Patent ID: 8231434

Claim:
A high-speed grinding machine, comprising: a bench; bearing brackets for a turbine rotor comprising several stages being arranged on the bench, the turbine rotor being rotatably disposed in the bearing brackets about its axis; a grinding wheel head arranged on the bench, the grinding wheel head having a receiving device; at least one grinding wheel being rotatably disposed in the receiving device about a spindle axis extending parallel to the rotor axis; wherein the grinding wheel head and the bearing brackets are adjustable relative to one another in an axial direction of the bench, which direction is determined via the rotor axis, in order to grind successively blades of the several stages of the turbine rotor; a magazine containing one or more grinding wheels; and an automatically operating grinding wheel changer operatively configured to receive a grinding wheel from the magazine and to arrange the received grinding wheel in the receiving device at the grinding wheel head.