Patent ID: 9233445
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: B23B,B23C,B23Q,Y10S,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for machining workpieces, the apparatus comprising: a machine frame having vertical guides and defining a machining station, a pick-up station offset horizontally from the machining station, and a drop-off station offset horizontally from the machining station; a vertical slide vertically shiftable along the vertical guides on the machine frame and having horizontal guides and a substantially closed lower wall; a horizontal slide carrying a rotatably driven holder and shiftable in a horizontal direction along the horizontal guides on the vertical slide between respective pick-up, machining, and drop-off positions above the pick-up, machining, and drop-off stations; a holder in the machining station and projecting through the lower wall of the vertical slide, one of the holders being adapted to hold a tool and the other of the holders being adapted for holding a workpiece for machining the workpiece in the machining station; a pair of shields fixed to the vertical slide and horizontally flanking the machining station, one of the shields being between the machining station and the pick-up station; and respective slidable doors on each of the shields shiftable between a closed position blocking movement of the rotatable holder past the respective shield and an open position permitting such movement.