Two-part tool holding fixture
First Claim
1. A two-part tool holding fixture comprising:
- (a) a first part, having means adapted for anchoring, affixing, and holding the same to a tool holding fixture base, the first part also adapted to be releasingly affixed to,(b) a second part having means adapted to hold a tool,(c) one of said parts defining a bore with a radially protrudingly finger, extending a predetermined distance into a portion of the bore,(d) the other part defining a cylindrical portion with distal and proximate ends, sized to the diameter of the bore, and defining a radial race near the proximate end thereof, and at least one axial race extending from the radial race to the distal end of the cylinder portion and having a depth at least as great as the predetermined distance, the radial race defining a depth less than that of the axial race and at an angle θ
relative to the axial race, an indentation adapted to engage the finger after the cylindrical portion has been inserted into the bore and turned relative thereto.
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Abstract
The tool holding cartridge is male and the second cartridge holding part is female and defines a cylindrical bore with diametrically opposed apertures near the forward face of the bore, the apertures carrying ball bearings, biased, so that a substantial portion of the ball bearing intersects and projects into the cylindrical bore. Those portions of the ball bearings that do so, act as a guide and locking means for the tool holding cartridge which has a cylindrical shaft which extends into a tool holding portion into which a tool may be anchored or secured, as may be required. The tool holding cartridge has, along the outer walls of the cylindrical portion thereof, near the proximate end of the cylindrical portion, a circumferential race that intersects with the proximate ends of two diametrically opposed axially oriented lead raceways defined in the outer perimeter of the cylindrical portion and that terminate at the outer shoulder and peripheral wall at distal end of the cylindrical portion.
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11 Claims
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1. A two-part tool holding fixture comprising:
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(a) a first part, having means adapted for anchoring, affixing, and holding the same to a tool holding fixture base, the first part also adapted to be releasingly affixed to, (b) a second part having means adapted to hold a tool, (c) one of said parts defining a bore with a radially protrudingly finger, extending a predetermined distance into a portion of the bore, (d) the other part defining a cylindrical portion with distal and proximate ends, sized to the diameter of the bore, and defining a radial race near the proximate end thereof, and at least one axial race extending from the radial race to the distal end of the cylinder portion and having a depth at least as great as the predetermined distance, the radial race defining a depth less than that of the axial race and at an angle θ
relative to the axial race, an indentation adapted to engage the finger after the cylindrical portion has been inserted into the bore and turned relative thereto. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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