US Patent Class 409
GEAR CUTTING, MILLING, OR PLANING




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  DF  CLASS NOTES
1  DF  GEAR CUTTING
2  DF  .~ With regulation of operation by use of templet, card, or other replaceable information supply
3  DF  .~.~ Including follower for templet
4  DF  .~ And burnishing simultaneously
5  DF  .~ With compensation for backlash in drive means
6  DF  .~ With work or product advancing
7  DF  .~.~ Utilizing transfer arm
8  DF  .~ Gear chamfering or deburring
9  DF  .~.~ Using relatively reciprocating or oscillating cutter
10  DF  .~ Gear tooth shape generating
11  DF  .~.~ Hobbing
12  DF  .~.~.~ Process
13  DF  .~.~.~.~ Generating tooth for bevel gear
14  DF  .~.~.~ Including means to shift hob between cutting passes
15  DF  .~.~.~ With control means energized in response to activator stimulated by condition sensor
16  DF  .~.~.~ Plural hobs
17  DF  .~.~.~ Including infeed means
18  DF  .~.~.~.~ To infeed along axis of work rotation
19  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Infeed of cutter
20  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ And infeed radially of axis of work rotation
21  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Vertically
22  DF  .~.~.~.~ To infeed radially of axis of work rotation
23  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Infeed of cutter
24  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ And infeed tangentially of work axis
25  DF  .~.~ Milling with radial faced tool
26  DF  .~.~.~ Process
27  DF  .~.~.~ Adapted to cut bevel gear
28  DF  .~.~.~.~ With means to continuously rotate work and means to co-form all teeth of gear
29  DF  .~.~.~.~ Bevel gear having nonparallel opposing tooth flanks
30  DF  .~.~.~.~ Including rotary cutter cradle
31  DF  .~.~ By relative axial movement between synchronously indexing or rotating work and cutter
32  DF  .~.~.~ Crowning
33  DF  .~.~.~ Displacing cutter axially relative to work (e.g., gear shaving, etc.)
34  DF  .~.~.~.~ Using gear shaper-cutter
35  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Plural distinct cutting edges
36  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Cutting rotating work, the axis of which lies in a plane intersecting the cutter axis
