Tool changer assembly
CA 1099907 A · Owner: Houdaille Industries, Inc. · Inventors: Buonauro, John A.; Frazier, James L.
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A tool changing mechanism or assembly for a machine tool, which has a spindle for rotating a tool on an operating axis and has a tool storage magazine having at least one tool receiving means such as a socket for supporting a tool on a storage axis has an improvement which enables increased distances between the spindle and the storage axis. The improvement is that a tool changing arm is mounted on a housing or a shuttle to rotate about a first axis and the shuttle is mounted on the frame of the machine tool so that it can be moved between two linear positions as the arm is rotated so that the axis of rotation of the arm is shifted in a linear path. Preferably, the arm in addition to …
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- Granted April 28, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 28, 1998.
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