Patent ID: 9566684
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: B23Q,B24B,Y10T

Claim:
1. A processing machine, comprising: a machine bed; two vertical supports arranged on the machine bed, wherein the two vertical supports are laterally separated from one another in a direction that is transverse with respect to a vertical direction; a bridge displaceable on the two vertical supports along a horizontal, linear Y-axis; an X-sled displaceable on the bridge along a horizontal, linear X-axis; a Z-sled displaceable on the X-sled along a vertical, linear Z-axis; an operating spindle supported at the Z-sled; a machine table arranged on the machine bed, wherein the machine table carries a work piece clamping device; a tool magazine, which is embodied as a magazine wheel, comprising at the circumference of the magazine wheel a plurality of tool holders each for accepting a respective tool, wherein the tool magazine is rotatable about a tool magazine axis that extends parallel to the Z-axis, and when one of the plurality of tool holders is rotated into an exchange position, the operating spindle is able to remove the respective tool from the one of the plurality of tool holders and place the respective tool back therein, and the tool magazine is arranged directly underneath the machine table and projects laterally beyond the machine table such that the operating spindle can be displaced to a position that is lower than a position of the machine table and adjacent the one of the plurality of tool holders that is rotated into the exchange position.