An adjustable stroke mechanism for a random orbital machine including a housing having a wall enclosing a cavity, an adjuster ring surrounding the housing and having a first set of gear teeth along a first portion of an inner surface, and a second set of gear teeth along a second portion of the inner surface, a counterweight having gear teeth on an exterior surface disposed within the housing, and a bearing carriage having gear teeth disposed within the housing. At least one counterweight gear that meshes with the gear teeth of the counterweight and the first set of gear teeth of the adjuster ring, and at least one bearing carriage gear that meshes with the gear teeth of the bearing carriage and the second set of gear teeth of the adjuster ring, so that movement of the adjuster ring causes movement of both the counterweight and the bearing carriage.

The positioning of a cylindrical workpiece (that has to be machined by grinding) can be performed particularly precisely if the workpiece abuts to at least one, preferably two, static supporting elements and is fixed in a collet of a spindle, which allows a wobble compensation as well as a radial displacement of the spindle axis relative to the longitudinal axis of the workpiece.

Provided is a balancing device for a rotating body defining an axis of rotation, including a plurality of balancing heads aligned along the axis of rotation, each balancing head including: balancing masses configured to be moved at least along a circumference of movement so as to cancel the unbalance of the rotating body; at least one motor configured to move the balancing masses independently, the balancing masses part of different balancing heads being mutually spaced along the axis of rotation; unbalance detecting means including a plurality of vibration detectors configured to measure the vibrations caused by the unbalance of the rotating body.

A grinding apparatus includes grinding wheel side vibrational displacement calculation devices that obtain a vibrational displacement of a grinding wheel resulting from a vibration in an approaching/separating direction of the grinding wheel; main spindle side vibrational displacement calculation devices that obtain a vibrational displacement of a workpiece generated by propagation of the vibration in the approaching/separating direction of the grinding wheel; a relative vibrational displacement calculation unit that obtains a relative vibrational displacement between the grinding wheel and the workpiece based on the vibrational displacement of the grinding wheel and the vibrational displacement of the workpiece that have been obtained; a position change unit that creates, based on the obtained relative vibrational displacement between the grinding wheel and the workpiece, a position change command to change a position of the wheel spindle stock; and a processing controller that grinds the workpiece W based on the created position change command.

The present document describes a blade sharpening system comprising a blade sharpening device, a blade holding apparatus and a controller operatively coupled to the blade sharpening device and said blade holding apparatus to control sharpening of said blade, and methods of using the same.

By, according to the invention, designing a surface treatment tool with a grinding head (16, 17) with cylindrical rollers (18), so that the tool (16, 17, 18) is balanced by weight because the tool's centre of gravity is close to the tool's surface treatment area, the tool (18) will automatically adjust according to the surface (25) of the treated workpiece, regardless of the level of the surface. Hereby is achieved a previously unknown simple way to surface treat, be it flat and curved workpiece surfaces alike. Furthermore, the tool (16,17,18) is balanced by weight so that treatment pressure can be adjusted according to need.

The invention relates to a balancer (1) for a movable component with a component weight, having a spindle mechanism (32), on the rotation element (34) of which the component can be suspended, and at least one compression spring (30) which is connected, at one of its ends (29), to a translation element (36) of the spindle mechanism, wherein the compression spring is able to be compressed by means of the translation element in the event of a rotation of the rotation element brought about by the component weight.

An adjustable stroke mechanism has a housing with a central axis and a wall enclosing a cavity. At least one counterweight is movably disposed within the cavity. A mounting assembly is disposed within the cavity. The mounting assembly has a workpiece attachment mechanism. A stroke adjustor couples the at least one counterweight with the mounting assembly. The stroke adjustor enables the counterweight and mounting assembly to move with respect to one another such that a distance between the counterweight and the mounting assembly is variably adjusted which, in turn, variably adjusts a stroke radius of the workpiece attachment mechanism with respect to the central axis of the housing.

A balancing device for each rotating piece, the rotating piece defining an axis of rotation, the balancing device including: a fixed portion, a mobile portion defining a central axis. The balancing device constrained to the rotating piece so that the central axis substantially coincides with the rotation axis. The balancing device including at least one eccentric mass, rotatable around the central axis and not balanced with respect to the central axis. The balancing device further including apparatus for movement of the eccentric masses, including a magnetic brake and being able to rotate the eccentric masses, with respect to the rotating piece around the central axis.

An automatic adjustable stroke device for a random orbital machine has a housing with a central axis and a wall defining a cavity. A counterbalance shaft assembly is rotatably disposed at least partially within the cavity. A shaft portion of the counterweight shaft assemblies aligned with the central axis. A mounting assembly is disposed at least partially within the cavity. The mounting assembly has a workpiece attachment mechanism. A stroke adjuster couples the counterweight shaft with the mounting assembly. The stroke adjuster enables the mounting assembly to adjust its stroke upon rotation of counterweight shaft. The mounting assembly variably adjusts a stroke radius of the workpiece attachment mechanism with respect to the central axis of the housing. The stroke adjuster has a gear automatically adjusting the mounting assembly stroke.