37  DF  .~.~ Gear shaving
38  DF  .~.~ Using rotary cutter
39  DF  .~.~.~ Having axially directed cutting edge
40  DF  .~.~.~ Plural rotary cutters
41  DF  .~.~.~ On reciprocating carriage
42  DF  .~.~ Using reciprocating or oscillating cutter
43  DF  .~.~.~ Bevel gear cutting
44  DF  .~.~.~.~ Dual cutters
45  DF  .~.~.~.~ Double acting cutter
46  DF  .~.~.~ Rectilinearly reciprocating cutter
47  DF  .~.~.~.~ Cutter comprising a rack
48  DF  .~.~ Making a noncircular gear, worm, rotor, or a planar-faced gear
49  DF  .~ Gear shaving
50  DF  .~ Using rotary cutter
51  DF  .~.~ Process
52  DF  .~.~ End mill
53  DF  .~.~.~ Radially faced
54  DF  .~.~.~.~ Using plural, selectively usable tools
55  DF  .~.~ Plural rotary cutters
56  DF  .~.~ Cutting action along work axis
57  DF  .~.~.~ Cutting action intersecting work axis
58  DF  .~ Using reciprocating or oscillating cutter
59  DF  .~.~ Broach
60  DF  .~.~ Including circumferentially disposed cutting edges
61  DF  .~ Work dividing or checking of work position or division
62  DF  .~ With work clamping
63  DF  WITH FURBISHING OF CUTTER
64  DF  MILLING
65  DF  .~ Thread or helix generating
66  DF  .~.~ Process
67  DF  .~.~ With means to regulate operation by use of templet, card, or other replaceable information supply
68  DF  .~.~.~ Complete cycle
69  DF  .~.~.~ To regulate cutting depth (e.g., relief, taper, etc.)
70  DF  .~.~.~ To regulate rate of motion (e.g., stopping, etc.)
71  DF  .~.~ With nonthread or nonhelix generating, milling cutter
72  DF  .~.~ With means to advance work or product
73  DF  .~.~ Plural cutters or work holders
74  DF  .~.~ With planetary cutter
75  DF  .~.~ Work means to move work axially and means to interrelate work movement with cutter rotation
76  DF  .~.~ With means to rotate work and means to interrelatedly infeed the work relative to the cutter
77  DF  .~.~.~ Means to infeed the cutter
78  DF  .~.~ With means to circumferentially adjust the position of the cutter with respect to the work
79  DF  .~ With regulation of operation by templet, card, or other replaceable information supply
80  DF  .~.~ With sensing of numerical information and regulation without mechanical connection between sensing means and regulated means (i.e., numerical control)
81  DF  .~.~ To cut lock key
82  DF  .~.~.~ Using templet other than a key
83  DF  .~.~.~ Complete cycle
84  DF  .~.~ Process
85  DF  .~.~ Reproducing means
86  DF  .~.~.~ Including pantograph cutter-carrier
87  DF  .~.~.~.~ And means to move work at work station
88  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ About work axis
89  DF  .~.~.~.~ Pivotally supported for vertical movement
90  DF  .~.~.~.~ And means to counterbalance carrier
91  DF  .~.~.~.~ Including plural cutters
92  DF  .~.~.~ By use of pivotally supported tracer
93  DF  .~.~.~ Duplicating means
94  DF  .~.~.~.~ With means for operation without manual intervention
95  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ To make a double curvature foil
96  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Including means to sense optical or magnetic image
97  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With means to support templet above or under work
98  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Including tracer adapted to trigger electrical energy
99  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ To actuate electrically driven work or tool moving means
100  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ To actuate fluid driven work or tool moving means
101  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Including tracer adapted to trigger fluid energy
102  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ To actuate fluid driven work or tool moving means
103  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Including cutter and tracer fixed to move laterally together
104  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ And provision for circumferential relative movement of cutter and work
105  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Including plural cutters
106  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Including plural cutters
107  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Including cross-slide tool carrier
108  DF  .~.~.~.~ Including plural cutters
109  DF  .~.~.~.~ Including cross-slide tool carrier
110  DF  .~.~.~.~ With means to support templet above or under work
111  DF  .~.~.~.~ With provision for circumferential relative movement of cutter and work
112  DF  .~.~.~ With provision for circumferential relative movement of cutter and work
113  DF  .~.~.~.~ And means for operation without manual intervention
114  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Including tracer adapted to trigger electrical or fluid energy
115  DF  .~.~.~ For using planar templet in cutting profile (e.g., contour map from planar map, etc.)
116  DF  .~.~.~ Including means for operation without manual intervention
117  DF  .~.~ Including means for operation without manual intervention
118  DF  .~.~.~ Including simultaneously usable plural tracers or including tracer adapted to simultaneously use plural templets
