US Patent: 3,452,427 - Mechanisms for Tool Changers


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US Patent: 3,452,427

Mechanisms for Tool Changers

Patentees:

Robert A. Lehmkuhl (exact or similar names) - Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH

Robert E. Reed (exact or similar names) - Kaukanuna, Outagamie County, WI

USPTO Classifications:

483/31

Tool Categories:

metalworking machines : metalworking machine mechanisms : tool changers and storage mechanisms

Assignees:

Giddings & Lewis, Inc. - Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, OH

Manufacturer:

Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:

Unknown

Patent Dates:
Applied:	Dec. 27, 1965
Granted:	Jul. 01, 1969

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Description:

Original application filed 19 Sept. 19, 1962,. Divided and this application filed 27 Dec., 1965.

Abstract:

A machine tool having a vertically movable spindle and a tool transfer mechanism for presenting tools to the spindle, and in which the holders for the tools have a flange larger than the end of the spindle which is gripped by the tool transfer mechanism.