US3871139A - Multiple-compliant-bristle, self-centering self-sizing rotary abrasive hone - Google Patents

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US3871139A
US3871139A US468940A US46894074A US3871139A US 3871139 A US3871139 A US 3871139A US 468940 A US468940 A US 468940A US 46894074 A US46894074 A US 46894074A US 3871139 A US3871139 A US 3871139A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24D—TOOLS FOR GRINDING, BUFFING OR SHARPENING
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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
    • B24B39/00—Burnishing machines or devices, i.e. requiring pressure members for compacting the surface zone; Accessories therefor
    • B24B39/006—Peening and tools therefor
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24D—TOOLS FOR GRINDING, BUFFING OR SHARPENING
    • B24D13/00—Wheels having flexibly-acting working parts, e.g. buffing wheels; Mountings therefor
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24D—TOOLS FOR GRINDING, BUFFING OR SHARPENING
    • B24D13/00—Wheels having flexibly-acting working parts, e.g. buffing wheels; Mountings therefor
    • B24D13/02—Wheels having flexibly-acting working parts, e.g. buffing wheels; Mountings therefor acting by their periphery
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24D—TOOLS FOR GRINDING, BUFFING OR SHARPENING
    • B24D13/00—Wheels having flexibly-acting working parts, e.g. buffing wheels; Mountings therefor
    • B24D13/02—Wheels having flexibly-acting working parts, e.g. buffing wheels; Mountings therefor acting by their periphery
    • B24D13/10—Wheels having flexibly-acting working parts, e.g. buffing wheels; Mountings therefor acting by their periphery comprising assemblies of brushes

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  • the field of the invention is generally that of abrasive hones and abrasive brushes for abrading, grinding, polishing, and honing usage, usually in a power-driven manner.
  • This general field has included both outsidesurface abrading, grinding, and/or polishing tools and inside-surface abrading, grinding, and honing tools and, in the latter case, one of the commonest forms thereof has been for grinding and/or honing substantially cylindrical interior workpiece surfaces, such as engine cylinders or inside surfaces of pipes or tubes, and the like, which are merely representative of a great variety of such prior art applications of such inside-surfaceabrading tools.
  • such inside-cylindricalsurface abrading tools or hones have comprised a power-driven carrier or mounting portion adapted to carry one or more members formed of an extremely hard grinding material which usually is of a relatively brittle or frangible type and of a relatively non-elastic, noncompressible type.
  • the invention relates to a flexible, self-centering and self-sizing hone having multiple outwardly extending, flexible, extremely compliant plastic bristles (in a preferred form, made of Nylon plastic) having enlarged abrasive globules of a completely firmly attached and consequently non-flaking and non-chipping type carried by the free outer ends of the elastic, flexible, compliant plastic bristles, with the abrasive globules comprising an outer coating of only the plastic bristle tip ends by a combination of a particulate abrasive material and a plastic bonding material (usually an epoxy resin), with said outer coating and each corresponding plastic bristle tip end effectively bridged and joined to each other by an intervening junction-facilitating surface means comprising a plastic junction means characterized by the fact that it can function as such as intervening bridge between the Nylon bristle tip end material and the plastic bonding material (usually an epoxy resin) of each abrasive globule by reason of its great junction affinity for each
  • the arrangement just described provides an enlarged abrasive globule carried by a plastic bristle tip end in a manner such that the mounting of the enlarged abrasive globule is of a completely non-chipping and nonflaking type by reason of the intervening adhesive material having a great junction affinity for each of the joined materials whereby to provide a very strongly adhesive junction effectively bridging and strongly mechanically interconnecting the tip ends of the otherwise completely flexible and unaltered bristles and the abrasive globules carried by said bristle tip ends, even though the joined materials are of dissimilar types of plastic (such as Nylon in the case of the bristle tip ends and epoxy resin in the case of the bonding material of the abrasive globules) normally not adapted to strongly adhere to one another.
