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US 5,735,649 AGranted
Machine tool cutter position adjustment device
AssigneeKaiser Precision Tooling, Inc.
InventorsWilliam Boscarino, Klaus Lohner, John E. Burley
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Abstract
The invention is an apparatus for adjusting the position of a cutter cartridge mounted on a machine tool head using noncircular adjustment pins that provide full linear contact between the machine tool head and the cutter cartridge.
Claims13
A cutter adjustment mechanism for a machine tool, comprising:
- a tool head having a recess at least partly defined by at least one planar wall;
- at least one means for cutting having at least one edge abutting a planar wall of the recess, adapted to be removably nested in the recess;
- and,
- means for adjusting the position of the cutting means relative to the planar wall, having a non-circular cross-section, so that the surface of the means for adjusting tangentially contacts the planar wall and biases the cutting means toward or from the planar wall as the means for adjusting is rotated.
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