Machine tool, in particular multi-spindle milling machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10239131-B2
Application number	US-201615273129-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 22, 2016
Priority date	Sep 22, 2015
Publication date	Mar 26, 2019
Grant date	Mar 26, 2019

Abstract

The present invention relates to embodiments of a machine tool, in particular a multi-spindle milling machine, comprise a machine frame, a workpiece clamping device for clamping a workpiece, an axis slide assembly arranged on the machine frame, and a spindle carrier assembly which is arranged on the machine frame and has at least two tool-carrying work spindles. The axis slide assembly is configured to linearly move the workpiece clamped at the workpiece clamping device by way of three controllable linear axes X, Y and Z. The work spindles are arranged at a turret which can be rotated or swiveled about a turret axis at respectively equal distance from the turret axis, and the spindle axes of the work spindles are aligned or can be aligned in parallel to one another and in parallel to the turret axis.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A machine tool, comprising:
a machine frame;
a workpiece clamping device for clamping a workpiece;
an axis slide assembly which is arranged on the machine frame and which is configured to linearly move the workpiece clamped at the workpiece clamping device by way of three controllable linear axes; and
a spindle carrier assembly which is arranged on the machine frame and has at least two tool-carrying work spindles;
wherein the work spindles are arranged on a turret which can be rotated or swiveled about a turret axis at respectively equal distance from the turret axis and the spindle axes of the work spindles are aligned or can be aligned in parallel to one another and in parallel to the turret axis,
wherein the axis slide assembly is also configured to rotate the workpiece clamped at the workpiece clamping device by way of a controllable first rotary axis or swivel axis about a first axis of rotation,
wherein the axis slide assembly is also configured to rotate the workpiece clamped at the workpiece clamping device by way of a controllable second rotary axis or swivel axis about a second axis of rotation which is aligned transversely or perpendicularly to the first axis of rotation,
wherein the second axis of rotation of the second rotary axis or swivel axis is aligned horizontally, and
wherein the turret axis of the rotatable turret is aligned horizontally and the horizontally aligned, second axis of rotation of the second rotary axis or swivel axis is aligned in parallel or perpendicularly to the turret axis of the rotatable turret.

2. The machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein the machine frame forms a machining area and the axis slide assembly is arranged above the machining area on the machine frame, and
wherein the workpiece clamping device is held at the axis slide assembly and is configured to clamp the workpiece and/or a workpiece pallet holding the workpiece in suspended or laterally suspended fashion for the overhead machining of the workpiece clamped at the workpiece clamping device in suspended fashion.

3. The machine tool according to claim 2 , wherein the workpiece clamping device comprises a suspended rotary table with vertical axis of rotation and/or a gripping device which can be rotated about a vertical axis of rotation in order to grip the workpiece or the workpiece pallet in suspended fashion.

4. The machine tool according to claim 3 , wherein the rotary table and/or the gripping device of the workpiece clamping device can be rotated or swiveled about a horizontal rotary axis or swivel axis.

5. The machine tool according to claim 2 , wherein the workpiece clamping device comprises a rotary table with horizontal rotary axis or swivel axis and/or a gripping device which can be rotated about a horizontal axis of rotation in order to grip in laterally suspended fashion the workpiece and/or workpiece pallet.

6. The machine tool according to claim 5 , wherein the rotary table and/or the gripping device of the workpiece clamping device can be rotated or swiveled about a vertical rotary axis or swivel axis.

7. The machine tool according to claim 2 , further comprising a conveying device for conveying workpieces having an upwardly or laterally aligned workpiece pallet to a clamping position into a machining area of the machine tool for accommodation by the workpiece clamping device from above for the suspended or laterally suspended clamping of one of the workpieces at the workpiece clamping device, and for conveying one of the workpieces with an upwardly or laterally aligned workpiece pallet from an unclamping position out of the machining area of the machine tool after releasing the workpiece from the suspended or laterally suspended clamping by the workpiece clamping device.

8. The machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein the first axis of rotation of the first rotary axis or swivel axis is aligned vertically.

9. The machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein a first tool-carrying work spindle and a second work spindle of the at least two tool-carrying work spindles are arranged in relation to the turret axis on the opposite side at the rotatable turret, the turret axis being aligned horizontally.

10. A machine tool, comprising:
a machine frame;
a workpiece clamping device for clamping a workpiece;
an axis slide assembly which is arranged on the machine frame and which is configured to linearly move the workpiece clamped at the workpiece clamping device by way of three controllable linear axes; and
a spindle carrier assembly which is arranged on the machine frame and has at least two tool-carrying work spindles;
wherein the work spindles are arranged on a turret which can be rotated or swiveled about a turret axis at respectively equal distance from the turret axis and the spindle axes of the work spindles are aligned or can be aligned in parallel to one another and in parallel to the turret axis,
wherein a first tool-carrying work spindle and a second work spindle of the at least two tool-carrying work spindles are arranged in relation to the turret axis on the opposite side at the rotatable turret, the turret axis being aligned horizontally, and
wherein the first work spindle is positioned at a machining position of the machine tool when the second work spindle is positioned at a tool change position of the machine tool, and the second work spindle is positioned at the machining position of the machine tool when the first work spindle is positioned at the tool change position of the machine tool.

11. The machine tool according to claim 10 , wherein the spindle carrier assembly is configured to exchange the positioning of the first work spindle at the work position or tool change position according to claim 10 by swiveling the rotatable turret about the turret axis by 180° with the positioning of the second work spindle at the tool change position or machining position according to claim 10 .

12. A machine tool, comprising:
a machine frame;
a workpiece clamping device for clamping a workpiece;
an axis slide assembly which is arranged on the machine frame and which is configured to linearly move the workpiece clamped at the workpiece clamping device by way of three controllable linear axes; and
a spindle carrier assembly which is arranged on the machine frame and has at least two tool-carrying work spindles;
wherein the work spindles are arranged on a turret which can be rotated or swiveled about a turret axis at respectively equal distance from the turret axis and the spindle axes of the work spindles are aligned or can be aligned in parallel to one another and in parallel to the turret axis, and
wherein a number N of tool-carrying work spindles with N>2 are arranged at a respective angular distance of an angle α=360°/N on the rotatable turret, the turret axis being aligned horizontally.

13. The machine tool according to claim 12 , wherein a first work spindle of the N work spindles is positioned at a machining position of the machine tool when a second work spindle of the N work spindles is positioned at a tool change position of the machine tool.

14. The machine tool according to claim 13 , wherein the spindle carrier assembly is configured to swivel the first work spindle by rotating the rotatable turret about the turret axis by the angle α to the tool change position and/or to swivel the second work spindle by rotating the rotatable turret about the turret axis by the angle α in the opposite direction to the machining position.

15. The machine tool according to claim 10 , wherein the work spindle positioned at the machining position is co

Assignees

• Deckel Maho Pfronten Gmbh

Inventors

• Geissler Alfred

Classifications

• Y10T483/115

  Guard · CPC title

• B23Q1/012 Primary

  Portals · CPC title

• B23Q39/00

  Metal-working machines incorporating a plurality of sub-assemblies, each capable of performing a metal-working operation (B23Q33/00, B23P23/00 take precedence) · CPC title

• B23Q3/15733

  the axis of the stored tools being arranged in the rotating or circulating plane of the storage means · CPC title

• B23Q7/00

  Arrangements for handling work specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, machine tools, e.g. for conveying, loading, positioning, discharging, sorting (incorporated in working-spindles B23B13/00) · CPC title