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US4833834A
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Camshaft belt grinder
Assignee: Motors Liquidation Co
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Filing: 1987-10-30
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Granted: 1989-05-30
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Expires: 2007-10-30
Abstract
Abstract Various embodiments of multiple belt camshaft grinding machines each have grinding belt drive, contouring and support members carried on a feed table for separate control of cam contouring and grinding feed rate while the camshaft workpiece is carried on a fixed axis by a table providing axial motion for belt wear balancing oscillation and, optionally, camshaft indexing. Curved shoe or wheel contouring members allow reverse curve cam grinding. Special shoe materials and belt-shoe lubrication may be provided to reduce shoe wear. Other features are also disclosed.
Inventors
- 👤 Henry B. Patterson
- 👤 Eberhard E. Wasserbaech
- 👤 Jae M. Lee
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-03 20:56
CPC Classifications
B; B24; B24B; B24B21/00; B24B21/006; B24B19/00; B24B19/08; B24B19/12
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 23
Claim 1
Independent Claim
190 words
A camshaft belt grinder having a plurality of spaced grinding belts for simultaneously grinding on a camshaft a plurality of longitudinally spaced cams, one with each belt, said grinder comprising means for rotatably supporting a camshaft workpiece having longitudinally spaced cams, means for driving and tensioning said belts in paths aligned with said cams laterally of the camshaft, actuating means operative to engage the belts and individually urge the belts into grinding contact with their respective cams, said actuating means including curved face belt engaging members, one lying adjacent each cam and engaging the opposite side of its belt therefrom, and contouring means connected with each of the belt engaging members and operative to individually advance and withdraw their respective belt engaging members to cause the belts to grind the cam surfaces in desired configurations, and guide means engaging the belts beyond and ahead of their belt engaging members to limit the maximum angle of belt wrap about the curved faces of the belt engaging members, wherein said belt engaging members are stationary contouring shoes, and the curved faces of said shoes have hard wearing surfaces for engaging the belts.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
190 words
A camshaft belt grinder having a plurality of spaced grinding belts for simultaneously grinding on a camshaft a plurality of longitudinally spaced cams, one with each belt, said grinder comprising means for rotatably supporting a camshaft workpiece having longitudinally spaced cams, means for driving and tensioning said belts in paths aligned with said cams laterally of the camshaft, actuating means operative to engage the belts and individually urge the belts into grinding contact with their respective cams, said actuating means including curved face belt engaging members, one lying adjacent each cam and engaging the opposite side of its belt therefrom, and contouring means connected with each of the belt engaging members and operative to individually advance and withdraw their respective belt engaging members to cause the belts to grind the cam surfaces in desired configurations, and guide means engaging the belts beyond and ahead of their belt engaging members to limit the maximum angle of belt wrap about the curved faces of the belt engaging members, wherein said belt engaging members are stationary contouring shoes, and the curved faces of said shoes have hard wearing surfaces for engaging the belts.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
21 words
A camshaft belt grinder as in claim 1 wherein the hard wearing surfaces include polycrystalline diamond fixed to the curved faces.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
36 words
A camshaft belt grinder as in claim 1 wherein are provided fluid delivery means operative to deliver cooling and lubricating fluid between the belts and the contouring shoes for minimizing wear on the curved faces thereof.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
56 words
A camshaft belt grinder as in claim 1 wherein said plurality of grinding belts is less than the number required to simultaneously grind all the cams on a camshaft workpiece and portions of said belt driving and tensionsing and said contouring means are movable longitudinally of the camshaft to sequentially grind selected groups of the cams.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
41 words
A camshaft belt grinder as in claim 1 wherein the belt driving and tensioning and the actuating means are all carried on a traveling feed table and the camshaft workpiece supporting means carries the camshaft for rotation on a fixed axis.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
184 words
