Patent ID: 7097543
Filing Date: 2006-08-29
Classification: B23B,B24B,B24D,F16F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for removing a burr from an aperture in a workpiece, the apparatus comprising: a flexible shaft that can be rotated about a shaft axis, having a shaft first end, at a selected angular velocity; an approximately cylindrically symmetric abrasive mechanism, connected to a location near a first end of the shaft and including an abrasive material that can abrade a selected section of a workpiece that is contacted by the mechanism; a collar of a selected material that will not substantially abrade the workpiece when the workpiece is contacted by the collar, the collar being connected to the abrasive mechanism; and whereby, when the abrasive mechanism, the collar and at least a portion of the shaft are inserted into an aperture in the workpiece and the shaft is rotated, at least one workpiece burr in the aperture can be removed by contact of the abrasive mechanism with the at least one burr.