A material bar magazine for guiding, loading, and/or unloading material bars on an automatic lathe having at least one headstock, the material bar magazine comprising:
- a material bar-guiding channel system;
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- a longitudinal axis along which the at least one headstock of the automatic lathe is displaceable;
- wherein the material bar-guiding channel system includes a channel opening system having a first, outer guide channel and a second, inner guide channel mounted inside the first, outer guide channel such that the second, inner guide channel can move relative thereto along a longitudinal direction, the second, inner guide channel being couplable to the headstock of the automatic lathe and, as a result of the displacement of the headstock along the longitudinal axis of the material bar magazine, the second, inner guide channel synchronously moves along the longitudinal axis and relative to the first guide channel.