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US20090081929A1
US20090081929A1 US12/211,966 US21196608A US2009081929A1 US 20090081929 A1 US20090081929 A1 US 20090081929A1 US 21196608 A US21196608 A US 21196608A US 2009081929 A1 US2009081929 A1 US 2009081929A1
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24DTOOLS FOR GRINDING, BUFFING OR SHARPENING
    • B24D13/00Wheels having flexibly-acting working parts, e.g. buffing wheels; Mountings therefor
    • B24D13/14Wheels having flexibly-acting working parts, e.g. buffing wheels; Mountings therefor acting by the front face
    • B24D13/145Wheels having flexibly-acting working parts, e.g. buffing wheels; Mountings therefor acting by the front face having a brush-like working surface
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24BMACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING; DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS
    • B24B7/00Machines or devices designed for grinding plane surfaces on work, including polishing plane glass surfaces; Accessories therefor
    • B24B7/20Machines or devices designed for grinding plane surfaces on work, including polishing plane glass surfaces; Accessories therefor characterised by a special design with respect to properties of the material of non-metallic articles to be ground
    • B24B7/22Machines or devices designed for grinding plane surfaces on work, including polishing plane glass surfaces; Accessories therefor characterised by a special design with respect to properties of the material of non-metallic articles to be ground for grinding inorganic material, e.g. stone, ceramics, porcelain

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  • the present invention relates to a smoothing and/or lapping tool, particularly, but not exclusively, suitable for finishing workings of natural or artificial stone, ceramic or the like materials.
  • Stone, porcelain, and not-porcelain ceramic materials are generally polished by using substantially rigid working tools having a Shore B hardness ranging from 70 to 90 degrees.
  • Such tools comprise abrasive granules incorporated in a matrix including a cement binder, such as magnesium oxychloride, or a resin binder, e.g. polyester, polyurethane and epoxy resins; and fillers, e.g. iron carbonates and/or oxides, aluminium oxides, silicon carbides and the like.
  • Such granular abrasives which are generally used with a granule size ranging from 36 to 1800 mesh, allow various hard materials to be worked, thereby obtaining bright surfaces thereon.
  • Tools including a rubber binder and having a Shore B hardness of 20 degree, and brushes including Nylon® as a binder have already been proposed. Such brushes make it possible to carry out surface workings with a high level of homogeneity in the surface finishing thereof.
  • “Turtle” tools have also been proposed that are quite rigid, and thus they require to be mounted on resilient supports.
  • Honing machines have also been proposed which are provided with a plurality of different-type tools designed to carry out a so-called “mirror-like” or “undulated” surface finishing.
  • the combined use of tools of different type from one another causes sometimes defects to be formed on the materials, especially if single working step is carried out on the material. This means that in order to obtain an optimum surface finishing working two or three smoothing/lapping steps are to be carried out, and this of course heavily affects the working costs.
  • the main object of the present invention is to provide a smoothing/lapping tool comprising portions of different hardness one with respect to the other, thereby being suitable for selectively work different surface portions of a slab or block of material.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a tool which is suitable for carrying out both finishing and polishing workings.
  • a finishing and/or smoothing block-like tool of abrasive material which comprises at least one front working portion and at least one rear portion designed to be anchored to a working head of a honing machine or a handle rear portion, said at least one front working portion comprising:
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 are plan and side views, respectively, of a tool according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 are a plan view and a cross-section view taken along the line III-III of FIG. 3 , respectively, of a second embodiment of a tool according to the present invention.
  • Block 1 is shaped as a substantially parallelepiped block, preferably a rectangular block, of abrasive material.
  • Block 1 comprises a front working portion 2 and a rear portion 3 .
  • the latter can be handle-shaped for manual use of the tool, or shoe-shaped to be anchorable to a working head of a honing or polishing machine (not shown in the drawings), as it is well known in the art.
  • the front working portion 2 includes one or more brushing working areas 4 having a plurality of bristle elements 5 extending or protruding from the rear anchoring portion or handle 3 for a length many times greater (typically from 5 to 10 times) than maximum thickness or transversal dimension of each bristle element.
  • the brushing working portion or portions is/are spaced apart and extend/s so as to delimit a continuous working front extending throughout the length and, preferably, the width of the front working portion 2 .
