Clamping chuck for holding drilling and/or cutting tools

• US 4,652,187 A
• Filed: 02/06/1985
• Issued: 03/24/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft (Hilti Martin Family Trust)
• Original Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft (Hilti Martin Family Trust)
• Inventors: Rumpp, Gerhard, Spieth, Manfred, Regelsberger, Wolfgang
• Primary Examiner(s): Bilinsky, Z. R.
• Application Number:
  US06/698,631
• Time in Patent Office: 776 Days
• Field of Search: 279/60, 279/61, 279/62, 279/64, 279/65, 279/1 B, 279/1 DC, 279/75, 279/121, 279/81, 408/226, 408/239 R, 408/239 A, 408/240
• US Class Current: 408/240
• CPC Class Codes: B23B 31/123 with locking arrangements locking arrangements for chucks with simultaneously-acting jaws moving radially actuated by one or more spiral grooves B23B31/16041
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 279/17649 Threaded sleeve and body
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 279/17803 Rotary cam sleeve
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 279/29 More than one set of gripping means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 279/35 Miscellaneous
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 408/953 Clamping jaws

Abstract

A clamping chuck for securing a tool in a drilling device can be used for transmitting rotary and/or percussion motion to the tool. Independently adjustable guide jaws and at least one engaging element are mounted in the chuck. The guide jaws can hold a tool shank in a frictional engagement while the engaging element can fit into a recess in the surface of the tool shank. With such separate adjustment, the guide jaws can be used alone or in combination with the engaging element for holding the tool shank.

Claims

1. Clamping chuck for use in securing in a drilling device or the like a drilling and/or cutting tool having a shank with a cylindrical surface, comprising at least two guide jaws for engagement with the cylindrical surface of the shank and said guide jaws being radially adjustable relative to the cylindrical surface of the shank, at least one engaging element arranged to engage within and radially inwardly of the cylindrical surface of the shank, wherein the improvement comprises means for laterally enclosing said guide jaws and said engaging element, said means having an outside surface accessible for operating said clamping chuck, said means including a first actuating member accessible at the outside surface for radially adjusting the position of said guide jaws, and a second actuating member accessible at the outside surface for separately adjusting said at least one engaging element whereby the adjustment of said at least one engaging element can be effected without adjusting said guide jaws, and said first actuating member comprises an axially extending conically shaped part having a conically shaped inner surface in engagement with said guide jaws so that axial movement of said conically shaped part effects axial and radial movement of said guide jaws.

2. Clamping chuck, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said at least one engaging element can be adjusted between a radially outer position and a radially inner position with the radially outer position being spaced radially outwardly from the largest shank diameter to be received in said chuck.

3. Clamping chuck, as set forth in claim 1 or 2, wherein said first and second actuating members can be coupled with one another.

4. Clamping chuck, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said second actuating member is formed as an actuating ring having a radially inwardly extending cam engageable with said at least one engaging element for displacing said at least one engaging element radially inwardly and outwardly.

5. Clamping chuck, as set forth in claim 4, wherein said actuating ring is supported on and encircles said conically shaped part and is rotatable relative to said conically shaped part with said cam projecting radially inwardly and extending through said conically shaped part into engagement with said at least one engaging element.

13. Clamping chuck, as set forth in claim 1 or 6, wherein said chuck has an axis of rotation, said guide jaws extend in the direction of said axis of rotation, said at least one engaging element is located in the region where said guide jaws extend in the direction of said axis of rotation, and said at least one engaging element being spaced angularly around said axis of rotation from said guide jaws.

6. Clamping chuck for use in securing in a drilling device or the like a drilling and/or cutting tool with an axially extending shank having an axially extending cylindrical surface, comprising an axially extending anvil for transmitting at least one of rotary and percussion motion, chuck means mounted on said anvil for securing the tool relative to said anvil so that the at least one of rotary and percussion motion can be transmitted to the tool, said chuck means comprising at least two guide jaws spaced angularly apart for engagement with the cylindrical surface of the shank and said guide jaws being radially adjustable relative to the cylindrical surface of the shank, at least one engaging element arranged to engage within and radially inwardly of the cylindrical surface of the shank, wherein the improvement comprises means for laterally enclosing said guide jaws and said engaging element, said means having an outside surface accessible for operating said clamping chuck, said means including a first actuating member accessible at the outisde surface for radially adjusting the position of said guide jaws, and a second actuating member for separately adjusting said at least one engaging element whereby the adjustment of said at least one engaging element can be effected without adjusting said guide jaws.

7. Clamping chuck, as set forth in claim 6, wherein said second actuating member is arranged to radially adjust said at least one engaging element between a radially inner position and a radially outer position, said chuck being arranged to receive a range of shank diameters, and the radially outer position of said engaging element being such that it is located radially outwardly from the largest shank to be received in said chuck.

8. Clamping chuck, as set forth in claim 6, wherein said first actuating member comprises an axially extending sleeve encircling said anvil with said sleeve having a radially inner surface in rotatable contact with the surface of said anvil, said sleeve having a conically shaped part extending axially from said part in rotatable contact with said anvil, said guide jaws being mounted in said conically shaped part, a threaded ring laterally enclosing said anvil and disposed in threaded engagement with an axially extending surface on said sleeve spaced radially outwardly from the surface in rotatable contact with said anvil, means for securing said ring to said anvil, said sleeve being axially displaceable relative to said ring so that said conically shaped part radially adjusts said guide jaws.

9. Clamping chuck, as set forth in claim 8, wherein said second actuating member comprises an actuating ring mounted on the radial outer surface of said conically shaped part and being rotatable for a limited amount about said conically shaped part, a radially inwardly directed cam formed on the inside surface of said ring and extending through said conically shaped part into contact with said at least one engaging element for radially adjusting the position of said at least one engaging element.

10. Clamping chuck, as set forth in claim 9, wherein said sleeve has an axially extending attachment formed within and located radially inwardly from said conically shaped part, said attachment forming axially and radially extending slots within said conically shaped part with one said slot for each of said guide jaws and said at least one engaging element.

11. Clamping chuck, as set forth in claim 10, including an annular spring extending through each of said guide jaws and said at least one engaging element and biasing said guide jaws and said at least one engaging element radially outwardly.

12. Clamping chuck, as set forth in claim 11, including a counter nut in threaded engagement with said ring and movable into contact with said sleeve for securing said sleeve in position relative to said ring.