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Silca S.p.a.

Kaba Ilco Inc.

Giorgio Pigatti

Michele Donadini

Maurizio Ugel

Marco Ceccato

Gennaro Giovanni Nigro

Franco Cattai

Carlo Salvador

Flavio Marchesin

Oreste Da Rodda

Moreno Cettolin

Fabrizio Tonello

Alvise Tonon

A method is disclosed for detecting the wear of a cutter in a key-duplicating machine, the cutter being provided with cutting sections to obtain bitting cuts on a key and being put in rotation by an electric motor. The method includes measuring, during at least one cutting cycle carried out by means of the cutter, the values of current and/or voltage absorbed/required by the motor for rotation of cutter and/or motor torque values exerted by the motor. The values thus detected are used to determine if there is wear of the cutting portions of the cutter and/or to quantify the wear of the cutting portions of the cutter.

Method for detecting the wear of a milling cutter of a key-duplicating machine

Methods, systems, and devices for decoding an angle-cut key are provided. A probe is positioned at a first position relative to the angle-cut key. A first depth reading is performed on the angle-cut key. The probe is displaced to a plurality of subsequent positions and performing a plurality of subsequent depth readings on the angle-cut key. A key map of the angle-cut key is generated based on comparisons performed on a set of depth readings, the set of depth readings comprising the first depth reading and the plurality of subsequent depth readings. A signal indicative of the key map is output.

Decoding of angle-cut keys

A clamp for key duplicating machines includes a support, a pin emerging therefrom with a threaded upper end engagable by a knob, the support base having a pair of upper parallel projections on opposite sides of the pin, a lower jaw of square plan, positioned on the support and having a central hole rotatably engaged by the pin, with four grooves in its lower surface parallel to the jaw sides and engagable in pairs with the projections, an upper jaw of square plan, having a central hole rotatably engaged by the pin and cooperating with the lower jaw to clamp a key, wherein the pair of projections are shaped as parallel cylindrical pegs emerging from the upper surface of the support. When the clamp is active, its lower jaw rests only by two grooves on the two projections, otherwise the lower surface is spaced from the support upper surface.

Clamp for a key duplicating machine

A support for a tablet computer includes a base shaped to stably rest both on flat and on curved surfaces, a mechanical system for removably fixing the base securely to a key processing machine to be connected to and controlled by the tablet, a tubular element fixed on the upper surface of the base, a cylindrical member housed in the interior of the tubular element and rotatable relative thereto, first members for resting on and coupling to the lower transverse edge of the tablet and second members for resting on and coupling to the upper transverse edge of the tablet, wherein the first members and the second members are disposed at an angle to each other and are associated with the cylindrical member to rotate therewith relative to the tubular element, the relative distance between said the resting and coupling members and the second resting and coupling members being adjustable.

Tablet computer support

An electronic key duplicating machine includes a base, on which a first support is mounted for a clamp for, at separate moments, an original key and a blank key, an optical reader sensing the bitting of the original key, and a milling cutter reproducing the bitting on the blank key, which are mounted on a second support rigid with the machine base, the clamp being movable along the X axis and the Y axis relative to the second support, a unit memorizing the bitting of the original key sensed by the optical reader and controlling and commanding movement of the clamp and operability of optical reader and milling cutter, wherein the second support is of C-shape with its opening facing the clamp, and the optical reader is mounted on horizontal branches of the second C-shaped support, while the milling cutter is mounted in the cavity defined by the horizontal branches.

Electronic key duplicating machine

A clamp for key cutting machines includes a pair of jaws mounted on a single pin fixed to the machine structure and associated with a knob screwable on a threaded portion of said pin and acting in the sense of causing the jaws to forcedly approach each other, against the elastic reaction of a spring tending to repel them, and to retain a key positioned between them. A clamp according to the invention further includes a friction type overload clutch interposed between the knob and the pin.

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Vittorio Veneto, Italy

Giorgio Pigatti