Internal finishing tool and method of making same
AssigneeJason, Inc.
InventorsAlfred F. Scheider, R. Brown Warner
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Abstract
A twisted stem helical internal abrading and finishing tool is formed from abrasive containing plastic strips having transverse offset slits along the lateral edges and a longitudinal middle unslit portion. The strips may be stacked with the longitudinal middle unslit portions aligned with the longitudinal axis of a cotter pin, one end of the stack being placed in the bight of the cotter pin. The cotter pin is twisted about its longitudinal axis to form a helical twisted stem from which the slit lateral side or edges extend forming rectangular abrasive fingers uniformly helically arranged. The end of the cotter pin opposite the bight may be inserted into the chuck of a drilling or turning machine to hold and rotate the tool about the axis of the stem.
Claims6
A method of making a twisted stem abrading tool comprising the steps of forming an elongated strip of abrasive containing plastic, cutting the strip to a given length, forming transverse slits into the lateral edges of the strip, the slits on one edge being longitudinally offset from the slits on the opposite edge, placing the strip in the bight of a cotter pin, and clamping and twisting the corer pin to form a helical twisted stem abrading tool, the slit edges of the strip forming a helical pattern of abrasive plastic fingers.
A method as set forth in claim I including the step of terminating the slits which extend laterally inwardly from the edge of the strip at a substantially uniform depth to provide an unslit longitudinally extending center portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.