Machine tool and tool holder
View Patent ↗A machine tool having a turning function and a milling function includes a spindle, a spindle housing supporting the spindle in a rotatable manner, a main clamp provided at the spindle, an auxiliary clamp provided at the spindle housing, and a double arm with a first gripper and a second gripper. The auxiliary clamp clamps a tool holder together with the main clamp during fixing a fixed tool. The double arm exchanges a tool holder grasped at the first gripper for another tool holder grasped at the second gripper by rotating and sliding movements. The auxiliary clamp is arranged at a position not interfering with the double arm that moves during exchanging tool holders. By such a configuration, a machine tool achieving a clamping force sufficient to withstand the load during a turning process, and that allows tool exchange in a short period of time, and a tool holder employed in such a machine tool, can be provided.
1. A machine tool having a lathing function using a rotationally fixed tool and a milling function using a rotary tool, comprising:
a rotatable spindle,
a housing member supporting said spindle in a rotatable manner,
a main clamp provided at said spindle for clamping a fixed-tool tool holder during fixing the fixed tool and for clamping a rotary-tool tool holder during fixing the rotary tool,
an auxiliary clamp provided at said housing member for clamping the fixed-tool tool holder, together with said main clamp, during fixing the fixed tool, and
an arm member including a first gripper and a second gripper capable of grasping the tool holders, for exchanging one of said tool holders that is loaded to said spindle and grasped at said first gripper for another one of said tool holders that is grasped at said second gripper, which exchanging occurs by rotating the arm member about a central axis arranged at a center position of the arm member between said first gripper and said second gripper, and by sliding the arm member in an axial direction of the central axis,
said auxiliary clamp being arranged at a position not interfering with said arm member during the rotation and axial movement of the arm member during the exchanging of the tool holders, wherein when viewed in a direction of a rotation axis of said spindle, the auxiliary clamp is located outside of a rotation region constituted by the area over which said arm member rotates during the rotation of the arm member about the central axis during the exchanging of the tool holders;
wherein said auxiliary clamp is spaced from the spindle rotation axis, and
wherein said auxiliary clamp includes a releasable collet for clamping a pull stud of the fixed-tool tool holder, and includes a tapered face whose diameter varies along a retracting direction along which the fixed-tool tool holder is retracted in order to clamp the fixed-tool tool holder with the auxiliary clamp,
wherein the tapered face is configured to be in surface-contact with a tapered face of the fixed-tool tool holder, which tapered face of the auxiliary clamp is spaced along the retracting direction from the collet when the pull stud is clamped by the collet.
2. The machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein
when viewed in the direction of the rotation axis of said spindle, the rotation region overlaps a surface of said housing member.
3. The machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein said auxiliary clamp is arranged at a side of the spindle that is opposite with respect to a side of the spindle where the center axis of rotation of said arm member is located.
4. The machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein said auxiliary clamp includes a collet open-and-close member for selectively opening and closing the releasable collet.
5. The machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein said auxiliary clamp includes a body having a hole formed therein, and wherein said collet is arranged in said hole,
said machine tool further comprising a lid member attached to said body in a detachable manner for blocking the opening of said hole when the fixed-tool tool holder is not clamped by said auxiliary clamp.