Title of Invention

A DISK-OR BAR-SHAPED TOOL FOR CHIP REMOVING MACHINING

Abstract

This invention relates to a disk- or bar-shaped tool for chip-removing machining, in particular for cutting profiles in a workpiece such as a rotationally driven crankshaft to be machined, having several peripheral cutting inserts (11) radially clamped to a tool mount (10), at least one cutting insert (11) is fixed in a cassette-shaped holder (12). the cassette-shaped holder (12) is axially adjustable by means of adjustment wedge (13) near where it bears on the cutting insert (11) and /or is radially adjustable by an adjustment wedge (33), the cassette-shaped holder (12) comprises a doubly bent shape (15, 16, 17) with an upper part (15) having a front face forming the support surface for the cutting insert (11) and a back face bearing on an adjustment wedge (13), and a lower part (17) extending parallel to but being offset from the upper part (15) fixed on the disk-shaped mount (10) by means of a mounting screw (31, 35) passing through a bore, the upper and lower parts (15 and 17) being connected by a central transverse web (16), and the adjustment wedge (13) can shift the upper part (15) into different axial positions by bending.

Full Text

FIELD OF INVENTION The invention relates to a disk- or bar-shaped tool for chip-removing machining, in particular for cutting profiles in a workpiece such as a rotationally driven crankshaft to be machined, having several peripheral cutting inserts radially clamped to a tool mount. BACKGROUND OF INVENTION Disk-shaped high-speed tools are described in EP 0,830,228 which are driven such that material is machined off at rotation speeds above 160 RPM. In particular when machining a crankshaft and in particular for forming undercuts, disk millers are used where the tool mounts, to whose periphery the cutting inserts are radially clamped, are formed as complete circular disks. During external milling of a crankshaft, both the crankshaft and the milling tool are rotated. In a single rotary system a linear tool is radially moved toward the rotating workpiece. In a double rotary system a row of cutting inserts carried on a part- circular periphery of a flat tool mount are indexed along a drum periphery. This tool is moved along an arc radially toward the rotating workpiece as described in principal in EP 0,313,644 or EP 0,286,771. Both in the single rotary system as well as with disk millers or in the double rotary system using radially clamped cutting inserts, as for example having the shape shown in WO 99/12686, there is in the constructions known from the prior art no possibility of axial and radial fine adjustment. Manufacturing tolerance alone in the tools and tool mounts thus produce production errors. The German Patent DE 10027945 discloses a side-milling cutter (15, 16) for machining cylindrical contours On a workpiece, in particular a crankshaft (10). Said cutter comprises several cutting inserts, titled at an axial angle of inclination (x), arranged on the periphery of a disc-shaped tool carrier. One part of said inserts is mounted radially and the other part of said inserts tangentially on the tool carrier. OBJECT OF INVENTION It is an object of the invention to provide a tool that allows axial and/or radial adjustment of the cutting inserts radially clamped to the tool mount. This tool should be simple in construction and easy to use. SUMMARY OF INVENTION This object is attained by a tool in which at least one cutting insert is fixed in a cassette-shape holder and the cassette-shaped holder is axially adjustable by means of an adjustment wedge near where it bears on the cutting inset and/or is radially adjustable by an adjustment wedge. The cutting inserts, which need to be axially and/or radially adjusted, are each mounted on a cassette-shaped holder (and not as in the prior art directly on the tool mount), and this holder is axially and/or radially adjustable by the adjustment wedge. According the invention provides a disk- or bar-shaped tool for chip-removing machining, in particular for cutting profiles in a workpiece such as a rotationally driven crankshaft to be machined, having several peripheral cutting inserts radially clamped to a tool mount, at least one cutting insert is fixed in a cassette- shaped holder. The cassette-shaped holder is axially adjustable by means of adjustment wedge near where it bears on the cutting insert and /or is radially adjustable by an adjustment wedge, the cassette-shaped holder comprises a doubly bent shape with an upper part having a front face forming the support surface for the cutting insert and a back face bearing on an adjustment wedge, and a lower part extending parallel to but being offset from the upper part fixed on the disk-shaped mount by means of a mounting screw passing through a bore, the upper and lower parts being connected by a central transverse web, and the adjustment wedge can shift the upper part into different axial positions by bending. Preferred embodiments of the invention and further features are described in the dependent claims. In particular the cassette-shaped holder has a doubly bent shape with an upper part having front face forming the support surface for the cutting insert and a back face bearing on an adjustment wedge, and a lower part extending parallel to but offset from the upper part is fixed on the disk-shaped mount by means of a