Methods of machining a component including multiple dissimilar materials are disclosed. One method may include making a first cut in the component to remove at least a portion of a hardest material in the component and making a second cut in the component along a second cutting-path that does not include the hardest material. The first cut may expose a cut surface in the component and the second cut may extend through the cut surface. The cuts may be made using a turning operation and different cutting tools may be used for the first and second cuts. The hardest material may have a hardness of at least 50 HRC and the remaining materials may have a hardness of at most 45 HRC. The disclosed methods may be used to form a thrust face surface in a shell and sun gear assembly to extend tool life and reduce scrap.

A deburring tool includes a deburring head and a shaft portion connected to the deburring head. The deburring head includes a conical hollow body, a primary cutting edge and a secondary cutting edge both formed on the conical hollow body. The conical hollow body has at least one flute extending between interior and exterior conical surfaces of the conical hollow body, and at least one recessed cutout defined in the interior conical surface. The primary cutting edge is formed at a junction of a wall surface of the flute and a bottom surface of the recessed cutout. The secondary cutting edge is formed at a junction of a wall surface of the recessed cutout and the interior conical surface.

A pipe end machining device configured to machine an end of a pipe includes an outer housing, a spindle rotatably mounted within the outer housing and configured to carry tool supports and cutting tools, a mounting assembly configured to be attached to the pipe, a stem extending from the mounting assembly and connected to the spindle by an interengagement which allows the spindle to move linearly relative to the stem, but prevents rotational movement of the spindle relative to the stem, and a locking assembly attached to the stem and configured to fix the vertical position of the outer housing and the spindle relative to the mounting assembly.

Material removal processes of a structure are disclosed. These processes can define several features. For example, metal structure can include an interior recess surrounded by a sidewall. The structure can further include a base portion integrally formed with the sidewall. The sidewall can include an opening extending through the sidewall and into the interior recess. The sidewall can undergo a material removal process to include multiple curved regions. The sidewall, the first curved region, and the second curved region can be polished to include a reflectivity different than a reflectivity of an exterior region of the base portion. A single multi-axes lathe having multiple spindles performs several material removal processes under a continuous machine cutting process. The spindles may include clamping features that allow a first spindle to perform a first operation then pass the metal structure to a second spindle. Additional processes include lapping, polishing, and linear brushing.

An apparatus and method of using an apparatus for refacing a tubular connection is provided. In one example, the apparatus has a mandrel connectable to a threaded portion of a tubular connection and two face plates bearing cutters for refacing surfaces of the tubular connection. In this example, the cutting is controlled by an engaging nut moving along a threaded portion of a drive shaft, and the two face plates may be spaced apart at a fixed distance to maintain the distance between the torque-stop surface and the primary surface after refacing. Also, the apparatus uses a locking pin to assist in tightening or loosening the mandrel into place using the remainder of the apparatus. An air-oil system is provided to supply air and oil to the cutting surfaces as the apparatus refaces the shoulders of the connection. An exemplary pin refacer and an exemplary box refacer are both disclosed.

Disclosed is an orbital cutting apparatus that is capable of freely and selectively controlling forward and backward movement of a plurality of cutting tools, allowing the cutting tools to move forward and backward and to move in an axial direction of a material to be cut so as to enable processing of various shapes as well as cutting and chamfering, and is capable of simultaneously carrying out cutting and chamfering operations for a pipe material or a heavy pipe having a thickness of dozens of mm or more.

Miniaturized deburring and/or chamfering tool with a cylindrical guide sleeve (2) in which a blade holder base body (5) is arranged in an exchangeable manner, which has at least one receiving slot (20) for receiving and guiding a blade (6) arranged there, which is leaf-shaped and designed so that it can bend along its longitudinal axis, and which, at its free front end, has a cutting head (7) with a deburring or chamfering blade arranged there, wherein an internal cooling of the blade (6) and removal of shavings from the blade (6) are achieved by the fact that the coolant flows around the blade (6) in the receiving slot (20) on at least two facing sides.

An automatic movable machine includes a vertical plate and a support plate are fixed, in a perpendicular direction to each other, to a semicircular chamfering angle adjusting plate fixed to a head of the movable chamfering machined, a moving body is provided at the vertical plate on the inside of the pipe or the lower side of the metal sheet, and equipped with an internal roller regulated by a spring contact with the inside of the pipe or the lower side of the metal sheet, the support plate has a fixing bolt, a fixing plate is provided to the support plate, and provided at the front of a gear box, and external rollers are provided at the front of the gear box, and allow the speed of the rotational force of a motor, to be reduced in the gear box and transmit the speed-reduced rotational force.

A combined drill and chamfer tool (13, 21) for producing boreholes (29) in a workpiece (28) and for subsequently producing a chamfer (30) on at least one bore edge of the borehole (29), comprising a drill bit (1), which is secured in a rotationally fixed manner in a base body (3), and at least one chamfering blade (4) arranged behind the drill bit (1) in the axial direction, said chamfering blade being mounted in a blade window (25) arranged in the drill shank (35) and spring-loaded so as to be displaceable transversely to the longitudinal axis of the combined tool (13, 21), wherein the drill body (13) comprising the drill bit (1) and the drill shank (35) is made of a solid hard metal material, and wherein a spring-loaded, displaceable control bolt (5) is located in a central longitudinal bore (36) of the solid hard metal drill, the front tip (15) of said bolt controlling the transverse displacement of the chamfering blade (4), which is transversely displaceable within the blade window (25).

Drilling apparatus and method, the apparatus comprising: a first robot (10); a first member (30) (e.g. a pressure foot) and a drilling tool (38) both coupled to the first robot (10); a second robot (12); and a second member (52) coupled to the second robot (12); wherein the apparatus is arranged to press the members (30, 52) against opposite sides of a part to be drilled (2, 100) (e.g. an aircraft panel) so as to hold the part (2, 100) and prevent deflection of at least a portion of the part (2, 100); and the first member (30) and the drilling tool (38) are arranged such that the drilling tool (38) may drill into the portion of the part (2, 100) of which deflection is opposed from the side of the part (2, 100) pressed against by the first member (30). The robots (10, 12) may be robotic arms.