System for changing and inserting or placing tools on a machine tool and machine tool with such a system
AssigneeDeckel Maho Pfronten GmbH
InventorsRolf KETTEMER, Daniel BELONI
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Abstract
A system for changing and inserting or placing tools on a machine tool, including: a tool changer with a manipulator which is configured to remove a tool to be introduced from a tool magazine of the machine tool at a removal position and to transfer it to a work spindle of the machine tool at a tool change position in an automatic tool changing operation, and a tool diameter measuring apparatus, which is configured to determine a tool diameter or a tool radius of the tool to be introduced that has been removed from the tool magazine of the machine tool by the manipulator.
Claims18
A system for changing and inserting or placing tools on a machine tool, comprising:
- a tool changer with a manipulator which is configured to remove a tool to be introduced from a tool magazine of the machine tool at a removal position and to transfer it to a work spindle of the machine tool at a tool changing position in an automatic tool changing process, and
- a tool diameter measuring apparatus configured to determine a tool diameter or tool radius of the tool to be introduced that has been removed from the tool magazine of the machine tool by the manipulator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.