Tool magazine
AssigneeWanderer Maschinen GmbH
InventorsWolfgang Reuter, Kurt Kessler
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Abstract
A magazine is described which requires only a small surface area for its accommodation and which nevertheless holds a large number of tools. The magazine includes carrier units which are arranged in tower-like manner above one another and which are provided with a central cut-out and inwardly disposed tool mounts. This tower-like magazine is transportable and associated with a spatially fixed transport means which can be introduced into the central cut-out and which can transport the respective tools to a tool transfer position by short stroke and pivotal movements. Other magazine constructions are also described in the form of racks and towers.
Claims6
A tool magazine comprising:
- carrier units having means for holding tools in a substantially vertical position;
- a first base carrier;
- means for supporting the carrier units on the base carrier in a tiered vertical rack structure;
- and
- a controllable transport means comprising a gripper device movable between the means for holding a transfer position of the removal and return of tools;
- wherein the means for supporting the carrier units comprises a C-shaped frame having substantially horizontal limbs and a substantially vertical limb, the transport means being displaceably mounted on the horizontal limbs, the frame having guides for holding the carrier units.
A tool magazine comprising:
- carrier units having means for holding tools in a substantially vertical position;
- a first base carrier;
- means for supporting the carrier units on the base carrier in a tiered vertical rack structure;
- and
- a controllable transport means comprising a gripper device movable between the means for holding a transfer position of the removal and return of tools;
- wherein the means for holding comprises holding and positioning elements formed from plastic in a horseshoe shape, the holding and positioning elements being removably attachable to the carrier unit.
A tool magazine comprising:
- carrier units comprising carrier cassettes, each cassette comprising a bent continuous piece of sheet metal forming a vertical wall having a cantilevered wall extending substantially horizontally in the center of the cassette for holding tools in a substantially vertical position;
- a base carrier;
- means for supporting the carrier unit comprising a C-shaped frame having substantially horizontal limbs and a substantially vertical limb;
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- a controllable transport means displaceably mounted on the horizontal limbs, the transport means comprising a clipper device movable between the means for holding and a transfer position of the removal and return of tools.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.