Moving system and gear-cutting machine

US11331736B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• GLEASON-PFAUTER MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Matthias Philippin · Rutesheim, DE
• Uwe Rusch · Cape Coral, US
• Daniel Staiger · Pfullingen, DE
• Peter Muller · Chicago, US
• Sabrina Gressler · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE
• Andreas Gross · Solingen, DE
• Dietmar Kohler · Mühlacker, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 8, 2018
• Grant date: May 17, 2022
• Expiry date: Mar 6, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T409/100954
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a moving system (100) for moving workpieces that are provided for gear cutting on a workpiece spindle (200) and have a workpiece axis of rotation, from a first position (A), taken up while they are being fed, into a third position (C) that differs from the first position by at least a smaller distance between the workpiece axis of rotation and the workpiece spindle axis, having a first movement unit (36, 32, 34) which moves a workpiece from the first position into a second position (B), different from the first and the third position, along a first movement path (AB), and a second movement unit (35) which moves the workpiece from the second position into the third position along a second movement path (BC), wherein the moving system is also designed to move machined workpieces back out of the third position and to hold and move more than one workpiece at the same time, wherein, while it is being moved on the first and on the second movement path, the workpiece is held by one and the same holding unit (10, 10′) that directly holds the workpiece, without a movement caused by the second movement unit entailing a movement of the first movement unit.