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Class Number: 409 Class Title: GEAR CUTTING, MILLING, OR PLANING Subclass Subclass Number Title 1 GEAR CUTTING 2 .With regulation of operation by use of templet, card, or other replaceable information supply 3 ..Including follower for templet 4 .And burnishing simultaneously 5 .With compensation for backlash in drive means 6 .With work or product advancing 7 ..Utilizing transfer arm 8 .Gear chamfering or deburring 9 ..Using relatively reciprocating or oscillating cutter 10 .Gear tooth shape generating 11 ..Hobbing 12 ...Process 13 ....Generating tooth for bevel gear 14 ...Including means to shift hob between cutting passes 15 ...With control means energized in response to activator stimulated by condition sensor 16 ...Plural hobs 17 ...Including infeed means 18 ....To infeed along axis of work rotation 19 .....Infeed of cutter 20 ......And infeed radially of axis of work rotation 21 ......Vertically 22 ....To infeed radially of axis of work rotation 23 .....Infeed of cutter 24 ......And infeed tangentially of work axis 25 ..Milling with radial faced tool 26 ...Process 27 ...Adapted to cut bevel gear 28 ....With means to continuously rotate work and means to co-form all teeth of gear 29 ....Bevel gear having nonparallel opposing tooth flanks 30 ....Including rotary cutter cradle 31 ..By relative axial movement between synchronously indexing or rotating work and cutter 32 ...Crowning 33 ...Displacing cutter axially relative to work (e.g., gear shaving, etc.) 34 ....Using gear shaper-cutter 35 .....Plural distinct cutting edges 36 .....Cutting rotating work, the axis of which lies in a plane intersecting the cutter axis 37 ..Gear shaving 38 ..Using rotary cutter 39 ...Having axially directed cutting edge 40 ...Plural rotary cutters 41 ...On reciprocating carriage 42 ..Using reciprocating or oscillating cutter 43 ...Bevel gear cutting 44 ....Dual cutters 45 ....Double acting cutter 46 ...Rectilinearly reciprocating cutterr 47 ....Cutter comprising a rack 48 ..Making a noncircular gear, worm, rotor, or a planar-faced gear 49 .Gear shaving 50 .Using rotary cutter 51 ..Process 52 ..End mill 53 ...Radially faced 54 ....Using plural, selectively usable tools 55 ..Plural rotary cutters 56 ..Cutting action along work axis 57 ...Cutting action intersecting work axis 58 .Using reciprocating or oscillating cutter 59 ..Broach 60 ..Including circumferentially disposed cutting edges 61 .Work dividing or checking of work position or division 62 .With work clamping 63 WITH FURBISHING OF CUTTER 64 MILLING 65 .Thread or helix generating 66 ..Process 67 ..With means to regulate operation by use of templet, card, or other replaceable information supply 68 ...Complete cycle 69 ...To regulate cutting depth (e.g., relief, taper, etc.) 70 ...To regulate rate of motion (e.g., stopping, etc.) 71 ..With nonthread or nonhelix generating, milling cutter 72 ..With means to advance work or product 73 ..Plural cutters or work holders 74 ..With planetary cutter 75 ..Work means to move work axially and means to interrelate work movement with cutter rotation 76 ..With means to rotate work and means to interrelatedly infeed the work relative to the cutter 77 ...Means to infeed the cutter 78 ..With means to circumferentially adjust the position of the cutter with respect to the work 79 .With regulation of operation by templet, card, or other replaceable information supply 80 ..With sensing of numerical information and regulation without mechanical connection between sensing means and regulated means (i.e., numerical control) 81 ..To cut lock key 82 ...Using templet other than a key 83 ...Complete cycle 84 ..Process 85 ..Reproducing means 86 ...Including pantograph cutter-carrier 87 ....And means to move work at work station 88 .....About work axis 89 ....Pivotally supported for vertical movement 90 ....And means to counterbalance carrier 91 ....Including plural cutters 92 ...By use of pivotally supported tracer 93 ...Duplicating means 94 ....With means for operation without manual intervention 95 .....To make a double curvature foil 96 .....Including means to sense optical or magnetic imagee 97 .....With means to support templet above or under work 98 .....Including tracer adapted to trigger electrical energy 99 ......To actuate electrically driven work or tool moving means 100 ......To actuate fluid driven work or tool moving means 101 .....Including tracer adapted to trigger fluid energy 102 ......To actuate fluid driven work or tool moving means 103 .......Including cutter and tracer fixed to move laterally together 104 .....And provision for circumferential relative movement of cutter and work 105 ......Including plural cutters 106 .....Including plural cutters 107 .....Including cross-slide tool carrier 108 ....Including plural cutters 109 ....Including cross-slide tool carrier 110 ....With means to support templet above or under work 111 ....With provision for circumferential relative movement of cutter and work 112 ...With provision for circumferential relative movement of cutter and work 113 ....And means for operation without manual intervention 114 .....Including tracer adapted to trigger electrical or fluid energy 115 ...For using planar templet in cutting profile (e.g., contour map from planar