Spring manufacturing apparatus
AssigneeShinko Machinery Co., Ltd.
InventorKatsuhide Tsuritani
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Abstract
A quill supporting member supporting a quill may include a movable body, e.g. Z-axis movable body that moves in a Z-axis direction of an XYZ orthogonal coordinate system representing a shaft core of the quill as an Z-axis. A tool holder supporting member supporting a tool holder for holding a tool may include the other movable bodies, e.g. an X-axis movable body that moves in an X-axis direction and a Y-axis movable body that moves in a Y-axis direction. Therefore, the quill is shortened in the Z-axis direction, and a contact area is reduced between a guide path of the quill and a wire rod.
Claims20
A spring manufacturing apparatus comprising:
- a wire feed unit that feeds a wire rod;
- a quill that guides the wire rod fed from the wire feed unit;
- a quill supporting member that supports the quill;
- a tool holder that holds a tool which processes the wire rod into a coil spring;
- a tool holder supporting member that supports the tool holder;
- and
- an X-axis movable body that moves in an X-axis direction, a Y-axis movable body that moves in a Y-axis direction, a Z-axis movable body that moves in a Z-axis direction, in an XYZ orthogonal coordinate system representing an axial direction of the quill as the Z-axis direction;
- wherein the quill supporting member comprises one of the movable body among the X-axis movable body, the Y-axis movable body, and the Z-axis movable body;
- and
- the tool holder supporting member comprises said X-axis, Y-axis, and Z-axis movable bodies other than said movable body which the quill supporting member comprises.
A spring manufacturing apparatus comprising:
- a wire feed unit that feeds a wire rod;
- a quill that guides the wire rod fed from the wire feed unit;
- a quill supporting member that supports the quill;
- a tool holder that holds a tool which processes the wire rod into a coil spring;
- a tool holder supporting member that supports the tool holder;
- and
- an X-axis movable body that moves in an X-axis direction, a Y-axis movable body that moves in a Y-axis direction, a Z-axis movable body that moves in a Z-axis direction, in an XYZ orthogonal coordinate system representing an axial direction of the quill as the Z-axis direction;
- wherein the tool holder supporting member comprises one of the movable body among the X-axis movable body, the Y-axis movable body, and the Z-axis movable body;
- and
- the quill supporting member comprises said X-axis, Y-axis, and Z-axis movable bodies other than said movable body which the tool holder comprises.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.