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US 5,299,472 AGranted
Saw blade tipping apparatus
AssigneeRazedge Limited
InventorGlynn A. Ellis
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Abstract
A method of and apparatus for mounting hard material tips to a cutter tool such as a saw blade body (6), wherein a gripper/pick-up member/element (4) for handling the tips (8) to be mounted or other material required in the tip mounting operation is moveable about an axis (1) in order to transfer the tips or other material from a supply(ies) thereof to a location (9) at which the tips can be mounted or said other material can be utilized in the mounting of the tips.
Claims5
A method of mounting a hard material cutting edge tip forming element to a cutter tool, comprising the steps of
- positioning a plurality of tip forming elements at a defined location along a circular track set at a predetermined radius about a pillar,
- circularly moving an arm attached to the pillar, the arm being connected to a gripper/pick-up member configured for handling at least one of the plurality of tip forming elements,
- transferring with the gripper/pick-up member said at least one of the tip forming elements from its first position to engagement with a tip transfer unit positioned adjacent to the cutter tool, and
- mounting said at least one of the tip forming elements to the cutter tool.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.