There is disclosed a spindle unit for machine tools in which there is a spring operated drawbar in the spindle having finger hooks for engaging the adapter of a toolholder for drawing the latter into a tapered socket at the nose of the spindle with means for locking the finger hooks in engagement with the toolholder adapter and automatically operated means for relieving the pressure of the hooks against the toolholder adapter and providing push rod means to cause the finger hooks to move clear o...

A hand tool, such as a pruner, has two pivotally movable members which are biassed open by a spring. A catch, for locking the tool in the closed position, is fitted into a non-circular aperture in a part of one of the members which overlaps the other member, the shank of the catch being undercut to allow the catch to rotate in the aperture, but prevent its withdrawal from the aperture except in the rotational position in which it was inserted into the aperture. A detent is provided, for rotation...

A hydraulically actuated driving tool is provided with a ground engageable member which is driven into the ground by the action and reaction of a drive mass which is free to slide within the tool and which is repetitively forced away from and back to the ground engageable member in a manner determined by a hydraulic control system. Each repeated cycle of operation engenders two separate forces to drive the ground engageable member into the ground, one being the force exerted by high pressure flu...

There is disclosed a spindle unit for machine tools in which the spindle is rotated by a change speed mechanism comprising a drive sleeve splined and slidable axially in the spindle and a gear shift sleeve slidable with the drive sleeve and having a bull gear adapted in one position to engage a driving gear driven by a motor and in another axial position to cause a clutch element to engage a companion clutch element connected to a pulley also driven by the motor. There are pneumatic means for mo...

Tools having a surface coating of at least one compound containing at least one element from the main group of Group VI of the periodic table and at least one element from the subgroup of Groups V and VI of the periodic table. The coating may consist of molybdenum disulfide, for example. These tools are superior to conventional hard-solid covered tools in various respects and may be milling cutters, for example, which have an excellent edge life, even more than six times as long. Moreover, the m...

A dental tool includes an articulated tubular body member having proximal and distal sections angularly adjustable about an elbow housing. An axial drive shaft is located in the proximal section and a slide member is reciprocable in the distal section and spring urged to a retracted position and coupled to the drive shaft by a rotary to reciprocatory motion translator. The motion translator includes an actuator located in the elbow section and limited to a rocking motion and rotatably engaging a...

A cutting tool comprising a cutting bit, a tool holder having a cutting bit receiving recess and a clamping member for clamping the cutting bit in the recess of the tool holder. The flank surface of the cutting bit remote from its cutting edge has two recesses therein, the bottom surfaces of which extend inwardly of the cutting bit at an acute angle with respect to a lower, seating face of the cutting bit. Two toe dogs are provided on the clamping member and engage in the recesses of the cutting...

In a machine tool, particularly a milling machine, the workpiece vice is made up from a vice jaw member having a longitudinal track, and a plurality of insert members having profiled portions complementary to the track, so that a desired workpiece engaging profile may be built up from a plurality of insert members which are engaged with the track and fixed in position by locking means.

There is disclosed a tool storage and changing mechanism comprising a rotatable table tool rack having radial sockets to removably hold toolholders, a horizontal arm, forming a track between the tool rack and the machine spindle, carries a mechanical hand having a forked end to receive from the rack and hold a selected toolholder and carry it to and from the spindle. Assuming that the work with the toolholder has been performed, the empty hand travels to the spindle where, without vertical movem...

A precision high velocity cutting tool having indexable inserts or cutting bits includes a replaceable cutting section or insert holding nest that is made of a material that is harder and stronger than that from which it is economical to make the major cutter body. The nest is easily replaced without removing the cutter body from the drive shaft or spindle. Two holding screws retain the nest on the cutter body, one of them also securing an indexable cutter insert in cooperation with a reversible...