Patent ID: 8573014

Claim:
A spring manufacturing apparatus comprising: a wire feed unit that feeds a wire rod; a quill that guides the wire rod fed from the wire feed unit; a quill supporting member that supports the quill; a tool holder that holds a tool which processes the wire rod into a coil spring; a tool holder supporting member that supports the tool holder; and an X-axis movable body that moves in an X-axis direction, a Y-axis movable body that moves in a Y-axis direction, a Z-axis movable body that moves in a Z-axis direction, in an XYZ orthogonal coordinate system representing an axial direction of the quill as the Z-axis direction; wherein the quill supporting member comprises one of the movable body among the X-axis movable body, the Y-axis movable body, and the Z-axis movable body; and the tool holder supporting member comprises said X-axis, Y-axis, and Z-axis movable bodies other than said movable body which the quill supporting member comprises.