Machine tool equipped with a magazine
AssigneeFriedrich Deckel Aktiengesellschaft
InventorHans Kuhnert
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Abstract
A machine tool equipped with a magazine and a guide drum which is disposed alongside the magazine. A tracer is mounted on the guide drum and is movable in a three coordinate system and the magazine contains tools which are also movable in a three coordinate system and in a direct ratio to the movement of the tracer. The tracer, which is attached to the guide drum, follows the profile or contour of a master or pattern and the compound motion is transmitted to the magazine containing the tools. Therefore, the tools are moved in the same way as the tracer so that the master or pattern is thus reproduced.
Claims9
A machine tool, comprising:
- base means;
- at least one tool magazine movably mounted on said base means and rotatable about a horizontal axis, said tool magazine having a plurality of separately drivable tools and tool spindles therefor disposed parallel to and spaced from the axis of said tool magazine;
- guide drum means disposed alongside said tool magazine and movably mounted on said base means and rotatable about a horizontal axis;
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- control means for controlling translatable movement of said tool magazine and said guide drum means for simultaneous movement and so that said movements of said tool magazine are the same as said guide drum means in all the directions of motion, said guide drum means including tracer means spaced from the axis of rotation thereof and rotatable therewith for tracing the profile or contour of a master or pattern.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.