Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha

Yashuhiro Okada

Masayoshi Takagi

In a transfer machine of the type that workpieces are transferred to a plurality of machining stations one after another by reciprocatively moving a horizontally extending transfer bar in a vertical direction and a longitudinal direction thereof, a plurality of transfer turn tables for holding the workpieces are arranged on the transfer bar in a serial fashion and are rotatably carried thereon each for rotatable about a vertical axis. A guided member bodily rotatable with each of the turn tables is formed with a guided groove, which is maintained engaged with a fixed guiding rail during the axial feed movement of the transfer bar, but is engaged with a turn drive claw only at at least one machining station where the angular position of the turn table has to be changed. The drive claw is rotatably carried at the at least one machining station in alignment with the guiding rail and is drivingly connected with a turn drive motor so as to change the angular position of the turn table at the at least one machining station.

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Nagoya, Japan

Yashuhiro Okada