Tool changing – Tool transfer to or from matrix – Matrix including means to latch tool
Patent
1998-09-11
2000-12-05
Briggs, William
Tool changing
Tool transfer to or from matrix
Matrix including means to latch tool
211 152, 211 706, 483 60, 483 66, 483 67, B23Q 3157, A47F 500
Patent
active
06155961&
ABSTRACT:
A tool carousel comprising a plurality of wheel sections which can be joined together to form a carousel wheel and a plurality of tool-holding portions. Each tool-holding portion and wheel section is configured such that each tool-holding portion can be journalled to a respective wheel section for rotation between a tool-storage position and a tool-accessing position in which a tool can be installed thereupon or removed therefrom.
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Mandalia Harish Devji
Pollington Andrew Roy
Bridgeport Machines Limited
Briggs William
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