119  DF  .~.~.~.~ To make a double curvature foil
120  DF  .~.~.~ To make a double curvature foil
121  DF  .~.~.~ Including cutter and tracer fixed to move together
122  DF  .~.~.~ With provision for circumferential relative movement of cutter and work
123  DF  .~.~ And provision for circumferential relative movement of cutter and work
124  DF  .~.~ Including cutter and tracer fixed to move together
125  DF  .~ Templet, tracer, or cutter
126  DF  .~.~ Tracer
127  DF  .~.~.~ Adapted to trigger electrical energy
128  DF  .~.~.~.~ Photocell
129  DF  .~.~.~ Adapted to trigger fluid energy
130  DF  .~.~ Templet
131  DF  .~ Process
132  DF  .~.~ Including infeeding
133  DF  .~ With means to weigh or test work or product
134  DF  .~ With means to protect operative or machine (e.g., guard, safety device, etc.)
135  DF  .~ With means to control temperature or lubricate
136  DF  .~.~ Cutter or work
137  DF  .~ With means to remove chip
138  DF  .~ Means to trim edge
139  DF  .~ Means to remove scale or raised surface imperfection
140  DF  .~.~ Means to remove flash or burr
141  DF  .~ With means to dampen vibration
142  DF  .~ Means to mill epitrochoidal shape
143  DF  .~ Means for internal milling
144  DF  .~ With detachable or auxiliary cutter support to convert cutting action
145  DF  .~ Including means to infeed work to cutter
146  DF  .~.~ With compensation for backlash in drive means
147  DF  .~.~ With control means energized in response to activator stimulated by condition sensor
148  DF  .~.~.~ In response to cutter or cutter carriage
149  DF  .~.~.~ In response to work or work carriage
150  DF  .~.~.~.~ To control rate of infeed or return
151  DF  .~.~.~.~ To control limit of infeed
152  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Adapted to hydraulically or pneumatically stimulate control
153  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Adapted to electrically stimulate control
