Machine tool
AssigneeOkuma Howa Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasaki Senda, Takashi Mizoguchi
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Abstract
In a numerically-controlled machine tool having a tool magazine accommodating tools in the pots, display means capable of rewriting tool numbers in correspondence to the pots is provided, and the positions where the tool numbers are stored are successively shifted in a memory in response to instruction signals applied from the machine tool side in response to the selection or exchange of the tools, so that the display of the tool numbers of the tools in the magazine is changed in synchronization with the tool displacement.
Claims1
A numerically-controlled tool machine including a tool magazine having a plurality of selectively indexed storage locations for storing respective of a plurality of tools, a tool exchanging arm turnable and axially movable between said magazine and a spindle rotatably coupled to a spindle head to exchange a tool, and having a function of optionally setting and storing tool numbers in memory means in control means according to an operation program, comprising:
- display means for displaying for each of said storage locations the tool number of the respective tool stored therein;
- means for selectively displacing at least one of said tools from one storage location to another in accordance with a tool selection or exchange designated by said operation program;
- means for automatically shifting positions where the respective tool number of said at least one displaced tool is stored in said memory means in correspondence with selective displacement of said at least one tool to another storage location;
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- said display means including means for displaying for each storage location the respective tool number of the tool stored therein, including the tool number shifted in position in said memory means in correspondence with the storage location to which said at least one of said tools is displaced;
- whereby the tool numbers displayed by said display means are changed in association with the tool displacement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.