Patent GB-264198-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to metal-cutting and like machine tools
IPC: B23Q5/54
Filed: 1925-08-14
Abstract: 264,198. Schwob, M., and Schwob, A., (trading as Compagnie Manufacturiere Marcalex). Aug. 14, 1925. Addition to 198,690. Combined milling, drilling, and shaping machines. - A universal metal-cutting machine tool as described in the parent Specification is modified by actuating all the tool movement, both rotary and reciprocatory from a single driving shaft which is geared to an operating shaft actuating the rotary tools, all the tool elements being mounted in a single. adjustable tool-head. The column 5 carries by means of a sleeve 2 a casing 1 which is vertically adjustable by a spindle 10 and is provided with gearing for driving a screw 35 actuating a nut in a casing 31 for the reciprocation of the tool head in the manner required for shaping and like operations. The driving- pulley 9 is connected to the screw 35 through reversing bevel gearing 6, 6<1>, 7, 8 operated by a clutch 4, the gearing being arranged so that the return stroke is made at high speed. Hand operation of the clutch 4 may be effected from a handle 11 through levers 12, 13. Automatic reversal may be effected from an abutment 16 on the casing 31 which coacts with abutments 28<1>. 28 on a rod 15. A lever 14 having a tubular portion 14<1> is loosely mounted over the lever 13 and can actuate the same through spaced abutments 19, 20. The lever 14 carries a spring pressed plunger 22 coacting with a roller 24. In operation the plunger 22 comes opposite the centre of its roller at the moment when the abutments 19, 20 come into engagement and the springs 27 then assist in the quick throwover of the reversing-clutch 4. When the handle 11 is pulled outwards the, abutments 19, 20 cannot engage and the handle 11 is then used for the direct actuation of the reversing clutch. The positions of the handle 11 are determined by the engagement of spring pressed balls in notches in the lever 12. A hand lever for reciprocating the planing head is provided as in the parent Specification. The screw 35 carries a helical wheel 36 which can be actuated to provide a hand drive for the screw 35. Automatic cross-feed for shaping may be effected as in the parent Specification by means of a rod 41 having adjustable abutments coacting with a fixed arm 42. The two tool heads described in the parent Specification may be replaced by a single head having all the necessary movements. The shaft carrying the pulley 9 is connected through bevel gearing 51 to a grooved sleeve 53 which may be selectively keyed to one of the loose gears 61 - - 66 by means of a key 59 mounted in a spindle 54 which can receive longitudinal movements from a milled head 58. The gears 61 - - 66 engage gears 67 keyed to a sleeve 68 carrying a splined shaft 69. In a modification, Fig. 11, a pulley 165 drives through change speed gearing comprising constant mesh gears controlled by a sliding key 59', a shaft 162<1> carrying the reversing clutch 4. The screw 35 carries a pair of sliding gears 173, 173<1>, from which motion is transmitted through a double gear 174, 174<1> and sliding gears 176, 176<1> to a shaft 175 controlling the tool-head. The various gears are all operated from milled heads mounted on the casing. The tool head is mounted in a cross beam 70 and is operated from the shaft 69, through bevel gearing 76, spur gearing 80 and splined shaft 81. The latter drives through bevel gearing 82, 84, 85 the splined operating-shaft 86 of the tool head which is mounted in conical bearings 87, 88 and is provided with an internally coned portion to receive a milling cutter spindle 90, this spindle being held in position by means of a threaded rod 91 and milled head 91<1>. The upper end of the operating-shaft carries a pinion 92 geared to pinion 95 on a drilling-spindle 97 mounted in a sleeve which may be vertically adjusted from a hand wheel 101 by rack and pinion gearing 99. The pinion 95 may be disengaged from its driving pinion when the drilling-spindle is not required. A stepped pulley 104 is provided to operate the drill spindle independently at high speed. An adjustable support 105 carrying a shaft 106 may be mounted on the lover part of the casing, the shaft 106 being driven from a spiral wheel 107 mounted in place of a milling cutter on the shaft 86. Tools for performing milling, circular sawing, grinding, or polishing operations may be mounted on the shaft 106 for high speed operations such as grinding or polishing may be driven directly from a belt-pulley 159. In a modification, a single milling arbor may be secured in similar casing and driven from the lower end of the shaft 86. The front of the tool head is provided with a circular part 109 adapted to receive an adjustable holder 113 to carry a pivoted shaping-tool. Above this mechanism is an opening 114 adapted to receive a support 116, Fig. 19, for a drilling or reaming spindle 118 driven from the bevel pinion 85 on the shaft 86 and receiving its axial feed movement from the advance of the tool head. Alternatively, a mortising device may be mounted in the opening 114. Vertical depth feed of the tool head may be effected from a hand wheel 124 which rotates a threaded sleeve working on a non-rotary screw 123 connected to the tool disc 73. Automatic cross feed of the tools is obtained fro:n a screwed spindle 125 moving in a boss connected to the tool head. A toothed roller 127 on a shaft 78 is movable axially from a milled head 130 to engage any of a series of recesses in a disc 131 on a shaft geared to the feed screw 125, this arrangement constituting a change-speed and reversing feed motion. The power feed may be disengaged and the spindle 125 actuated directly from a, hand-wheel 125<1>. The vertical power feed of the tool head is similarly actuated by a vextical spindle which drives a pinion 144 keyed to the threaded sleeve 123. The change speed and reverse mechanism for this motion is controlled from a milled head 141 and the disconnection of the power feed is effected from a milled head 146 which operates an eccentric sleeve carrying one of the worm shafts in the driving train. The automatic feed motions may also be actuated by triggers or the like for shaping, mortising and other operations. The whole machine may be hand driven by replacing the pulley 9 by a hand crank 161.