  • the front working portion 2 also has a plurality of working areas 6 , each including depressions 7 separated by raising or in relief areas 8 each extending through an area many times greater (typically from 5 to 10 times) than the thickness of a bristle element.
  • the working area/s 6 is/are spaced apart and/or extend/s so that the areas in relief 8 thereof form all together a continuous or uninterrupted working front extending throughout the length and, preferably, the width of the front working portion 2 .
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 show an annular-shaped finishing and/or polishing tool 1 a which includes a rear portion 3 a and a front working portion 2 a .
  • the latter comprises one or more brushing working areas 4 a including a plurality of bristle elements 5 a , and one or more working areas 6 a provided with a plurality of reliefs or plugs 8 a separated by depressions 7 a from one another.
  • the series of reliefs 8 a alternate with bristle elements 5 a , each series of reliefs 8 a and bristle elements being arranged along respective concentric circumferences.
  • the rear portion is obtained (e.g. by an injection moulding process) in one piece with the bristle elements 5 a , whereas the reliefs or plugs 8 a are inserted into, or in any way anchored to respective seats formed between the rear portion and the bristles.
  • the bristle elements are preferably made of a resin material selected from the group comprising thermoplastic resins, such as thermoplastic polyamides (nylon), thermoplastic polyesters (e.g. the Desmopan product made available by the company Bayer S.p.A.), thermoplastic polyurethanes (e.g. Texin made available by Bayer S.p.A.), casting resins, such as polyester polyols (Desmophen made available by Bayer S.p.A.), casting polyester resins, casting epoxy resins, casting silicone resins, resins obtained by a vulcanization process, e.g. vulcanized rubbers.
  • thermoplastic resins such as thermoplastic polyamides (nylon), thermoplastic polyesters (e.g. the Desmopan product made available by the company Bayer S.p.A.), thermoplastic polyurethanes (e.g. Texin made available by Bayer S.p.A.), casting resins, such as polyester polyols (Desmophen made available by Bay
  • a filler material which is selected from the group comprising:
  • the reliefs are made of a resin material selected from the group comprising:
  • relief or block portions can be added with a filler material selected from the group referred to above in relation with the bristle elements.
  • the bristle elements have a hardness ranging from 50 Shore A degrees to 30 Shore B degrees, whereas the reliefs have a hardness ranging from 50 Shore B degrees to 90 Shore B degrees.
  • the bristle elements can also have a different height from the reliefs.
  • Both the bristle elements and the reliefs can be obtained through injection processes, e.g. injection moulding, or a casting process.
  • a resin material for example, can be cast into a cavity in a mould, whereby obtaining the reliefs, that once hardening thereof has been completed can be located in a second mould, where the bristle elements can be over-moulded by means of an injection press.
  • thermosetting resin binder e.g. having a 87 Shore hardness
  • a thermoplastic resin binder e.g. Nevitane 250 D, made available by the company Nevitane S.p.A. at Luzzane (Reggio Emilia—Italy), filled with Ca 12%
  • the thermosetting resin binder used to obtain the reliefs has a granule size one degree-lower than the thermoplastic resin binder used to obtain the bristles.
  • either the bristle elements or the plugs have a granule size ranging from 980 to 1 micron.
  • the reliefs in a tool according to the present invention are substantially rigid and designed to polish surface portions of blocks or slabs made of stone material, whereas the bristle elements are partly resilient and designed to work portions of a block or slab that could not be reached by the reliefs, the bristle elements being suitable for penetrating interstices in the material being worked.
  • a tool 1 or 10 according to the present invention can work the whole surface of a slab or block engaged by tool working front, whereby even a single working step of a honing machine working head is satisfactory to obtain an optimum finishing or lapping working.
  • the bristle elements ( 5 , 5 a ) and reliefs ( 8 , 8 a ) delimit a substantially convex surface-working front.
  • a tool according to the present invention can be used for working materials having flat faces, even if they are porous in nature or formed with relatively small depressions therein, since the bristle elements can work pores and depressions as well.

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  • Finish Polishing, Edge Sharpening, And Grinding By Specific Grinding Devices (AREA)
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IT000132A ITVR20070132A1 (it) 2007-09-25 2007-09-25 Utensile di levigatura e/o lappatura particolarmente per la finitura di materiali lapidei
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