Tool changing inventions 07/07

20070173393 - Scara-type robotic system: A robotic system including a rotatable turntable that has an arm pivotally mounted on the turntable for rotation about an axis displaced from the turntable's rotational axis. The arm's axis of rotation may be positioned nearer the turntable's axis of rotation than a bearing that supports the turntable on a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070167303 - Tool magazine: A tool magazine exhibits a storage wheel, on the circumference of which there are attached, in the direction of its rotational axis protruding in both directions, tool receivers designed to receive tools. To transport the tools to a tool changer arranged on one side of the storage wheel there is... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20070167302 - Machine tool and method for changing tools on this machine tool: In the case of a machine tool which comprises at least one working spindle with a tool-holding fixture for tool holders carrying tools, and a tool changer with a gripper for the tool holders in order to transfer the tool holders between their magazine position, which is spaced apart from... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C