Tool replacing device
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorGaku ISOBE
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AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorGaku ISOBE
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The purpose of the present invention is to rotate a tool pot without a driving source dedicated for rotation movement of the tool pot. This tool replacing device comprises a magazine, an arm, and a pot interlocking mechanism. The magazine has a magazine body, and a plurality of tool pots attached to the magazine body. One of the plurality of tool pots is disposed at a replacing position through rotation of the magazine body. The tool pot is disposed at a replacing angle and a housing angle through rotation of the tool pot at the replacing position. The arm has first and second gripping members. The arm removes a next-use tool from the tool pot at the replacing angle and attaches the same to a main shaft by means of one of the gripping members, and removes a former-used tool from the main shaft and attaches the same to the tool pot at the replacing angle by means of the other gripping member. The pot interlocking mechanism rotates the tool pot at the replacing position by interlocking the same with relative movement of the arm relative to the magazine.
A tool changing device for detaching a previously-used tool as one of a plurality of tools from a spindle of a machine tool and attaching a subsequently-used tool as a tool different from the previously-used tool to the spindle, the tool changing device comprising:
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