A camshaft belt grinder having a plurality of spaced grinding belts for simultaneously grinding on a camshaft a plurality of longitudinally spaced cams, one with each belt, said grinder comprising means for rotatably supporting a camshaft workpiece having longitudinally spaced cams, means for driving and tensioning said belts in paths aligned with said cams laterally of the camshaft, and actuating means operative to engage the belts and individually urge the belts into grinding contact with their respective cams, said actuating means including curved face belt engaging members, one lying adjacent each cam and engaging the opposite side of its belt therefrom, and contouring means connected with each of the belt engaging members and operative to individually advance and withdraw their respective belt engaging members to cause the belts to grind the cam surfaces in desired configurations, wherein said plurality of grinding belts is less than the number required to simultaneously grind all the cams on a camshaft workpiece and portions of said belt driving and tensioning and said contouring means are movable longitudinally of the camshaft to sequentially grind selected groups of the cams.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
184 words
A camshaft belt grinder having a plurality of spaced grinding belts for simultaneously grinding on a camshaft a plurality of longitudinally spaced cams, one with each belt, said grinder comprising means for rotatably supporting a camshaft workpiece having longitudinally spaced cams, means for driving and tensioning said belts in paths aligned with said cams laterally of the camshaft, and actuating means operative to engage the belts and individually urge the belts into grinding contact with their respective cams, said actuating means including curved face belt engaging members, one lying adjacent each cam and engaging the opposite side of its belt therefrom, and contouring means connected with each of the belt engaging members and operative to individually advance and withdraw their respective belt engaging members to cause the belts to grind the cam surfaces in desired configurations, wherein said plurality of grinding belts is less than the number required to simultaneously grind all the cams on a camshaft workpiece and portions of said belt driving and tensioning and said contouring means are movable longitudinally of the camshaft to sequentially grind selected groups of the cams.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
169 words
A camshaft belt grinder having a plurality of spaced grinding belts for simultaneously grinding on a camshaft a plurality of longitudinally spaced cams, one with each belt, said grinder comprising means for rotatably supporting a camshaft workpiece having longitudinally spaced cams, means for driving and tensioning said belts in paths aligned with said cams laterally of the camshaft, and actuating means operative to engage the belts and individually urge the belts into grinding contact with their respective cams, said actuating means including curved face belt engaging members, one lying adjacent each cam and engaging the opposite side of its belt therefrom, and contouring means connected with each of the belt engaging members and operative to individually advance and withdraw their respective belt engaging members to cause the belts to grind the cam surfaces in desired configurations, wherein the belt driving and tensioning and the actuating means are all carried on a traveling feed table and the camshaft workpiece supporting means carries the camshaft for rotation on a fixed axis.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
169 words
A camshaft belt grinder having a plurality of spaced grinding belts for simultaneously grinding on a camshaft a plurality of longitudinally spaced cams, one with each belt, said grinder comprising means for rotatably supporting a camshaft workpiece having longitudinally spaced cams, means for driving and tensioning said belts in paths aligned with said cams laterally of the camshaft, and actuating means operative to engage the belts and individually urge the belts into grinding contact with their respective cams, said actuating means including curved face belt engaging members, one lying adjacent each cam and engaging the opposite side of its belt therefrom, and contouring means connected with each of the belt engaging members and operative to individually advance and withdraw their respective belt engaging members to cause the belts to grind the cam surfaces in desired configurations, wherein the belt driving and tensioning and the actuating means are all carried on a traveling feed table and the camshaft workpiece supporting means carries the camshaft for rotation on a fixed axis.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
27 words
A camshaft belt grinder as in claim I wherein the camshaft workpiece supporting means is an axially movable table capable of oscillating the camshaft along its axis.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
180 words
