Patent ID: 8167316

Claim:
A clamping arrangement ( 1 ′, 1 ″) for clamping a workpiece to be processed along a processing shaft ( 6 ) in a processing machine including the processing shaft ( 6 ), the clamping arrangement comprising: a clamping head ( 3 ′, 3 ″) rotatable around the processing shaft ( 6 ), the clamping head including a clamping tip ( 9 ) insertable at least in part frontally into a tube-shaped workpiece and that is one of substantially cone-shaped or truncated cone-shaped, with an axis of symmetry that coincides with the processing shaft ( 6 ), the clamping tip including a plurality of cutouts ( 10 ) in and spaced about the clamping tip; and a plurality of clamping elements ( 5 ′, 5 ″) each floatingly arranged in one of the cutouts, wherein each of the clamping elements ( 5 ′, 5 ″) is pivotably arranged around a pivot shaft ( 8 ′, 8 ″) which extends parallel relative to the processing shaft ( 6 ).