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Fly-cutting head, system and method, and tooling and sheeting produced therewith

  • US 9,937,561 B2
  • Filed: 10/05/2015
  • Issued: 04/10/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A fly-cutting apparatus comprising:

  • a motorized spindle for supporting and rotating a workpiece according to command signals from a control system;

    a continuously rotatable fly-cutting head, the fly-cutting head being rotatable about an axis of rotation, wherein the fly-cutting head includes;

    a device mounted to an outer radius of the fly-cutting head, wherein the device is adapted to deform or remove material from the workpiece; and

    a dynamically-controllable actuator, positioned between the axis of rotation and the device and radially spaced from the axis of rotation that changes a position of the device relative to the fly-cutting head, during a cutting operation in response to the command signals from the control system, such that the device traces a controllable, predetermined cutting path relative to a position and rotation of the workpiece.

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