Tool Holder Adjusting Screw with Web Guide
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing tool cartridges require complex adjustability mechanisms involving clamping elements and intermediate pieces, making them cumbersome and difficult to fine-tune relative to the cartridge seat.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating adjusting screws with contact stamps and web guides to allow for stepless adjustment, using existing screwdrivers, and ensuring a defined position, with optional angled penetration for translational movement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If clamping elements or intermediate pieces are used for adjustment, then adjustability is achieved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the adjustment function from complex clamping elements and intermediate pieces, concentrating it into a single adjusting screw with integrated features. The screw includes a contact stamp for positioning and a web guide for anti-twist functionality, eliminating the need for separate adjustment mechanisms while maintaining full adjustability capability
Solution Approach 2:
The invention merges multiple functions into the adjusting screw: positioning (contact stamp), anti-twist (web guide), and adjustment (screw mechanism). This consolidation reduces the number of separate components needed for adjustment, directly reducing device complexity while preserving adaptability
2Measurement precision
If multiple adjustment elements are provided, then adjustment precision is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The adjusting screw is designed to perform multiple functions: fine adjustment of position, prevention of rotation (anti-twist via web guide), and providing a planar contact surface. This multi-functionality allows single-point adjustment to achieve comprehensive positioning control, maintaining precision while improving ease of operation
Solution Approach 2:
The web guide automatically prevents rotation of the contact stamp during adjustment, and the contact stamp automatically provides a planar bearing surface. These self-service features eliminate the need for additional adjustment elements or operations, allowing precise adjustment through a single screw mechanism
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AI summary
A tool holder (1) having a receptacle (6) for an interchangeable cutting insert, wherein at least one setting element for setting the position of the tool holder (1) with respect to a seat for the holder of a carrier tool is provided on the tool holder (1).