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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 1978
Filed:
May. 02, 1977
Nagle V Gusching, Sidney, OH (US);
Ralph E Prescott, Sidney, OH (US);
The Monarch Machine Tool Company, Sidney, OH (US);
Abstract
A tool storage mechanism is disclosed wherein a tool storage magazine is mounted by a pivotal connection to a vertically movable tool slide. The tool slide also carries a horizontally movable tool slide carrying a rotatable tool for operating on a workpiece which moves in the third mutually perpendicular direction. The carried tool slide retracts to a tool change position whereat a tool changer will interchange a tool in the tool spindle with one in a socket of the tool storage magazine. Accordingly, the tool storage magazine moves up and down vertically with the first tool slide but has its own second drive means separate from the first drive means of the first slide. This second drive means is close to the nominal center of mass of the tool storage magazine but this center of mass changes as the magazine moves to present selected tools to the tool changer. The second drive means supports almost all of the weight of the tool storage magazine so that only a minor portion of the weight is transmitted through the pivotal connection to the first slide and hence the deflection of the tool tip from its desired position, as the tool storage magazine is moved, is greatly minimized. The foregoing abstract is merely a resume of one general application, is not a complete discussion of all principles of operation or applications, and is not to be construed as a limitation on the scope of the claimed subject matter.