Walter Ag

Montanwerke Walter Gmbh

Rolf Vollmer

Siegfried Bohnet

Siegfried Deiss

Rolf Huber

Roland Gauss

Horst Stihler

To form undercut grooves in a work piece, especially to retain turbine rotor blades, in a first step, the grooves are cut such that the flanks of the grooves have a preliminarily desired shape; then, in a second step, a bell-type countersink is moved radially to cut the desired shape of the flanks of the groove. Countersink cutters for the second step include a plurality of groups of cutting bits or inserts secured to posts on a shell, or bell-type countersink, in accordance with the profile to be cut.

Tool for the production of arc-shaped grooves

indexable cutting insert

A deep groove, for example a groove in a rotor for a generator or turbine, can be formed in the rotor blank in only two sequential milling cuts, and wherein each milling cut, utilizing a single rotary milling cutter, carries out at the time both coarse cutting of the groove and finish cutting, for surface smoothing, of the coarse cut along the inner surfaces of the groove. The milling cutter carries cutter chips (22, 23, 25; 44, 46) retained against chip seats (27) in cutter chip cartridges (21, 210) wherein at least some of the cutter chips have at least one end cutting edge forming a main or coarse cutting edge (33, 35, 42; 45, 47) exposed from the respective cartridge and the tool body (13, 130) for main or coarse cutting. Some cutter chips located on the cartridges also have at least one fine or finish side cutting edge (36, 49) exposed for cutting. The chips having the at least one main cutting edge cut, each, a portion of the width of the grooves, so that the sequential chips and sequential cartridges coarsely cut the entire width of the groove. The chips having the fine or finish cutting edges in at least one of the sequential cartridges have outwardly directed fine cutting edges (36, 49) located adjacent the main cutting edges (35), so that the combined operation of the cutting edges of the chips in sequential cartridges, with the main or coarse end cutting edges and the fine or finish side cutting edges on the respective chips, will generate a complete coarse and finish cut in the workpiece in one operation. Two such tools can be used with different chip configuration to form stepped grooves of, for example, an overall depth of about 22 cm, with a groove width at the widest point of about 4 cm.

Method and milling tool to make deep grooves in a workpiece, especially

A multi-component chucking system, in particular for concentric or true-rotation tools, has a recieving body (1) optionally having a chucking shaft, with an engagement surface (8) extending at right angles to the axis of rotation (2) and a coaxial retention bore (7) as well as a tool element (9), preferably embodied as a tool holder. On its end face, the tool element also has an engagement surface (11) at right angles to the axis of rotation and is formed with a coaxial retention stub (10) fitting into the retention bore (7), by means of which stub the tool element can be centered with respect to the receiving body. A chucking pin (18) associated with the retention stub and coaxial with the axis of rotation, along with chucking means actuatable from outside the receiving body, allows the clamping together of the tool element and the receiving body. The chucking means have two radially movably supported locking elements (27), which have locking surfaces by which, in a chucking position, wedge-like surface regions (21) of the chucking pin (18 ) that are inclined with respect to the axis of rotation are engaged from below. These wedge-like surface regions of the chucking pin are located on a single common conical surface region that is coaxial with the axis of rotation and forms an acute angle (22) with it.

Multi-component chucking system, particularly for rotary machine tools,

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Tubingen, Germany

Rolf Vollmer