EP0072934A2 - Dispositif de palpage pour une machine pour l'affûtage automatique des broches - Google Patents
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- EP0072934A2 EP0072934A2 EP82106815A EP82106815A EP0072934A2 EP 0072934 A2 EP0072934 A2 EP 0072934A2 EP 82106815 A EP82106815 A EP 82106815A EP 82106815 A EP82106815 A EP 82106815A EP 0072934 A2 EP0072934 A2 EP 0072934A2
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
- B24B—MACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING; DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS
- B24B3/00—Sharpening cutting edges, e.g. of tools; Accessories therefor, e.g. for holding the tools
- B24B3/16—Sharpening cutting edges, e.g. of tools; Accessories therefor, e.g. for holding the tools of broaches
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- the invention relates to a scanning device according to the preamble of claim 1.
- Machines for automatically sharpening broaching tools with a scanning device and with a touch finger of the generic type are known from US Pat. No. 3,646,593 and are also commercially available.
- the touch finger falls over the cutting edge of the broaching tooth of a broaching tool to be ground, with a corresponding movement of the horizontal carriage, as a result of which the horizontal carriage is stopped.
- an infeed movement of the vertical slide with the grinding slide then takes place in accordance with the vertical deflection of the touch finger, which rests with its horizontal contact surface on the free surface of the broaching tooth.
- the invention is therefore based on the object of designing a scanning device of the generic type in such a way that largely arbitrary but exact guidance of the scanning finger for determining the geometry of the broaching tool is possible.
- the measures according to the invention make it possible for the touch finger to be displaceable exactly in right-angled coordinates and for the movement of the touch finger to be detected precisely in each coordinate direction, so that the original position of the cutting edge can be scanned by scanning the free surface and the rake face of the respective clearing tooth at a distance from the cutting edge is possible, as is described in detail in the applicant's parallel application "touch finger for a scanning device of a machine for automatic sharpening of broaching tools" on the same day.
- Claims 2 to 4 indicate constructive measures by means of which it is ensured that the vertical slide and the horizontal slide, one of which carries the touch finger, can be moved from their respective rest position without play but smoothly.
- an automatic broaching machine has a horizontal slide 3, which is guided on a machine bed 1 and driven by a non-visible servo motor arranged in the machine bed 1 via a roller spindle 2 and carries a broaching tool 5 to be sharpened on a magnetic chuck 4.
- the broaching tool also has a vertical slide 7 connected to the machine bed 1, which is also driven via a roller spindle 8 by a servo motor, likewise not visible in the drawing. At the upper end it rotatably supports a grinding slide 9 with one or more grinding spindles 10.
- the grinding slide 9 can be moved back and forth on the vertical slide 7 transversely to the horizontal slide 3, ie perpendicular to the plane of the drawing in FIG. 1.
- Switch or control cabinets 11 are also provided, in which the - pre-programmable - control devices for controlling the individual drive motors are accommodated.
- a scanning device 12 is arranged on the front part of the grinding spindle 10, by means of which the geometry of the broaching tool 5 to be ground is detected in such a way that an exact regrinding is possible.
- This broaching tool described so far is known in principle, for example, from US Pat. No. 3,646,593. Otherwise, this machine is commercially available.
- the scanning device 12 has a closable by means of a cover 13 approximately cuboid housing 14 on which is attached to a base plate, not shown, on the grinding spindle 10, the attachment to this base plate being able to be such that an adjustment of the housing 14 by means of micrometer screws is possible, such as it is described in U.S. Patent 3,464,593.
- a support frame 16 is screwed onto the bottom 15 of the housing facing the grinding spindle 10, opposite the cover 13, and has two vertical holding webs arranged at a distance from one another and an upper horizontal holding web connecting them.
- two guide rods 2 0 , 21 are held at a distance from each other in a common vertical plane, which are fixed axially immovable in adhesive bores 22 in the holding webs 17, 18 by gluing.
