US Patent: 4,512,068
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| Pallet Receiver with Compliant Pin and Socket Registration
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Patentee:
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| Tadeusz W. Piotrowski (exact or similar names) - Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Aug. 23, 1982 |
| Granted: |
Apr. 23, 1985 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Cincinnati Milacron, Inc.
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Description: |
| Abstract:
A pallet receiver for a machine tool is disclosed utilizing a pin and socket for registration and alignment. A pallet clamp piston is employed to clamp the pallet to the receiver base for subsequent machining operations. A registration pin is rigidly secured to the receiver base, and a cooperating pin socket is mounted to the pallet underface by means of a compliant diaphragm spring so that as the socket and pin are engaged during the first portion of clamp piston movement the pallet will be registered and aligned with respect to the receiver base, and during the second and final portion of piston movement the axially compliant pin socket will permit the pallet to engage a rigid clamp down surface on the receiver base, thus insuring a positive final resting position for the pallet on the receiver base. |
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