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US 7,150,706 B2Granted
Machining station
OwnerBurkhart Grobinventor
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Abstract
A machining station, at least one machining unit, in particular a tool spindle, being provided for the machining of workpieces. The workpiece is approached to a discharge point and picked up there by a workpiece carriage. The workpiece carriage moves the workpiece for a machining to the machining unit or moves the workpiece during its machining through the machining unit.
Claims71
Machining station for machining of at least one workpiece, said machining station comprising
- at least one machining unit including a tool spindle carrying a tool and the workpiece being conveyed to a discharge point and being picked up at the discharge point by at least one workpiece carriage, the at least one workpiece carriage conveying the workpiece for a machining as well as moving the workpiece through the machining unit during the machining, the workpiece being movable by the workpiece carriage along only one vertical linear Y-axis, the at least one workpiece carriage being guided in a stand or in a tower,
- the tool spindle being movable relative to the at least one workpiece carriage along the Z- and X-axes with respect to a direction of movement of the at least one workpiece carriage along the only one vertical linear Y-axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.