Cutting tip comprising an alignment slide
AssigneeSafety Production
InventorRichard Fouquer
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Abstract
The invention relates to a machining tool holder comprising alignment elements in a housing and clamping elements on the base of the housing, the elements being used to align and clamp a removable cutting tip comprising a lateral slide for the lateral deviation of a pressure force exerted by a screw belonging to the tool holder, the screw being guided such that it abuts obliquely against the lateral slide in order to push the slide, and consequently the tip, back towards a longitudinal alignment side which defines the housing and which serves as an alignment end stop for the associated alignment edge of the tip. In this way, the tip is oriented as desired in order to slide along the longitudinal side and abut against a rear alignment side.
Claims30
A removable cutting plate (10) comprising mounting means provided to cooperate with alignment means associated with a tool holder (30) so as to bring a contact face (2) of the plate into a functional position on the base (41) of a housing (40) of the tool holder, wherein the mounting means include a frontal thrust surface (14) provided in order to receive, once the plate (10) is placed in an initial, approximately functional position, a thrust force exerted by an alignment segment (52), in a predetermined direction of trajectory (F0, 36), belonging to a slide (50) mounted on the tool holder, so as to align, by sliding toward the rear on the base (41), a rear flank for alignment (5) of the plate (10) against a rear alignment side (45) delimiting the housing (40), wherein the plate is characterized in that the mounting means comprise a lateral slide (14A) for alignment of the plate and for guiding the alignment segment (52) toward the frontal thrust surface (14), and the lateral slide (14A) is arranged so as to form, with respect to the direction of trajectory (F0, 36), a wedge for offsetting the thrust force of the alignment segment (52) toward a longitudinal flank (4) for lateral alignment of the plate (10).
A method for positioning a cutting plate (10) in a tool holder (30) housing (40), comprising:
- obtaining a tool holder (30) equipped with a plate having a frontal thrust surface (14) and a lateral slide (14A) for aligning and guiding an alignment segment (52) toward the frontal thrust surface (14),
- placing the plate (10) on a base (41) of the housing (40) in a substantially functional position,
- sliding the slide (50) so that an alignment segment (54) performs, in a first phase, a lateral alignment of the plate (10) against a longitudinal alignment side (44), by sliding with lateral thrust on the lateral slide (14A) and so that the alignment segment (52) is guided up to the frontal thrust surface (14) so as to cause, in a second phase, an alignment against a rear side (45) of the housing (40).
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