Saint-gobain Abrasives, Inc.

Saint-gobain Abrasifs

Lukasz A Glinski

Krishnamoorthy Subramanian

Debabrata Ghosh

Automatic winding of a wire field in a wire slicing machine is disclosed. In one embodiment, a wire field is automatically generated in a wire slicing machine by unloading wire from at least one wire spool and winding the wire about one or more wire guides to form the wire field.

Automatic winding of wire field in wire slicing machine

Methods for cylindrical grinding a workpiece are disclosed. The method includes cylindrical grinding, with a bonded abrasive wheel having a permeable structure that includes interconnected porosity, a workpiece at a specific cutting energy of less than about 12 Hp/in&#xb7;min (29.7 J/mm), and a material removal rate of at least about 1 in/min&#xb7;in (10.8 mm/sec/mm)grinding. The bonded abrasive wheel may include at least about 3 volume percent of a filamentary sol-gel alpha-alumina abrasive grain having an average length-to-cross-sectional-width ratio of greater than about 4:1, or agglomerates thereof. In one embodiment, the workpiece is ground in the presence of a water soluble oil.

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Worcester, MA, United States of America

Lukasz A Glinski