Hueller Hille Gmbh

Hans-Ulrich Jaissle

Dietrich Geiger

Manfred Hofmann

A method and arrangement for exchanging a variable number of tool holders in which only one tool holder at a time is brought into working position. The operations involved with accessing a variety of holders, one at a time, to a working position requires movement of minimum mass to the working position adjacent the drive unit--while one or more remaining tool holders are located in a series of accessible independent storage positions or in at least one storage magazine.

Method of and arrangement for exchanging tool holders in working units

In accordance with a method and an arrangement for exchanging tool holders of a variable number, only one tool holder is brought in working position, so that only small mass is to be moved, and for the tool holder movable in working position an energy supply and a drive unit is needed, whereas the remaining tool holders are located in a storage position and/or at least one magazine.

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Ludwigsburg, Germany

Hans-Ulrich Jaissle