CA2475801C - Tool for surface burring - Google Patents

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CA2475801C
CA2475801C CA002475801A CA2475801A CA2475801C CA 2475801 C CA2475801 C CA 2475801C CA 002475801 A CA002475801 A CA 002475801A CA 2475801 A CA2475801 A CA 2475801A CA 2475801 C CA2475801 C CA 2475801C
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21JFORGING; HAMMERING; PRESSING METAL; RIVETING; FORGE FURNACES
    • B21J5/00Methods for forging, hammering, or pressing; Special equipment or accessories therefor
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    • B21J5/068Shaving, skiving or scarifying for forming lifted portions, e.g. slices or barbs, on the surface of the material

Abstract

A tool for burring the surface of a material. The tool has two sets of oppositely facing toothed blades which are made to move towards each other when the tool is pressed against a surface. Each tooth planes a shallow groove into the surface which results in hook-like burrs or planings rising from each groove. Limiters on the blade stroke ensure that the raised burr is not severed. A spring returns the blades to their start position. The resulting surface therefore has a plurality of shallow, non-piercing stopped grooves with a like plurality of hook-like burrs. Such a modified surface provides increased surface area for electrochemical activity, and a mechanical grip to materials bonded thereto. The tool uses replaceable blade packs which snap into a permanent tool housing. The tool may be operated with a simple hammer blow or it may be rapidly driven into large or small areas of a surface by a manual and/or computer directed punch press.

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SPECIFICATIONS
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

US patent # 5,376,410 to the present applicant disclose a process for modifying the surface of a material to which the present invention pertains. Canadian patent #
1,337,622 also to the present applicant discloses a generic tool to effect the process. US patent 46,553,869 also by the present applicant discloses a method of fabricating toothed blades for such a tool. The present invention discloses an improvement to this tool with structures offering ease of manufacture, assembly and use.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

A blade pack comprises two sets of toothed blades arranged in opposing directions.
Aligned holes in each blade set have an actuator rod to move the blades.
Identical notches in the blades align to create a common cavity to hold a spring to return blades to a start position.
The blades and spring are inserted into a channel-shaped clip. The elongated slots in the clip align with the blade holes and taper-ended alignnient pins are inserted which cause a slight compression of the spring. By clamping the aligned clip and blades together, the tapered pins can be removed and replaced by two permanent actuator rods inserted through the clip and blade holes. Proper dimensioning of blades, spring, and clip, allows the spring to force the rods apart and against the end of the slots in the clip thereby creating a secure assembly that allows handling without parts falling out.

Such blade packs can be standardized as to size and tooth design.

A tool body comprises a channel shaped structtire into which the blade set or pack fits. The sides of the tool have angled slots to receive the actuator rods. Shallow notches at the start of the angled slots provide a ledge for the rods to snap-fit into providing a retention force yet allowing easy insertion and removal of the blade pack. When the tool is pressed against the surface to be modified, the actuator rods ride the angled slots upwards and towards each other moving the blades. The blade's movement causes each blade's teeth to dig into the surface and together cut or plane a plurality of short, stopped grooves. This raises a like plurality of planed chips, or burrs, which are not severed but rather are allowed to remain firmly attached to one end of the respective groove from which it came.

To make such a process cost-effective, the tool that does the processing must have low-cost blades that are easily replaceable when dull. 'I'he present invention discloses such a tool for modifying a generally planar surface of a work piece,: comprising first and second sets of blades, each blade comprising a generally planar blade member having a body portion and a plurality of teeth at the bottom of said body portion, said teeth presenting a cutting edge at a planing angle to a surface, said first set of blades having teeth extending in a first longitudinal direction, said second set of blades extending in an opposite longitudinal direction; biasing means urging said first set of blades apart from said second set of blades in the longitudinal axis direction; a retaining member for retaining said blades in a side by side relationship and for retaining said biasing means; a first actuator extending through said retaining member and through said body portions of said first set of blades; a second actuator extending through said retaining member and through said body portions of said second set of blades;
and a housing member designed to receive said blades and actuators, and to present said blades to a surface requiring said modification: said housing menibei- llaving means for guiding said actuators
2 such that upon a force being exerted on said housing member, said actuators cause said blades to move in opposite directions and thereby causing said teeth to plow into said surface.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF "I'1-IE DRAWINGS

