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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 1987
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1986
Gary L McNeil, Allegan, MI (US);
Roto-Finish Company, Inc., Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Abstract
A vibratory finishing machine for the surface finishing of workpieces comprising an essentially spiral trough, having a plurality of channels in side-by-side relationship, resiliently mounted for vibration and tilted with respect to the horizontal; such a spiral trough which is employed as a finishing chamber by attachment to a resiliently-mounted vibratory structure of a vibratory finishing machine; and a method and apparatus for vibratorily finishing a workpiece by subjecting it to a surface finishing medium in such a trough, having liquid finishing medium in only lower sections thereof and having solid finishing medium in an outer channel of said trough, are disclosed.