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Granted Patent B2
US 12,686,060 · App. 18/367,002 · Granted Jul 21, 2026

Tool holder for a machine tool

Inventors: Bernhard Vater (Pleystein, DE); Tobias Lehner (Moosbach, DE)
Assignee: LEISTRITZ PRODUKTIONSTECHNIK GMBH
B23B27/16
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Patent No.
US 12,686,060
App. No.
18/367,002
Granted
Jul 21, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A tool holder for a machine tool, having a retaining component which can be rotated about an axis of rotation and on which a cutting tool is or can be fastened in a releasable manner, wherein the retaining component has at least two plug-in mounts, which are offset in the circumferential direction about the axis of rotation and are intended for receiving a respective cutting tool, having an elongate plug-in shank and a cutting portion, wherein each cutting tool is or can be fixed in the plug-in mount via a separate retaining device, and wherein the cutting tools delimit between them a receiving space for a workpiece which can be machined by the cutting tools together, the cutting tools having their cutting portions facing toward the receiving space.

Claims (15)

1 . A tool holder for a machine tool, having a retaining component which can be rotated about an axis of rotation and on which a cutting tool is or can be fastened in a releasable manner, characterized in that the retaining component has at least two plug-in mounts, which are offset in the circumferential direction about the axis of rotation and are intended for receiving a respective cutting tool, having an elongate plug-in shank and a cutting portion, wherein each cutting tool is or can be fixed in the plug-in mount via a separate retaining means, and wherein the cutting tools delimit between them a receiving space for a workpiece which can be machined by the cutting tools together, the cutting tools having their cutting portions facing toward the receiving space, wherein the plug-in mounts merge into one another in the direction of the axis of rotation to form a common depression.

2 . The tool holder according to claim 1 , comprising the provision of three plug-in mounts, which are offset preferably equidistantly by 120° in the circumferential direction, or four plug-in mounts, which are offset preferably equidistantly by 90° in the circumferential direction.

3 . The tool holder according to claim 1 , wherein each plug-in mount is delimited via at least one clamping portion, against which the plug-in shank of the respective cutting tool is or can be clamped via the retaining means, or in that the plug-in shanks are braced in relation to one another via the retaining means.

4 . The tool holder according to claim 1 , wherein the depression, for the purpose of forming the respective plug-in mount, has a radial widening in the direction of the outer side of the retaining component.

5 . The tool holder according to claim 4 , wherein the cross section of the widening is shape-compatible in relation to a cross-sectional portion of the cutting tool.

6 . The tool holder according to claim 5 , wherein each radial widening is formed via a hole portion.

7 . The tool holder according to claim 6 , wherein each hole portion extends over more than 180° and the end edges of each hole portion form the clamping portions, against which it is possible for the respective plug-in shank, which is cross-sectionally shape-compatible with the hole portion, can be clamped via the retaining means.

8 . The tool holder according to claim 1 , wherein each plug-in shank has at least one supporting surface, preferably two supporting surfaces which are located at an angle in relation to one another and via which the plug-in shanks are braced and supported radially in relation to one another.

9 . The tool holder according to claim 1 , comprising the provision, on the retaining component, of a number of threaded holes, this number corresponding to the number of plug-in mounts, which open out in each case on an outer surface of the retaining component and of a plug-in mount and into which a respective retaining means, in the form of a retaining screw which runs against the plug-in shank, is or can be screwed.

10 . The tool holder according to claim 9 , wherein each threaded hole runs at an angle (α) <90° in relation to the axis of rotation.

11 . The tool holder according to claim 9 , comprising the provision, on each plug-in shank, of a planar run-on surface, which the screw runs against retaining perpendicularly.

12 . The tool holder according to claim 11 , wherein each threaded hole opens out on the outer surface of a planar screw-in surface.

13 . The tool holder according to claim 9 , wherein the threaded hole is a countersunk hole.

14 . The tool holder according to claim 1 , wherein the cutting portions of the cutting tools are designed for the turning of a pin-like workpiece for the purpose of forming a cylindrical workpiece surface.

15 . A machine tool comprising a drive device with a receiving means which can be rotated about an axis of rotation, and also comprising a tool holder according to claim 1 , the tool holder being received or receivable in the receiving means and the axis of rotation thereof coinciding with the axis of rotation of the receiving means.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 12, 2023
From: VATER, BERNHARD; LEHNER, TOBIAS
To: LEISTRITZ PRODUKTIONSTECHNIK GMBH
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Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2022 123 128.3 · Sep 12, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240082926A1 · Mar 14, 2024
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