Device having a tool holder and a tool which can be secured removeably

US7513857B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Chemspeed Technologies AG · CH

Inventors

• Rolf Gueller · Herznach, CH
• Josef Schroer · Muttenz, CH
• Paul Frank · Bowie, US
• Franz Metzger · Basel, CH
• Christoph Bachmann · Rickenbach, CH
• Gerhard Klokow · Pratteln, CH
• Stefan Eichin · Monsheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 4, 2001
• Grant date: Apr 7, 2009
• Expiry date: Oct 4, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T483/17
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The inventive device comprises a tool holder, which can be displaced in an x-direction, in a y-direction that is perpendicular thereto, and in a z-direction that is perpendicular to both the x-direction and the y-direction, and which can rotate about the z-direction A solid matter dosing head, provided as a tool, is automatically attached in a removable manner to the tool holder by means of a permanent magnet. The tool can be easily exchanged for another tool due to this automatic removable attachment of said tool to the tool holder involving the use of a permanent magnet.