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Pressure medium driven machine tool

US4566849A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 21, 1983
Grant dateJan 28, 1986
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Expiry dateOct 21, 2003

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S415/904
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Machine tool having a jet turbine driving a rotatable spindle with a tool holder, said spindle is comprised in a spindle housing, said jet turbine consisting of a disc-shaped turbine rotor being closely enclosed by a turbine housing, said turbine rotor having peripherally arranged discrete recesses, each recess having a concave front actuation wall for the jet and one sidewardly arranged outlet opening which opens in the axial direction of the rotor, said housing having at least one inlet nozzle for the jet directed into the recesses and having at least one outlet opening for the spent jet medium. Known machine tools suffer under strong speed losses when the load increases or varies. This disadvantage results from a constant interference between spent air within the recesses and the working jet. Thus, the energy of the jet cannot be used with good efficiency. According to the present invention the energy of the jet can be used with better efficiency, since the inlet nozzle is directed towards the deepest section of the front concave actuation wall by impacting on this wall and since there is provided a guiding path and an additional expansion space below the jet which in combinatio…

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