Automatic boring tool

• US 4,612,831 A
• Filed: 02/19/1985
• Issued: 09/23/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert A. Lehmkuhl
• Original Assignee: Robert A. Lehmkuhl
• Inventors: Lehmkuhl, Robert A.
• Primary Examiner(s): BILINSKY, ZENON
• Application Number:
  US06/703,091
• Time in Patent Office: 581 Days
• Field of Search: 408/1, 408/3, 408/4, 408/11, 408/12, 408/13, 408/157, 408/158, 408/159, 82/1.2, 82/2 E, 82/1.4
• US Class Current: 82/1.4
• CPC Class Codes: B23B 29/03457 by pivoting the tool carriers or by elastic deformation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 408/08 with means to regulate operation by use of templet, tape, card, or other replaceable information supply
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 408/85884 Tool pivotally mounted on support
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 82/125 Tool simultaneously moving axially
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 82/2529 Revolvable cutter heads

Abstract

A boring machine having a tapered shank received in a spindle with a pre-loaded adjustable boring bar carrying said tapered shank and a non-rotating torque arm for controlling a pre-loaded adjustable boring bar pivotally secured to a tapered shank to pivot the boring bar.

Claims

1. In a boring machine having computer numerical control and of the class having a spindle for receiving a tool to form a bored hole and a servo-driven actuating unit to control the diameter of said bored hole comprising a tapered shank adapted to be received in said spindle, a pre-loaded adjustable boring bar with a cam slot pivotally secured to said tapered shank, a non-rotating torque arm on said tapered shank, a sliding sleeve carried by said torque arm, said torque arm being controlled in its linear position relative to the tapered shank by the servo-driven actuating unit, a cam bar mounted in said sliding sleeve to be received in the cam slot in said boring bar, whereby axial movement of said cam bar in response to a setting of the serv-driven actuating unit pivots the boring bar to a preselected position to bore a hole by the boring bar.

2. The device as described in claim 1 wherein the tapered shank is provided with a plurality of springs, said springs mounted at one end of the tapered shank to resist the movement of the cam bar in the cam slot carried by said tapered shank.

3. The device as described in claim 1 wherein the boring bar is pivoted about its axis by linear movement of the cam bar within the slot in said boring bar.

4. The device as described in claim 1 wherein the servo-driven actuating unit comprises a hydraulic piston, a cylinder, said piston slidably mounted in said cylinder, a yoke mounted on said piston, a transducer actuated by the movement of said yoke whereby an electrical signal is generated by the computer numerical control device for controlling the operation of the servo-valve in said servo-driven actuating unit.

5. In the device described in claim 1 wherein the said non-rotating torque arm has a control stem with a cam groove, said control stem adapted to engage the servo-driven actuating unit, a cam locking device comprising a piston, extension sleeve, a series of radial positioned balls carried by said extension sleeve adapted to be received in said cam groove in said control stem to hold said control stem of said torque arm in locking position.