Metal working – Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for... – Common reciprocating support for spaced tools
Patent
1981-04-08
1983-09-13
Briggs, William R.
Metal working
Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for...
Common reciprocating support for spaced tools
B23Q 3157
Patent
active
044033915
ABSTRACT:
A machine tool comprises a work head in which tools are mounted in use and which is movable along a main beam in a Y machining direction. A tool selected from a tool storage matrix is held at an exchange position in readiness for exchange with a tool mounted on the work head. A carriage is movable along a subsidiary beam in a direction parallel to the Y machining direction and carries a pair of tool grippers. During a tool change, one of the grippers takes the tool from the exchange position and holds the latter while the carriage moves to the work head where it latches onto the latter by means of a latch device. The other gripper then removes the tool from the work head, whereupon said one gripper inserts the replacement tool in the work head. The carriage then unlatches from the work head and moves away therefrom, so that said other gripper can return the removed tool to the exchange position. In order that tools can also be exchanged in a right-angle head when the latter is attached to the work head, the grippers are each capable of an angular wrist-action movement.
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Briggs William R.
De Vlieg Machine Company Ltd.
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