Pipe end burnishing tool

• US 6,101,696 A
• Filed: 11/05/1998
• Issued: 08/15/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sam W. Carter
• Original Assignee: Sam W. Carter
• Inventors: Carter, Sam W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hughes, S. Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jimenez, Marc
• Application Number:
  US09/186,838
• Time in Patent Office: 649 Days
• Field of Search: 29/90.01, 72/112, 72/479
• US Class Current: 29/90.01
• CPC Class Codes: B21C 37/30 Finishing tubes, e.g. sizing, burnishing
• CPC Class Codes: B23B 5/168 with guiding devices
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 23/02 with rotating grinding tools; Accessories therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 39/02 designed for working internal surfaces of revolution
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/47 Burnishing

Abstract

The burnishing tool has a shank that is mountable in a hand drill chuck. An end of the shank is received in a bore in an inside member with a conical inside burnishing surface. A transverse shaft passes through a slot through the inside member and a bore through the spindle to connect the inside member to the shank and to permit limited axial movement between the inside member and the shank. A cup member with an outside conical burnishing surface has a hub that receives a post on the inside member. The transverse shaft that connects the inside member to the shank also passes through a bore through the hub to secure the cup member to the shank. The connections between the shank, the inside member and the cup member permit movement of these members relative to each other to align the conical burnishing surfaces with pipe surfaces. The burnishing tool for two pipe diameters has a shank with a first conical burnishing surface on a shank. Second and third conical burnishing surfaces are on an inside cup member that receives the shank and is axially movable relative to the shank. A fourth conical burnishing surface is on an outside cup member that receives the shank and is substantially axially fixed relative to the shank.

Claims

1. A pipe end burnishing tool for removing burrs and sharp surfaces from the cut ends of pipes comprising:

a shank having an axis of rotation, a first end, a second end and wherein the second end is adapted to be connected to a chuck of a drill;

a first member with a conical burnishing surface connected to the first end of the shank, rotatable with the shank, and axially fixed relative to the shank;

a second member with a conical burnishing surface connected to the first end of the shank, rotatable with the shank, and axially movable relative to the shank and to the first member; and

a spring that biases the second member away from the second end of the shank and permits the second member with a conical burnishing surface to move axially relative to the shank to a position in which the conical burnishing surface of the first member and the conical burnishing surface of the second member simultaneously engage a workpiece.

2. A pipe end burnishing tool for removing burrs and sharp surfaces from the cut ends of pipes as set forth in claim 1 wherein the first member with a conical burnishing surface burnishes an outside surface of the cut end of a pipe and the second member with a conical burnishing surface burnishes an inside surface of the cut end of a pipe.

3. A pipe end burnishing tool for removing burrs and sharp surfaces from the cut ends of pipes as set forth in claim 2 wherein the second member with a conical burnishing surface has a second conical burnishing surface axis, the first member with a conical burnishing surface has a first conical burnishing surface axis and wherein the second member with a conical burnishing surface can be moved into a position in which the second conical burnishing surface axis intersects a plane containing the axis of rotation of the shank.

4. A pipe end burnishing tool for removing burrs and sharp surfaces from cut ends of pipes as set forth in claim 3 wherein the first member with a conical burnishing surface can be moved into a position in which the first conical burnishing surface axis intersects a plane containing the axis of rotation of the shank.

5. A pipe end burnishing tool for removing burrs and sharp surfaces from the cut ends of pipes as set forth in claim 1 wherein the second member with a conical burnishing surface has a second conical burnishing surface axis, the first member with a conical burnishing surface has a first conical burnishing surface axis and wherein the second member with a conical burnishing surface can be moved into a position in which the second conical burnishing surface axis intersects a plane containing the axis of rotation of the shank.

6. A pipe end burnishing tool for removing burrs and sharp surfaces from cut ends of pipes as set forth in claim 5 wherein the first member with a conical burnishing surface can be moved into a position in which the first conical burnishing surface axis intersects a plane containing the axis of rotation of the shank.

7. A pipe end burnishing tool for removing sharp surfaces from cut ends of pipes comprising:

a shank, having an axis of rotation, that is adapted to be mounted in a chuck, and a first conical burnishing surface carried by the shank;

an inside cup member mounted on the shank, a second conical burnishing surface carried by the inside cup member, and a third conical burnishing surface carried by the inside cup member; and

an outside cup member mounted on the shank and a fourth conical burnishing surface carried by the outside cup member.

8. A pipe end burnishing tool as set forth in claim 7 wherein the second and third conical burnishing surfaces are axially shiftable along the axis of rotation of the shank relative to the first conical burnishing surface and the fourth conical burnishing surface.

9. A pipe end burnishing tool as set forth in claim 8 including a compression spring seated on the inside cup member and the outside cup member.

10. A pipe end burnishing tool as set forth in claim 7 wherein the first conical burnishing surface cooperates with the second conical burnishing surface to burnish the end of a first pipe and the third conical burnishing surface cooperates with the fourth conical burnishing surface to burnish the end of a second pipe.

11. A pipe end burnishing tool for removing sharp surfaces from cut ends of pipes comprising:

a shank having an axis of rotation, a first end adapted to be mounted in and rotated by a chuck, a shank conical burnishing surface concentric with the shank, facing radially outward and axially away from the first end of the shank, and fixed to a second end of the shank;

a cup member slidably mounted on the shank for slidable movement along said axis of rotation and rotatably fixed relative to the shank;

a first shank stop surface that contacts a first cup stop surface to limit axial movement of the cup member along the axis of rotation of the shank and away from the first end of the shank;

a second shank stop surface that contacts a second cup stop surface to limit axial movement of the cup member along the axis of rotation of the shank toward the first end of the shank;

a spring carried by the shank that urges the first shank stop surface toward engagement with the first cup stop surface; and

a cup conical burnishing surface that faces radially inward toward the shank conical burnishing surface and faces axially away from the first end of the shank.