  • the remaining shaft portions of each of the Nylon bristles in a preferred form, remain uncoated by the junction adhesive material, the bonding material, and the abrasive material so as to retain unaltered flexibility
  • the bristles may be made of flexible or resilient plastic material such as Nylon or the like
  • the particulate abrasive material may be made of tungsten carbide or an equivalent material
  • the plastic bonding material may be made of one or more plastic layers such as epoxy resin or the like
  • the intervening junction adhesive material may comprise resorcinol-formaldehyde resin adhesive material, usually of a two-component type capable of having one component thereof applied in liquid form, usually at substantially room temperature, to the exterior of the Nylon bristle tip ends and to then have the second component comprising an additive applied thereto for curing and hardening same in place followed by the application of the plastic bonding material of the coating means (usually comprising an epoxy resin) carrying the abrasive material (such as particulate tungsten carbide or the like) in a desired dissemination pattern which may then be cured in place whereby to provide a preferred form of the invention having each of the extremely strongly bonded-in-place adhesive globules carried by
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide a novel, flexible, self-centering, self-sizing hone of the type referred to in the preceding object wherein the compliancy and elasticity of the substantially unaltered bristle shafts (apart from the tip ends carrying the abrasive globules in an undetachable manner) are of such flexibility and compliance as to make it possible to insert the brush axially into a substantially cylindrical hole in a variety of different workpieces of varying diameters ranging from a diameter substantially equivalent to the non-inserted diameter of the flexible hone down to a substantially smaller diameter than the uninserted diameter of the flexible hone and wherein the dispersal and arrangement of the compliant, flexible, plastic bristles are such that the hone is effectively of a self-sizing type (that is, capable of being inserted into a smaller workpiece bore hole than the exterior diameter of the brush before such insertion) and also is of an effectively self-centering type (produced by reason of the even and opposed distribution of the small,
  • a further object of the invention is to provide a flexible, self-centering, and self-sizing hone of the type referred to herein having a plurality of outwardly directed bristles of thermoplastic material (such as Nylon or the like) so that the outer tip ends of the bristles may be initially enlarged by the application of heat and pressure to define an inner globule matrix, or bristle tip end enlargement, which may be subsequently coated with the previously mentioned intervening adhesive junction-facilitating plastic material and subsequently coated with the previously mentioned outer coating means comprising one or more layers of abrasive material and plastic resin bonding material (usually an epoxy resin) for producing a greatly enlarged abrasive globule.
  • abrasive material and plastic resin bonding material usually an epoxy resin
  • FIG. 1 is a partial side elevation and a partial section, along the plane indicated by the arrows 1-1 of FIG. 2, of one exemplary form of multiple-compliant-bristle self-centering and self-sizing, flexible rotary abrasive hone of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a left end elevation of the flexible, self-centering and self-sizing hone of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 3 is a fragmentary, partially broken-away perspective view of the flexible, self-centering and selfsizing hone of FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • FIG. 4 is a fragmentary, side elevational view of the outer tip end of a representative one of the multiple compliant flexible bristles of the flexible hone of FIGS. 1-3 before the effective formation of the enlarged abrasive globules on the multiple flexible compliant bristle tip ends thereof.
  • FIG. 5 is a fragmentary, cross-sectional view showing a representative outer tip end in side elevation of a representative bristle of the multiple flexible bristles, such as the one shown in FIG. 4, in an intermediate attachment condition such as is produced by an intermediate attachment step comprising the firm affixing to the bristle tip end of ajunction-facilitating, effective bonding surface means which has a great junction affinity for the plastic material (usually Nylon plastic material) of the bristle tip end and which will have a similar great junction affinity for the wear-attritionable bonding material (usually an epoxy resin) of the outer coating means comprising the enlarged abrasive globule subsequently attached and firmly affixed to the intervening junction-facilitating, effective bonding surface means of FIG. 5 in the manner clearly shown in FIG. 6.
  • FIG. 5A is a view very similar to FIG. 5, but illustrates one first representative exemplary step in producing the arrangement shown in FIG. 5.
  • FIG. 5B is a view similar to FIG. 5A, but illustrates one second representative exemplary step in producing the arrangement shown in FIG. 5.
