Patent ID: 6948411

Claim:
Machine tool, comprising: a machine frame; a first spindle housing carrier and a second spindle housing carrier disposed on said machine frame in such a way that they can be moved in a Z direction in relation to each other; a first working spindle, which receives a first workpiece and is mounted rotatably about a first spindle axis in a first spindle housing seated on the first spindle housing carrier, said first spindle housing carrier extending laterally away from said first spindle housing parallel to a first lateral direction; a second working spindle, which is disposed coaxially with respect to the first working spindle, receives a second workpiece and is mounted rotatably about a second spindle axis in a second spindle housing seated on the second spindle housing carrier, said second spindle housing carrier extending laterally away from said second spindle housing parallel to said first lateral direction; a first tool carrier, which is movable in an X direction and is associated with the first working spindle for the machining of the first workpiece, disposed in the first working spindle, said first tool carrier and said first spindle housing carrier being arranged on approximately opposite sides of said first spindle axis; a second tool carrier, which is movable in an X direction and is associated with the second working spindle for the machining of the second workpiece, disposed in the second working spindle, said second tool carrier and said second spindle housing carrier being arranged on approximately opposite sides of said second spindle axis; the first and second tool carriers being disposed on the same side of the spindle axis; a machine control unit for controlling the relative movements between the first workpiece and the tools of the first tool carrier and the second workpiece and the tools of the second tool carrier; and a third tool carrier, moveable at least in an X direction and associated with one of the working spindles, said third tool carrier being provided between the spindle housing carriers of the first and second working spindles on a side of the spindle axes which is approximately opposite from the first and second tool carriers.