Tool support apparatus
AssigneeShenango Incorporated
InventorJohn W. Thomas
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Abstract
Tool support apparatus having a frame mounted on wheels and motors for driving the wheels to move the frame. A ram tube carrying different tools at its lower end supported in a cylinder mounted on an oscillator bracket which cooperates with an oscillator slide carriage slidably mounted on shafts supported on the frame and a hydraulic cylinder mounted on the frame for moving the oscillator slide carriage along the shafts. An electric motor for moving the lower end of the ram tube in a first arcuate direction and another electric motor for moving the lower end of the ram tube in a second arcuate direction in a plane perpendicular to the plane of movement in the first arcuate direction. A hydraulic cylinder attached to the ram tube for moving it vertically.
Claims13
Tool support apparatus comprising a frame, a vertical ram tube adapted to carry tools at its lower end, means supporting said ram tube on said frame, said means supporting said ram tube on said frame including a first means for moving said ram tube in a first linear direction, a second means for moving the lower end of said ram tube in a first arcuate direction, a third means for moving the lower end of said ram tube in a second arcuate direction, a fourth means for vertically moving said ram tube, whereby the lower end of said ram tube may be moved linearly, arcuately and vertically to position the lower end of said ram tube.
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