  • FIG. 6 is a fragmentary, partially cross-sectional view generally similar to FIG. 4 and FIG. 5, but showing the representative, fragmentary, bristle tip end in a final attached condition such as is produced by a final abrasive-globule-attaching step, and clearly illustrates the construction and mode of attachment of the representative enlarged abrasive globule with respect to the bristle tip end, by way of the intervening bridging junction-facilitating bonding surface means, in a firmly attached manner capable of hard abrasive honing usage without flaking, breaking away, or partial detachment of portions of the abrasive globule occurring despite even the hardest type of such honing and abrading usage.
  • junction-facilitating, effective bonding surface means is clearly shown in junction-facilitating bridging relationship between the plastic material (usually Nylon) of the bristle tip end and the plastic material (usually epoxy resin) of the bonding material carrying the particulate abrasive particles and comprising together the coating means forming the enlarged abrasive globule.
  • FIG. 7 is a fragmentary, partially elevational and partially cross-sectional view generally similar to FIG. 6, but illustrating another form of the invention of a laminated, multi-layer construction.
  • FIG. 8 is a view of aspect similar to FIG. 6, but illustrates another slight variation of the invention wherein the abrasive globule has the abrasive particles substantially evenly disseminated throughout the bonding material of the outer coating means and together comprising the abrasive globule.
  • FIG. 9 is a view similar in aspect to FIG. 6, but illustrates a further slight modification wherein the inner plastic bristle tip end (usually made of Nylon plastic) is initially formed in a pre-attachment step into a preattachment inner base enlargement tip prior to attachment of the intervening, junction-facilitating bonding surface means such as illustrated in FIG. 6 and the subsequent attachment thereto of the plastic bonding material (usually epoxy resin) of the outer coating means comprising the enlarged abrasive globule.
  • the inner plastic bristle tip end usually made of Nylon plastic
  • the inner plastic bristle tip end is initially formed in a pre-attachment step into a preattachment inner base enlargement tip prior to attachment of the intervening, junction-facilitating bonding surface means such as illustrated in FIG. 6 and the subsequent attachment thereto of the plastic bonding material (usually epoxy resin) of the outer coating means comprising the enlarged abrasive globule.
  • FIG. 10 is a reduced size, somewhat diagrammatic side view, partly in elevation and partly in section, illustrating one exemplary form of the flexible self-sizing, self-centering hone of the present invention prior to the insertion thereof into the interior of a bore hole, such as an engine block cylinder, or the like, which is shown somewhat diagrammatically fragmentarily and in crosssection and which is of somewhat smaller size than the initial exterior diameter of the flexible self-centering and self-sizing hone.
  • a bore hole such as an engine block cylinder, or the like
  • FIG. 11 is a view similar to FIG. 10, but illustrates the flexible self-sizing and self-centering hone of FIG. 10 after forcible insertion thereof into the interior of the somewhat smaller diameter bore hole or cylinder, the inner surface of which comprises a workpiece to be honed by the flexible self-sizing and self-centering hone of the present invention.
  • a representative, but non-specifically-limiting, form of rotary power-driving tool adapted to grip the effective chuck end of the bristle mounting base of the flexible hone is shown nd indicates the flexible hone as being power-rotated while in the self-centered bristle-deflected condition clearly shown in this view for producing a superior honing action on the interior cylindrical surface of the workpiece.
  • the self-centering and self-sizing hone includes multiple tufts of bristles 22 and a bristle-mounting base 24 in the form of a twisted wire 26 having the inner end portions 28 of each bristle (or middle portions of double-ended bristles) helically twisted therein in a manner well-known in the brushmaking art.
  • the manner of the mounting of the bristles is exemplary only and other bristle-mounting modes may be employed within the scope of the invention.
  • Each bristle 22 is of flexible, compliant construction and includes a shaft portion 225 and a free outer tip end 22T constructed of a flexible thermoplastic material such as Nylon, which is extremely effective because of the outstanding flexibility characteristics thereof, which greatly enhance the selfcentering and self-sizing function of the hone.
  • An enlarged abrasive globule 30 is adapted to be formed on and non-detachably mounted on the free outer tip end 22T of at least certain of the bristles 22 (usually of substantially all of the bristles 22, in a preferred form of the invention) so as to provide a multiple-compliant-bristle, extremely flexible, selfcentering and self-sizing abrasive bone for honing and grinding purposes (usually for honing the interior curved and usually substantially cylindrical surface of a workpiece).
