TOOL CARRIAGE FOR FEEDING MACHINE TOOLS

摘要

A tool carriage for automatically loading tools into and unloading tools from tool magazines of numerically controlled tools. A tool changing assembly is mounted for two-dimensional movement with respect to a slide member which is movable in two dimensions with respect to the supporting structure of the carriage. The tool changing assembly has gripping arms on a carrier rotatably mounted to a saddle, the arms being adapted to move tools between a tool supply magazine on the carriage and the machine tool magazine.