mounting screw passing through a bore, the upper and lower parts being connected by a central transverse web. The adjustment wedge can shift the upper part into different axial positions by bending. The Z-shape of the cassette- shaped part produces a certain elasticity so that the upper part of this holder can pivot to a certain extent about an axis passing generally through the transverse web. Since the cutting insert if fixed on the upper part of the cassette-shaped holder, it is thus pivotal. Preferably the axial range of adjustment is between 0.1 mm and 0.3 mm, which can be ensured by the material and the geometric shape of the cassette-shaped holder. The upper limit lies well below the amount that would create plastic deformation of the cassette-shaped holder. For mounting on the disk-shaped tool mount, the lower part of the cassette- shaped holder has a threaded bore into the rear of which engages a screw seated in the tool mount. Preferably a cap screw is used that is screwed into the lower part of the cassette-shaped holder from the back. Should only or additionally a radial adjustment of the cutting tool be desired, there is an adjustment wedge that bears on a lower side face of the holder and that is movable to effect a radial adjustment of the holder. According to the change is position of this adjustment wedge, the cassette and its cutting insert are radially shifted. Preferably, the lower part of the cassette-shaped holder has a stepped bore accommodating a shaft and a head of a mounting screw head bears with a face on a complementary shoulder of the bore. A shaft of the mounting screw engages in a threaded bore of the disk-shaped tool mount. Unlike the above- described embodiment, the clamping screw is fitted from the front side into the lower part of the cassette-shaped holder and is threaded into a complementary bore of the disk-shaped tool mount until it is tight. The adjustment wedge preferably has a throughgoing threaded bore receiving a threaded end of a double-threaded screw whose other end is engaged in a threaded bore of the disk-shaped tool mount. Rotation of this double-threaded screw can thus change the relative positions of the adjustment wedge and the cassette-shaped holder. To clamp the cassette-shaped holder in place there is a counter screw that engages in a stepped bore of the disk-shaped tool mount and a threaded blind bore in a back face of the upper part of the cassette-shaped support. To further improve exact position of the cutting insert, according to a further embodiment of the invention the mounting screw for clamping the cassette- shaped holder 12 bears with axially and/or radial prestress on the disk- or bar- shaped tool mount. Preferably the cutting insert is indexable and has a PKD insert. According to a further embodiment of the invention in additional to the radial clamped cutting inserts on the disk-shaped tool mount there is at least one tangentially clamped cutting insert or a bar-shaped tool mount carries on its upper edge a clamped cutting insert. This additional cutting insert that is tangentially clamped or clamped to the upper edge is radially adjustable for working the outer surface profile of a workpiece, in particular for machining the outer surfaces of the crank pins of a crankshaft. This or these cutting inserts are also radially adjustable. Preferably, the tangentially or upper-edge mounted cutting insert is fixed in a cassette that is mounted in a tool-count seat and is adjustable raidally by an adjustment wedge. To position the cassette and its cutting insert radially there is at least one adjustment wedge. There is also preferably a clamping wedge for holding the cassette in place. The clamping wedge and/or the adjustment wedge are engaged by a double- threaded screw having one end engaged in a throughgoing hole of the adjustment wedge or of the clamping wedge and another end in a threaded bore of the tool mount. In order to make a shallow cut when lathing and to provide a maximum possible number of cutting inserts on the tool mount being used, the tangential or edge- mounted cutting inserts can be mounted as described in DE 100 27 945. In this publication preferably axial set angles and relative spacings of the cutting inserts are described. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ACCOMPANYING DRAWINGS Further advantages and embodiments of the invention are described with reference to the accompanying drawings. Therein: Figure 1 shows partly in exploded view a milling tool with radially clamped and axially adjustable cutting inserts; Figure 2 shows the tool of Figure 1 in assembled condition; Figure 3 shows partly in exploded view a milling tool with radially clamped and both radially and axially adjustable cutting inserts; Figure 4 shows partly in exploded view another view of the tool of Figure 3; Figure 5 is the tool of Figures 3 and 4 in assembled condition; and Figure 6 is a milling tool with radially and axially clamped cutting inserts that are radially adjustable, parts of the tool being shown in exploded view. DETAIL DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS OF INVENTION As already stated, according to the selected machining method a tool mount 10 can be formed as a disk miller or as a bar for use in single or double rotary machining or can be formed as a body that is a part-circular segment. The tool mount has along its periphery or edge