Machine tool

A machine tool comprising:

• a spindle stock;
• a worktable having an upper surface thereon, said worktable and said spindle stock being alternatively displaceable relative to each other in a plane parallel to said upper surface from a first position at which a first portion of said upper surface is disposed proximate said spindle stock and serves as a processing area and a second portion of said upper surface is disposed distal to said spindle stock and serves as a mounting area, to a second position at which said upper surface second portion is disposed proximate said spindle stock and serves as a processing area and said upper surface first portion is disposed distal to said spindle stock and serves as a mounting area;
• splash guard means for separating said processing and mounting areas, said splash guard means being held on an upper section thereof by means of a holding element grasping said upper section from both lateral sides by means of fork-like extensions, said holding element and said worktable being arranged displaceable relative to each other in a direction essentially perpendicular to said first pivot axis;
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• hinge means defining a first pivot axis and mounting said splash guard means to said table upper surface for enabling said splash guard to be folded about said first pivot axis relative to said upper surface in order that a first working space above said processing area remains larger than a second working space above said mounting area when either said first or said second portion of said upper surface is proximate said spindle stock.

A machine tool comprising:

• a spindle stock;
• a rotatable worktable having an upper surface thereon, said rotatable worktable being alternatively rotatable around an axis perpendicular to said upper surface from a first position at which a first portion of said upper surface is disposed proximate said spindle stock and serves as a processing area and a second portion of said upper surface is disposed distal to said spindle stock and serves as a mounting area, to a second position at which said upper surface second portion is disposed proximate said spindle stock and serves as a processing area and said upper surface first portion is disposed distal to said spindle stock and serves as a mounting area;
• splash guard means for separating said processing and mounting areas;
• said splash guard means comprising a rigid splash wall mounted on said upper surface perpendicularly thereto, a fixed portal extending over said splash wall and aligned therewith in rotary working end positions of said worktable, said portal being provided with an elastic lip having a central gap essentially coinciding with said axis and subdividing said lip into two flaps, overlapping said splash wall on opposite sides thereof.