An apparatus for automated polishing of an object with multiple facets includes a polishing wheel, a robotic arm, a sensor and a controller. The robotic arm positions the object in contact with the polishing wheel. The sensor senses a polishing related parameter during polishing of the object with the polishing wheel. The controller operates the robotic arm to rotate the object about an axis perpendicular to the polishing wheel, receives a sensing signal from said sensor at different orientations of said object during polishing and selects a polishing orientation from the different orientations based on said sensing signal.

The present invention is a probe forming device, the probe forming device comprises a spinning shaft, a first adjusting structure, a second adjusting structure, an electrolyte conveying member and a power supply. One of the holding member of the spinning shaft holds a workpiece, and a driving member drives the workpiece to move and abut the first adjusting structure and the second modulating structure. The electrolyte conveying member conveys an electrolyte to the workpiece, the first adjusting structure and the second adjusting structure, and is electrically connected. At least one positive end of the power supply is connected to the workpiece or the spinning shaft, and at least one negative end is connected to the first adjusting structure and the second modulating structure.

A drive arrangement (300) for driving a planetary head (140) of a floor surfacing machine (100), the drive arrangement (300) comprising; a first drive wheel (310) arranged to be driven by a first motor (110), a second drive wheel (330) fixedly attached to the planetary head (140) and arranged to be driven by the first drive wheel via a connecting member (320), wherein the drive arrangement (300) comprises a protective casing (240) arranged to enclose the first (310) and second (330) drive wheels, and the connecting member (320), thereby protecting the drive arrangement (300) from dust, debris, and slurry.

A device for removing wheel burrs with first brushes and second brushes includes a wheel positioning and pressing system configured to position and press of the wheel, a center cap mouth burr removing system configured to remove burrs of the wheel cap mouth with the second brushes, and a wheel spoke back cavity burr removing system configured to remove burrs of the wheel spoke back cavity with the first brushes. The first brushes are mounted on an expandable first capsule and the second brushes are mounted on an expandable second conical capsule, and filling the expandable first capsule and the expandable second conical capsule with air and removing air from the expandable first capsule and the expandable second conical capsule change the shapes of the first brushes and the second brushes to accommodate wheels with different shape and size for deburring.

The present invention relates to a method and a device for processing a hard-coated workpiece surface of a rotationally symmetrical workpiece (1) with at least one grinding wheel, wherein the method comprises the following steps: driving the workpiece (1) into a rotational motion around a workpiece axis of rotation (1.1), driving a grinding wheel (2a) into a rotational motion around a grinding wheel axis of rotation (2a.1), angulating the grinding wheel axis of rotation (2a.1) and the workpiece axis of rotation (1.1) to each other so that the grinding wheel axis of rotation (2a.1) and the workpiece axis of rotation (1.1) are not parallel, processing the workpiece surface with the grinding wheel (2a), wherein the grinding wheel (2a) is in contact with the workpiece surface.

Provided is a substrate grinding device including: a work table; a first grinding wheel; and a second grinding wheel, wherein the work table is configured to rotate while sucking and holding a substrate, the first grinding wheel and the second grinding wheel are cup wheel type wheels, and provided at positions where the first grinding wheel and the second grinding wheel can be simultaneously in contact with the substrate rotating, the first grinding wheel and the second grinding wheel being configured to grind the substrate rotating, while rotating, and the work table is configured to be able to move a rotation center of the substrate from a first grinding position within a grinding range of the first grinding wheel to a second grinding position within a grinding range of the second grinding wheel.

A computer-implemented method of planning of the shapes of free-form tool paths (P) for simultaneous two-sided machining of a dental restoration (1) having an individual free-form target geometry from a workpiece (2) by using a dental tool machine (3) having at least two tool spindles each having at least one tool (4) arranged on a different side of the workpiece (2) which is simultaneously movable along an axis (y) relative to the tools (4) thereby imposing a kinematic axis coupling. The method includes a step of determining transformations (T′, T″) of the target geometry by which the kinematic axis coupling is converted into a common coupling parameter for both tools (4); and a step of generating dependent on these transformations (T′, T″) the shapes of the free-form tool paths (P) in which the common coupling parameter is identical in time for all participating tool spindles that are driven simultaneously.

The invention relates to a device with a machine tool and a braking device, the machine tool having an eccentrically supported, rotatable backing pad for receiving a tool. According to one embodiment, the braking device has a frame, which is attached to the machine tool; a spring, a first end of which is fixed on the frame; and a lever, which is connected to a second end of the spring. The braking device also has an actuator, which is designed to move the lever, wherein in the event of a movement of the lever, the spring is compressed and a part of the lever is pressed against the backing pad of the machine tool.

A bottom face processing method of a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure including steps of: preparing a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure including a plurality of first cells which extend in parallel with each other from a first bottom face to a second bottom face, and each of which is opened in the first bottom face and has a protruding plugged portion in the second bottom face, and a plurality of second cells each of which is adjacent to at least one of the first cells with a partition wall interposed therebetween, which extend in parallel with each other from the first bottom face to the second bottom face, and each of which has a protruding plugged portion in the first bottom face, and is opened in the second bottom face; and removing the protruding portion from the plugged portion of each of the first cells and the second cells of the pillar-shaped honeycomb structure.

The invention relates to a steel wire descaling device. The device includes one or more first steel wire descalers and one or more second steel wire descalers. A descaling roller for removing an oxide scale from a surface of a steel wire is disposed on each of the first steel wire descaler and the second steel wire descaler. The descaling roller of the first steel wire descaler is disposed inclinedly, the descaling roller of the second steel wire descaler is disposed horizontally. By inclinedly brushing the steel wire by using the first steel wire descaler and flatly brushing the steel wire by using the second steel wire descaler, the combination of flat brushing and inclined brushing allows oxide scales to be from steel wires without a blind spot.