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US 6,540,450 B2Granted
Tool and process for finishing a vehicle wheel surface
AssigneeHayes Lemmerz International, Inc.
InventorsGeoffrey L. Gatton, Richard T. Guernsey
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Abstract
A vehicle wheel has an outboard face which includes a smoothed portion to provide a cosmetic finish to the wheel face. The smoothed portion is formed by pressing a cutting tool having a non-symmetrical tip against the wheel surface as the wheel is rotated.
Claims12
A cutting tool for smoothing a wheel surface comprising:
- a rhombic shaped body portion having a mounting aperture formed therethrough;
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- a non-symmetrical insert carried upon one end of said body portion, said insert having arcuate leading and trailing edges, said leading edge having a leading edge radius and said trailing edge having a trailing edge radius, said leading edge radius being greater than the trailing edge radius, said insert also having a zero degree land formed thereabout whereby the cutting edge of said insert is maintained tangent to the wheel surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.