154  DF  .~.~.~ To control rate of infeed or return
155  DF  .~.~.~ To effect stopping of infeed
156  DF  .~.~ With means to change rate of infeed
157  DF  .~.~ Means to mill indeterminate length work
158  DF  .~.~ Multiple work stations
159  DF  .~.~ With means to advance work or product
160  DF  .~.~.~ Vertically
161  DF  .~.~.~ Endless or orbital work or product advancing means
162  DF  .~.~ To reciprocate or oscillate work
163  DF  .~.~ With work holder
164  DF  .~.~.~ And means to selectively position work
165  DF  .~.~.~ Including means to support work for rotation during operation
166  DF  .~.~.~.~ And including means to infeed cutter toward work axis
167  DF  .~.~.~.~ With linear movement of work
168  DF  .~.~.~.~ With angular movement of work
169  DF  .~.~ Including friction gearing drive
170  DF  .~.~ Including fluid drive
171  DF  .~ With means to effect stopping upon completion of operation
172  DF  .~ With means to advance work or product
173  DF  .~.~ Endless or orbital work or product advancing means
174  DF  .~ With means to precisely reposition work
175  DF  .~ Randomly manipulated, work supported, or work following device
176  DF  .~.~ For machining commutator
177  DF  .~.~ For cutting longitudinal groove in shaft (e.g., keyway, etc.)
178  DF  .~.~ With work supported guide means
179  DF  .~.~.~ To guide tool to move in arcuate path
180  DF  .~.~ With work follower
181  DF  .~.~ Randomly manipulated
182  DF  .~.~.~ End mill (e.g., router, etc.)
183  DF  .~ Including means to infeed rotary cutter toward work
184  DF  .~.~ With means to limit penetration into work
185  DF  .~.~ Axially
186  DF  .~.~.~ With infeed control means energized in response to activator stimulated by condition sensor
187  DF  .~.~.~.~ In response to cutter condition
188  DF  .~.~.~.~ In response to work condition
189  DF  .~.~.~ With work holder
190  DF  .~.~.~ And laterally
191  DF  .~.~.~.~ Simultaneously
192  DF  .~.~.~ Plural cutters
193  DF  .~.~ With infeed control means energized in response to activator stimulated by condition sensor
194  DF  .~.~.~ In response to cutter condition
195  DF  .~.~.~ In response to work condition
196  DF  .~.~ With means to change rate of infeed
197  DF  .~.~ With work holder
198  DF  .~.~.~ Indexable
199  DF  .~.~ Machining arcuate surface
200  DF  .~.~.~ With means to move cutter eccentrically
201  DF  .~.~ Angularly adjustable cutter head
202  DF  .~.~ Including gantry-type cutter-carrier
203  DF  .~.~ Plural cutters
204  DF  .~ Including means to adustably position cutter
205  DF  .~.~ With work holder or guide
206  DF  .~.~ Linear adjustment
207  DF  .~.~.~ With control for adjustment means responsive to activator stimulated by condition sensor
208  DF  .~.~.~.~ Responsive to position of cutter
209  DF  .~.~.~.~ And means to clamp cutter support in adjusted position
210  DF  .~.~.~ With position indicator or limit means
211  DF  .~.~.~ And angular adjustment
212  DF  .~.~.~ Including gantry-type cutter-carrier
213  DF  .~.~.~ Plural cutters
214  DF  .~.~ With position indicator or limit means
215  DF  .~.~ With right angle cutter drive
216  DF  .~.~ Compound angular adjustment
217  DF  .~.~ Plural cutters
218  DF  .~ With limit means to aid in positioning of cutter bit or work (e.g., gauge, stop, etc.)
219  DF  .~ Work support
220  DF  .~.~ With position indicator or stop
221  DF  .~.~ Indexable
222  DF  .~.~.~ Including dividing head
223  DF  .~.~.~.~ Multiple row dividing head
224  DF  .~.~ With angular adjustment
225  DF  .~.~ With work holder or guide
226  DF  .~.~.~ Including cutter limited to rotary motion
227  DF  .~.~ With means to adjust work support vertically
228  DF  .~ Including cutter limited to rotary motion
229  DF  .~.~ Cutter turning about vertical axis
230  DF  .~ Detachable or repositionable tool head
231  DF  .~ Cutter spindle or spindle support
232  DF  .~.~ With cutter holder
233  DF  .~.~.~ And draw bar
234  DF  .~ With cutter holder
235  DF  .~ Machine frame
236  DF  .~.~ Overarm harness structure
237  DF  .~.~ Including counterbalancing means
238  DF  .~.~ Including means to compensate for deformation
239  DF  .~.~.~ Deflection of cutter spindle
240  DF  .~.~ Convertible from lathe
241  DF  .~.~ Including relatively movable components and means to relatively immobilize these components
242  DF  .~ Tailstock
243  DF  BROACHING
244  DF  .~ Process
245  DF  .~ With control means energized in response to activator stimulated by condition sensor
246  DF  .~.~ Responsive to condition of work or product
247  DF  .~ With means to distribute cutter infeed force
248  DF  .~ With means to select cutter or to select or modify cutter drive
249  DF  .~ With means to clean, lubricate, or modify temperature of work or cutter
250  DF  .~ With product handling means
251  DF  .~.~ Between plural broaching stations
252  DF  .~.~ Means to eject broached product
253  DF  .~.~ Chip removal means
254  DF  .~ With means to protect operative or machine (e.g., guard, safety device, etc.)
255  DF  .~.~ With safety means for overload or safety interlock
256  DF  .~ With work immobilizer and means to activate work immobilizer interrelated with cutter infeed, work infeed, or work advance
257  DF  .~ With work infeed or advancing means and means to clamp the work thereto, which clamping means is interrelated with work or cutter infeed
