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Tool coupler for connecting tool heads, such as drills, reamers, millers, turn-cutters, dies, and rams, to a tool holder

US7338419B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 8, 2006
Grant dateMar 4, 2008
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Expiry dateMay 19, 2026

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T483/134
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A tool coupler for connecting tool heads, such as drills, reamers, millers, turn-cutters, dies, and rams, to a tool holder. The tool coupler has a hollow shaft, a ring-shaped collar, and a gripper groove, in which gripper groove are disposed two diametrically opposite blind bore holes with varying bore hole contours.

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