spring (3), dish-like component (4) and disc (5) and about a traction rod (2), one end (17) of the pressure sleeve (16) engaging a stop (18) on the traction rod (2) for moving it;
- an adjusting nut (7) on the one end of the pressure sleeve (16) and engaging the disc (5);
- an indicator nut (8) on an opposite end of the pressure sleeve (16) and cooperative with the bottom (4a) of the dish-like component (4);
- an annular support (11a) about the traction rod (2);
- a profiled abutment and positioning sleeve (9) about the annular support (11a), the sleeve (9) having successive segments (9a, 9b, 9c) in the axial direction and engaging a traction device (21) for movement thereby;
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- a plurality of closing levers (10) spaced circumferentially about the annular support (11a), each closing lever being hinged at one end (11) on the annular support (11a), the segments of the sleeve (9) forming an abutment for the opposite ends of the closing levers (10) in dependence on the position of a clamping collet and the actual diameter of a workpiece to be clamped thereby,
- the annular support (11a) cooperating at one end with the bottom (4a) of the dish-like component (4) and at its opposite end with a ring (23) fixed on a spindle (24) via rollers (15) which eccentrically engage the closing levers (10).
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