Patent ID: 8087858
Filing Date: 2012-01-03
Classification: B23Q,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A collet indexer device instantly mountable and alignable in a vise on a standard milling machine alternately in a vertical orientation for indexing a work piece via an index control means about a horizontal axis and a horizontal orientation for indexing the work piece via the index control means about a vertical axis, the device comprising: a metal block having at least two opposing outer first parallel faces of the metal block for holding the metal block in a vise on a standard milling machine with a pair of jaws of the vise gripping the outer parallel faces so that the block is held in the vertical orientation and at least two further opposing parallel outer faces on opposite sides of the metal block, both orthogonal to the first faces, for holding the metal block in the vise on the standard milling machine with the pair of jaws of the vise alternately gripping the further outer parallel faces so that the block is held in the horizontal orientation; a work holding element rotatably mounted on a face of the block by a rotatable means, the work holding element holding a work piece with the block alternately in both the vertical orientation and the horizontal orientation; the index control means, being for rotating the work holding element to specific desired points of rotation so that the work piece can be machined by the milling machine; a chuck control means for controlling the clamping of the work piece on the work holding element and the unclamping of the work piece from the work holding element; the block including means for instantly aligning the block in the vise in the horizontal orientation.