INDUSTRIAL ROBOT PROVIDED WITH MEANS FOR MOUNTING WORK PIECE ONTO MACHINE TOOL AND REMOVING WORK PIECE THEREFROM.

摘要

An industrial robot wherein robot hands (44, 46) for grasping a work piece are movably displaced by rotations between a work handling position for feeding and conveying the work piece to a work catching device (10) of a machine tool and a retracted position separated from the work handling position, a robot hand (42) is rocked in a plane to registrate the work piece with the work catching device (10) of the machine tool at the work handling position, by a rectilinear displacement in which the robot hand (42) is made approach or separated from the work catching device (10) by a pneumatic operation type cylinder (48), the work piece is mounted onto the work catching device (10) or removed therefrom, and a robot body portion (22) can be easily mounted onto a machine frame of the machine tool by use of fixing means such as bolts and screws.