Patent ID: 8517901

Claim:
A horizontal machine tool comprising: a tool spindle having a horizontal longitudinal central axis extending in a front-rear direction of the machine tool, the tool spindle configured to drive a tool mounted at a front end thereof; a base frame including a base part and a saddle supporting part vertically standing on the base part at a location that is spaced in the front-rear direction from a frontmost surface of the base part and from a rearmost surface of the base part; an X-axis saddle mounted on a rear face of the saddle supporting part via guide rails of an X-axis translation mechanism, the X-axis saddle capable of sliding in a left-right direction via the X-axis translation mechanism, the left-right direction being relative to a line of sight along the horizontal longitudinal central axis of the tool spindle, a rearmost face of the saddle supporting part being spaced in the front-rear direction from the rearmost face of the base part; a Y-axis saddle mounted on the X-axis saddle and capable of sliding in an up-down direction via a Y-axis translation mechanism; a spindle device mounted on the Y-axis saddle and capable of sliding in the front-rear direction via a Z-axis translation mechanism; and wherein a workpiece supporting member to support a workpiece can be mounted on the base part in front of the saddle supporting part.