Metal working – Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for... – Type of machine
Patent
1999-01-04
2000-10-17
Gerrity, Stephen F.
Metal working
Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for...
Type of machine
409198, B23B 326
Patent
active
061312592
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a drilling and milling mechanism.
In a known drilling and milling mechanism (EP 0 368 996 B1) the clamping axis about which the workpiece support is adapted to be driven in rotation is oriented horizontally in a position determined by the arrangement of the machine bed and parallel to the longitudinal direction thereof. Accordingly, the material rod, the axis of which coincides with the clamping axis, always is oriented horizontally, parallel to the longitudinal direction of the machine bed. The tool spindle carried by the movable column is disposed perpendicularly and can be equipped successively with a plurality of tools, such as drilling or milling cutters for machining a workpiece which is embodied by a front end portion of a rod of material. The movable column is furnished, in addition, with a severing unit which operates independently of the tool spindle and serves to cut off the workpiece having been machined. A carriage which is independent of the movable column is displaceable in longitudinal direction of the machine bed, and a gripping and pivoting unit is mounted on the carriage. The gripping and pivoting unit comprises a chuck which can be utilized as brackets while the workpiece, still integral with the material rod, is being machined and which completely takes over the workpiece when it has been separated from the material rod so that its back can be machined by one or more tools arranged in consecutive order on the tool spindle. The chuck is pivotable about an axis which, for being normal to the clamping axis of the workpiece support and to the spindle axis, extends horizontally. For this reason even inclined cuts or bores, for instance, may be formed in the workpiece which is clamped in the chuck of the gripping and pivoting unit. However, once the workpiece has been transferred from the clamping means at the workpiece support to the chuck of the gripping and pivoting unit, the precision in machining achievable, generally, is not quite as high as before the transfer because inaccuracies may slip in during each workpiece transfer.
It is, therefore, an object of the invention to facilitate especially versatile machining of each respective front workpiece still linked to the material rod, when rods of material are processed in a drilling and milling mechanism while, at the same time, increasing the machining accuracy.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object is met, in accordance with the invention, by the features presented in claim 1.
The invention makes it possible to move the workpiece which still is integral with the material rod and defined in position by the material rod alone, into any desired position obtainable by rotation about the clamping axis and pivoting about the pivot axis without having to loosen the original fixing of the material rod in the clamping means. As a consequence, the same high degree of precision is achievable in principle with all the working operations which are carried out by tools secured to the tool spindle, irrespective of the angle defined between the spindle axis and the clamping axis. As it is possible to vary this angle within a range of at least 90.degree. while, at the same time, turning the workpiece about the clamping axis, if necessary, a workpiece originating from a square-section rod, for example, can be machined not only at its front end and the four longitudinal sides but to a great extent also at the rear, provided there still is a sufficiently strong link between the workpiece and the remainder of the material rod. This link ultimately can be severed by a tool secured on the tool spindle, for example a circular saw. During this time the clamping axis may be in a position parallel to the spindle axis. Thus a separate severing unit of the kind provided with the drilling and milling mechanism mentioned initially may be dispensed with.
For the reasons given, a drilling and milling mechanism according to the invention in most cases, furthermore, can do without a separate gripping and pivoting uni
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Blazek Pavel
Stark Gerhard
Gerrity Stephen F.
Stama Maschinenfabrik GmbH
Wilson Adrian M.
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