Patent ID: 7415978

Claim:
A method for forming a grinding wheel comprising the steps of first, obtaining a blank wheel having an edge and a body portion wherein said body portion has a certain radius; providing a bottom plate having a radius which is smaller than said certain radius; providing a top plate having a radius which his smaller than said certain radius; fixedly positioning the blank wheel to said bottom plate; fixedly positioning the blank wheel to said top plate, effective to cause said blank wheel to be securely fastened and fixed between said top and bottom plates; causing said blank wheel which is fixed positioned between said top and bottom plates to be horizontally positioned; providing a selectively rotatable cutter having a longitudinal axis of symmetry; providing a track; positioning said track over said top plate, bottom plate, and over said blank wheel which is fixedly positioned between said top and bottom plates; movably attaching said cutter to said track such that said longitudinal axis of symmetry of said cutter is always perpendicular to said blank wheel; rotating said blank wheel while constraining said cutter to rotate and only to selectively move in two opposed and opposite first and second directions which are both parallel to said blank wheel and only in two opposed and opposite third and fourth directions which are both perpendicular to said blank wheel, wherein said third direction is toward said blank wheel and said fourth direction is away from said blank wheel and when said cutter is operational, said cutter is only to rotate and move in said first, second, third, and fourth directions; moving said cutter to a first location at said edge of said blank wheel; selectively cutting said blank wheel at said first location only when said cutter and said blank wheel are each concurrently being rotated and only when said blank wheel is in said horizontal position; moving said cutter to a second location upon said body of said blank wheel; cutting said second location of said body of said blank wheel only when said cutter and said blank wheel are each concurrently being rotated and only when said blank wheel is in a horizontal position; and cutting other desired positions of said blank wheel, wherein such cutting only occurs only when said cutter and said blank wheel are each concurrently being rotated and only when said blank wheel is in a horizontal position and only when said blank wheel is fixedly positioned between said top and said bottom plates.