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US 9,873,176 B2Granted
Rotary indexing machine
AssigneeWINEMA Maschinenbau GmbH
InventorsEckhard Neth, Lothar Staiger
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Abstract
A rotary indexing machine that includes a machining device, that has at least two machining stations and at least one pre-turn station, which are arranged at least substantially on a shared circumference in respectively a circle segment, and a motor unit, that is provided to drive the pre-turn station. The motor unit is arranged at least largely within the circle segment of the pre-turn station.
Claims18
A rotary indexing machine comprising:
- a machining device that has at least two machining stations and at least one pre-turn station configured to, prior to machining a workpiece by the at least two machining stations, perform at least one turning operation on the workpiece, each of the at least two machining stations and the at least one pre-turn station are arranged on one circular circumference and located in different circle segments of the circular circumference;
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- a motor unit provided to drive the pre-turn station, the motor unit being arranged within the circle segment of the pre-turn station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.