Patent ID: 7367096

Claim:
Equipment for mechanical machining of workpieces, the equipment comprising: at least one turning unit with double chucks to support the workpieces being machined and a turning head designed to work alternately in association with one or other of the double chucks, at least one first workpiece loading/unloading device for moving the workpieces being machined to one or other of the double chucks so that workpieces are loaded/unloaded from one of the double chucks at the same time as mechanical machining is being performed on the other of the double chucks, at least one drilling unit operatively associated with the turning unit and including at least one first drilling head combined with at least one corresponding first workpiece-holding means, at least one second workpiece loading/unloading device for moving workpieces being machined in the at least one drilling unit, the first and second workpiece loading/unloading devices being further incorporated into the equipment to move the workpieces undergoing machining towards and away from one or other of the turning and drilling units so that mechanical machining in the drilling and turning units takes place at the same time as the operations of loading and unloading workpieces onto and from the equipment.