Metal working – Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for... – With means to feed work intermittently from one tool station...
Patent
1982-02-03
1984-06-19
Briggs, William R.
Metal working
Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for...
With means to feed work intermittently from one tool station...
29564, 408 41, 408 43, B23Q 3904
Patent
active
044546459
ABSTRACT:
A multiple station drilling apparatus is used for performing a large number of repetitive but variable machining operations, and includes a turntable having a plurality of workpiece holding fixtures distributed in spaced relation around its periphery, a plurality of tool supports mounted around and outward of the periphery to provide a sequence of machining stations, a load/unload station for the mounting of workpieces on the fixtures and their removal therefrom, and a motor for driving the turntable in an indexing fashion to bring workpieces held in the fixtures successively into registry with the machining stations. Each tool support includes at least one X-Y positioner which in turn supports a machining tool such as a reciprocating drill. Each machining tool, its associated X-Y positioner, and the turntable are actuated by a control such that the turntables index the workpieces to successive machining stations, and at each station, the X-Y positioners repeatedly position their respective machining tools independently of each other such that each machining tool performs a series of repetitive machining operations within a separate predetermined area on the workpiece.
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Briggs William R.
The O. S. Kelly Company
Webb Glenn L.
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