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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1998
Rudolf Haninger, Seitingen, DE;
Hans-Henning Winkler, Tuttlingen, DE;
Abstract
A machining center has a number of machine tools which each have a working space for machining workpieces, a clamping station in which workpieces to be machined are clamped into workpiece holders, and a loading device,which transports the workpiece holders between the clamping station and the working space of at least one machine tool, and in order to transport the workpiece holder has a pivot arm,which is swung in as the loading device,moves, and which for workpiece changing is pivoted at least partially about a pivot axis,into the working space or to the clamping station. The workpiece holder has a fixture,for positionally accurate receiving of a workpiece, which has at its two end faces holding parts,via which it is held in the clamping station and in the working space. The loading device,has a further pivot arm,′ arranged parallel to the pivot arm,, the pivot arms,′ grasping the fixture,at the end faces and receiving it between them for transport.