- These two horizontal guide rods 2o, 21, a horizontal slide 23 is displaceably mounted, by means of guide bushings 24, 25, the two guide bars 2 0, 21 engages, in each case K ugelhanfige 26, 27 between the guide rod 2o and 21, respectively on the one hand and the guide bush 24 and 25 respectively on the other hand, are arranged in order to ensure a smooth but play-free guidance and horizontal displaceability of the horizontal slide 23 relative to the housing 14 of the scanning device 12.
- a vertical slide 28 is mounted so as to be vertically displaceable.
- a vertical slide 28 is horizontally attached to a below the horizontal slide 23 arranged support bracket 29 two vertical guide columns 3 0 , 31 attached, which are fastened in corresponding bores 30 ', 31' in the support bracket 29 by gluing.
- These guide columns 3 0 , 31 are mounted vertically displaceably in corresponding vertical guide bushes 32, 33 of the horizontal slide 23.
- ball cages 34, 35 are provided between the guide bushing 32 and 33 on the one hand and guide columns 30 and 31 on the other hand, in order to ensure smooth and at the same time play-free guidance and displaceability of the vertical slide 28 relative to the horizontal slide 23.
- the support bracket 29 of the vertical slide 28 is arranged below the lower side wall 36 of the housing 14, for which purpose a recess 37 is provided in this side wall 36.
- a dust-tight closure of this recess 37 is achieved by a bellows 38 which is fastened on the one hand to the holding bracket 29 and on the other hand to the lower side wall 36.
- An inductive displacement sensor 39 is fastened to the horizontal slide 23 by being fixed radially and axially in a corresponding bore 4o by means of a clamping screw 41 and being secured against rotation.
- a downwardly projecting rod-shaped actuator 42 of the displacement transducer 39 is screwed onto the holding bracket 29 of the vertical slide 28. Since the transducer 39 is arranged parallel with its actuator 42 to the guide columns 3 0, 31, vertical displacements of the vertical slide and therefore be converted 28 into equal movements of the actuator 42 of the transducer 39 into corresponding electrical signals.
- Another horizontally arranged inductive displacement sensor is fixed on the one hand in a corresponding bore 44 of the horizontal slide 23 by gluing.
- its rod-shaped actuator 45 is screwed to a vertical holding web 18. Since this displacement transducer 43 with its actuator 45, which is displaceable relative to it, is also arranged parallel to the horizontal guide rods 2 0 , 21, horizontal displacements of the horizontal slide 23 are converted into adjusting movements of the actuator 45 of the same size relative to the displacement transducer 43 and thus into corresponding electrical signals.
- a stop bush 46 is fastened by gluing, which comes to bear against the vertical retaining web 18, in which the actuator 45 of the horizontal displacement sensor 43 is fastened.
- the horizontal slide 23 is pressed into its rest position by a prestressed spring 47, which is arranged on a guide rod 21 and, on the one hand, bears against the other holding web 17 and the side of the horizontal slide 23 facing it.
- the lower rest position of the vertical slide 28 is set again and again by its own weight.
- a lever 49 is pivotally mounted about an axis 50.
- the lever 49 is arranged in the plane which is spanned by the displacement directions of the horizontal slide 23 and the vertical slide 28; axis 5o is therefore normally arranged for this.
- the lever 49 has a leg 51 located below the axis 5o and angled away from the axis 5o, which engages under a pin 52 fastened to the vertical slide 28.
- This pin is attached to a stop piece 53, which is screwed from above on the front side by means of a screw 54 against a guide column 31, whereby at the same time the vertical slide 28 is secured against falling down out of the horizontal slide 23.
- a core 57 of a lifting magnet 58 which is attached to the associated vertical side wall 59, acts on a leg 55 of the lever 49 ending above the axis 50, with the interposition of a spring 56, the core 57 passing through this side wall 59 through an opening 6 0 .