  • the brush is intended primarily for power-rotation, whereby to hone an interior, substantially cylindrical workpiece surface of a bore hole, or cylindrical recess
  • the plurality of abrasive globules is mounted by the radially outwardly arranged array of compliant Nylon bristles so as to define an outer cylindrical, abrasive surface, provided by the arrangement of abrasive globules 30, which is capable of being easily resiliently inwardly deflected when inserted into a somewhat-smaller-diameter cylindrical workpiece surface in the manner clearly shown in FIG.
  • Each abrasive globule 30 is limited to being mounted on the bristle tip end 22T in a manner such that the major portion of the Nylon bristle shaft 228 is free of any outer coating such as that forming the enlarged abrasive globule 30 carried only by the outer bristle tip end 22T and which includes bonding material 34 and particulate abrasive material 36.
  • each bristle tip end 22T such as is shown in FIG. 4 in an initial condition, is first provided with an effective junction-facilitating bonding surface means which, in the case of Nylon bristle tips 22T, comprises the application ofjunction adhesive material 35 thereto, as is clearly shown in FIG.
  • the coated bristle tip ends 22T may be immersed in finely divided, particulate abrasive material 36, which may also be positioned in a tray or otherwise applied to the coated bristle tip ends 22T, thus producing multiple composite abrasive globules 30, such as shown in FIG.
  • each such abrasive globule 30 on the corresponding bristle tip end 22T and with the intervening junction-facilitating, ef fective bonding surface means comprising the above junction adhesive material 35 acting as an extremely strong, intervening mechanical bridge between the Nylon material of the bristle tip end 22T and the bonding material 34 of the composite abrasive globule 30 which, in a preferred form, comprises an epoxy resin adhesive material, one exemplary form of which may be that form of epoxy resin adhesive material manufactured by the Epoxylite Corporation of the United States of America and identified by said company as Epoxylite No.
  • the adhesive bonding material 34 can be cured at an elevated temperature of between 200 and 250 F. for a period of approximately 4 hours.
  • the particulate abrasive material may, in one preferred form, comprise particles of tungsten carbide, carborundum, or other equivalent, extremely hard materialsuitable for honing usage.
  • one preferred form of the intervening junction-facilitating bonding means comprising the junction adhesive material 35 may comprise a two-component resorcinol-formaldehyde resin adhesive including a first component capable of being applied in liquid form at room temperature to the exterior of the Nylon bristle tip ends, and also including a second hardener component comprising an additive to be applied thereto for curing and hardening same in place, and this exemplary form and method are best illustrated in FIGS. 5A and 5B.
  • FIG. 5A and 5B this exemplary form and method are best illustrated in FIGS. 5A and 5B.
  • a first component of such a resorcinolformaldehyde resin adhesive comprising a partially condensed resorcinol-formaldehyde resin in an alcohol-water solution has been applied to the bristle tip end 22T, as is in FIG. 5A only, and is indicated by the reference numeral 37, after which a second component of the resorcinol-formaldehyde resin adhesive, comprising a hardener in the form of a powder of paraformaldehyde and a cellulosic filler, is added to the first component 37 already carried by the bristle tip end 22T of FIG. 5A.
  • This second step is clearly shown in FIG.
  • junction adhesive material designed by the reference numeral 35 which strongly adheres to the Nylon material of the Nylon bristle tip end 22T and also strongly adheres to the subsequently applied and subsequently cured epoxy resin bonding material 34 of the outer coating means 32 forming and comprising the abrasive globule 30, and that the junction affinity of the junction adhesive material 35 for both the Nylon material of the bristle tip end 22T and the epoxy resin bonding material 34 of the abrasive globule is so great as to completely prevent breaking away or flaking away of all, or any substantial portion, of the abrasive globule 30 from its bridged junction and attachment to the Nylon bristle tip end 22T despite the hardest kind of honing usage of the entire flexible hone such as is illustrated in FIG.
  • each abrasive globule is such as to retain, completely unaltered, the flexible character and nature of the Nylon bristle shafts 228 while positively preventing chips or flakes of the abrasive globule 30 from becoming detached during usage of the flexible self-centering, self-sizing bone.
