Metal working – Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for... – Common reciprocating support for spaced tools
Patent
1988-03-11
1989-05-30
Briggs, William
Metal working
Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for...
Common reciprocating support for spaced tools
B23Q 3157
Patent
active
048337706
ABSTRACT:
A flexible manufacturing system for machining workpieces. The system encompasses several tool machines, a storage unit that includes several tool shelves that are disposed along a guideway and have recesses for holding the tools. The guideway is disposed directly adjacent the row of tool machines, and the shelves have horizontal bottoms for supporting tools in a perpendicular manner. A transporting unit transports tools from the storage unit to a transfer station, with the transporting unit having a horizontally disposed pivot arm assembly for transporting tools in a perpendicular position. A changing device is adapted to grasp a new tool from the transporting unit and a used tool from a tool machine in two planes that are perpendicular to one another, and to pivot these tools by 180.degree. to bring them into planes that are perpendicular to the planes that they were in when they were grasped.
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Berner Eckhard
Esser Karl-Josef
Briggs William
Scharmann GmbH & Co.
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