A camshaft belt grinder having a plurality of spaced grinding belts for simultaneously grinding on a camshaft a plurality of longitudinally spaced cams, one with each belt, said grinder comprising means for rotatably supporting a camshaft workpiece having longitudinally spaced cams, means for driving and tensioning said belts in paths aligned with said cams laterally of the camshaft, and actuating means operative to engage the belts and individually urge the belts into grinding contact with their respective cams, said actuating means including belt engaging members, one lying adjacent each cam and engaging the opposite side of its belt therefrom, and contouring means connected with each of the belt engaging members and operative individually advance and withdraw their respective belt engaging members along parallel lines of motion to cause the belt to grind the cam surface in desired configurations, the contouring means of adjacent belt engaging members being offset in generally opposite directions laterally from the lines of motion of their respective belt engaging members to allow closer spacing of the belt engaging members than is permitted of the contouring means.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
180 words
A camshaft belt grinder having a plurality of spaced grinding belts for simultaneously grinding on a camshaft a plurality of longitudinally spaced cams, one with each belt, said grinder comprising means for rotatably supporting a camshaft workpiece having longitudinally spaced cams, means for driving and tensioning said belts in paths aligned with said cams laterally of the camshaft, and actuating means operative to engage the belts and individually urge the belts into grinding contact with their respective cams, said actuating means including belt engaging members, one lying adjacent each cam and engaging the opposite side of its belt therefrom, and contouring means connected with each of the belt engaging members and operative individually advance and withdraw their respective belt engaging members along parallel lines of motion to cause the belt to grind the cam surface in desired configurations, the contouring means of adjacent belt engaging members being offset in generally opposite directions laterally from the lines of motion of their respective belt engaging members to allow closer spacing of the belt engaging members than is permitted of the contouring means.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
33 words
A camshaft belt grinder as in claim 9 wherein said contouring means are driven by power means operative to cause movement of the associated belt engaging members in response to a control input.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
79 words
A camshaft belt grinder as in claim 9 wherein said contouring means are driven by means carrying a pattern cam for each cam of the camshaft and rotatable in synchronized relation to the rotating motion of the camshaft, and follower means having a cam follower for and engaging each of the pattern cams and means connecting each of the cam followers with one of the contouring means for actuating the belt engaging members directly from their associated pattern cams.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
42 words
A camshaft belt grinder as in claim 9 wherein said contouring means of adjacent belt engaging members are alternately disposed above and below the level of the camshaft to be ground to further provide for close spacing of the belt engaging members.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
40 words
A camshaft belt grinder as in claim 12 wherein said contouring means of adjacent belt engaging members are also offset from the line of motion of their respective belt engaging members in generally opposite directions longitudinally of the camshaft workpiece.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
56 words
A camshaft belt grinder as in claim 9 wherein said plurality of grinding belts is less than the number required to simultaneously grind all the cams on a camshaft workpiece and portions of said belt driving and tensioning and said contouring means are movable longitudinally of the camshaft to sequentially grind selected groups of the cams.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
16 words
A camshaft belt grinder as in claim 9 wherein said belt engaging member is a wheel.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
28 words
A camshaft belt grinder as in claim 9 wherein said belt engaging member is a curved shoe having a belt contacting surface made from a low wear material.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
16 words
A camshaft belt grinder as in claim 16 wherein said low wear material includes polycrystalline diamond.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
41 words
A camshaft belt grinder as in claim 9 wherein the belt driving and tensioning and the actuating means are all carried on a traveling feed table and the camshaft workpiece supporting means carries the camshaft for rotation on a fixed axis.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
27 words
A camshaft belt grinding as in claim 18 wherein the camshaft workpiece supporting means is an axially movable table capable of oscillating the camshaft along its axis.
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USPTO Annuity & Maintenance Windows
| Annuity Stage | Window Opens | Payment Deadline | Surcharge Period Until | Estimated Fee | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 Years (Year 4) | 1992-05-29 | 1992-11-28 | 1993-05-30 | $2000.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |
| 7.5 Years (Year 8) | 1996-05-29 | 1996-11-28 | 1997-05-30 | $3760.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |
| 11.5 Years (Year 12) | 2000-05-29 | 2000-11-28 | 2001-05-30 | $7700.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |