Metal working – Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for... – Common reciprocating support for spaced tools
Patent
1984-03-15
1986-06-24
Briggs, William R.
Metal working
Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for...
Common reciprocating support for spaced tools
5116587, 219 69E, 219 69M, 409 63, B23Q 3157, B23P 112
Patent
active
045960666
ABSTRACT:
A machining center or system for shaping workpieces, having a numerical controller (NC) for transmitting control commands in accordance with input data. A principal tool has a tool holder and a numerically controlled machining feed unit for shaping a workpiece under the numerical commands. A tool storage station accepts a plurality of formed machining tools and a tool changing mechanism interconnects the tool storage station and the principal machine tool. The center incorporates a tool reforming station which responds to a set of numerical commands from the NC unit to act on a formed machining tool when on one of the tool storage station, the tool changing mechanism and the tool holder in the principal machine tool. The tool reforming station includes at least one subsidiary machine tool with a machining feed unit operative under another set of numerical commands from the NC unit to reform the formed machining tool by commanded dimensions for transfer or re-transfer into the shaping zone in the principal machine tool.
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Briggs William R.
Dubno Herbert
Inoue-Japax Research Incorporated
Ross Karl F.
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