Tool Exchange device

US4729159A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• GILDEMEISTER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT · DE

Inventors

• Hasso Henneberg · Hannover, DE
• Joachim Kuska · Langenhagen, DE
• Wolfgang Schaefer

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 11, 1986
• Grant date: Mar 8, 1988
• Expiry date: Sep 11, 2006

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T483/1721
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a machine tool with an inclined machine bed in which two independently movable cross slides are provided, which carry turret heads with tool receivers automatically interchangeable tool grippers are adapted to bring the tools in predetermined positions into respective tool receivers.