  • each completely uncoated Nylon bristle shaft 228 is at least twice as great as that which would be provided if the muIti-phase material applied to the Nylon bristle tip end 22T in the process of mounting each abrasive globule 30 thereon, extended along the length of the shaft portion.
  • the ratio of the unaltered, uncoated bending flexibility and compliance to that of the coated shaft forms thereof is substantially greater than that just described.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates a modification wherein the intervening junction-facilitating bonding surface means is essentially the same as in the first form of the invention and is indicated at 35a.
  • the coating making up the enlarged abrasive globule 30a comprises multiple layers or laminations, each indicated at 32a,and each of which includes a bonding material 34a and a particulate abrasive material 36a bonded to one or more interfaces, such as indicated at 38.
  • This arrange ment produces a laminated, greatly enlarged abrasive globule 30a usually made of the same bonding materials and particulate abrasive materials as the first form of the invention and with each layer interface making possible the production of a larger composite abrasive globule than might otherwise be the case.
  • FIG. 8 illustrates a slight variation wherein the coating 32b of the abrasive globule 30b is prepared in a manner somewhat differently from that previously described in connection with the coating forming the enlarged abrasive globule 30 of FIG. 6 in that the liquid epoxy resin bonding material 34b and the tungsten carbide abrasive particles 36b are initially combined together in an intermixed form prior to the application thereof to the composite junction adhesive material layer, comprising the intervening junction-facilitating bonding surface means 35b, which is of the same type as that shown in FIG. 6 of the first form of the invention.
  • the intermixed relationship of the outer coating means 32b of the abrasive globule 30b may be provided by mixing the liquid epoxy resin bonding material 34b and the abrasive particles 36b in any suitable container immediately prior to application to the bristle tip end 22Tb, carrying the intervening junction adhesive means 35b thereon in a manner similar to the corresponding showing of the junction adhesive means 35 in FIG. 5.
  • FIG. 9 illustrates a slight variation of the first form of the invention, with similar parts being designated by similar reference numerals, followed by the letter c, however.
  • the major difference of the FIG. 9 form is the fact that a major part of the enlarged abrasive globule 300 is provided by a preliminary enlargement of the bristle tip end 22T of FIG. 4 to an enlarged Nylon bristle tip end, such as is shown at 22E in FIG. 9.
  • the effective bonding surface means comprising the junction adhesive material 350
  • a smaller quantity of the outer coating means 320 is required to produce an over-all composite, enlarged abrasive globule 30c of a size comparable to that of the first form of the invention, as best shown in FIG. 6.
  • FIG. 10 and FIG. 11 merely illustrate the effective self-centering and self-sizing features of the novel flexible hone 20 of the present invention wherein the workpiece, indicated generally at 40, is shown in somewhat fragmentary diagrammatic form in cross-section as comprising a bore hole or recess having a substantially curved and usually cylindrical inner workpiece surface 42 which is to be honed.
  • the exterior diameter of the flexible hone 20 is greater than the interior cylindrical diameter of the workpiece 42 and that when the flexible hone 20 is forcibly inserted into the smaller-diameter, substantially cylindrical, interior workpiece surface 42 in the manner shown in FIG.
  • a multiple-compliant-bristle, selfcentering rotary abrasive brush means having enlarged, abrasively coated, outer bristle tip ends of multi-phase material comprising: a plurality of outwardly directed, flexible, plastic inwardly effectively compressible, elastically bendable bristles mounted in a substantially radially and cylindrically arranged array thereof and provided with and carried by a bristle-mounting base means, each of said bristles being formed of flexible, resiliently elastically bendable, compliant non-metallic plastic material having corresponding exteriorly completely uncoated, flexible, compliant shaft portions made of said plastic material and having a free outer end of said plastic material positioned with respect to the corresponding outer ends of the other bristles in a substantially cylindrically oriented array thereof and there being provided with and being coated with outer coating means effectively defining an enlarged abrasive globule carried thereby and effectively forming an outer terminus of composite multi-phase material comprising the bristle tip end and said enlarged abras
  • junction adhesive material comprises a resorcinol-formaldehyde resin adhesive
  • at least one component thereof is of an initially liquid form adapted to be cured and hardened-in-place in the presence of another component thereof to provide a solid junction adhesive material very strongly and effectively adhering to the plastic material of each bristle tip end and also strongly adhering to said wear-attritionable plastic resin bonding material of each enlarged abrasive globule.
