Machine tool with horizontal work spindle
OwnerDieter Kroll, Wolfgang Armlederinventors
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Abstract
In a machine tool for cutting treatment of workpieces, comprising a workpiece support having two opposing side walls, a tool support having two opposing side walls and at least one approximately horizontally disposed processing unit (work spindle 8) on the tool support, wherein during operation of the machine tool, forces act between workpiece and processing unit, in particular in the Z direction, the side walls of the tool support and workpiece support, respectively, are combined to form one common side wall (3). Since tool and also workpiece are held at the two common side walls, the forces acting between tool and workpiece are accommodated by said side walls.
Claims8
A unit for holding a workpiece and tool to facilitate the machining of workpieces;
- the unit comprising:
- a frame including a pair of opposed side walls and at least one upper transverse support connecting the opposed side walls;
- at least one approximately horizontally disposed processing unit mounted on said at least one upper transverse support, said processing unit comprising a spindle to which said tool is mounted, said processing unit being supported on said frame between said opposing side walls;
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- a workpiece table rotatably supported by and positioned between said opposed side walls;
- wherein during machining of a workpiece, forces act between the workpiece and the spindle of the processing unit in the axial direction of the spindle, wherein the two side walls support both the workpiece table and the processing unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.