Houdaille Industries, Inc.

Devlieg-Bullard, Inc.

James G Zeilinger

Leon O Kern

Gerald E Mueller

Apparatus for coupling a tool holder to a machine tool spindle wherein the tool holder is fitted to a coupling interposed between the tool holder and the spindle. The coupling and the tool holder have separable fasteners for separably joining the tool holder and coupling together. The coupling can accommodate tool holders having dissimilar fasteners and the tool holder can be fitted to couplings having dissimilar fasteners.

Apparatus for coupling tool holders

A tool holder assembly is provided with a spindle adapter socket member having a threaded end with a nut threaded thereon, the nut having a clamping configuration at a bottom thereof for clamping a tool adapter to the socket. The socket member is provided with an outer diameter toothed ring and the nut is provided with a mating toothed member movable between toothed ring engaging and tooth ring disengaged positions to lock the nut in fixed rotational position to the socket member.

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Frankenmuth, MI, United States of America

James G Zeilinger