An automatic positioning and clamping tool for mounting in a CNC Tilting Rotary Table for positioning and clamping a wheel rim for processing by a cutting tool includes a base, an upright post mounted at the base, air leakage detection units mounted on the base for supporting the wheel rim and detecting an air leakage, clamping devices mounted on the base for clamping the border edge of the wheel rim, a lateral chip conveyor, nozzles mounted around the periphery of the lateral chip conveyor, a vertical hydraulic chuck mounted around the upright post for moving a positioning gripper into abutment against the bore wall of the center bore of the wheel rim, and fluid nozzles mounted in the vertical hydraulic chuck for flushing away chips during processing. Thus, the invention is a compact structure with functions of air leakage detection, wheel rim automatic positioning and clamping and chip removal.

An automatic positioning and clamping tool for mounting in a CNC Tilting Rotary Table for positioning and clamping a wheel rim for processing by a cutting tool includes a base, an upright post mounted at the base, air leakage detection units mounted on the base for supporting the wheel rim and detecting an air leakage, clamping devices mounted on the base for clamping the border edge of the wheel rim, a lateral chip conveyor, nozzles mounted around the periphery of the lateral chip conveyor, a vertical hydraulic chuck mounted around the upright post for moving a positioning gripper into abutment against the bore wall of the center bore of the wheel rim, and fluid nozzles mounted in the vertical hydraulic chuck for flushing away chips during processing. Thus, the invention is a compact structure with functions of air leakage detection, wheel rim automatic positioning and clamping and chip removal.

When a wheel clamp is used, width of a wheel is detected first, a first servo motor drives a lead screw to rotate, a supporting block and a lifting plate are automatically adjusted to appropriate heights via a nut, a manipulator puts the wheel onto end face blocks, air-tight devices are pressed down, an oil cylinder drives a chuck so that clamping jaws expand the central hole of the wheel, meanwhile, four air cylinders drive clamping blocks to compact outer side of the wheel, and the wheel is completely positioned; at this moment, a bolt hole of the wheel can be drilled; after machining, second servo motor drives right shaft, right lug plate and a turnover part to rotate certain angles via second decelerator; high pressure oil is introduced into cavities between ipsilateral expansion sleeves and end covers, and left and right shafts are separately locked by ipsilateral expansion sleeves.

The invention relates to an expanding clamping sleeve for an expanding chuck having a first and a second bearing section, a clamping section that can grasp a tool, and a thrust section that is arranged between the clamping section and the first bearing section. The invention further relates to a toolholder having such an expanding clamping sleeve, wherein a contact surface is provided for a tool-side stop. The invention finally relates to a method for clamping a tool using an expanding chuck, in which, in a first step, a shaft of the tool is inserted into the expanding chuck, then the expanding chuck is subjected to pressure so that a clamping section of the expanding chuck clamps the tool shaft in the radial direction, and a thrust section of the expanding chuck displaces the tool shaft in the axial direction so that a tool-side stop is forced against a contact surface of a toolholder with an axial minimum clamping force.

A hydraulic chuck may include an expansion sleeve, a plurality of pistons, and an actuator ring. The expansion sleeve may include a bore. The plurality of pistons may be axially mounted in at least one piston chamber of the expansion sleeve. The actuator ring may be rotatably mounted relative to the expansion sleeve. The actuator ring may be configured to actuate the plurality of pistons in the at least one piston chamber to hydraulically expand the expansion sleeve to provide a varying clamping force within the bore.

A lathe chuck for aluminum alloy hubs, including a base plate, a base, a slide plate, positioning posts, etc. The base plate is connected together with the base by screws, forming a body of the lathe chuck for hubs; a tapered mounting hole is provided under the base plate so as to fit with a machine tool; the upper and lower ends of the positioning posts are mounted on the base plate and the base by screws respectively, which can increase mounting strength of the base plate and the base; the slide plate is in sliding fit with the positioning posts by copper sleeves, and may slide upwards and downwards along the positioning posts; the large pull rod is fixed on the slide plate by screws and may drive the slide plate to move upwards and downwards.

A drive system for driving a chuck device including a piston and a pair of fingers to be opened and closed according to the displacement of the piston, includes a controller, a detection sensor to detect an axial position of the piston, and three-port servo valves to switch a state of supply of the fluid to the chuck device. A degree of valve opening is controllable based on a control signal input from the controller, and an amount of displacement of the piston and an amount of opening and closing of the fingers are controlled by changing the degree of valve opening. One of the 3-port servo valves is connected to a first cylinder chamber of the chuck device, and another of the 3-port servo valves is connected to a second cylinder chamber of the chuck device.

A control method of controlling a chuck device in a drive system for driving the chuck device, comprising opening or closing fingers by opening a switching valve at a first degree of valve opening to supply the fluid to a first cylinder chamber of the chuck device and to discharge the fluid from a second cylinder chamber of the chuck device so that a piston moves in one direction, and stopping the fingers in an intermediate position between a fully open position and a fully closed position by opening the switching valve at a second degree of valve opening to stop supplying the fluid to the first cylinder chamber and to stop discharging the fluid from the second cylinder chamber when the axial position of the piston reaches a target position set in advance while the fingers are being opened or closed.

Utilities supplied through a first utility path of a turning tool holder via a docking device is supplied to a second utility path of an adjacent rotating tool holder through a communication means, there is no need to provide a complex hydraulic line, a pneumatic line and a coupler for receiving the utilities from the docking device at a rearward side of the rotating tool holder. A rearward size of the rotating tool holder may be minimized, so that even when the rotating tool holder is mounted on the turret, no interference occurs with the docking device in the rearward direction when the turret rotates. As a result, it is possible to use the rotating tool holder, to which utilities supply is necessary, even in the turret which is provide with the docking device.

An expansion sleeve for the sealed insertion into an axial receiving opening of a base body of a hydraulic expansion chuck. The expansion sleeve has a sleeve body extending along a longitudinal central axis, which has a central clamping bore for receiving and clamping a cylindrical shank of a machining tool. On the outer circumference in the region of the clamping bore, the sleeve body has a jacket surface, which forms a radially elastically deformable material web, which revolves in a ring-shaped manner and which delimits a pressure chamber with the inner circumferential surface of the receiving opening. To clamp tools in the large spectrum of shank diameters, in several recesses are formed in the sleeve body radially within the jacket surface, which recesses extend along the longitudinal central axis and are distributed around the clamping bore, preferably spaced apart equiangularly, and are closed with respect to the jacket surface and the clamping bore.