Machine tool for processing work piece into non-circular cross-sectional configuration

A machine tool for processing a work piece into a non-circular cross-sectional configuration comprising:

• a work piece (1) chucked to a main shaft and rotated continuously, a direction parallel to the rotation axis 0 of the work piece is referred to as a Z axis, a direction perpendicular to said rotation axis .theta. is an X axis and a rotational direction C is defined about the rotation axis .theta.;
• a Z axis servo motor (17);
• a Z axis slider 18 moved by said Z axis servo motor;
• a first X axis servo motor;
• a first X axis slider (2) moved in said X axis direction by said first X axis servo motor said Z axis slider (18);
• a second X axis servo motor (5);
• a second X axis slider (3) finely movable at high speed on said first X axis slider (2) in the X axis direction by said second X axis servo motor (5);
• a tool (4) secured to said second X axis slider (3);
• said tool (4) being movable back and forth at respective positions in the Z axis and C axis directions by a previously programmed command value;
• a spindle stock (7) including a rotational servo motor (6) for controlling said work piece (1) in the rotational direction;
• C
• a numeral control device (11) which issues commands of high distributing speed in the three directions of the Z axis, rotational direction C, and second X axis in order to form the work piece into a non-circular cross-sectional configuration;
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• an automatic operation device (12) for determining controlling program data;
• wherein an amount of displacement of the second X axis servo motor (5) which is the movement command of the tool (4) in the X direction is calculated by finding coordinates at each position on the work piece form a function f(0, Z of a rotation angle 0 from a reference plane of the work piece (1) and a distance Z from the reference point in the Z direction parallel to the rotational axis of said work piece, a non-circular cross-sectional contour is determined in the automatic operation device by inputting elements of the work piece in a simplified way by interpolated automatic operation, and the data is transmitted to the numerical control device so as to control the high speed fine movements caused by forward and reverse rotation of said second X axis servo motor provided with the tool.