- the electromagnetic solenoid 58 is excited, the lever 49 is pivoted so that the vertical slide 28 is raised.
- a touch finger 61 is fastened, which is arranged in an adapted recess 62 of the support bracket 29 and is fixed upwards by means of a dowel pin 63 which is guided through it. Axial, radial and tangential fixation is achieved by means of a grub screw 64.
- the touch finger 61 has at its lower end an inclined run-up surface 65, which is followed by a front nose 66 serving as a distant signal transmitter.
- This front nose 66 is delimited by a vertically recessed vertical surface 67 which is adjoined by a horizontal contact surface 68.
- a measuring edge 69 is formed by the Contact surface 68 and an undercut surface 7o which is inclined upward and backward is formed.
- This undercut surface 7o delimits an undercut 71 which is adjoined by a horizontal touch surface 72 which has an edge 73 toward the undercut 71.
- the contact surface 68 jumps upwards by the dimension a in relation to the front nose 66.
- the horizontal touch surface 72 jumps back upward by the dimension b with respect to the contact surface 68. Both dimensions range from a few tenths to 1 millimeter.
- the horizontal extent of the undercut 71 is also a few tenths to a maximum of 1 millimeter. The structure and mode of operation of the touch finger are described in detail in the applicant's "Touch finger for a scanning device of a machine for automatically sharpening broaching tools" from the same day.
- a broaching tool 5 the worn cutting edges 74 of which are to be sharpened again by grinding the rake face 75 and / or the free face 76, is moved in the direction 77 by appropriate driving of the horizontal slide 3, then the tracer finger 61 runs over the free face 76 and falls with it Front nose 66 over the cutting edge 74. This movement triggers a signal in the vertical displacement sensor 39, by means of which the drive motor of the horizontal slide 3 is switched from overdrive to a creep speed.
- a delivery of the vertical slide 7 is triggered via the displacement sensor 39 until the displacement sensor has been adjusted. Subsequent subsequent operations are then triggered. These first include the excitation of the solenoid 58, the core 57 of which is drawn into it, whereby the lever 49 is pivoted about the axis 50 and the vertical slide 28 on the one hand, but on the other hand also moves the horizontal slide 23 further out of its rest position, so that the touch finger 61 is lifted freely from the respective clearing tooth 78 from the free surface 76 and the rake surface 75 without grinding there. This also triggers the actual grinding operations.
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Priority Applications (1)
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AT82106815T ATE13151T1 (de) | 1981-08-08 | 1982-07-28 | Abtasteinrichtung fuer eine maschine zum automatischen schaerfen von raeumwerkzeugen. |
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DE3131511 | 1981-08-08 | ||
DE19813131511 DE3131511A1 (de) | 1981-08-08 | 1981-08-08 | Abtasteinrichtung fuer eine maschine zum automatischen schaerfen von raeumwerkzeugen |
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EP0072934A2 true EP0072934A2 (fr) | 1983-03-02 |
EP0072934A3 EP0072934A3 (en) | 1983-05-18 |
EP0072934B1 EP0072934B1 (fr) | 1985-05-08 |
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EP82106815A Expired EP0072934B1 (fr) | 1981-08-08 | 1982-07-28 | Dispositif de palpage pour une machine pour l'affûtage automatique des broches |
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US (1) | US4514935A (fr) |
EP (1) | EP0072934B1 (fr) |
AT (1) | ATE13151T1 (fr) |
DE (2) | DE3131511A1 (fr) |
Cited By (1)
