摘要 |
A grinding apparatus has an in-process sizing device to measure a size of a workpiece under grinding, and a detecting device to measure the location of the infeed table on which a grinding wheel is mounted to grind the workpiece. The outputs of the in-process sizing device and of the detecting device are so calculated that the amount of residual stock-removal on the workpiece is computed out as the difference between in-feed amount of the wheel head and actual stock-removal amount on the workpiece which is continuously measured by the in-process sizing device. The computed residual stock-removal is compared with a pre-set value which is selected from a series of pre-set values for various grinding steps such as a rough grinding step or a fine grinding step, in response to the workpiece size measured by the in-process sizing device. In-feed speed of the infeed table to the workpiece is so controlled by the output of a comparator which executes the above comparing process that the output value is intended to become zero. |