radially clamped cutting inserts; in this case three on each side. The cutting inserts have shapes designed for cutting profiles, in particular groves or undercuts on crankshafts. For example cutting inserts of the type described in WO 99/12685 are used. In this embodiment illustrated in Figure 1 all of the cutting inserts 11 are axially adjustable. To this end a cassette-like holder 12 and an adjustment wedge 13 with a wedge face 14 are used. The cassette-shaped holder 12 has an upper part 15, a transverse web 16, and a lower part 17 that are unitarily formed with each other and that generally form a Z-shape. Each cutting insert 11 is fixed by a respective mounting screw 18 to the respective cassette-shaped support 12. The tool mount 10 has seats complementary to the Z-shaped supports 19 so that a lower face of the support 12 sits on a face 20 and a back face lies on a face or back side 12 and a back face of the upper part on a face 22. The adjustment wedge 13 has a throughgoing threaded bore in which is engaged one threaded end of a double-threaded screw 23 whose other end is threaded into a bore 24 of the tool mount. Rotation of the double-threaded screw 13 shifts the adjustment wedge linearly along a longitudinal axis of the double-threaded screw. Since the wedge face 14 bears on the back face of the upper part 15, such movement of the adjustment wedge 13 exerts pressure on the back face 26 (see Figure 3) of the upper part 15 leading to an outward flexing of the upper part 15 about a line 25 extending between points 27 and 28 (see Figure 3). In this region of elastic deformation of holder 12, the cutting insert 11 can be shifted axially up to 0.3 mm. When the desired axial position of the cutting insert 11 is reached, a cap-head screw 29 is engaged into a threaded bore 30 opening at the back face 26 to clamp it in place. To clamp the lower part 17 of the holder 12 in place there is preferably a somewhat larger cap screw 31 that engages with its threaded shaft into a threaded bore 32 of the lower part 17 of the holder 12. The cutting inserts 11 are spaced apart on each side and alternate from side to side, so that between two adjacent cutting inserts on one side there is space for the throughgoing holes to accommodate the screws 29 and 31 for the staggered and opposite plates. In addition to the axial adjustment, the cutting inserts 11 according to the embodiment of Figures 4 and 5 can be radially adjusted (see Figures 4 and 5). For radial adjustment of the holder 12 there is an adjustment wedge 33 that is similar to the adjustment wedge 13 and linearly shiftable by a double-threaded screw 34. This adjustment wedge bears on the lower face of the holder 12. Turning the double-threaded screw 34 in one direction shifts the holder 12 and the cutting insert 11 carried on it radially outward. In contrast to the system of Figures 1 to 3 with only axial adjustment, the wedge face (instead of the face 20) of the adjustment wedge 33 serves as a base support. In order to clamp the holder 12 in place there is a clamping screw 35 that engages within shaft in a bore 36 of the tool mount 10. The lower part 17 of the holder has on its front face a stepped bore 40 with an annular shoulder face 37 that bears in the clamped position on a complementary annular face 38 of the clamping screw 35. The axial adjustment is effected as described above with reference to Figures 1 to 3. The bores 40 and 39 (see Figures 3 and 4) must be dimensioned such that the screws 35 and 29 can shift into any selected position o the cutting insert without being blocked. The clamping is effected however by surface contact of the annular faces of the stepped bores and the screw heads. In addition, in order to ensure exact positioning of the cutting insert 11, the clamping screw is prestressed radially (see arrow 41) and axially (see arrow 42). This exerts additional force toward the support face 20 (see Figure 1) or radially toward the adjustment wedge 33 and axially toward the faces 43 and 44. This type of presterssing can be used with only axial adjustment as well as with axial and radial adjustment of the cutting insert. In contrast to the tool of Figures 1 to 5, a tool mount 50 is set up as a disk miller holding both radially clamped cutting inserts as well as tangentially clamped cutting inserts 51. An outer periphery of the disk miller is formed with a row of pairs of radially clamped cutting inserts and alternating tangentially clamped cutting inserts 51. The radial adjustment of the radially clamped cutting inserts 51, which have in top view a rectangular and in particular square outer face, are set in seats of respective cassettes 52 and secured in place by mounting screws. The cassettes 52 are held in position by a clamping wedge 53 and a double- threaded screw 54 in respective seats of the mount 50. Each cassette 52 is radially adjusted by an adjustment wedge 55 that has a threaded bore in which one end of a double-threaded screw 56 whose other end is engaged. Actuation of the double-threaded screw shifts the adjustment wedge 55 that bears radially outward with its face 47 on the cassette 53 and shifts it radially outward or inward. To radially adjust the cassette 52 and its cutting insert 51, first the clamp wedge 3 is loosened, then the adjustment wedge 53 is set for the desired radial position, and then the cassette is fixed in place by the clamping wedge. The