Machine tool with a working area extending outside a workpiece table
AssigneeChiron-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsAnton Schweizer, Hans-Henning Winkler
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Abstract
A machine tool has a vertical-axis tool spindle that receives a tool, and a workpiece table on whose upper side is arranged a fixture for clamping in a workpiece. The tool spindle and workpiece table are displaceable relative to one another in a working region in which the workpiece is arranged. The working region extends at least partially, in a direction transverse to the spindle axis, outside the workpiece table; the fixture projects in that direction beyond the table, holds the workpiece there, and is open at the bottom so that chips that are produced can freely fall downward in the direction of the spindle axis.
Claims12
A machine tool, having
- a tool spindle receiving a tool for machining a workpiece and having a spindle axis with a vertically oriented direction,
- a workpiece table having an upper side, the tool spindle and workpiece table being displaceable relative to one another in a working area, the workpiece being arranged in said working area, and
- a first and a second fixture arranged at said upper side for clamping in said workpiece,
- wherein there is arranged above the workpiece table a center partition wall dividing the working area into a loading side comprising said first fixture and a machining side comprising said second fixture,
- said center partition wall having a lower part showing a triangular cross-section and covering at least most of the loading side and machining side of the workpiece table, supply lines for delivering energy to the fixtures and to further installations being provided and being covered by said lower part.
A machine tool comprising:
- a tool spindle receiving a tool for machining a workpiece and having a spindle axis with a vertically oriented direction;
- a workpiece table having an upper side, the tool spindle and workpiece table being displaceable relative to one another in a working area, the workpiece being arranged in said working area;
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- a fixture arranged at said upper side for clamping in said workpiece, wherein there is arranged above the workpiece table a center partition wall dividing the working area into a loading side and a machining side,
- said center partition wall having a lower partition showing a triangular cross-section and covering at least most of the upper side of the workpiece table, supply lines for delivering energy to the fixture and to further installations being provided and being covered by said lower part,
- said fixture projecting in a direction transverse to the spindle axis beyond the workpiece table and holding the workpiece beyond the workpiece table, whereby said working area extends at least partially outside the workpiece table in said direction transverse to the spindle axis,
- said fixture being open at the bottom so that chips that are produced during machining of said workpiece fall freely downward in the direction of the spindle axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.