Machine tool with a plurality of spindles

Abstract

The machine tool bas a combined slide which is formed of partial slides and is movable in the X direction on two linear guides by means of guide carriages. The two partial slides are supported directly relative to one another by support guides and can be moved in the X direction relative to one another in order to carry out a correcting adjustment or a feed movement. Each partial slide supports a vertical spindle which is movable in the Z direction. A joint multiple turret is associated with the vertical spindles, this multiple turret being outfitted with tools associated with the two tool spindles. The vertical spindles and the partial slides have separate driving units which can be controlled by corresponding control devices in such a way that the vertical spindles and the partial slides are displaceable jointly and synchronously or asynchronously on the one hand and are displaceable relative to one another on the other hand in order to carry out a correcting adjustment or a feed movement. Due to the relative displacement of the partial slides in the X direction and the vertical spindles in the Z direction, tolerances and deviations due to wear of the cutting edges can be compensated for so that the workpieces to be machined simultaneously have the same adjustment with respect to the tool cutting edges The relative displacement also permits a separate, varying machining of the workpieces.

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