US 11,945,069 B2
Turbine motor spindle assembly for live tooling and multitasking machines
Kemma Samuel Dodds, North Lauderdale, FL (US); David William Tripp, Deerfield Beach, FL (US); and Ronald Maharaj, N. Lauderdale, FL (US)
Assigned to Air Turbine Technology, Inc., Boca Raton, FL (US)
Filed by First Eastern Equities Ltd, Boca Raton, FL (US)
Filed on Dec. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/551,985.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/125,600, filed on Dec. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0184761 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. B23Q 5/06 (2006.01); F01D 15/06 (2006.01)
CPC B23Q 5/06 (2013.01) [F01D 15/062 (2013.01); F01D 15/065 (2013.01); F01D 15/067 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A turbine motor spindle assembly for use with a multitasking machine, comprising:
a manifold with a front end and a rear end, the manifold includes at least one air intake passage that receives pressurized air that is directed axially through a bore to rotatably couple with a drive shaft, the pressurized air drives at least one turbine motor assembly and the drive shaft, the drive shaft is mounted inside a turbine motor housing, the at least one turbine motor assembly includes one or more tangential openings that expel exhaust air therefrom;
the turbine motor housing is mechanically coupled to the front end of the manifold with an exhaust air passage that directs the exhaust air from the one or more tangential openings out through the rear end of the manifold; and
a shank with a front end and a read end, the front end of the shank attached to the rear end of the manifold and the rear end of the shank includes at least one exhaust air passage that directs the exhaust air from the rear end of the manifold out the rear end of the shank.