Charmilles Technologies S.a.

Bernard Babel

Joseph Josserand

Hans Lehmann

Remi Gambin

Jean A Ruffin

Machine for cutting by electrical discharge machining includes an electrode wire tensioned between and running betwee two guide heads each of which is mounted on an arm, one at least of the arms passing through a hole in one of the walls of a tank. The tank can move with respect to the arm and contains a machining liquid. A sealing plate 1 masks the hole in the tank and is linked by at least one seal 4 to the arm 5 through the wall. The wall 2 of the tank through which the arm passes slides along this plate. To prevent the forces due to friction and pressure arising between the plate 1 and the wall 2 and between the seal 4 and the arm 5 and acting asymmetrically on the arm through the wall being transmitted to the arm 5 and causing its deflection, a sheath 6 is mounted between the seal 4 and the arm 5 and encloses this arm without coming into contact with it.

EDM cutting machine including device for preventing transmission of

The device has a case (1) which has a wire guide (2) and a chamber (4) filled with machining liquid which is brought there under pressure by a pipe (7). A nozzle (5) in the shape of a truncated cone fits in the case and closes the chamber (4) in its normal working position by supporting its periphery on the flange (6) provided around the case (1), under the action of the pressure exerted by the dielectric liquid and if necessary by a return spring (8). The thrust exerted on the nozzle by an obstacle (10) during a lateral collision tilts the nozzle without damaging it and it causes at L an escape of liquid which causes the pressure to drop in the chamber (4). A transducer (13) signals the drop in pressure following the collision to the operator and/or to a control system of the erosion machine.

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Petit-Lancy/Geneve, Switzerland

Bernard Babel