Figure 1 shows two sets of opposing toothed blades, Figure 2 shows the opposing blades interdigitated and brought into starting position with holes and notches aligned and with a return spring urging the blades apart;

Figure 3 shows a side view of the blade clip with elongated holes or slots for the rods Figure 4 shows an end view of the interdigitated blades of Fig. 2;

Figure 5 shows an end view of the blade clip with spring;

Figure 6 shows the blade pack assembly with blade clip retaining member enclosing blades and spring (biasing means) and with actuator rods extending out of each side;
Figure 7 shows a side view of the samc enlbodiment with the spring shown in phantom form;
Figure 8 shows how double springs cau be incorporated;

Figure 8a shows a double notched blade where fewer oi- tllinner blades requires the use of a spring that is too small in diameter to rest on the deeper notch;

Figure 9 shows the complete assembled tool with tool housing member enclosing blade set or pack;

Figure 10 shows a top view of a flanged, slide-on sheath to retain actuator rods;
Figure 11 shows a side view of the same embodiment_ Figure 12 shows an end view of the embodiment of Fig. 9 where the tool housing member is machined or fornled fronl a solid block;
3 Figure 13 shows an end view of a diticrent embodiment ol'the tool housing member where the channel-shaped tool body is formed by folding bar stock;

Figure 14 shows another embodiment where the tool housing member is assembled from three components and where a spring element encloses tllree sides of the tool and is used to retain the actuator rods in the tool body and allows the replacement of the blade pack assembly.

DE"1',AILED DESCRIPTION

In Fig 1 identical blades are shown as being a left hand blade l a and a right hand blade lb.
There could be any number of such blades in a blade set 1 c. For example eight are shown in in the blade set of Figs. 4. 6. 12. Normallv haif the blades w0uld be left hand la and half right hand lb. The blades have teeth 4a, 4b_ actuator holes 2a, 2b, notch 5a, 5b, and top surfaces 7a, b. The blades direction of cut are shown by arrows ')a and 3b. "I'he blades are normally arranged in an interdigitated manner as in the Fig. 4 end view of the blade set showing alternative left hand I a and right hand blades lb forming the blade set 1 c.
Other assembly arrangements of the blade set are possible consistent with having equal number of each so as to achieve a desired cancellation of cutting forces. Othervise the workpiece would have to be clamped to resist forces which would otherwise be greater in one cutting direction. For very special conditions it is possible to have uncqual number ol'opposing blades where the blades are not identical as to thickness, tooth design and/or nLunber. In such a case, although the left and right blades nlay be unequal in number, the total cutting forces in each direction should be approximately equal to elinrinate work piece clamping requirements.
4 Fig. 2 shows the interdigitated blade set with the notclies 5a. 5b and holes 2a, 2b all aligned, and with a biasing means (spring) 5 nestled in the space created by the aligned notches. Actuator rods (rods) 9a, b (Fig. 6) slide through the ali~,~ned holes. The spring 5 keeps the blades apart and establishes a first dimension 6b representing the maximum distance between outside rod surfaces with blade notches 5a, 5b just touching spring 5, that is, with no compression of the spring. In Fig. 3 the blade retaining membei- (clip) 8 has elongated holes (slots) 8a, b where the dimension 6b is less that 6a by, say. 0.010 inch or 0.2 mm. By this means, when blades 1 a, I b, spring 5 and rods 9a, 9b are fitted in blade clip 8, the spring 5 must be slightly compressed resulting in rods 9a, b being iorced against the ends of the slots 8a, 8b. By this means, all components ai-e retained in the clip. Stated otherwise, pre-compression of the spring prevents the rods 9a. 9b from inadvertently falling out of the clip 8 during normal handling.

Fig. 5 shows an end view of the clip 8 showing slots 8a. 8b and how the spring straightness under compression is maintained bv having it's dianieter closelv matching the blade clip 8 size. Fig. 6 shows the sanle view with blade set 1 c and rods 9a, 9b installed and indicating how inner upper surface 7 is very close to blade pack top surface 7a, 7b and thereby serves to hold blades substantially parallel to clip.

Fig. 7 shows a conlpleted blade set Id where the spring 5. notch walls 5a, 5b, and blade top surfaces 7a, 7b are all shown in dotted outline. Such replaceable blade sets can be made in standard sizes. They may be throwaway or may be disassembled for sharpening.

