Arrangement for detachably securing a grinding wheel or a group of grinding wheels on a wheel spindle

• US 6,966,824 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2001
• Issued: 11/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Weco Optik GmbH
• Original Assignee: Weco Optik GmbH
• Inventors: Schmitz, Ansgar, Kötting, Fritz
• Primary Examiner(s): Thomas, David B.
• Application Number:
  US10/451,648
• Publication Number:
  US 20040063389A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,453 Days
• Field of Search: 451/177, 451/342, 451/344, 451/359
• US Class Current: 451/177
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 45/006 Quick mount and release means for disc-like wheels, e.g. on power tools
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 9/14 of optical work, e.g. lenses, prisms control of the position of the tool for bevelling optical work B24B47/225

Abstract

Arrangement for releasably fastening a grinding wheel or a group of grinding wheels on a wheel spindle, for example, a group of grinding wheels in a spectacle-lens-edging machine. The machine has a grinding-wheel-retaining shaft that is arranged, in an axially displaceable manner, in a coaxial bore of the wheel spindle, a retaining disk that may be fastened in a releasable manner at the free end of the grinding-wheel-retaining shaft, and clamping elements arranged between the wheel spindle and the grinding-wheel-retaining shaft for axially bracing and releasing the grinding wheel or the group of grinding wheels between the wheel spindle and the retaining disk.

Claims

1. Apparatus for releasably securing a grinding wheel or a group of grinding wheels in a spectacle-lens edging machine, comprising:

a wheel spindle having an axis and a bore extending along the axis;

a grinding-wheel-retaining shaft arranged with a close fit in the bore of the wheel spindle and being displaceable in the bore along the axis of the wheel spindle, the grinding wheel retaining shaft having a free end toward a grinding wheel;

at least one grinding wheel on the free end of the grinding-wheel-retaining shaft, the at least one grinding wheel having a width along the axis of the wheel spindle, the grinding-wheel-retaining shaft being displaceable in the bore of the wheel spindle by at least the width of the grinding wheel;

a retaining disk releasably secured to the free end of the grinding-wheel-retaining shaft for retaining the at least one grinding wheel; and

a clamping arrangement operable to axially release and retract the grinding-wheel-retaining shaft into the bore of the wheel spindle by at least the width of the at least one grinding wheel;

wherein displacement of the grinding-wheel-retaining shaft into the bore of the wheel spindle in one axial direction axially braces the at least one grinding wheel between the wheel spindle and the retaining disk, and in an opposite axial direction releases the retaining disk from the wheel spindle and wherein displacement of the grinding-wheel-retaining shaft into the bore of the wheel spindle in said one axial direction by at least the width of the at least one grinding wheel releases said at least one grinding wheel from the grinding-wheel-retaining shaft.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the retaining disk is configured to be screwed to the free end of the grinding-wheel-retaining shaft.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the retaining disk includes an extension to provide a bayonet connection with the free distal end of the grinding-wheel-retaining shaft.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a screw connection in the bore between the grinding-wheel-retaining shaft and the wheel spindle, wherein the grinding-wheel-retaining shaft is displaceable along the axis of the wheel spindle via the screw connection.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the clamping arrangement includes a headed bolt and a flanged bushing to support the headed bolt on the wheel spindle, the grinding-wheel-retaining shaft including a threaded bore to receive the headed bolt.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the clamping arrangement includes at least one of a hydraulic and pneumatic piston/cylinder unit to displace the grinding-wheel-retaining shaft along the bore of the wheel spindle.