Patent ID: 8721512

Claim:
A tool magazine device for a machine tool capable of cleaning cutting tools immediately before storage thereof, the machine tool including a machine body defining a working space, a tool spindle rotatably mounted in the machine body, extending into the working space about a spindle axis, and having a tool holder, said tool magazine comprising: a magazine body adapted to be disposed on the machine body to confront the working space, and having an outer mounting wall which is disposed to confront the working space, and an inner mounting wall which is opposite to said outer mounting wall, and left and right side walls which are distal from and proximate to the tool spindle, respectively, said right side wall having a plurality of first insertion openings which are displaced from each other, and each of which extends towards said left side wall along an insertion axis to form a storage chamber that terminates at an abutment; an inlet disposed in said magazine body for introducing therein a flow of pressurized air; and an air duct unit disposed on said left side wall and coupled to communicate said inlet with said storage chamber so as to permit the pressurized air to flow out of a corresponding one of said first insertion openings to thereby clean swarf from a corresponding one of the cutting tools when the cutting tool is inserted into the corresponding one of said first insertion openings after the insertion axis of the corresponding one of said first insertion openings is brought into alignment with the spindle axis.