Device for loading and unloading tools into/from the tool magazine of a machine-tool or the like
AssigneeComau S.p.A.
InventorDanilo Menzio
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Abstract
A device for loading and unloading a tool into/from the tool magazine of a machine-tool or the like comprises a door, which separates the area of the tool magazine from an external protected area, and a tool-bearing slide, which can be displaced between a backed-off position outside the door and an advanced position inside the door and close to the tool magazine. The slide is connected to the door by a mechanical transmission in such a way that a movement of advance of the slide causes a simultaneous movement of opening of the door, and a movement of backing off of the slide causes a simultaneous movement of closing of the door.
Claims9
A device for loading and unloading tools into or from the tool magazine of a machine-tool comprising:
- a protection wall, which separates the tool magazine from an external protected area;
- a door provided on said protection wall for access to the tool magazine;
- a tool-bearing slide, having a tool-bearing support designed to receive a tool to be loaded into the magazine or to be unloaded from the magazine, said slide being slidably mounted on a supporting structure outside the protection wall between an advanced position, in which the tool-bearing support is in a position corresponding to the magazine for loading or unloading of a tool into or from the magazine, and a backed-off position, in which the tool-bearing support is in the protected area outside the protection wall for loading or unloading of a tool,
- in which said door is connected by a mechanical transmission to said slide in such a way that a movement of the slide from its backed-off position to its advanced position, and vice versa, produces a simultaneous movement of the access door from its closed position to its open position, and vice versa.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.