Machine tools having interchangeable tool carrying units

Details Machine tools having interchangeable tool carrying units Machine tools having interchangeable tool carrying units

1975-12-01

1977-08-02

Simpson, Othell M.

Metal working

Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for...

Common reciprocating support for spaced tools

408 35, B23Q 3157

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040387399

ABSTRACT:
A machine tool for interchanging tool carrying units includes a guideway for slidably supporting the tool units, a substantially horizontal slideway, and a pivot member adjacent one end of the guideway. The tool carrying units are mounted about the pivot member. The tool also includes structure for rotating the pivot member about an axis parallel to the slideway for angularly moving the tool carrying units about the axis from an inoperative position to an operative position above the slideway or vice versa. A movable structure is mounted on the slideways. The tool includes structure for moving the movable structure along the slideway to engage the tool carrying unit in operative position and to move the interconnected movable structure and tool carrying unit along the slideway in a direction parallel to the axis to detach the tool carrying unit from the pivot member and to move said unit to a working position. The tool also includes drive structure on the movable structure for driving the tools on the units in the working position for performing a machining operation, and structure for selectively moving the tool carrying units along the guideway from a storage position to the inoperative position on the pivot member and vice versa.

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