Patent ID: 7462144

Claim:
Machine tool with a work space and with a horizontal tool spindle for processing a work piece located in the work space by means of a tool held by the tool spindle, with the tool spindle being displaceable in a controlled manner along at least one horizontal axis (Y-axis) and along the vertical axis (Z-axis), characterized in that a tool magazine is located adjacent to the work space, which magazine comprises a magazine wheel ( 34 ) that is rotatable in a controlled manner about a vertical axis, that the magazine wheel ( 34 ) has tool holders ( 50 ) on its periphery, in which tools ( 56 ) can be held with the tool central longitudinal axis radially aligned with respect to the axis of rotation of the magazine wheel ( 34 ) and with their holding shafts directed toward the inside of the magazine wheel ( 34 ), and that, for purposes of a tool exchange, the tool spindle ( 30 ) can be displaced horizontally over the magazine wheel ( 34 ), lowered vertically into the inside of the periphery of the magazine wheel ( 34 ) and displaced radially inside the periphery of the magazine wheel ( 34 ) with respect to the tool holders ( 50 ).