GRINDING WHEEL HOLDER Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: mechanical engineering. SUBSTANCE: device has setting and alignment expansion ring with screw through slot. Outer surface of ring is made in form of sphere, and inner surface, in form of conical hole. Expansion ring is placed in circular ring. Circular ring installed in adapter flange consists of two halves with inner spherical surface engaging with mating sphere of setting-and-alignment expansion ring. Dowel is installed in one half of circular ring. Dowel engages with screw slot whose pitch is equal to half the height of setting-and-alignment ring. EFFECT: enlarged operating capabilities, intensified finishing machining operations owing to possibility of stepless adjustments of grinding wheel tilting angle. 5 dwg