Patent ID: 6315060
Filing Date: 2001-11-13
Classification: B23Q,B24B,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A collet assembly for a power tool which releasably receives an end portion of a shaft therein with the shaft having a working element at the opposite end thereof, the collet assembly comprising:an inner body having an axial bore configured to receive the shaft therein;an outer collet sleeve slidably mounted over the inner body in a predetermined position relative thereto with the shaft releasably held in the bore;a resilient member having portions in the bore substantially fixed at a predetermined axial position therein for being received in a recess of the shaft for releasably holding the shaft in the bore; andcooperating portions of the resilient member and collet sleeve which urge the resilient member portions in the bore laterally out therefrom to allow the shaft to be removed from the collet assembly as an incident of relative sliding movement between the collet sleeve and inner body and which urge the sleeve to the predetermined position thereof with the shaft removed from the collet assembly.