Buff section assembly and method of making
First Claim
1. A method of forming an assembly of buff or brush wheel sections for assembly on the rotatable arbor of a machine comprising the steps of stacking and compressing a plurality of such wheel sections with or without spacers, providing at least the outermost sections or spacers of the stack with core plates, providing such core plates and any intermediate wheel section or spacer core plates with circumferentially spaced and aligned opening sets, tightening a tie looped through said opening sets to hold the assembly together as an integrated bundle of wheel sections, while still permitting axial adjustment of the axial width of the assembly when assembled on the arbor of a machine.
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Abstract
An assembly of buff or brush wheels with or without spacers is stacked, compressed, and held together as an integrated unit to form an assembly of such wheels having a specified face width which then may be mounted as a unit on a machine arbor or drive shaft. The assembly is held together in such a manner that the ganged stack is yieldable and may be further compressed when assembled on the machine arbor. The assembly may also be slightly expanded to obtain a better fit on the machine. The wheel assembly in one form is held at the desired face width by adjustable ties extending through paired holes in core plates in the wheels. In another embodiment carriage bolts extending through the core plates form adjustable screw clamps.
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18 Claims
- 1. A method of forming an assembly of buff or brush wheel sections for assembly on the rotatable arbor of a machine comprising the steps of stacking and compressing a plurality of such wheel sections with or without spacers, providing at least the outermost sections or spacers of the stack with core plates, providing such core plates and any intermediate wheel section or spacer core plates with circumferentially spaced and aligned opening sets, tightening a tie looped through said opening sets to hold the assembly together as an integrated bundle of wheel sections, while still permitting axial adjustment of the axial width of the assembly when assembled on the arbor of a machine.
- 8. A preassembled unit of stacked wheel sections for assembly on the arbor of a buffing or brushing machine, said unit comprising a plurality of wheel sections with or without spacers, at least the outermost sections or spacers being provided with core plates, and means extending axially through the core plates to hold the plurality of wheel sections partially compressed so that said preassembled unit may be further compressed axially when mounted on the arbor of the machine, said means extending through the core plates being one or more ties looped through the core plates.
- 13. A rotary buff comprising a series of stacked compressed buff wheels with or without spacers, said wheels or spacers including core plates in at least the outermost of said wheels or spacers, and means extending axially through said core plates holding said series in axial compression while permitting further axial compression or expansion when said series is assembled on the arbor of a buffing machine, said means extending axially through the core plates being ties looped through circumferentially spaced holes in the core plates.
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18. A rotary buff for assembly mounting on the arbor of a machine comprising a series of axially aligned and compressed buff wheels with or without spacers, at least the outer of said series including core plates, and means extending through the core plates of the series to hold the series axially compressed yet enabling further axial compression or axial expansion when mounted on the arbor of the machine, and wherein said means extending through the core plates comprises a plurality of adjustable ties.
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