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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 12, 1994
R Lee Chase, Cypress, TX (US);
Russell C Chase, Houston, TX (US);
Other;
Abstract
This disclosure is directed to a chuck system for a machine tool such as a lathe. It incorporates an elongate cylindrical body which terminates in a set of collet fingers having enlargements at the detail end whereby the enlargements define a circular body. The circular body is divided by slots to form collet fingers with enlargements at the ends of the collet fingers. A circumferential groove is formed having a registration shoulder for all of the lock jaw segments. Each lock jaw segment has a protruding tab. The tab is locked by positioning against the face of the groove and is registered against movement by jamming against a transverse post in the groove which shoulders against a conforming notch on the locking tab. A set screw holds the components in fixed location, and release is accomplished by unthreading the set screw.