Machine tool for having a spindle-head carrier and a spindlehead which is supported swingably thereon

US4648172A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Friedrich Deckel Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Michael Geiger · Starnberg, DE
• Bernd Finsterwalder · Munich, DE
• Franz Kagerer

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 15, 1983
• Grant date: Mar 10, 1987
• Expiry date: Feb 15, 2003

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T483/1748
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Machine tool comprising a spindlehead which can be swung into several operating positions. Coupling devices are provided, which in each operating position couple the spindle with a drive shaft from the drive motor or the transmission. In an intermediate position, the spindle is in the area of a tool changer for facilitating an automatic tool exchange.