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US 6,783,484 B2Granted
Machine tool with gripper and/ or tool magazine system
AssigneeGrob-Werke Dr. h.c. mult. Dipl.-Ing. Burkhart Grob e.K.
InventorHans-Dieter Müller
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Abstract
A tool magazine system and a gripper for a machining spindle. The gripper should be fed to the tool laterally with respect to the rotational or longitudinal axis of the tool, particularly substantially at right angles to that axis, and should grasp the tool.
Claims10
A gripper for conveying a tool from a tool magazine to work spindle, the tool having a shank and a groove, the shank having a larger diameter than the groove, said gripper comprising:
- a first member for interacting with said groove of the tool, and
- a second member for interacting with a different region of said tool from said groove, wherein said second member lies against said different region of said tool, and said second member moving along a longitudinal axis of the tool to grasp the tool by the second member,
- the first member including two contact surfaces having a peripheral spacing of approximately 60° to 90° separating the two contact surfaces and each of the two contact surfaces having a peripheral angle of approximately 30°.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.