US Patent Issued to AB Sandvik Coromant on Sept. 1 for "Clamping device for tool holder" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,209, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to AB Sandvik Coromant (Sandviken, Sweden).

"Clamping device for tool holder" was invented by Gunnar Matlik (Sandviken, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamping device for releasably holding a tool holder shank includes a spindle rotatably mounted inside a housing, a drawbar axially moveable in a bore in the housing, engagement members moveable under the effect of the drawbar into locking engagement with the tool holder shank, an actuating member slidably mounted to the spindle, a motion transferring mechanism for transferring an axial movement of the actuating member into a movement of th...