System for producing components of various product designs
AssigneeThermwood Corporation
InventorKENNETH J. SUSNJARA
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Abstract
A system comprising means mounted on a worktable of a machine for displacing a cutting tool along x, y and z axes, and a control computer programmed to store data relevant to the geometrical configuration of at least one product design and the components thereof, displaying a selected one product design, elicit alterations of such design, revise any such alterations and components thereof, nest the components of the selected design, device a cutting tool pattern for producing such components and operate servomotors to guide such cutting tool to form such components from a workpiece mounted on such worktable.
Claims24
A system for forming the components of at least one product design, comprising:
- a base structure;
- a worktable disposed on said base structure;
- means mounted on said base structure, driven by servomotors for displacing a cutting tool in machining contact with a workpiece disposed on said worktable, along x, y and z axes;
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- a control computer disposed integrally with said structure, programmed to store data relevant to the geometrical configurations of at least one product design and the components thereof, display on command a selected one of said product designs, elicit verification or modification of said selected product design, revise the geometric configuration of said selected product design and the corresponding components thereof upon any inputted modifications command, nest the components of said product design in final form, in an area of a selected workpiece, devise a cutting tool path for producing said nested components from said selected workpiece positioned on said worktable and operate said servomotors to guide said tool along said tool path to produce said components from said workpiece positioned on said worktable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.