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US 7,682,223 B2Granted
Gear manufacturing machine and process for the operation of such a gear manufacturing machine
AssigneeReishauer AG
InventorsWalter Wirz, Erich Ronneberger, Helmut Jager
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Abstract
The invention concerns a device for the automatic loading of workpieces into a gear manufacturing machine, in particular a hard state finishing machine, by means of a swivel device arranged on the machine, where simultaneous with the machining process of a work piece blank (2) clamped on the work spindle (1) a finish machined work piece (2) on the transfer platform (8) located opposite the work spindle is de-oiled in a work piece loading lock, removed, and a fresh work piece blank fed in. The transfer platform (8) is designed as a centrifuge station.
Claims19
A gear manufacturing machine, comprising:
- a machine bed (3), and
- a machine working area (12) arranged above the machine bed (3),
- wherein said working area (12) contains a machining position (7), a transfer area (20) that can be closed off from the working area arranged adjacent to the working area (12) having a transfer platform (8) rotationally fixed on the transfer area and a swivel device (4, 5, 6) rotationally fixed on the transfer area for automatically loading a work piece,
- wherein said swivel device in one and a same loading cycle rotates to deposit a finished work piece in a first arm of the swivel device from the machine working area (12) onto the transfer platform (8) and simultaneously moves a work piece blank in a second arm of the swivel device from the transfer platform (8) into the machine working area (12) for grinding,
- wherein rotation of the transfer platform (8) around a vertical axis thereof forms a centrifuge station which when rotated cleans the finished work piece on the transfer platform when the transfer area is closed.
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