Abstract:
An improved method of and apparatus for automatically threading a continuous electrode wire through a workpiece in a traveling-wire electroerosion machine wherein a rotary guide block having a tapered opening is disposed to locate the latter coaxially with a straight throughgoing hole preformed in the workpiece and arranged in alignment with a straight line path defined between a pair of wire guide members. A free end of the electrode wire extending from a wire supply or takeup is located behind the opening in the rotary guide block which is tapered convergently towards the workpiece. The electrode wire is advanced along the straight line path to introduce its free end into the tapered opening of the guide block which is rotated about its rotary axis to allow the free end to smoothly pass through the opening and then into and through the straight through-hole in the workpiece. A sensing/control circuit may be provided and arranged to detect a contact of the free end with the tapered wall of the opening to initiate the rotation of the rotary guide block or to control its rate of rotation and/or the rate of advance of the electrode wire in accordance with the particular position of a point of contact of the free end with the tapered wall.
Abstract:
An electroerosive wire-cutting method and apparatus in which the traveling wire electrode is heated in its position-setting step prior to a desired machining operation so as to establish for the operative section of the wire electrode thermal conditions the same as those to be experienced during the machining operation. Such heating may be effected, for example, by passing a heating current through that section of the wire electrode from an independent heating current source via wire guides.
Abstract:
A current-conductor assembly for conducting a machining current to a wire electrode in a wire-cutting electroerosion machine comprises a pair of coplanar wheels rotatable about their respective shafts and having their respective peripheries for receiving the wire electrode between them. The wheels are urged towards one another to press the wire electrode between the peripheries and a brush connectable electrically to a source of the machining current and adapted to be urged under pressure into electrical contact with a flank of one of the wheels which is electrically conductive for conducting the current to the wire electrode. The brush is an electrically conductive body preferably composed of copper, graphite or a copper/graphits composite material containing a solid-state lubricating material, e.g. MoS.sub.2 or WS.sub.2. The pressing wheel urged towards the conducting wheel is, at least along its peripheral region, composed of an elastomeric material.
Abstract:
A method of and an apparatus for electroerosively wire-cutting a conductive workpiece with a continuous wire electrode supported to extend and axially transported to move between a supply site and a collection site through a cutting zone. The moving wire electrode is juxtaposed in the cutting zone with the workpiece to form a machining gap therewith supplied with a machining liquid. A machining current is passed through the gap to electroerosively remove material from the workpiece. The moving wire electrode and the workpiece are relatively displaced along a predetermined path which defines the desired pattern of wire cut in the workpiece. The wire electrode fed from a supply reel is of a regular cross-sectional contour (e.g. circular) which is, upstream of the cutting zone, shaped into a cross-sectional contour (e.g. square or triangular) preselected in conjunction with the desired pattern of cut to be formed in the workpiece. The shaping means may take the form of a drawing die or an electroerosive wire-cutting electrode assembly.
Abstract:
An EDM method wherein the surface roughness of the machined workpiece is reduced or the ratio of the removal rate to the surface roughness is increased by controlling at least one of the rate of flow of the liquid machining medium through the discharge gap and the rate of relative displacement between the tool electrode and the workpiece along the machining interface so that each individual discharge crater on the workpiece surface becomes elliptical in shape and has its major axis at least two times greater than its minor axis.
Abstract:
An improved method of and apparatus for the electrical discharge machining of a small and deep hole of a diameter of 1 mm or less and a depth-to-diameter ratio of at least 5 into or through a workpiece wherein a water machining fluid medium is used having a specific resistivity of at least 10.sup.4 ohm-cm and is pumped through a tubular elongated electrode into the machining gap at a pressure of at least 20 kg/cm.sup.2, preferably 40 kg/cm.sup.2. An ultrasonic vibration is imparted to the elongated tubular electrode longitudinally thereof or transversely thereto.
Abstract translation:一种改进的方法和装置,用于对直径为1mm或更小直径至少为5的至少5个深孔比的小孔和深孔进行放电加工,其中使用水加工液介质 具有至少104欧姆 - 厘米的电阻率,并且通过管状细长电极以至少20kg / cm 2,优选40kg / cm 2的压力泵入加工间隙。 超声波振动被纵向地或横向地赋予细长管状电极。
Abstract:
An arrangement for use with a worktank or machining receptacle in a machine tool, e.g. a wire-cut EDM machine, wherein a machining liquid is supplied to a machining zone defined between a tool and a workpiece wherefrom it is permitted to fall at least in part freely by gravity while entraining the machining products therein. In the receptacle provided for temporarily impounding therein the machining liquid falling directly from the machining zone there is provided a liquid damping member which includes a rugged layer of magnetic material for impingement upon by the falling machining liquid droplets and streams to whereby dissipate splashes thereof while magnetically trapping the ferromagnetic machining products therein.
Abstract:
A workpiece cutting apparatus in which an elongated wire or band tool spans a pair of guides and is continuously advanced relative to the workpiece by a first drive system but is reciprocated in the region of the workpiece by a second drive system at higher speed than the rate of continuous advance. This is permitted by storage devices between each guide and the first drive. The tool can carry out electrical machining and/or abrasive cutting using an abrasive bonded to the tool or in a machining fluid introduced into the cutting region.
Abstract:
A numerical control system and method for controlling a travelling-wire EDM system in which the pulses from the numerical controller are transmitted to pulse motors driving the workpiece table along X and Y axes for generating the shape to be machined in the workpiece. A taper is applied to the cut by mounting one of the electrode wire guides on a support capable of x and y movements through respective pulse distributors and sign-changing inverters from the numerical controller with respective pulse motors so that the cut on one side of the workpiece represents the sum of increments from both the X-Y and x-y placements while the cut on the opposite side represents substantially only the increments of the X-Y displacements.
Abstract:
An improved ultrasonic machining method and apparatus wherein the vibratory oscillations applied to an ultrasonic machining tool and transmitted to the machining region are periodically interrupted so that they are applied and transmitted in the form of a series of time-spaced bursts.