The machine tool includes a workpiece carrier assembly arranged for horizontal movement in parallel to a horizontal axis and a tool carrier configured for carrying at least one tool for machining at least one workpiece by rotating the tool. The workpiece carrier assembly or the tool carrier is displaceable between an operative position in which a workpiece carrier is facing the tool carrier, and at least one inoperative position. The workpiece carrier is arranged to be rotatable to allow for a modification of the angular position of the workpiece in relation to the tool carrier.

A live tool system having a live tool and a collar surrounding a rotating shaft or a rotating cutting tool of the live tool. The collar houses at least one sensor capable of monitoring an operating condition proximate to the cutting tool during a cutting operation. Example operating conditions including temperature and vibration. The system also includes a wireless transmitter in communication with the at least one sensor for transmitting a signal for use by a machining center controller.

The machine tool has a machine bed (10) having a first horizontal linear guide (1) and a second horizontal linear guide (2) arranged at right angles to the first linear guide (1). On the first linear guide (1) is arranged, in an axially displaceable manner, a workpiece clamping fixture (3), which is swivelable about a swivel axis (4) oriented parallel to the second linear guide (2) and is rotatable about a rotation axis (5) oriented at right angles to the swivel axis (4). On the second linear guide (2) a toque motor driven swivel arm (6) is axially displaceable, the swivel axis (7) of which is arranged parallel to the first linear guide (1) and which on its free end bears a tool spindle (8), the axis (9) of which is oriented parallel to the first linear guide (1).

To provide a telescopic cover having a structure in which a stopper is easy to be exchanged, and a machine tool. A telescopic cover of a machine tool is formed to be freely expandable and contractible in a predetermined direction. A first cover piece and a second cover piece have a pair of receiving side stoppers that project outward in both ends of side surfaces along a predetermined direction, and slits formed along the predetermined direction in between the pair of receiving side stoppers, as receiving side cover pieces. The second cover piece and the third cover piece have nesting side stoppers that are inserted into the slits by projecting outward in the side surfaces along the predetermined direction, and move between the pair of receiving side stoppers as nesting side cover pieces.

Disclosed herein is a cyclonic system for performing subtractive machining in microgravity systems. The cyclonic system comprises: an enclosure, a blower, and a debris collection module to collect the debris from the milling machine. The enclosure includes a top plate, a base plate, and a tapered side wall joining the top plate to the base plate. The enclosure defines a chamber to house a milling machine having a cutter tool. The blower generates an airstream that induces a cyclonic airflow to achieve cyclonic separation of debris within the enclosure. In operation, the cyclonic airflow urges the debris from the milling machine toward the base plate and into the milling machine.

A numerical-control machine tool is provided and includes a load-bearing beam which extends horizontally, has two axial ends resting in sliding manner on two lateral shoulders that rise from a basement and extend horizontally side by side so as to define a longitudinal corridor orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the beam; a spindle-holding carriage which is movable on the load-bearing beam parallel to the longitudinal axis of the beam; a spindle-holding shaft which is fixed to the spindle-holding carriage in a vertical position, and is movable on the spindle-holding carriage parallel to its longitudinal axis; a front wall and a rear wall that close the two ends of the longitudinal corridor; an upper cover which closes the longitudinal corridor at the top; and an ambient conditioning unit which is adapted to bring and maintain the temperature of the air present inside the machining chamber around a given target value.

A chip conveyor includes: a cover body; a guide plate configured to guide chips, which are conveyed inside the cover body, so as to be directed from a chip receiving position toward a chip discharging position; a case attached to the cover body and having an internal space provided therein; and a float switch configured to detect, based on a coolant flowing from inside the cover body into the internal space, that a liquid level of the coolant inside the cover body is equal to or greater than a prescribed liquid level. The cover body includes a first space and a second space that are partitioned from each other by the guide plate. The cover body is provided with: a first opening allowing communication between the first space and the internal space; and a second opening allowing communication between the second space and the internal space.

A machine tool is equipped with a second supply pipe having elasticity and having one end side fixed to a spindle head and the other end side fixed to an arm portion, a cover provided within a machining area, and rollers. When the spindle head is moved in a direction to come close to the arm portion, the second supply pipe is bent and then a portion of the second supply pipe is brought into abutment against the cover. The rollers are provided at a portion of the cover against which the second supply pipe is brought into abutment, and are configured to reduce friction between the cover and the second supply pipe when the second supply pipe moves relative to the cover in an abutment state against the cover.

A work machine includes: a bed having a table positioned on the upper surface thereof; sidewalls positioned to the left and right of the bed and projecting to the rear of the rear surface of the bed; support members for each supporting the bed in relation to a floor surface by using two points on the sidewalls to the left and right of the bed, and using at least one other point; a vertically moving body for moving along a pair of left and right vertical guides positioned in the vertical direction down to the vicinity of the floor surface on the rear surface of the bed; and a vertical drive means for moving the vertically moving body as one of the abovementioned relative movements, and having a pair of left and right feed screws positioned in parallel with the vertical guides.

Three systems for the destruction of the data storage portion of electronic media storage devices such as hard disk drives, solid state drives and hybrid hard drives. One system utilizes a mill cutter with which the hard drive has relative motion in the direction of the axis of the mill cutter to destroy the data storage portion. A second system utilizes a laser to physically destroy the data storage portion. The third system utilizes a chemical solvent to chemically destroy the data storage portion.