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US 7,793,574 B2Granted
Machine tool
AssigneeClimax Portable Machine Tools, Inc.
InventorsDavid Loyd Sorensen, Andrew Gordon Thompson, Jeffrey Lee Jennings, David Sylvan Strait
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Abstract
A lightweight, compact, machine tool for radially machining a surface is provided, where the machine tool includes a cutting head having a cutter movably coupled thereto, and the cutter is further coupled to a control member such that the control member can variably control radial movement of the cutter relative to the cutting head.
Claims17
A machine tool for radially machining a surface comprising:
- a cutting head;
- a cutter slide coupled to the cutting head, wherein the cutter slide is configured to move radially relative to the cutting head;
- a cutter slide actuator coupled to the cutter slide and disposed coaxially with the cutting head, wherein the cutter slide actuator is configured to produce radial movement of the cutter slide;
- a control member coupled to the cutter slide actuator and disposed coaxially with the cutting head, wherein the control member is configured to control the cutter slide actuator to produce the radial movement,
- a first drive configured to rotate the cutting head, the cutter slide, the cutter slide actuator, and the control member about a common axis at a first rate, wherein the cutter slide actuator produces no radial movement of the cutter slide while rotated at the first rate;
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- an engaging member operatively coupled to the control member, wherein the engaging member is configured to modify rotation of the control member and the cutter slide with respect to the first rate to variably control radial movement of the cutter slide while the cutting head is rotating at the first rate.
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A machine tool for machining a surface comprising:
- a cutting head configured to rotate at a first rate;
- a cutter slide coupled to the cutting head, wherein the cutter slide includes a cutter and is radially movable relative the cutting head;
- an interengagement between the cutter slide and the cutting head to variably control radial movement of the cutter slide, wherein the interengagement is disposed coaxially with the cutting head;
- a control member, coupled to the interengagement and disposed coaxially with the cutting head, wherein the control member is adapted to control the interengagement while the cutting head, the cutter slide, the interengagement, and the control member are rotated at the first rate;
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- a engager configured to engage the control member to modify rotation of the control member, wherein the modified rotation of the control member controls the interengagement to produce radial movement of the cutter slide.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.