A method and apparatus for automatically changing interchangeable machining tool heads carried by a tool carrier. The tool heads are suspended from an overhead trolleyway by leading and trailing trolleys, with the leading trolley carrying a probe and a vertical finger and the trailing trolley carrying an inclined guide. The vertical finger selectively engages a block carried on an overhead moving chain for moving the tool head toward the tool carrier. The probe extends in the direction of tool h...

A focus collimator press for collimators for gamma ray cameras, comprising a pivot arm of fixed length mounted on a travelling pivot which is movable in the plane of a spaced apart work table surface in a direction toward and away from the work table. A press plate is carried at the opposite end of the fixed length pivot arm, and is maintained in registration with the same portion of the work table for pressing engagement with each undulating radiation opaque strip as it is added to the top of a...

A transfer line with devices for conveying work pieces along the central bases, lateral bases set up along the sides of the central bases on which the processing units are mounted so as to be capable of displacement, and supply devices for the processing stations. In order to improve access to the transfer line and simplify component units, the following features are proposed: a) the supply devices along the direction of travel of the work pieces are arranged exclusively within or in the region ...

A machine tool center includes a machine tool, a tool storage magazine storing a multiplicity of tools, a workpiece storage area, a robot assembly, and a control system for controlling the operation of the robot assembly and of the machine tool. The robot assembly has a telescoping arm supported on a body which is movable relative to its base, and at the outer end of the arm is a gripper member which is pivotally supported intermediate its length and includes gripping elements at each of its end...

A sheet working machine has a working station, a tool driving system which is connectable with a tool for mechanical working of plate-shaped workpieces, a chain-like rotatable tool magazine arranged for receiving a plurality of tools, at least one tool exchange device provided for withdrawing tools from the tool magazine and inserting the same in the working station and vice versa, the working station having at least two tool receiving systems formed so that for driving a tool they are selective...

A line for performing work operations on work members in successive stations, with each station having therein a unit on which is mounted a carriage moveable parallel to the line of working stations and having an intermediate working position on the base of the respective unit. Work supports are provided which are slidable on the carriages parallel to the sliding direction of the carriages and which can be locked to the carriages in intermediate working positions. When a carriage is moved to eit...

A manufacturing system utilizing a plurality of satellite functional processing stations or sectors, each capable of stand-alone operation. The stations are interconnected by a handler or conveyor, which will transport individual ones of work-pieces from one processing station to the next in accordance with a prescribed sequence corresponding to the processing requirements for the workpiece.

A control system for plural numerically controlled machine tools comprising a main conveyor and a buffer conveyor for transferring a plurality of work pallets accorded with coded numbers. The buffer conveyor has a plurality of buffer areas. A plurality of machining modules classified by machining processes are arranged in association with buffer areas of the buffer conveyor. A plurality of rails arranged above the machining modules extend transversely of the main and buffer conveyors with a pall...

A manufacturing system utilizing a plurality of satellite functional processing stations or sectors, each capable of stand-alone operation. The stations are interconnected by a handler or conveyor, which will transport individual ones of work-pieces from one processing station to the next in accordance with a prescribed sequence corresponding to the processing requirements for the workpiece.

There is provided a laser machining apparatus, and a laser machining method using the same. The laser machining apparatus has a body portion having a plurality of laser irradiating sections and work mounting sections, a supplying stocker for supplying workpieces, and a discharging stocker for discharging the workpieces. The apparatus further comprises a supply-side transfer unit having work retaining tables capable of attracting/releasing the workpieces and being of the same number as the laser ...