US 5,486,135 AGranted

Vibratory tumbling machine vessel for burnishing or cleansing metal, plastic or ceramic elements

OwnerJerry Arpaioinventor

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Abstract

Accressory burnishing-treatment apparatus for treatment, namely deburring, turning corners, polishing or cleaning of elements, namely metal, plastic, or ceramic (typically glass) elements. The apparatus is a self-contained hollow sphere, preferably made from substantially abrasion-resistant plastic, that works in conjunction with typically any traditional vibratory tumbling machine. The apparatus preferably has a screw-in port lid or closure member which opens to spherical inner space allowing insertion and later removal from the spherical inner space each of elements after treatment thereof, and removal of that was media necessary for the treatment. Liquid and/or dry or wet media may be used with the elements in combination. The self-contained hollow sphere together with any media and abrasive(s) and elements to be treated, locked therein by its male closure member, is placed into media and abrasives or the like contained for treatment by a vibratory tumbling machine where when activated, when the vibrations and tumbling action of the vibratory tumbling machine transfers its vibrations and movement to the closed sphere and its contents such that the treatment of elements within the sphere is accomplished on the isolated elements within the spherical inner space.

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Dependent claims

A vibratory vessel for use conjunction with a vibratory tumbling machine utilizing a burnishing or cleansing media, for burnishing or cleansing metal, plastic and ceramic elements comprising in combination:

a substantially globe-forming structure having a substantially globally-shaped exterior surface and having an inner wall surface forming a globally-shaped inner space separate and apart from outer space exterior to said globe-forming structure, said substantially globe-forming structure having at-least one female closure opening-forming structure forming at-least one female closure-opening therein, said substantially globe-forming structure being wall structure of at least one of a plastic;
and at-least one male closure member of a shape effective to sealably close said female closure-opening, said at-least one female closure opening-forming structure and said at-least one closure member being jointly and coordinately structured such that said at-least one of said female closure opening-forming structure is intermittently mountable within said at-least one female closure-opening, said substantially continuous wall structure being retainable of at-least one of metal, plastic and ceramic elements within said globally-shaped inner space, said female closure-opening being of a first predetermined size sufficiently large for passage therethrough at-least one of metal, plastic and ceramic elements within said globally-shaped inner space, said substantially continuous wall structure includes a plurality of small aperture extending between and through said substantially globally-shaped exterior surface and having an inner wall surface, each of said plurality of small apertures being of a predetermined maximum size sufficiently small to retain at-least one of metal, plastic and ceramic elements within said globally-shaped inner space.

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