摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tool change device that improve the operability when a tool is changed, hardly accumulates chips in a processing chamber, and further simplifies the constitution of a tool magazine.SOLUTION: There is provided a tool change device 10 for changing a tool T held in a tool magazine 7. The tool change device including a tool pot P which is attachable to and detachable from the tool T, a tool pot attachment/detachment device 20 which attaches and detaches the tool pot P to and from the tool T held in the tool magazine 7, and a tool transport device which makes the tool pot P move reciprocally between a tool change chamber 6 (tool exchange area) provided outside the processing chamber 4 and the tool magazine 7. |