Patent ID: 6142920
Filing Date: 2000-11-07
Classification: B23Q,Y10T

Abstract:
A tool gripper which holds a plurality of tools in arm portions thereof and is provided in a tool rack type magazine that accommodates said tools used in machine tools, wherein each of said arm portions of said tool gripper is arc-shaped and opened in an obliquely upward direction so that a tool entrance of each of said arm portions is positioned obliquely upward over a tool holding portion of each of said arm portions, said arm portions are formed in a vertically continuous elongated plate member, and said elongated plate member is comprised of sheets of thin plates overlaid in a thickness direction, and said arm portion formed in one of said thin plates which is located at a center of said overlaid thin plates is made smaller in diameter than arm portions of other thin plates so as to form a ridge portion that engages a V-groove of a tool holder of said tool.