  • each of said bristles is formed of extremely flexible, compliant, bendable, Nylon plastic material
  • said junction adhesive material comprises a two-component resorcinol-formaldehyde resin adhesive wherein at least one component thereof is of an initially liquid form adapted to be cured and hardened-inplace in the presence of the other component thereof to provide a solid junction adhesive material very strongly and effectively adhering to the Nylon plastic material of each bristle tip end and also strongly adher- 1 l ing to said wear-attritionable plastic resin bonding material of each enlarged abrasive globule.
  • said wear-attritionable bonding material comprises an epoxy resin
  • said junction adhesive material comprises a two-component resorcinol-formaldehyde resin adhesive wherein at least one component thereof is of an initially liquid form adapted to be cured and hardened-in-place in the presence of the other component thereof to provide a solid junction adhesive material very strongly and effectively adhering to the Nylon plastic material of
  • each coated bristle tip end is effectively, enlarged by the junction, mounting and fastening thereof of said outer coating means acting to effectively enlarge said bristle tip end so as to provide the enlarged composite abrasive globule configuration.
  • each of said bristles made of said extremely flexible, compliant, bendable plastic material, has a modulus of elasticity of a sufficiently low value as to cause the intermediate uncoated shaft portion of said bristle from an inner end thereof carried by said bristlemounting brush base to the free outer bristle tip end thereof carrying the enlarged abrasive globule and effectively comprising said multi-phase material, to have a bending flexibility and compliance at least twice as great as that which would be provided by said multiphase material if said coating means extended along substantially the complete length of said shaft portion.
  • each of said bristles made of said extremely flexible, compliant, bendable Nylon plastic material, has a modulus of elasticity of a sufficiently low value as to cause the intermediate uncoated shaft portion of said bristle from an inner end thereof carried by said bristle-mounting brush bbase to the free outer bristle tip end thereof carrying the enlarged abrasive globule and effectively comprising said multi-phase material, to have a bending flexibility and compliance at least twice as great as that which would be provided by said multiphase material if said coating means extended along substantially the complete length of said shaft portion.

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US468940A US3871139A (en) 1974-05-10 1974-05-10 Multiple-compliant-bristle, self-centering self-sizing rotary abrasive hone
AR258669A AR205121A1 (es) 1974-05-10 1975-01-01 Cepillo abrasivo giratorio
ZA00752185A ZA752185B (en) 1974-05-10 1975-04-07 A rotary abrasive hone
NO751220A NO143732C (no) 1974-05-10 1975-04-08 Roterende, sylindrisk, selvsentrerende honeverktoey
DE2518246A DE2518246C3 (de) 1974-05-10 1975-04-24 Rotierendes Ziehschleif- oder Honwerkzeug
AT325975A AT335878B (de) 1974-05-10 1975-04-28 Rotierende schleifburste
GB18450/75A GB1480673A (en) 1974-05-10 1975-05-02 Rotary abrasive hone
IT68147/75A IT1032817B (it) 1974-05-10 1975-05-06 Dispositivo levigatore abrasivo rotante
SE7505283A SE407357B (sv) 1974-05-10 1975-05-06 Slipborste innefattande elastiskt bojbara borst vilka strecker sig ut fran ett stod som er roterbart kring en axel och varvid varje borst ber en kula el dyl i form av en slipkropp
PL1975180181A PL114852B1 (en) 1974-05-10 1975-05-06 Rotary abrasive brush in particular for polishing purposes
BR3580/75A BR7502807A (pt) 1974-05-10 1975-05-08 Escova ou brunidora rotativa
DK204875A DK162823C (da) 1974-05-10 1975-05-09 Roterende, cylindrisk, selvcentrerende honevaerktoej
FR7514563A FR2270057B1 (cs) 1974-05-10 1975-05-09
CS753288A CS222216B2 (en) 1974-05-10 1975-05-12 Method of making the rotation cylindrical self-centering honing instrument
HK70/78A HK7078A (en) 1974-05-10 1978-02-02 Rotary abrasive hone
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