Automatic machining device

• US 3,271,840 A
• Filed: 03/19/1963
• Issued: 09/13/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Frank A. Solski, Lyman K. Shepard
• Original Assignee: Frank A. Solski, Lyman K. Shepard
• Inventors: Solski, Frank A., Shepard, Lyman K.
• Application Number:
  US04/266,264
• Time in Patent Office: 1,274 Days
• US Class Current: 29/33.00R
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 7/1489 with impeller means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/51 Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for metal shaping or assembling

Claims

1. IN A MACHINE, A BASE STRUCTURE MADE OF A PLURALITY OF LIKE SECTIONS HAVING A COOLING TROUGH THEREON, A PLURALITY OF BRIDGE MEMBERS DISPOSED TRANSVERSELY OF SAID STRUCTURE AND SPACED THE SAME PREDETERMINED INTERVAL APART, TROUGH MEANS ABOUT THE EDGE OF SAID BRIDGE MEMBERS HAVING DISCHARGE ENDS LOCATED ABOVE SAID BASE STRUCTURE TROUGH, A SERIES OF PALLETS, RAIL MEMBERS ON SAID BRIDGING MEMBERS, DISPOSED PARALLEL TO SAID BASE STRUCTURE FOR SUPPORTING SAID PALLETS AT SAID INTERVALS, MEANS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY ADVANCING SAID PALLETS TO SAID INTERVALS, MEANS INDEPENDENT OF SAID ADVANCING MEANS FOR LOCATING AND CLAMPING SAID PALLETS AFTER EACH ADVANCEMENT, AND MEANS ON AT LEAST SOME OF SAID BRIDGE MEMBERS FOR PERFORMING A MACHINING OPERATION ON A WORKPIECE SUPPORTED BY SAID PALLETS.