Angle tool holder for five-face machining
AssigneeYamazaki Mazak Corporation
InventorsSatoi Usuda, Daisuke Ito, Satoshi Yoshinobu
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AssigneeYamazaki Mazak Corporation
InventorsSatoi Usuda, Daisuke Ito, Satoshi Yoshinobu
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The invention provides an angle tool holder to be disposed on an attachment attached to a spindle head of a vertical machining center and holding the angle tool holder to enable five-face machining of a workpiece. The angle tool holder denoted as a whole by reference number 500 has a shank 510 inserted to a spindle of the main machine, wherein a rotation of the shank 510 is transmitted via a gear transmission mechanism or the like disposed in a housing 540 so that the direction of a drive shaft thereof is varied orthogonally to thereby drive the angle cutter 520. An arm 550 connected to the housing 540 has three pull stud bolts 570 disposed thereon. The three pull stud bolts 570 are arranged at 90-degree intervals, and are clamped simultaneously by three collet chucks out of the four collet chucks disposed on the attachment unit for five-face machining.
An angle tool holder attached in an exchangeable manner to an attachment unit for five-face machining having a ring-shaped cylinder member fit to an outer circumference of a spindle housing supporting a spindle and protruded from a lower end of a spindle head of a vertical machining center and thereby secured to the spindle head, a clamp unit directly connected to a ring-shaped piston disposed within the ring-shaped cylinder member and moved vertically, and four collet chucks disposed at even angular intervals on a circumference on a lower side of the clamp unit, wherein
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