map, etc.) 116 ...Including means for operation without manual intervention 117 ..Including means for operation without manual intervention 118 ...Including simultaneously usable plural tracers or including tracer adapted to simultaneously use plural templets 119 ....To make a double curvature foil 120 ...To make a double curvature foil 121 ...Including cutter and tracer fixed to move together 122 ...With provision for circumferential relative movement of cutter and work 123 ..And provision for circumferential relative movement of cutter and work 124 ..Including cutter and tracer fixed to move together 125 .Templet, tracer, or cutter 126 ..Tracer 127 ...Adapted to trigger electrical energy 128 ....Photocell 129 ...Adapted to trigger fluid energy 130 ..Templet 131 .Process 132 ..Including infeeding 133 .With means to weigh or test work or product 134 .With means to protect operative or machine (e.g., guard, safety device, etc.) 135 .With means to control temperature or lubricate 136 ..Cutter or work 137 .With means to remove chip 138 .Means to trim edge 139 .Means to remove scale or raised surface imperfection 140 ..Means to remove flash or burr 141 .With means to dampen vibration 142 .Means to mill epitrochoidal shape 143 .Means for internal milling 144 .With detachable or auxiliary cutter support to convert cuttingg action 145 .Including means to infeed work to cutter 146 ..With compensation for backlash in drive means 147 ..With control means energized in response to activator stimulated by condition sensor 148 ...In response to cutter or cutter carriage 149 ...In response to work or work carriage 150 ....To control rate of infeed or return 151 ....To control limit of infeed 152 .....Adapted to hydraulically or pneumatically stimulate control 153 .....Adapted to electrically stimulate control 154 ...To control rate of infeed or return 155 ...To effect stopping of infeed 156 ..With means to change rate of infeed 157 ..Means to mill indeterminate length work 158 ..Multiple work stations 159 ..With means to advance work or product 160 ...Vertically 161 ...Endless or orbital work or product advancing means 162 ..To reciprocate or oscillate work 163 ..With work holder 164 ...And means to selectively position work 165 ...Including means to support work for rotation during operation 166 ....And including means to infeed cutter toward work axis 167 ....With linear movement of work 168 ....With angular movement of work 169 ..Including friction gearing drive 170 ..Including fluid drive 171 .With means to effect stopping upon completion of operation 172 .With means to advance work or product 173 ..Endless or orbital work or product advancing means 174 .With means to precisely reposition work 175 .Randomly manipulated, work supported, or work following device 176 ..For machining commutator 177 ..For cutting longitudinal groove in shaft (e.g., keyway, etc.) 178 ..With work supported guide means 179 ...To guide tool to move in arcuate path 180 ..With work follower 181 ..Randomly manipulated 182 ...End mill (e.g., router, etc.) 183 .Including means to infeed rotary cutter toward work 184 ..With means to limit penetration into work 185 ..Axially 186 ...With infeed control means energized in response to activator stimulated by condition sensor 187 ....In response to cutter condition 188 ....In response to work condition 189 ...With work holder 190 ...And laterally 191 ....Simultaneously 192 ...Plural cutters 193 ..With infeed control means energized in response to activator stimulated by condition sensor 194 ...In response to cutter condition 195 ...In response to work condition 196 ..With means to change rate of infeedd 197 ..With work holder 198 ...Indexable 199 ..Machining arcuate surface 200 ...With means to move cutter eccentrically 201 ..Angularly adjustable cutter head 202 ..Including gantry-type cutter-carrier 203 ..Plural cutters 204 .Including means to adustably position cutter 205 ..With work holder or guide 206 ..Linear adjustment 207 ...With control for adjustment means responsive to activator stimulated by condition sensor 208 ....Responsive to position of cutter 209 ....And means to clamp cutter support in adjusted position 210 ...With position indicator or limit means 211 ...And angular adjustment 212 ...Including gantry-type cutter-carrier 213 ...Plural cutters 214 ..With position indicator or limit means 215 ..With right angle cutter drive 216 ..Compound angular adjustment 217 ..Plural cutters 218 .With limit means to aid in positioning of cutter bit or work (e.g., gauge, stop, etc.) 219 .Work support 220 ..With position indicator or stop 221 ..Indexable 222 ...Including dividing head 223 ....Multiple row dividing head 224 ..With angular adjustment 225 ..With work holder or guide 226 ...Including cutter limited to rotary motion 227 ..With means to adjust work support vertically 228 .Including cutter limited to rotary motion 229 ..Cutter turning about vertical axis 230 .Detachable or repositionable tool head 231 .Cutter spindle or spindle support 232 ..With cutter holder 233 ...And draw bar 234 .With cutter holder 235 .Machine frame 236 ..Overarm harness structure 237 ..Including counterbalancing means 238 ..Including means to compensate for deformation 239 ...Deflection of cutter spindle 240 ..Convertible from lathe 241 ..Including relatively movable components and means to relatively immobilize these components 242 .Tailstock 243 BROACHING 244 .Process 245 .With control means energized in response to activator stimulated by condition sensor 246 ..Responsive to condition of work or product 247 .With means to distribute cutter infeed force 248 .With means to select cutter or to select or modify cutter drive 249 .With means to clean, lubricate, or modify temperature of workk or cutter 250 .With product handling means 251 ..Between plural broaching stations 252 ..Means to eject broached product 253 ..Chip removal means 254 .With means to protect operative or machine (e.g., guard, safety device, etc.) 255 ..With safety means for overload or safety interlock 256 .With work immobilizer and means to activate work immobilizer interrelated with cutter infeed, work infeed, or work advance 257 .With work infeed or advancing means and means to clamp the work thereto, which clamping means is interrelated with work or cutter infeed 258 .Means to remove flash or burr 259 .Means for cutting groove 260 ..Arcuate groove in cylindrical surface 261 ...Rifling 262 .Orbital carrier for cutter 263 .Orbital carrier for work 264 .With means to cyclically manipulate cutter or cutter support 265 ..To reorient, introduce, or remove cutter 266 ..Cutter released to interim support at termination of cutting stroke 267 ..To remove and return cutter to cutter support 268 .With plural cutters 269 .With means to advance, infeed, or manipulate work 270 ..Interrelated with cutter infeed 271 ...Including means supporting work and additional means opposing infeed force 272 ...Including work indexing means for sequential cutting of different surfaces of a single workpiece 273 ...Including work indexing means for sequential cutting of surfaces of different workpieces 274 ...With means to retract work from path of tool's idle return stroke 275 ..To infeed work past cutter 276 .With means to hold work during cutting 277 ..Including work clamping means 278 ..With means to adjust or facilitate adjustment of work or work holder 279 ..With means on work or work holder to guide cutter during infeed 280 .Cutter infeed means 281 ..Imparting rectilinear motion to cutter 282 ...And rotary motion to cutter 283 ...Fluid powered means 284 ...Rack means 285 ...Screw means 286 .Machine frame 287 .Cutter support or guide 288 PLANING 289 .With regulation of operation by templet, card, or other replaceable information supply 290 ..Including use of tracer adapted to trigger electrical or fluid energy 291 ...Including provision for circumferential relative movement of cutter and work 292 ..Including provision for circumferential relative movement off cutter and work 293 .Process 294 .With means to lubricate 295 .With product handling means 296 .Randomly manipulated, work supported, or work following device 297 .Means to remove flash or burr 298 ..Elongated work 299 ...Flash or burr inside hollow work 300 ...Transverse burr 301 ..Flat work 302 .Of commutator 303 .Means for trimming edge (e.g., chamfering, scarfing, etc.) 304 .Means for cutting groove 305 ..Arcuate groove 306 ...For rifling 307 ..Inside hollow work 308 .Means for shaving by blade spanning work surface 309 ..Concave work surface (e.g., bearing, stereotype printing plate, etc,) 310 ..Circumferential surface 311 ..Including rack driven infeed means 312 ..Including roller infeed means 313 .Means for cutting arcuate surface 314 ..Cycloidal surface 315 ..With work infeed and means to arcuately reposition the cutter 316 ..With work infeed and means to arcuately reposition the work 317 .With means to relatively infeed cutter and work 318 ..And means to rotate work and cutter at same rate about converging axes 319 ..With plural sequentially acting cutters or with double acting cutter 320 ..And means to vary rate of infeed 321 ..Reciprocating work infeed means 322 ...With fluid-driven bed 323 ...With rack-driven bed 324 ...With screw-driven bed 325 ...And means to permit repositioning of cutter laterally 326 ..Reciprocating cutter infeed means 327 ...Reciprocating cutter horizontally 328 ....With work support and lead screw to reposition work support 329 ....With fluid-powered means to drive cutter 330 ....With pivoting link to drive cutter 331 .....Link driven by crank 332 ....With rack to drive cutter 333 ....With screw to drive cutter 334 ...With link or cam to drive cutter 335 ...With rack to drive cutter 336 ..Including means causing return stroke 337 .Machine frame 338 ..Means to permit repositioning of cutter 339 ...Laterally 340 ....Plural independently positioned cutters 341 ....Including clutch 342 ....Including repositioning means and means to effect stopping thereof 343 ..Including relatively movable components and means to relatively immobilize these components 344 ..Work tablee 345 .Tool head 346 ..With selectively usable cutting edges 347 ..With means to permit repositioning of cutting for idle return stroke 348 ...Comprising pivotable cutter or cutter support * ****************************** * CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS * ****************************** 900.1 MACHINE BUTTON OR LOCATOR 900.2 MACHINE TOOL CARRIAGE CLAMP 901 STEREOTYPE PRINTING PLATE 902 TIRE MOLD 903 WORK HOLDER 904 WITH HYDROSTATIC BEARING