Patent GB-609720-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to indexing mechanism for locating and locking the turrets of lathes and like machine tools
IPC: B23Q16/06
Filed: 1945-06-07
Abstract: 609,720. Lathes. WARNER & SWASEY CO. June 7, 1945, No. 14413. Convention date, June 27, 1944. Addition to 593,472. [Class 83 (iii)] Indexing-mechanism for the turret of a lathe or like machine tool according to the parent Specification is improved or modified by the provision of power means for actuating the turret indexing-means, operative connections between the indexing-means, the locking-means, the locating-member, and the clamping-means being provided to actuate the same in timed relation to one another, so that the turret is successively unclamped, unlocked, indexed, located and locked in indexed position and then reclamped. The turret C is provided with slots 30 in the base of the stem portion 12 which are engaged for the indexing- movement by a pair of rollers 26, Fig. 3, provided on a disc 28 rotated intermittently by a bevel wheel 33, Fig. 2, mounted on a short shaft 34 carried in bearings in the turret slide. A pinion 37 on the end of this shaft meshes with a pinion 38, also carried by the slide and adapted to move along a splined driving-shaft 40 carried in the bed A of the machine. Keyed to the end of this shaft is a disc 46, a spacer 47, and a sleeve 45 forming part of a spider of an epicyclic gear train, the wheel 41 of which is continuously driven. A magnetic clutch F with stationary body member 52 is interposed between the disc and the epicyclic gearing. On energization of coil 50, which normally obtains, the disc 46 is held against the clutch body and the indexing-mechanism is held against rotation. On operation of a pressbutton switch 63, a solenoid 57 is energized and switch 60, 61 is closed while switch 55, 56 is opened, the coil 51 is thus energized while the coil 50 is de-energized. The wheel 48 of the epicyclic gear which normally rotates idly is drawn against the body of the clutch and held stationary, thus resulting in the spider 45 and the shaft 40 rotating to index the turret. A switch rod 65 is forced out of a depression in the rim of the turret immediately indexing commences and closes a holding circuit to the solenoid 57 so that the indexing-operation proceeds, despite release of the button 63, until the switch 65 enters the next recess in the circumference of the turret. Turret-locking mechanism.-The disc 26,. Fig. 3, is also provided with a cam-track 70 in which engages a roller 71 carried by a lever 73 pivoted at 74. One end 75 of this lever engages a slot in a rod 77 which carries intermediate its ends a tooth-like projection 103, Fig. 9, adapted to operate toggle links 95 connected through an adjustor 90 to a locking bolt E. The forward end of the rod 77 is provided with a projection which operates to slide a transverse bolt 80, with an end-piece 24, into engagement with the rear faces of indexing abutments 21 provided on the turret stem. The end-piece 24, which may float, is retracted during indexing and is interposed between the abutments 21 and a stop member 78. When the locking-plunger E is operated the abutment 21 is thus rigidly held against the end-piece 24 and stop 78. The rod 77 has a further projection 123, Fig. 19, which through toggle links 117, 114 draws together the ends 112, 113, Fig. 18, of bevelled clamping-members 105, 106, which secure the turret to its slide when in the locked position. The switch 63 may be arranged so that it is automatically operated by a stop member at some point in the travel of the turret slide.