Adjacent turning and milling tool mount
AssigneeFives Giddings & Lewis, LLC
InventorKeith A. Eisfeldt
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Abstract
A mill-turn machine for milling and turning workpieces includes a table configured to hold a workpiece; a tool head, having a workpiece-oriented surface, that is movable to contact the workpiece; a spindle chuck, configured to releasably hold a rotary cutting tool for milling the workpiece, located on the workpiece-facing surface of the tool head; and a turning chuck, configured to releasably hold a stationary cutting tool for turning the workpiece, located on the workpiece-facing surface of the tool head.
Claims9
A mill-turn machine for milling and turning workpieces, comprising:
- a table configured to hold a workpiece;
- a tool head, having a workpiece-oriented surface, that is movable to contact the workpiece;
- a spindle chuck, configured to releasably hold a rotary cutting tool for milling the workpiece, located on the workpiece-facing surface of the tool head;
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- a turning chuck, configured to releasably hold a stationary cutting tool for turning the workpiece, located on the workpiece-facing surface of the tool head.
A mill-turn machine for milling and turning workpieces, comprising:
- a tool head that is movable to contact the workpiece;
- a spindle chuck, configured to releasably hold a rotary cutting tool for milling the workpiece, located on an outer surface of the tool head;
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- a turning chuck, configured to releasably hold a stationary cutting tool for turning the workpiece, located on the outer surface of the tool head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.