Toolholder with cam locking mechanism
AssigneeHouston Instrument Tooling Company, Inc.
InventorsJim Turner, Samuel Goertz
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Abstract
The invention relates to toolholders and mechanisms for securing the toolholder to a lathe turret or tool indexer. One embodiment of the invention comprises a base adapted to be secured to a rotary lathe table via a mechanism receivable in slots or grooves which can be wedged and compressively secured about selected positions about an engagement surface. A second embodiment comprises a bore securable to a lathe table via both fastening and positioning mechanisms where the bore defines a dovetail groove receivable to a complementary tongue where the toolholder is securable to the bore in a cam locking mechanism.
Claims13
An assembly adapted to hold a tool in a selected position relative to a CHNC lathe turret, where said turret includes attachment slots disposed about its upper surface, comprising:
- a base defining an attachment face and an attachment means,
- said attachment means comprising one or more members rotatably disposed about said attachment face and parallel to the axis defined by said lathe turret, where said attachment means is adapted to be slidably receivable in said attachment slots, where said members include a shank having an eccentric wedging surface such that the rotation of said members serves to urge said shank against walls defining the slots disposed in said turret;
- said attachment face defining a dovetailed slot in an engagement surface to receive a toolholder and including means to allow the adjustment of the vertical position of the toolholder relative to said base, and
- means adapted to lock said toolholder in a selected vertical position relative to said base;
- a toolholder defining an engagement surface including a dovetailed protrusion and adapted to be received in said dovetailed slot and the attachment face, where said engagement surface further includes a slot to accommodate said height adjustment means and where said attachment face includes means to secure a tool in a selected position and attitude relative to said lathe turret.
An assembly adapted to hold a tool in a selected position relative to a lathe turret, where said turret includes a table having means to secure said assembly thereto, comprising:
- a base defining a top surface and a bottom surface, where said bottom surface includes means cooperative with said means on said lathe table to secure the base thereto where the top surface defines an engagement surface;
- said engagement surface defining a dovetail groove adapted to sidably receive a toolholder defining a dovetailed protrusion, said groove also including means to selectively adjust the position of said toolholder relative to said base;
- means adapted to secure said toolholder relative to said base;
- a toolholder defining a dovetailed protrusion sidably receivable in the dovetail groove disposed in said base where said base is positioned relative to said turret table by a positioning pin formed on said table and receivable in an aperture formed in said base.
An assembly adapted to position a tool in a selected position relative to a rotatable tool table, above said table indicates a rotational axis and an upper surface which at least one positioning slot is formed in said upper surface, the assembly comprising:
- a base defing an attachment face and an attachment assembly, said attachment face defining a groove disposed in an engagement surface, which engagement surface adapted to receive a toolholder and including means to allow adjustment of the vertical position of the toolholder relative to the base;
- said attachment assembly comprising a "T" shaped element rotatably coupled to said base opposite said attachment face where said element is adapted to be received within said positioning slot, where said element includes a shank having an eccentric wedging surface which upon rotation of said element brings said shank into contacting engagement with the walls defining said slot so as to maintain the position of said base relative to said slot.
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