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摘要

A tool storage magazine containing a plurality of movable tool receptacles or cartridges that are movable to a tool change station. The cartridge and its associated tool at the tool change station is removable from the magazine by a pivotal carrier that is provided with a clamp which clamps the cartridge containing the selected tool to the pivotal carrier. The pivotal carrier then swings 90 DEG to move the clamped cartridge with it for the purpose of positioning the axis of the selected tool in the cartridge parallel with the machine tool spindle. The pivotal carrier also carries a tool change arm movable to interchange the tool in the cartridge with the tool in the machine tool spindle. Upon completion of the 90 DEG pivotal movement by the pivotal carrier, the tool change arm is actuated in its tool change cycle to insert the new tool from the cartridge into the spindle and the previously used tool from the spindle into the cartridge. The cartridge with the old tool in it is then returned to the tool storage magazine by a reverse pivotal movement of the carrier.