Precision machine tool

• US 7,534,160 B2
• Filed: 01/17/2006
• Issued: 05/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Alexander Bederak, Alex Cooper, Yevgeny Bederak
• Original Assignee: Alexander Bederak, Alex Cooper, Yevgeny Bederak
• Inventors: Bederak, Yevgeny, Bederak, Alexander, Cooper, Alex
• Primary Examiner(s): Wilson; Lee D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MCDONALD, SHANTESE L
• Application Number:
  US11/332,762
• Publication Number:
  US 20070167111A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,218 Days
• Field of Search: 451/5, 451/411, 451/412, 451/414, 108/6, 108/37, 384/445, 384/490, 384/549, 384/558
• US Class Current: 451/5
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 41/068 Table-like supports for panels, sheets or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 7/04 involving a rotary work-table

Abstract

A precision machine tool, comprising a table which is suspended so that it is substantially a swivelable table; a driving element for driving a tood during machining of a part; and a device for orienting said table, said orienting device including at least three orienting elements, each including a plurality of rolling bodies which are brought successively into a contact with a surface of said table on which work pieces to be machined are located.

Claims

1. A precision machine tool, comprising a table which is suspended so that it is substantially a swivelable table;

a driving element for driving a tool during machining of a part; and

means for orienting said table, said orienting means including at least three orienting elements located around an axis of said table, each including a plurality of rolling bodies which are brought successively into a contact with a surface of said table on which work pieces to be machined are located.

2. A precision machine tool as defined in claim 1, wherein said rolling bodies are formed as balls.

3. A precision machine tool as defined in claim 1, wherein each of said orienting elements includes a body with a guide in which said rolling bodies are located.

4. A precision machine tool as defined in claim 3, wherein said guide is formed as a continuous guide.

5. A precision machine tool as defined claim 4, wherein said continuous guide has a substantially rectangular shape with rounded corners.

6. A precision machine tool as defined in claim 4;

further comprising flexible side elements which allow a limited lateral displacement of said rolling elements.