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EP0665084A1 (fr) * | 1994-01-26 | 1995-08-02 | Oswald Forst Maschinenfabrik und Apparatebauanstalt GmbH & Co Kommanditgesellschaft | Machine pour affûter des outillages d'arasage automatiquement |
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CH364965A (de) * | 1957-05-25 | 1962-10-15 | Bbc Brown Boveri & Cie | Dreidimensional tastender Kontaktfühler für Kopier-Werkzeugmaschinen, insbesondere Kopierfräsmaschinen |
DE1752718A1 (de) * | 1968-07-05 | 1971-08-12 | Forst Oswald Gmbh | Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum automatischen Schaerfen von Raeumwerkzeugen |
DE2646209B1 (de) * | 1976-10-13 | 1978-01-12 | Klink Gmbh Arthur | Vorrichtung zum automatischen nachschleifen von raeumwerkzeugen |
US4166323A (en) * | 1973-09-14 | 1979-09-04 | Maag Gear-Wheel & Machine Co. Ltd. | Gear tester for profile and lead testing |
EP0027186A2 (fr) * | 1979-10-11 | 1981-04-22 | Maag-Zahnräder und -Maschinen Aktiengesellschaft | Procédé pour fixer les limites de mesure dans un appareil de vérification de flancs d'engrenages et appareil de vérification de flancs d'engrenages utilisant ledit procédé |
GB2059832A (en) * | 1979-10-03 | 1981-04-29 | Tacchella Macchine Spa | Broach sharpening machine |
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US3616578A (en) * | 1969-01-10 | 1971-11-02 | Ingersoll Milling Machine Co | Method for turning workpieces |
DE2926807C2 (de) * | 1979-07-03 | 1986-11-13 | Arthur Klink Gmbh, 7530 Pforzheim | Verfahren zum automatischen Positionieren einer Räumwerkzeugschärfmaschine und Vorrichtung zum automatischen Nachschleifen von Räumwerkzeugen |
US4348838A (en) * | 1980-11-13 | 1982-09-14 | Tacchella Macchine S.P.A. | Broach sharpening machine |
DE3131557A1 (de) * | 1981-08-08 | 1983-02-24 | Oswald Forst Maschinenfabrik und Apparatebauanstalt GmbH & Co KG, 5650 Solingen | Tastfinger fuer eine abtasteinrichtung einer maschine zum automatischen schaerfen von raeumwerkzeugen |
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Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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CH364965A (de) * | 1957-05-25 | 1962-10-15 | Bbc Brown Boveri & Cie | Dreidimensional tastender Kontaktfühler für Kopier-Werkzeugmaschinen, insbesondere Kopierfräsmaschinen |
DE1752718A1 (de) * | 1968-07-05 | 1971-08-12 | Forst Oswald Gmbh | Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum automatischen Schaerfen von Raeumwerkzeugen |
US4166323A (en) * | 1973-09-14 | 1979-09-04 | Maag Gear-Wheel & Machine Co. Ltd. | Gear tester for profile and lead testing |
DE2646209B1 (de) * | 1976-10-13 | 1978-01-12 | Klink Gmbh Arthur | Vorrichtung zum automatischen nachschleifen von raeumwerkzeugen |
GB2059832A (en) * | 1979-10-03 | 1981-04-29 | Tacchella Macchine Spa | Broach sharpening machine |
EP0027186A2 (fr) * | 1979-10-11 | 1981-04-22 | Maag-Zahnräder und -Maschinen Aktiengesellschaft | Procédé pour fixer les limites de mesure dans un appareil de vérification de flancs d'engrenages et appareil de vérification de flancs d'engrenages utilisant ledit procédé |
Cited By (1)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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EP0665084A1 (fr) * | 1994-01-26 | 1995-08-02 | Oswald Forst Maschinenfabrik und Apparatebauanstalt GmbH & Co Kommanditgesellschaft | Machine pour affûter des outillages d'arasage automatiquement |
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EP0072934A3 (en) | 1983-05-18 |
EP0072934B1 (fr) | 1985-05-08 |
DE3131511C2 (fr) | 1991-02-14 |
DE3263674D1 (en) | 1985-06-13 |
US4514935A (en) | 1985-05-07 |
ATE13151T1 (de) | 1985-05-15 |
DE3131511A1 (de) | 1983-02-17 |
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