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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 1988
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1987
Robert A Erickson, Raleigh, NC (US);
Rainer von Haas, Geesthact, DE;
Norbert Reiter, Mettmann, DE;
Hans W Tack, Velbert, DE;
James W Heaton, Raleigh, NC (US);
Kennametal Inc., Latrobe, PA (US);
Krupp Widia GmbH, Essen, DE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an improved toolholder for releasably mounting on a tool support member. The toolholder is provided with a forward end for receiving a tool and a shank extending from the forward end for being releasably received in a bore of a tool support member. The shank has a first section for interference fitting with the bore of the tool support member when a rearwardly facing face on the toolholder is in abutment with a forwardly facing surface on the tool support member. The shank has a second section, rearwardly of its first section, for expansible abutment with the bore of the tool support member.