Where a material to be processed is 'sticky' and/or the cuts are deep, an additional spring, or other biasing means such as urethane blocks, may easily be accommodated by deepening the notch to hold two or niore springs as shown in Fig S. In large blade sets springs may also be mounted side by side (not shown). In small blade sets where the width of the assembled blades requires a spring that is too small in diameter to rest on the deep notch, a double notch design provides spring support neat the blade's hole end. The deeper notch to clear the opposing actuator rod being only at the otlier end of tlie blade as shown in Fig 8a.

Fig. 9 shows a complete tool I e which has a generally channel shape housing member (tool body) 10. Both sides of the tool body 10 have rod guiding means such as angled slots 14a, 14b open at the bottonl to enable actuator rods 9a. 9b to engage angled slots 14a, 14b. In Fig. 9 arrows 15a indicates the direction the rods 9a, 9b travel when force 15 is applied to mounting stub 12. (Stub 12 inay have threads, grooves. hanuner surface or other means to adapt to presses and inlpactors.) The limit of angled slots is shown as 14c.
Slot notches 13a, 13b define a distance 6c which is less that 6b by, sav, 0.0I O" or 0.2 mm.
These notches 13a, 13b provide a retaining means for rods 9a, 9b and thercfore for the blade pack ld. Rods 9a, 9b will 'snap' into the notches by spring pressure and thereby prevent blade pack 1 d from accidentally falling out of the tool I e. Thumb pin 11 and spring 11 a form a simple method of ejecting blade set 1d ti-oni tool 1e.

This one piece housing~r member or tool body I e can be machined from a solid block in two operations, the first with a pair of shaped cutters to crosswise mill the two angled slots followed by the second using aplain slotting cutter to longitudinally mill the channel.

Four tabs 25 of which only one is shown in Fi-. 9 and two in Fig. 12, may be formed at the four corners of the housing member 10 to retain a sleeve 30 shown in Fig 11.
The sleeve 30 in Figs. 10, 11 just drops doxvn over housing member 10 and rests on tabs 25. In another embodiment the sleeve 30 has inwardly formed tlanges 31 that test on top of tool body 10 as shown in dotted outline in Fig. 13.

Fig. 13 and 14 show alternate metliods offabricatin~c the housing member where Fig. 13 shows a one piece housing member 21 fornled bti toldino bar stock into a channel and Fig. 14 shows a three piece housing member comprising two identical side 21 and a bridge 22 joined together by rivets or other fasteners 20. In these einbodinlents the sides to be slotted and notched are flat to begin with and therefore the angled slots and notches can be formed using a punch and die. Fig 14 also shows a spring clamp 40 on housing member 10 to retain actuator rods 9a yet allow easv replacement of blade pack I d.

Claims (6)

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1. An apparatus for modifying a generally planar surface of a work piece, said apparatus comprising:

first and second sets of blades, each blade comprising a generally planar blade member having a body portion and a plurality of cutting teeth along the bottom edge of said body portion, said first set of blades having teeth extending in a first longitudinal direction, said second set of blades extending in an opposite longitudinal direction;

biasing means urging said first set of blades apart from said second set of blades in the longitudinal axis direction;

a retaining member for retaining said blades in a side by side relationship and for retaining said biasing means;

a first actuator extending through said retaining member and through said body portions of said first set of blades;

a second actuator extending through said retaining member and through said body portions of said second set of blades; and a housing member designed to receive said blades, said retaining member, and said first and second actuators, said housing member having means for guiding said actuators such that upon a force being exerted on said housing member, said actuators cause said first and second sets of blades to move in opposite directions and said said teeth to cut into said surface.
2. The apparatus of Claim 1 wherein said retaining member comprises a U-shaped retaining member having a pair of side walls, each of said side walls having longitudinally extending slots formed therein to receive said first and second actuators.
3. The apparatus of Claim 1 wherein each of said actuators comprises a cylindrical member.
4. The apparatus of Claim 1 wherein each of said means for guiding said actuators comprises a lower vertical portion and an upper inwardly extending portion.
5. The apparatus of Claim 1 wherein said biasing means comprises a spring member, said spring member being mounted between said body portions of said first and second sets of blades so as to urge apart said first and second set of blades.
6. The apparatus of Claim 5 wherein said spring member further urges said first and second actuators against respective opposite ends of said longitudinally extending slots.
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