Mechanism for slowing down idling shoe of an electric polisher

• US 6,264,539 B1
• Filed: 01/12/2000
• Issued: 07/24/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tony Chen
• Original Assignee: Tony Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Tony
• Primary Examiner(s): Morgan, Eileen P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shakeri, Hadi
• Application Number:
  US09/481,384
• Time in Patent Office: 559 Days
• Field of Search: 451/359, 451/357, 451/353
• US Class Current: 451/359
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 23/03 the tool being driven in a combined movement
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 47/12 by mechanical gearing or electric power B24B47/16 takes precedence

Abstract

A mechanism for slowing down idling shoe of an electric polisher is provided. The mechanism includes an actuating spindle that downward extends through a protective cover connected to a bottom of a housing of the polisher and has a lower end forming an eccentric shaft, a fixing seat that is mounted around the eccentric shaft of the actuating spindle and has a ball bearing fitted therein, a brake ring that has an elastic inner ring tightly fitted around a lower outer periphery of the fixing seat and an outer ring engaged with an underside of the protective cover, a shoe that is screwed to a bottom of the fixing seat for holding a polishing element to a bottom surface of the shoe. When the shoe is idling, the eccentric shaft of the actuating spindle brings the fixing seat to rotate synchronously in eccentric motion to increase a frictional force between the fixing seat and the brake ring, so that the idling shoe is brought to rotate at low speed and vibrate at high frequency.

Claims

1. A mechanism for slowing down idling shoe of an electric polisher, comprising a housing that forms a body of the polisher, an actuating spindle that downward extends through a protective cover connected to a bottom of said housing has a lower end forming an eccentric shaft, a fan that is mounted on said actuating spindle, a fixing seat that is mounted around said eccentric shaft of said actuating spindle and has a ball bearing fitted therein, a brake ring that has an elastic inner ring tightly fitted around a lower outer periphery of said fixing seat and an outer ring engaged with an underside of said protective cover, a shoe that is screwed to a bottom of said fixing seat for holding a polishing element to a bottom surface of said shoe, and a washer that is positioned between said fixing seat and said shoe;

whereby when said shoe is idling, said eccentric shaft of said actuating spindle brings said fixing seat to rotate synchronously in eccentric motion to increase a frictional force between said fixing seat and said brake ring and thereby slow down said idling shoe.

2. A mechanism for slowing down idling shoe of an electric polisher as claimed in claim 1, wherein said brake ring is made of an elastic material.

3. A mechanism for slowing down idling shoe of an electric polisher as claimed in claim 2, wherein said inner ring and said outer ring of said brake ring are connected to each other by more than one S-shaped elastic arms radially extended between said inner and said outer rings.

4. A mechanism for slowing down idling shoe of an electric polisher as claimed in claim 1, wherein said shoe has fastening means provided at said bottom surface thereof for firmly holding said polishing element to said shoe.

5. A mechanism for slowing down idling shoe of an electric polisher as claimed in claim 1, wherein said fixing seat has a stepped surface provided at said lower outer periphery thereof.