Machine tool with a tool magazine with increased capacity and tool magazine for equipping a machine tool

摘要

The machine tool consists of a support with workpiece carriers, at least one machining station to receive a tool, a guide for relative movement of the station and carrier, and at least one magazine (21) for holding a series of tools. The tool magazine is in the form of a closed circuit made up of a series of linked main supports (30), each able to receive and hold a number of satellite supports (31) with at least two tools each. The machine tool also has an operator interface for loading and unloading the satellite supports from the outside of the machine tool independently of its operational state