Numerical control tool machine
AssigneeTecno Logica S.R.L.
InventorMirko Piasentin
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Abstract
An operation method is described for a numerical control tooling machine comprising a piece-carrying table rotatable about a—in use—vertical axis and N machining stations, N≥2, arranged around the table, with the steps of rotating the table to bring a piece in front of a station, disconnecting the piece from the table, transferring the piece from the table to the station, fixing the piece to the station, processing the piece at the station, disconnecting the piece from the station, transferring the piece from the station to the table, fixing the piece to the table, rotating the table to bring the piece in front of a different station or unloading the piece from the table.
Claims11
An operation method for a numerical control tooling machine comprising a piece-carrying table, for carrying a piece, rotatable about a first vertical axis and further comprising N machining stations, N≥2, arranged around the table and configured such that the piece be moved from a loading position sequentially to each of the N machining stations and machined at each of the N machining stations, the operation method comprising the steps of:
- (a) mounting the piece on the table by applying the piece to a piece support,
- (b) rotating the table to bring the piece support in front of one station of said N machining stations,
- (c) disconnecting the piece support from the table,
- (d) transferring the piece support from the table to the one station by translating the piece support radially from the table to the one station using a linear movement,
- (e) making the piece support integral with said one station by fixing the piece support to said one station,
- (f) processing the piece at said one station,
- (g) rotating the piece support and the piece together about a second vertical axis when the piece support is integral with said one station such that a side of the piece previously facing the table is brought to face the one station for further processing of the piece
- (h) disconnecting the piece support from said one station,
- (i) transferring the piece support from said one station to the table by translating the piece support radially from the one station to the table using another linear movement,
- (j) making the piece support integral with the table by fixing the piece support to the table,
- (k) rotating the table to sequentially bring the piece support in front of each remaining station of the N machining stations and performing steps (c) to (i) at each said remaining station of the N machining stations, and
- (l) unloading the piece support from the table after a complete rotation of the table about the first vertical axis,
- wherein the piece support maintains a constant vertical orientation during the complete rotation of the table.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.