MACHINE-OUTIL AVEC CHANGEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES OUTILS ET DES MAGASINS D'OUTILS

A cutting machine with automatic changing of tools and tool magazines comprising a fixed body with spindle. On the body is mounted longitudinally a mobile compound cross slide and a transversely mobile column thereon. Behind the body there is mounted a tool magazine storing station; each magazine is composed of seats with axes that lie in a plane parallel to the spindle. During operation of the machine, one of the tool magazines is fastened to the compound slide through a magazine receiving station. The remaining magazines are housed in respective cells of the tool magazine storing station. Each magazine has a gear for driving the seats that meshes with the shaft of a motor, which is fixed to the magazine receiving station. The cutting machine is generally of the type with rotating tools and is used in the metal processing industry.