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US 9,993,887 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for chamfering and deburring gear cut workpieces
AssigneeLiebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
InventorThomas Zeller
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method and to an apparatus for chamfering and deburring gear cut workpieces, especially of large-volume gear cut workpieces, using a deburring apparatus which is arranged on or at the cutting head of a gear cutting machine and which at least partially utilizes the machine axes of the gear cutting machine to chamfer and to deburr gear teeth along a tooth contour.
Claims6
A method for chamfering and deburring a gear cut workpiece, comprising:
- arranging a chamfering and deburring apparatus on a slide that supports a cutting head of a gear cutting machine, wherein the chamfering and deburring apparatus comprises a chamfering spindle;
- and
- cutting a chamfer by pivoting the chamfering spindle with a chamfering miller attached thereto, relative to the cutting head, from a rest position at which the chamfering spindle is located on the slide and above a tool mount for a gear cutting tool, into a work position at which the chamfering spindle is located horizontally beside the tool mount and within a working region of the gear cutting tool,
- wherein, when cutting the chamfer, the chamfering spindle is positioned with the chamfering miller closer to the gear cut workpiece than is the gear cutting tool so that the gear cutting tool can remain in the tool mount;
- and
- a portion of movements of the chamfering spindle for a contour tracking along a tooth edge of the gear cut workpiece takes place by movement of the chamfering spindle along one or more axes of the gear cutting machine.
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