Improvements in or relating to Methods and Systems for Producing Command Data Carriers for Programme-Controlled Machine Tools.

摘要

1,199,510. Programmed control of machine tools. BOEHRINGER G.m.b.H. GEB. May 16, 1968 [May 17, 1967], No.23272/68. Heading G3N. Command data carriers for programme controlled machine tools are produced by feeding, in plain language, the individual steps of a production planning process to a printer and to a computer, programmed for step-by-step calculation, supplying on the one hand a step-command in a machine code to a command data carrier producing device and on the other hand causing the printer to print out the command in plain language. As shown, a programmer feeds in through a keyboard T data relating to individual operations, which is printed in plain language as rows and columns on a programme sheet Pb by a printer Swand fed to a computer R. The computer R, having a programme which is set up on slide-in wired boards E, calculates the corresponding machine-tool co-ordinate values. The machine tool commands are fed from the computer to a punched tape perforator L1 producing a command tape 5t . It is stated that, alternatively, a magnetic tape could be produced. The computer also feeds, in plain language, to the printer Pb, job-orientated values corresponding to the machine-co-ordinate values and the machine-tool commands. In a modification the computer is used to prepare command tapes for two machines operating on different machine codes and facilities are provided for programme tape checking and preparation using co-ordinate plotters.