Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Mituo Kobayashi

Masaaki Yokoe

A machine tool having an automatic tool changing device wherein a tool magazine storing many tools is rotatably carried by, and movable with, a spindle head, and a desired tool among them can be automatically selected for being set in a spindle. Each tool is respectively held in a proper tool carrying arm swingably supported by the rotary disc which is indexed by an indexing device to be rotated to bring the selected tool to a corresponding position to the spindle. The selected tool is directly set in the spindle, while being held in the tool carrying arm, in accordance with a swing movement of the tool carrying arm from a first position to a second position. The tool carrying arm, which keeps holding the tool in such a manner as to be rotatable with the spindle while machining, can be restored to the first position by a return swing back to the magazine together with the operation finished tool.

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Nagoya, Japan

Mituo Kobayashi