258  DF  .~ Means to remove flash or burr
259  DF  .~ Means for cutting groove
260  DF  .~.~ Arcuate groove in cylindrical surface
261  DF  .~.~.~ Rifling
262  DF  .~ Orbital carrier for cutter
263  DF  .~ Orbital carrier for work
264  DF  .~ With means to cyclically manipulate cutter or cutter support
265  DF  .~.~ To reorient, introduce, or remove cutter
266  DF  .~.~ Cutter released to interim support at termination of cutting stroke
267  DF  .~.~ To remove and return cutter to cutter support
268  DF  .~ With plural cutters
269  DF  .~ With means to advance, infeed, or manipulate work
270  DF  .~.~ Interrelated with cutter infeed
271  DF  .~.~.~ Including means supporting work and additional means opposing infeed force
272  DF  .~.~.~ Including work indexing means for sequential cutting of different surfaces of a single workpiece
273  DF  .~.~.~ Including work indexing means for sequential cutting of surfaces of different workpieces
274  DF  .~.~.~ With means to retract work from path of tool's idle return stroke
275  DF  .~.~ To infeed work past cutter
276  DF  .~ With means to hold work during cutting
277  DF  .~.~ Including work clamping means
278  DF  .~.~ With means to adjust or facilitate adjustment of work or work holder
279  DF  .~.~ With means on work or work holder to guide cutter during infeed
280  DF  .~ Cutter infeed means
281  DF  .~.~ Imparting rectilinear motion to cutter
282  DF  .~.~.~ And rotary motion to cutter
283  DF  .~.~.~ Fluid powered means
284  DF  .~.~.~ Rack means
285  DF  .~.~.~ Screw means
286  DF  .~ Machine frame
287  DF  .~ Cutter support or guide
288  DF  PLANING
289  DF  .~ With regulation of operation by templet, card, or other replaceable information supply
290  DF  .~.~ Including use of tracer adapted to trigger electrical or fluid energy
291  DF  .~.~.~ Including provision for circumferential relative movement of cutter and work
292  DF  .~.~ Including provision for circumferential relative movement of cutter and work
293  DF  .~ Process
294  DF  .~ With means to lubricate
295  DF  .~ With product handling means
296  DF  .~ Randomly manipulated, work supported, or work following device
297  DF  .~ Means to remove flash or burr
298  DF  .~.~ Elongated work
299  DF  .~.~.~ Flash or burr inside hollow work
300  DF  .~.~.~ Transverse burr
301  DF  .~.~ Flat work
302  DF  .~ Of commutator
303  DF  .~ Means for trimming edge (e.g., chamfering, scarfing, etc.)
304  DF  .~ Means for cutting groove
305  DF  .~.~ Arcuate groove
306  DF  .~.~.~ For rifling
307  DF  .~.~ Inside hollow work
308  DF  .~ Means for shaving by blade spanning work surface
309  DF  .~.~ Concave work surface (e.g., bearing, stereotype printing plate, etc,)
310  DF  .~.~ Circumferential surface
311  DF  .~.~ Including rack driven infeed means
312  DF  .~.~ Including roller infeed means
313  DF  .~ Means for cutting arcuate surface
314  DF  .~.~ Cycloidal surface
315  DF  .~.~ With work infeed and means to arcuately reposition the cutter
316  DF  .~.~ With work infeed and means to arcuately reposition the work
317  DF  .~ With means to relatively infeed cutter and work
318  DF  .~.~ And means to rotate work and cutter at same rate about converging axes
319  DF  .~.~ With plural sequentially acting cutters or with double acting cutter
320  DF  .~.~ And means to vary rate of infeed
321  DF  .~.~ Reciprocating work infeed means
322  DF  .~.~.~ With fluid-driven bed
323  DF  .~.~.~ With rack-driven bed
324  DF  .~.~.~ With screw-driven bed
325  DF  .~.~.~ And means to permit repositioning of cutter laterally
326  DF  .~.~ Reciprocating cutter infeed means
327  DF  .~.~.~ Reciprocating cutter horizontally
328  DF  .~.~.~.~ With work support and lead screw to reposition work support
329  DF  .~.~.~.~ With fluid-powered means to drive cutter
330  DF  .~.~.~.~ With pivoting link to drive cutter
331  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Link driven by crank
332  DF  .~.~.~.~ With rack to drive cutter
333  DF  .~.~.~.~ With screw to drive cutter
334  DF  .~.~.~ With link or cam to drive cutter
335  DF  .~.~.~ With rack to drive cutter
336  DF  .~.~ Including means causing return stroke
337  DF  .~ Machine frame
338  DF  .~.~ Means to permit repositioning of cutter
339  DF  .~.~.~ Laterally
340  DF  .~.~.~.~ Plural independently positioned cutters
341  DF  .~.~.~.~ Including clutch
342  DF  .~.~.~.~ Including repositioning means and means to effect stopping thereof
343  DF  .~.~ Including relatively movable components and means to relatively immobilize these components
344  DF  .~.~ Work table
345  DF  .~ Tool head
346  DF  .~.~ With selectively usable cutting edges
347  DF  .~.~ With means to permit repositioning of cutting for idle return stroke
348  DF  .~.~.~ Comprising pivotable cutter or cutter support
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CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS
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900.1  DF  MACHINE BUTTON OR LOCATOR
900.2  DF  MACHINE TOOL CARRIAGE CLAMP
901  DF  STEREOTYPE PRINTING PLATE
902  DF  TIRE MOLD
903  DF  WORK HOLDER
904  DF  WITH HYDROSTATIC BEARING