Patent Publication Number: US-8540464-B2

Title: Deburring knife for deburring even and uneven hole edges

Description:
The object of the invention is a deburring knife for deburring even and uneven hole edges according to the generic term in Patent Claim  1 . 
     Such a deburring knife became known through DE 40 08 533 A1, to whose content of revelation reference shall be made. Its revelation shall be completely incorporated into the revelation of the present invention. 
     This application concerns a deburring tool for deburring straight or nonround hole edges with a base body rotatably driven around its longitudinal axis, and in which one or more bar blades are located in a radially adjustable fashion. 
     The one or several bar blades can be interchangeably accepted into the knife holder. The knife holder exhibits at least one circumferentially located control recess, in which a spring element is engaged, which directs the knife holder&#39;s rotation. 
     Reference is also made to U.S. Pat. No. 5,135,338 B, whose revelation is also completely incorporated into the content of revelation of the present invention. 
     Its  FIGS. 10 through 15  describe an interchangeable bar blade, which is mounted into a radial hole in a knife holder and is held by a transverse bolt. 
     A disadvantage of this assembly, however, is that the transverse bolt designated by reference sign  41  serves both to mount the bar blade and to swivel the knife holder  40 . The disadvantage lies in the fact that in order to replace a bar blade, the transverse bolt  41  must be removed, by which the knife holder  40  also falls out of its slot. 
     Only then can the bar blade be taken out of the recess in the knife holder. Installing a bar blade into such a knife holder is even more difficult. For this it is necessary for the transverse hole in the bar blade to be brought into conformance with the transverse hole in the knife holder and that both parts be brought into the tool slot in the tool holder, through which only then the transverse bolt can be inserted into the knife holder, which then also penetrates and mounts the bar blade. 
     This presents the significant disadvantage that in practice three separate parts must be used to secure the bar blade in the knife holder. 
     Another disadvantage of the conventional embodiment is that a transverse hole must be made into a bar blade consisting of highly hardened steel. This involves a lot of work, because such a transverse hole can only be introduced through an erosion process. 
     There is the further disadvantage that such a transverse hole severely weakens the bar blade, so that it can no longer transfer torsion and bending moments. 
     Thus, altogether the state of the art presents the disadvantage that such a deburring tool can only be produced at relatively high cost. 
     The task of the invention is therefore basically to improve on a deburring knife according to the object of DE 40 08 533 A1 or U.S. Pat. No. 5,135,338 B, so that the bar blade can be significantly more simply, stably and inexpensively mounted into the tool holder, and so that the deburring tool can be produced at significantly lower cost. 
     As a solution to the problem posed, the invention is characterized by the technical theory for Claim  1 . 
     A significant characteristic of the present invention is that the bar blade is mounted through a mounting hole in the knife holder, that the knife holder displays two vertically transverse holes running parallel to the mounting hole of the bar blade, in which holes a bearing bolt engages, which performs the swivel with the base body, and that the knife is thereby easily insertably mounted into the radial mounting hole in the knife holder, that at least one positioning bolt and at least one stop edge fits onto the bar blade, and, in addition, that a pullout safety device is located on the knife holder in the area of the mounting hole to secure the bar blade in the axial direction. 
     In contrast to the state of the art, there is no longer just a single transverse bolt that serves both to swivel the knife holder and to hold the bar blade. Instead, the transverse bolt is replaced by two shorter opposingly located transverse bolts aligning toward one another. 
     These two transverse bolts also take over the swivel of the knife holder in the base body. However, they no longer serve to hold the bar blade into the knife holder, as in the state of the art. Instead, the bar blade is now only inserted into the mounting hole on the knife holder and is held into this mounting hole with a shift stop and a pullout safety device. 
     Within the given technical teaching there is the advantage that such a bar blade can be produced less expensively, because it omits the expensively produced transverse hole for the bearing bolt according to the state of the art, and the bar blade is thereby cheaper by a factor of one half than a comparable bar blade according to the object of U.S. Pat. No. 5,135,338 B. 
     For the purpose of simplification, the following description will proceed from the idea that only a single bar blade is in place. However, the invention is not limited to this. It is also conceivable that two or more bar blades be interchangeably mounted in the knife holder. These bar blades can be located parallel or at an angle to each other and in an opposing position. It is equally possible to use a single bar blade with two opposing heads and correspondingly located cutting edges. Thus the mention that only one bar blade is used is only for simplicity of description. 
     An advantage of the invention is that the bar blade is now mounted in an easily replaceable manner in its mounting hole in the knife holder, because it simply lies against at least one stop edge and an associated stop edge on the knife holder. 
     In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a stop edge on the knife holder side (housing side) is set up with a positioning bolt, which lies against an associated stop edge on the rear side of the bar blade. 
     However, the invention is not limited to this. 
     In another embodiment of the invention, it is conceivable that a notch be located on the bar blade and that the tip of a locking screw engage in this notch and can be screwed into an associated threaded hole in the knife holder. In this way, the bar blade can also be held by such a locking screw. 
     However, it is preferred that the shift stop be located at the rear end of the bar blade. However, the invention is not limited to this. In another embodiment, a shift stop can be fastened (somewhere) on the housing side to a stop edge in the area of the bar blade to limit the inward slide movement, as well as to establish the end position of the bar blade. 
     It is also possible, instead of one locking screw to use two, whereby one locking screw serves as the pullout safety device for the bar blade in the axial direction and the other locking screw serves as the axial stop for sliding the bar blade into the mounting hole. 
     In a preferential embodiment of the present invention, however, the pullout safety device is preferentially formed as a spring pin that is mounted in a transverse hole with full flexibility, which transverse hole is made somewhat parallel to the two drilled holes for the bearing bolts for mounting the knife holder. 
     A spring pin is inserted into this transverse hole and is mounted with associated disk-shaped spring pin mounts to the right and left, so that it can centrally bend. 
     It lies centrally on the underside of the bar blade and engages there flexibly in a notch on the underside of the bar blade, so that the spring pin engages in this notch under spring prestress and thereby forms an axial pullout safety device for the bar blade. 
     As already mentioned, instead of a flexible pullout safety device, a locking screw can also be used, whereby the locking screw&#39;s threaded hole passes vertically to the transverse hole for mounting the spring pin. 
     The spring pin can also be replaced with other spring elements, such as with compression springs, elastic inserts and similar things, because what really matters is assuring the simplest axial pullout safety device for the bar blade. 
     The spring pin does not necessarily have to be made of metallic spring material. It can also be made from an elastically flexible plastic pin. Instead of the bending springs described here, other spring elements, such as leg springs, screw pressure springs and similar components, can be used. 
     In a third embodiment, it is possible that a screw pressure spring would not press in on the underside notch on the circumference of the bar blade, but that an index ball be in place, which is engaged under prestress by the screw pressure spring into the associated notch on the underside of the bar blade. 
     In a fourth embodiment it is provided that the holding notch on the bar blade be replaced by a “snap” groove. The bar blade can be positioned in this notch with a simple C-form spring. This combination contains the stop that limits the slide and a pullout safety device in a single component. In this case, the bar blade would even have to be pushed outward toward the back (against the direction of extraction). 
     Thus, replacement of the bar blade according to the invention in the knife holder is especially simple in all of the four embodiments described. That is to say that for replacement it is sufficient simply to grip the bar blade with an appropriate tool and pull the bar blade out of the mounting hole in the direction of its length extension. It is also possible to press the bar blade out from behind, because the mounting hole in the knife holder completely penetrates the knife holder and therefore the rear side of the face of the bar blade is reachable from behind with a tool, which pushes the bar blade forward out of the mounting hole. 
     In another preferential embodiment of this invention, it is provided that the mounting hole in the knife holder no longer be formed as a rigid mounting hole, but feature a flexible clamping gap. 
     Thereby the knife holder is formed with its mounting hole  20  penetrating the knife holder crosswise as a clamping element. This clamping element has a clamping gap that spans approximately two thirds the total axial length, and which divides the knife holder and the mounting holes located in it into two associated clamp halves that are associated and lie symmetrically against each other. 
     When the bar blade is inserted, the clamping gap is pressed apart, because the exterior circumference of the bar blade is slightly larger than the interior circumference of the mounting hole. This spreads the mounting hole under the spring force of the two clamp halves that lie opposite one another and close flexibly, so that the bar blade is accepted into the mounting hole of the knife holder and clamped. This provides the advantage that, in the execution example according to the execution shown in  FIGS. 1 through 11 , which works with a spring pin mount, it can be omitted. In this execution the spring pin mount is omitted completely and is replaced with a flexibly formed knife holder. 
     This allows individual parts of the holder to be dispensed with, and the deburring knife&#39;s mounting is simpler and safer to operate. 
     Since the spring pin mount can be omitted, there is now the additional advantage that knife holder formed as a clamping element can be made considerably smaller, i.e., can be miniaturized. The outer diameter of such a clamping knife holder can be minimized to 4 mm, which in previous knife holders according to  FIGS. 1 through 11  isn&#39;t possible without difficulty, because in this very small knife holder still more individual parts (spring pin mounts) must be built in. That is omitted from this embodiment. 
     However, the size indication of a 4 mm diameter should not be understood as the limit for the execution example, but it should offer only a guiding principle as to how small a bar blade can be mounted in such a knife holder. It is even possible to reduce the diameter even further, because it has a one-piece body, in which no further individual parts need to be built, except for the bearing bolt&#39;s positioning bolt. 
     Furthermore, in all execution examples of this invention, no role is played by the fact that the mounting hole is located centrally in the knife holder. 
     In another embodiment of the invention, it can also be provided that this mounting hole be formed acentrically, i.e., shifted to an upward or downward location on the central longitudinal axis in the knife holder. 
     In another embodiment of the invention, it can be provided that the clamp slot that divides the knife holder into two clamp halves symmetrically located to one another is not located symmetrically to the central longitudinal axis of the knife holder, but also eccentrically, e.g., is located upward or downward away from the central longitudinal axis. The two clamp halves are therefore no longer symmetrical toward one another, but asymmetrical. 
     The object of this invention arises not only from the object of the individual patent claims, but also from the combination of the individual patent claims together. 
     All of the documentation, including the summary of disclosed data and characteristics, especially the spatial design depicted in the drawings, are claimed to have significance as inventions, as long as they are new individually or in combination in relation to the state of the art. 
     Below, the invention will be explained in more detail by means of several drawings that depict only one manner of execution. In connection with this, further significant characteristics and advantages significant to the invention arise from the drawings and their descriptions. 
    
    
     
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         FIG. 1 : Partial section of a deburring tool with a tool holder, a knife holder mounted rotatably inside it, and an associated bar blade. 
         FIG. 2 : Section according to line A-A in  FIG. 1 . 
         FIG. 3 : A perspective view of the knife holder. 
         FIG. 4 : Top view of the knife holder per  FIG. 3 . 
         FIG. 5 : Lateral view of the knife holder per  FIGS. 3 and 4 . 
         FIG. 6 : Section through the knife holder according to line A-A in  FIG. 5 . 
         FIG. 7 : Section through the knife holder according to line B-B in  FIG. 4 . 
         FIG. 8 : A section of a varied execution with a stop limit and a pullout safety device in a single part. 
         FIG. 9 : The section from  FIG. 8  rotated 90 degrees. 
         FIG. 10 : An enlarged detail view of  FIG. 8 . 
         FIG. 11 : An enlarged detail view of the C-shaped spring used. 
         FIG. 12 : A section of a second embodiment of a knife holder. 
         FIG. 13 : Section according to line A-A in  FIG. 12 . 
         FIG. 14 : The perspective view of the knife holder according to  FIGS. 12 and 13 . 
         FIG. 15 : Another embodiment of a knife holder in comparison to  FIG. 12 . 
         FIG. 16 : A section of the execution according to  FIG. 15  in the direction of line A-A. 
         FIG. 17 : A perspective view of the knife holder according to  FIGS. 15 and 16 . 
     
    
    
     In  FIGS. 1 and 2  a general representation of a base body  1  is shown, which is a part of a deburring tool, whose base body  1  has a longitudinal recess  21 , in which the knife holder  2  is installed and is mounted there rotatably over two replaceably held bearing bolts  3  that are aligned opposite one another. 
     The knife holder  2  is flush and interlocking, but is mounted rotatably with slight radial play in the longitudinal recess  21  of the base body. 
     As can be seen in  FIGS. 1 and 2 , a bar blade  6  is inserted into a transverse mounting hole  20  in the knife holder  2  and is secured there against axial removal with the help of the pullout safety device  19 . 
     In order to slide in, the bar blade  6  lies in the mounting hole  20  with two stop edges  16 ,  17  placed backward from one another in a 90° angle against an associated positioning bolt  4 . 
     The positioning bolt forms a sort of high-load transfer axial safety stop for the bar blade  6 , because on the one hand it serves to provide rotation protection and on the other hand displacement protection for the bar blade  6  in the mounting hole. 
     In the execution example shown, the pullout safety device  19  is formed by a spring pin  5  that is inserted into an associated transverse hole  12  in the knife holder  2 . 
     Radial play is achieved by the fact that on both sides the spring pin is inserted into an associated spring pin mount  8 . The spring pin mounts  8  are formed as simple disks that go into each end of the spring pin  5 . The spring pin  5  is thereby flexibly mounted in the transverse hole  12  as a centrally bendable bending spring. 
     According to  FIG. 6 , it lies on the underside of the bar blade  6 , which is flattened there and forms a holding notch. 
     Both bearing bolts  3  are mounted securely against shifting in the associated transverse hole  7  in the base body  1  and engage on both sides in the associated drilled hole  11  in the knife holder  2 . 
     This ensures a precise relationship and play when swiveling the knife holder  2  in the base body  1 . 
     For example, the bearing bolts  3  are stopped from falling out by an adhesive layer  9  on the front side of the knife holder  2  in the area of the transverse hole  7 . 
     Instead of an adhesive layer, other means could be used, such as pressing the bearing bolt  3  into the associated transverse hole  7  in the base body  1 . 
     In principle, the bearing bolts  3  must not be replaced, because it is a characteristic of this invention that the knife holder  2  and its swivel always stay in the base body  1  and only the bar blade  6  is replaceable. 
     If, however, a knife holder  2  is replaced, the bar blade  6  can be simply pulled out by overcoming the pullout safety device, which frees the mounting hole  20 . Then the bearing bolt  3  can easily be knocked out, because one blow to one of the individual bearing bolts will drive it through mounting hole  20 , make it meet the opposing bearing bolt  3  and drive that one also out of its transverse hole  7  in the base body  1 . 
     In the familiar manner, the knife holder  2  has a control recess  10  on its outer circumference, in which a bending spring (not described in further detail) engages and guides the rotation of the knife holder  2  in the base body. 
     The bar blade  6  has cutting edges  14 ,  15  that lie against one another, and the face is formed by a floating radius  18 . 
     In accordance with easy replaceability, an important aspect of this invention is the bar blade  2 , because simply pulling in the direction of the arrow  22  on the bar blade  6  bends the spring pin  5  through, removes it from the holding notch  13  and thus the bar blade  6  can be pulled out in the direction of the arrow  22  from the mounting hole  20  in the knife holder  2 . 
     Instead of the positioning bolt  4  shown here, which lies against two vertical centering edges  16 ,  17  standing toward one another, other means of centering can also be used. For example, on the upper side of the bar blade, the positioning bolt  4  can engage in an associated stop edge, or it could also lie in a designated vertical position on another place on the bar blade  6 . 
       FIGS. 8 through 11  show another embodiment for mounting a bar blade  6  in a knife holder  2 . Here the pullout safety device and the stop limit are combined into one part. A C-shaped spring  25  is located in the transverse hole  7  and with its central contact tongue  29  lies against the interior side of a holding notch  33  angled in the direction of extraction  30 . According to  FIG. 10 , the left flank  30  of the holding notch  33  is essentially oriented vertically to the direction of extraction  30 , while the right flank  24  leans at an angle to the direction of extraction  30 . 
     This leads to the fact that the stress of the bar blade  6  in the direction of the arrow  22  of the contact tongue  29  exerts itself on the left stop  27  of the flank  23  so that it is impossible to pull the bar blade in this arrow direction. 
     On the other hand, if the bar blades  6  are switched, then the bar blade  6  moves in the direction of extraction  30  and the central contact tongue  29  slides on the right stop  28  along the holding notch  33  and will be deflected downward by the spring deflection  26 . This brings the contact tongue  29  out of engagement with the holding notch  33 , and the bar blade can be pulled out of the knife holder  2  in the direction of extraction. The shape of the C-shaped spring  25  and the bending through of the central contact tongue  29  are shown in  FIG. 11 . 
       FIGS. 12 through 17  depict a knife holder whose basic characteristics are in accordance with the knife holder  2  in  FIGS. 1 through 11 . Therefore the same reference signs have been used for the same parts. 
     In particular, the bar blade  6  with the bearing bolt  3  is held in the same manner, by comparison, as in the execution example according to  FIGS. 1 through 11 . 
     The difference between these aforementioned execution examples is now shown in  FIGS. 12 through 15  in that the knife holder  2  no longer has a clamping gap  38  running about two-thirds of the total length, so that now the knife holder  2  is formed as a clamping element. 
     The clamping gap  38 , which is open on one side, spans from one side of the knife holder in the form of a longitudinal slot  39 , which passes over the drilled hole  11  for inserting the bearing bolt  3  and intersects this drilled hole  11 . 
     On the other side of this drilled hole  11 , the clamping gap  38  proceeds in the form of a clamping slot  39  and there ends in an extension  40 , which runs crosswise to the longitudinal axis of the longitudinal slot  39 . This extension  40  can have a vastly alterable shape and should only remove breaking stress on the end of the longitudinal slot  39  when spreading the two clamp halves  36 ,  37 . This means that the extension can also be formed straight, bow-shaped or also as a hole, one of whose sides moves open into the longitudinal slot  39 . 
     The bar blade  6  is inserted from the front (i.e., from the right side in  FIG. 12 ) in the direction of its longitudinal axis into the mounting hole  20 , which is now formed as a clamping mounting hole, by which the two clamp halves  36 ,  38  spread out from one another, because the exterior diameter of the bar blade  6  is slightly larger in comparison to the interior diameter of the mounting hole  20 . 
     To ease insertion of the bar blade  6  into the mounting hole  20 , in the area of a rear recess  35  a spreading tool is installed, which spreads the two clamp halves  36 ,  37  in the direction of the arrow  41 ,  42 , so as to enlarge the diameter of the mounting hole  20  and thereby enable smooth, secure insertion of the bar blade  6 . 
     Securing against an axial limit during insertion of the bar blade  6  is achieved here by the positioning bolt  4  mentioned above relative to the other embodiments, which now is inserted into a drilled hole  34 , which now is located in the front part of the knife holder and no longer in the rear part, was described for the other embodiments according to  FIGS. 1  though  11 . 
     In this way the positioning bolt  4  forms a stop on the stop edge  17  of the bar blade  6 , so that this is secured against axial penetration. 
     The positioning bolt  4  with the stop edge  17  also serves to axially limit and position the bar blade  6  during its insertion in the direction of the arrow  45  into the mounting hole  20 . 
     The clamping gap  38  serves to secure against being pulled out axially in the opposite direction from the direction of the arrow  45 ; it closes the mounting hole  20  in such a way that the bar blade  6  is clamped into the mounting hole  20 . 
     As further security against falling out in the direction opposite to the direction of the arrow  45 , a further method is shown in  FIGS. 15 through 17 , by which a bolt is inserted into one hole  43  in one of the clamp halves  37  of the knife holder  2 , which intersects one holding notch  44  on the circumference of the bar blade  6 , so that the bar blade is absolutely secure against axial displacement. The ring surface can circle the circumference of the bar blade or also just be located partially on the circumference of the bar blade. 
     The ring surface can also be provided by a flattening or a flat spot that is located on the circumference of the bar blade and holds the bar blade secure against rotation. As before, the rotation security of the bar blade is achieved with a positioning bolt  4  in connection with the stop edge  17 , and further security against axial shifting is achieved using the aforementioned bolt, which is inserted into the drilled hole  43  and which intersects the holding notch  44  on the circumference of the bar blade, so provides it additional security against axial displacement. 
     In another embodiment it can also be provided that the positioning bolt  4  be omitted and instead only a bolt would be placed in the drilled hole  43 . 
     As previously mentioned, and referring now back to  FIG. 5 , it is conceivable that a notch  46  be located on the blade  6  and that the tip of a locking screw  47  engage in this notch  46 . The locking screw  47  can be screwed into an associated threaded hole in the blade holder  2 . In this way, the blade  6  can also be held by such a locking screw  47 . Alternatively, and as also previously mentioned, it is possible that the screw  47  would not directly engage the notch  46  on the blade  6 . Rather, an index ball, which is biased by a prestressed spring acted upon by the screw  47 , could be used such that the spring biased index ball engages the notch  46  on the blade  6 . 
     Key To Drawings 
     
         
           1 . base body 
           2 . knife holder 
           3 . bearing bolt 
           4 . positioning bolt 
           5 . spring pin 
           6 . bar blade 
           7 . transverse hole (in  1 ) 
           8 . spring pin 
           9 . adhesive layer 
           10 . control recess 
           11 . drilled hole (for  3 ) 
           12 . transverse hole 
           13 . holding groove 
           14 . cutting edge 
           15 . cutting edge 
           16 . centering edge 
           17 . stop edge 
           18 . floating radius 
           19 . pullout safety device 
           20 . mounting hole (for  6 ) 
           21 . longitudinal recess 
           22 . direction of arrow 
           23 . flank (left) 
           24 . flank (right) 
           25 . C-shaped spring 
           26 . spring deflection 
           27 . stop (left) 
           28 . stop (right) 
           29 . contact tongue 
           30 . direction of extraction 
           33 . holding groove 
           34 . drilled hole for positioning bolt  4   
           35 . recess for tool 
           36 . clamp half 
           37 . clamp half 
           38 . clamping gap 
           39 . longitudinal slot 
           40 . extension 
           41 . direction of arrow 
           42 . direction of arrow 
           43 . drilled hole 
           44 . holding groove in  6   
           45 . direction of arrow