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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2000
Hidehito Ota, Nara, JP;
Mori Seiki Co., Ltd., Yamatokoriyama, JP;
Abstract
A tool-exchange apparatus making an area to install a whole machine tool compact and facilitating a attachment/detachment and a maintenance and the like of a tool. The tool-exchange apparatus includes a plurality of tool pots respectively having tool storage portion . The tool pot is indexed at an indexing position for exchanging tools, whereby the next tool T put in the opening of the tool storage portion is exchanged for the present tool T installed in a spindle. The tool pots are circumferencially spaced away from each other, and an opening of each tool accommodation area is centrally directed. The tools T are held by the tool pots in a radial manner. The tool magazine 1 can be made compact because the tools T are radially held with the tips thereof centrally directed.