Patent ID: 7462145

Claim:
Machine tool with at least one tool spindle and with a tool storage device which holds multiple tools in tool holders and is movable in a controlled manner in order to bring a respectively selectable tool holder into an exchange position, with the tools each being arranged in the tool holders so that their central longitudinal axis lies in the plane of motion of the tool storage device and with the tool spindle able to take the tools in the exchange position out of the tool holder and deliver them into the tool holder as the tool spindle is moved into axial alignment with the respective tool, characterized in that the tool storage device has two tool magazines ( 34 , 58 ), that tools are held in tool holders in each of the two tool magazines ( 34 , 58 ), with the tools being arranged in the two tool magazines ( 34 , 58 ) with their central longitudinal axes extending radially relative a rotation axis of the tool storage device and with the tools of one of the two magazines each being spaced in their axial direction with respect to the tools of the respective other tool magazine, and that the two tool magazines ( 34 , 58 ) are independently movable in parallel planes of motion in a controlled manner in order to bring their respectively selected tool holders into the exchange position.