tool shown in Figure 6 can in particular be used for machining a crankshaft. The cutting inserts 11 like the cutting insert 51 can have a PCD insert and/or be made indexable. We Claim -------------- 1. A disk- or bar-shaped tool for chip-removing machining, in particular for cutting profiles in a workpiece such as a rotationally driven crankshaft to be machined, having several peripheral cutting inserts (11) radially clamped to a tool mount (10), at least one cutting insert (11) is fixed in a cassette-shaped holder (12), characterized in that - the cassette-shaped holder (12) is axially adjustable by means of adjustment wedge (13) near where it bears on the cutting insert (11) and /or is radially adjustable by an adjustment wedge (33), - the cassette-shaped holder (12) comprises a doubly bent shape (15, 16, 17) with an upper part (15) having a front face forming the support surface for the cutting insert (11) and a back face bearing on an adjustment wedge (13), and a lower part (17) extending parallel to but being offset from the upper part (15) fixed on the disk-shaped mount (10) by means of a mounting screw (31, 35) passing through a bore, the upper and lower parts (15 and 17) being connected by a central transverse web (16), and - the adjustment wedge (13) can shift the upper part (15) into different axial positions by bending. 2. The tool as claimed in claim 1, comprising an axial range of adjustment between 0.1 mm and 0.3 mm. 3. The tool as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the lower part (17) of the cassette-shaped holder (12) has a threaded bore into the rear of which engages a screw (31) seated in the tool mount (10). 4. The tool as claimed in one of claims 1 or 2, wherein to radially adjust the cassette-shaped holder (12) there is an adjustment wedge (33) that bears on a lower side face of the holder (12) and that is movable to effect a radial adjustment of the holder (12). 5. The tool as claimed in claim 4, wherein the lower part (17) of the cassette-shaped holder (12) has a stepped bore (40) accommodating a shaft and a head of a mounting screw (34) whose head bears with a face (3) on a complementary shoulder (37) of the bore, a shaft of the mounting screw (35) engaging in a threaded bore (36) of the disk-shaped tool mount. 6. The tool as claimed in one of claims 1 or 5, wherein the adjustment wedge (13, 33) has a throughgoing threaded bore receiving a threaded end of a double-threaded screw (23, 34) whose other end is engaged in a threaded bore of the disk-shaped tool mount (10). 7. The tool as claimed in one of claims 1 or 6, wherein to clamp the cassette-shaped holder (12) in place there is a counter screw (29) that engages in a stepped bore of the disk-shaped tool mount and a threaded blind bore (30) in a back face of the upper part (15) of the cassette- shaped support (12). 8. The tool as claimed in one of claims 2 to 7, wherein the mounting screw for clamping the cassette-shaped holder (12) bears with axial and/or radial prestress on the disk- or bar-shaped tool mount (10). 9. The tool as claimed in one of claims 1 or 8, wherein the cutting insert (11) is indexable and has a PKD insert. 10.The tool as claimed in one of claims 1 or 9, wherein the disk-shaped tool mount (50) carries at least one tangentially clamped cutting insert (51) or a bar-shaped tool mount carries on its upper edge a clamped cutting insert, and wherein the cutting insert (51) that is tangentially clamped or clamped to the upper edge is radially adjustable for working the outer surface profile of a workpiece. 11.The tool as claimed in claim 10, wherein the tangentially or upper-edge mounted cutting insert (51) is fixed in a cassette (52) that is mounted in a tool-mount seat and is adjustable radially by an adjustment wedge (55). 12.The tool as claimed in claim 11, wherein the cassette (52) is clamped by at least one clamping wedge (33). 13.The tool as claimed in claim 11 or 12, wherein the clamping wedge (53) and/or the adjustment wedge (55) are engaged by a double-threaded screw (54 or 56) having one end engaged in a throughgoing hole of the adjustment wedge (55) or of the clamping wedge (53) and another end in a threaded bore of the tool mount (50). This invention relates to a disk- or bar-shaped tool for chip-removing machining, in particular for cutting profiles in a workpiece such as a rotationally driven crankshaft to be machined, having several peripheral cutting inserts (11) radially clamped to a tool mount (10), at least one cutting insert (11) is fixed in a cassette-shaped holder (12). the cassette-shaped holder (12) is axially adjustable by means of adjustment wedge (13) near where it bears on the cutting insert (11) and /or is radially adjustable by an adjustment wedge (33), the cassette-shaped holder (12) comprises a doubly bent shape (15, 16, 17) with an upper part (15) having a front face forming the support surface for the cutting insert (11) and a back face bearing on an adjustment wedge (13), and a lower part (17) extending parallel to but being offset from the upper part (15) fixed on the disk-shaped mount (10) by means of a mounting screw (31, 35) passing through a bore, the upper and lower parts (15 and 17) being connected by a central transverse web (16), and the adjustment wedge (13) can shift the upper part (15) into different axial positions by bending.

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