Slide system for machine tools

Patent · Thu Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:864288

Douglass, Spivey S ^[1]; Green, Walter L ^[2]

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1. Oak Ridge, TN
2. Knoxville, TN

The present invention relates to a machine tool which permits the machining of nonaxisymmetric surfaces on a workpiece while rotating the workpiece about a central axis of rotation. The machine tool comprises a conventional two-slide system (X-Y) with one of these slides being provided with a relatively short travel high-speed auxiliary slide which carries the material-removing tool. The auxiliary slide is synchronized with the spindle speed and the position of the other two slides and provides a high-speed reciprocating motion required for the displacement of the cutting tool for generating a nonaxisymmetric surface at a selected location on the workpiece.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 4343206
• OSTI ID: 864288
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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