Tool Magazines of Mechanical Arrangements and Methods for Administering Tools
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Abstract
A tool magazine for tools of a machine tool for processing workpieces includes a first magazine unit that is close to a processing station of the machine tool and a second magazine unit that is remote from the processing station of the machine tool. The second magazine unit includes a permanent tool carrier and a temporary tool carrier. The permanent tool carrier is permanently accessible to a tool handling device. The temporary tool carrier is temporarily accessible to the tool handling device.
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29 Claims
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17. A tool magazine for tools of a machine tool for processing workpieces, comprising:
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a first magazine unit that is close to a processing station of the machine tool and that comprises storage locations for tools that are transferred from the first magazine unit to the processing station of the machine tool and/or for tools that are transferred from the processing station of the machine tool to the first magazine unit; a second magazine unit that is remote from the processing station of the machine tool and that comprises a permanent tool carrier and a rotating magazine having a plurality of temporary tool carriers and a carrier structure, the permanent tool carrier and the temporary tool carriers having carrier storage locations for tools that are transferred from the second magazine unit to the first magazine unit for subsequent transfer to the processing station and/or for tools that are transferred from the first magazine unit to the second magazine unit after being transferred from the processing station; and a tool handling device; wherein the permanent tool carrier of the second magazine unit is permanently accessible to the tool handling device, wherein the temporary tool carriers of the rotating magazine of the second magazine unit are constructed as gondolas and connected to a conveying device of the rotating magazine of the second magazine unit so as to be able to pivot in a limited manner about a horizontal axis, which conveying device is a continuously rotating conveyor chain, a continuously rotating conveyor belt or a rotating carrier plate and which conveying device is rotating in a movement direction of the temporary tool carriers, wherein each of the temporary tool carriers of the second magazine unit can be moved, by means of the conveying device rotating in the movement direction of the temporary tool carriers and guided on the carrier structure of the rotating magazine, into an operating position where the temporary tool carrier is temporarily accessible to the tool handling device for removing tools from and/or transferring tools to the temporary tool carrier, and into a non-operating position where the temporary tool carrier is inaccessible to the tool handling device for removing tools from and/or transferring tools to the temporary tool carrier, and wherein the tool handling device is configured to transfer one or more tools between the first magazine unit and the permanent tool carrier of the second magazine unit, between the first magazine unit and the temporary tool carrier of the second magazine unit in the operating position and between the temporary tool carrier of the second magazine unit in the operating position and the permanent tool carrier of the second magazine unit. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A mechanical arrangement for processing workpieces, comprising a machine tool that has a processing station to and from which tools can be transferred for a workpiece processing operation and a tool magazine, comprising:
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a first magazine unit that is close to a processing station of the machine tool and that comprises storage locations for tools that are transferred from the first magazine unit to the processing station of the machine tool and/or for tools that are transferred from the processing station of the machine tool to the first magazine unit; a second magazine unit that is remote from the processing station of the machine tool and that comprises a permanent tool carrier and a rotating magazine having a plurality of temporary tool carriers and a carrier structure, the permanent tool carrier and the temporary tool carriers having carrier storage locations for tools that are transferred from the second magazine unit to the first magazine unit for subsequent transfer to the processing station and/or for tools that are transferred from the first magazine unit to the second magazine unit after being transferred from the processing station; and a tool handling device; wherein the permanent tool carrier of the second magazine unit is permanently accessible to the tool handling device, wherein the temporary tool carriers of the rotating magazine of the second magazine unit are constructed as gondolas and connected to a conveying device of the rotating magazine of the second magazine unit so as to be able to pivot in a limited manner about a horizontal axis, which conveying device is a continuously rotating conveyor chain, a continuously rotating conveyor belt or a rotating carrier plate and which conveying device is rotating in a movement direction of the temporary tool carriers, wherein each temporary tool carrier of the plurality of temporary tool carriers of the second magazine unit can be moved, by means of the conveying device rotating in the movement direction of the temporary tool carriers and guided on the carrier structure of the rotating magazine, into an operating position where the temporary tool carrier is temporarily accessible to the tool handling device for removing tools from and/or transferring tools to the temporary tool carrier, and into a non-operating position where the temporary tool carrier is inaccessible to the tool handling device for removing tools from and/or transferring tools to the temporary tool carrier, and wherein the tool handling device is configured to transfer one or more tools between the first magazine unit and the permanent tool carrier of the second magazine unit, between the first magazine unit and the temporary tool carrier of the second magazine unit in the operating position and between the temporary tool carrier of the second magazine unit in the operating position and the permanent tool carrier of the second magazine unit. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29)
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Specification