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US 4,090,281 AGranted
Machine tool with multiple tool turret
AssigneeAmeco Corporation
InventorCharles F. Hautau
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AssigneeAmeco Corporation
InventorCharles F. Hautau
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A machine tool includes a turret having a plurality of machine tool spindles for carrying individual cutting tools. The turret rotates in a horizontal plane about a vertical column and is supported on the column by a yoke having yoke arms projecting through slots in the column. A ball nut assembly mounted on the yoke and rotated by a motor driven screw provides vertical height adjustment of the turret and the tool spindles. The turret is selectively indexable about the vertical axis of the column to position the appropriate tool spindle in a machining position. A spindle drive motor carried by the yoke and located within the column is moved in the direction of tool feed to engage a coupling on the selected indexed tool spindle and rotate the tool carried by the spindle. Spindles can be employed with their own feed and drive independent of the turret feed and drive. The column and turret are supported on a saddle which is movable on horizontally extending ways by a lead screw for cutting feed. The work piece is carried on a cross slide for movement along a horizontal axis at right angles to the direction of tool and turret feed. The work piece is also rotatable about a vertical axis.
Machining apparatus comprising a machine frame, a tool turret, a plurality of machining tools carried by said turret, means for supporting said turret to afford rotation of said turret about a Y axis, said means including a column and a sleeve surrounding said column and bearing means on said sleeve for rotatably supporting said turret, means for rotating said turret to position a selected tool along a Z axis at a right angle with respect to the Y axis, means for supporting said column on said frame for movement along said Z axis for tool feed, tool drive means for rotating said selected tool when a tool is in the working position along the Z axis, guide means for guiding movement of said sleeve along said Y axis, said guide means including ways extending along said column and fixed to said column and bearings supported on said sleeve and cooperating with said ways to guide movement of said sleeve along said column and including elevator means for raising and lowering said sleeve and said turret along said Y axis.
Machining apparatus comprising a machine frame, a tool turret, a plurality of machining tools carried by said turret, indexing means for supporting said turret to afford rotation of said turret about a Y axis, means for rotating said turret to position a selected tool along a Z axis at a right angle with respect to the Y axis, means for supporting said turret on said frame for movement along said Z axis for tool feed, tool drive means for rotating said selected tool when a tool is in the working position along the Z axis and including elevator means for raising and lowering said turret along said Y axis, wherein said elevator means comprises a column supported on a saddle said saddle being movable on ways parallel with said Z axis, vertically extending opposed slots in the column, a suspension yoke having arms extending through said slots, means exteriorly of said column for supporting said turret from said yoke arms and means in said column connected to said yoke for reciprocating said yoke and said turret along said Y axis and guide means on said column to guide said turret for said reciprocating movement along the Y axis.
Machining apparatus comprising a machine frame, a tool turret, a plurality of machining tools carried by said turret, indexing means for supporting said turret to afford rotation of said turret about a Y axis, means for rotating said turret to position a selected tool along a Z axis at a right angle with respect to the Y axis, means for supporting said turret on said frame, tool drive means for rotating said selected tool when a tool is in the working position along the Z axis and means for engaging and disengaging said tool drive means with said selected tool, and wherein said turret has a tool deck for supporting tool spindles, said deck having recesses to receive tool spindles of different sizes with the depth of said recesses being such as to position all tools carried by said turret in a common plane through their rotational axes.
Machining apparatus comprising a machine frame, a first saddle, ways on said frame for guiding said first saddle along a first horizontal axis, drive means connected to said first saddle for movement of said first saddle along said first horizontal axis, a column supported on said first saddle and extending upwardly therefrom, vertically extending slots in said column, a yoke having arms extending through said slots, a support ring arranged about said column and connected to said yoke arms, bearings on said support ring cooperating with surfaces on said column to provide guided vertical movement of said support ring on said column, a tool turret supported on said support ring, drive means carried by said support ring for rotating said tool turret to any one of a plurality of pre-selected positions, drive means within said column and connected to said yoke for raising and lowering said support ring and tool turret to a selected vertical position, a plurality of tool spindles carried by said turret, tool spindle motor means in said column and means for coupling and decoupling said motor means with said tool spindles, a cross saddle movable along a second horizontal axis transverse to said first horizontal axis, and work clamping means on said second saddle.
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