A loading device adapted to be provided in a machine tool includes a rail portion and a loader configured to travel along the rail portion, wherein the loader includes a pivoting portion and an arm portion extending and contracting with respect to the pivoting portion, and the arm portion includes a hand portion that holds a workpiece.

A machine tool system capable of decreasing the operator's burden in setting the parameters. A machine tool system includes a working machine capable of machining a bar and a bar feeder capable of delivering the bar to the working machine according to the machining of the bar. The bar feeder delivers the bar in accordance with a set parameter. The bar feeder updates the parameter according to parameter information transmitted from the working machine.

A machine tool system capable of decreasing the operator's burden in setting the parameters. A machine tool system includes a working machine capable of machining a bar and a bar feeder capable of delivering the bar to the working machine according to the machining of the bar. The bar feeder delivers the bar in accordance with a set parameter. The bar feeder updates the parameter according to parameter information transmitted from the working machine.

Provided is a bar feeder that pushes a rod-shaped workpiece into a hollow main shaft having a holding mechanism at one end of the main shaft, from another end, the bar feeder being arranged in a work room arranged adjacent to a processing room where the main shaft is installed, the work room being provided with a work machine including a transport mechanism for moving an article to and from the processing room, and the bar feeder being arranged at a position at which at least a portion thereof overlaps with the work mechanism in a top view or a front view.

A workpiece holder 1 includes a holder head 11 and a holder body 12. The holder head 11 includes a chuck unit 13 for holding a workpiece W, a support pedestal 111 for supporting the chuck unit 13, and a hook 113 provided on a distal end portion of an arm 112 extending from the support pedestal 111. The holder body 12 includes a cylindrical body portion 121, a retained portion 123 that is arranged inside the body portion 121 and rotated around the cylinder axis J1 to be in either a retained state in which the retained portion 123 is retained by the hook 113 on the ?Z direction side or in the released state in which retaining by the hook 113 is released, and a disk spring 126 for biasing the retained portion 123 in the ?Z direction.

A material rod feeding device for feeding material rods to a machine tool, which includes a magazine for stocking the material rods and a guide means into which material rods to be processed can be fed from the magazine, one at a time, wherein a feeding direction of a material rod from the magazine into the guide means is transversely to the longitudinal axis of the material rod in the guide means, wherein the guide means includes a support leg and an abutment leg for providing a variably modifiable receiving channel, wherein the support leg provides a support surface of the receiving channel, that is inclined in the feeding direction and relative to the horizontal, and wherein the abutment leg is movable along the inclination relative to the support leg, so that the variably modifiable receiving channel is formed between the two legs, into which the material rod to be processed can be fed onto the support surface, and wherein the support leg together with the abutment leg is vertically movable as a whole.

A material rod feeding device for feeding material rods to a machine tool, which includes a magazine for stocking the material rods and a guide means into which material rods to be processed can be fed from the magazine, one at a time, wherein a feeding direction of a material rod from the magazine into the guide means is transversely to the longitudinal axis of the material rod in the guide means, wherein the guide means includes a support leg and an abutment leg for providing a variably modifiable receiving channel, wherein the support leg provides a support surface of the receiving channel, that is inclined in the feeding direction and relative to the horizontal, and wherein the abutment leg is movable along the inclination relative to the support leg, so that the variably modifiable receiving channel is formed between the two legs, into which the material rod to be processed can be fed onto the support surface, and wherein the support leg together with the abutment leg is vertically movable as a whole.

The present disclosure relates to a bar loader and machine tool equipped with such bar loader, wherein the machine tool includes at least one workpiece spindle configured to receive an elongated workpiece, and the bar loader apparatus comprises, for each workpiece spindle of the machine tool being configured to move in a longitudinal direction being axially arranged with respect to the spindle axis of the respective workpiece spindle, a respective associated workpiece guide channel assembly for receiving and guiding a respective one of the elongated workpieces, and each respective workpiece guide channel assembly includes a fixed guide channel portion and at least one slidable guide channel portion, the at least one slidable guide channel portion being movable into the longitudinal direction of the spindle axis of the respective associated workpiece spindle.

The invention relates to a transport device (38) for transporting a workpiece (23) between a clamping chuck (22) and a workpiece carrier (30). The transport device (38) comprises a gripper arrangement (39) with a pivot arm (40). One end of the pivot arm (40) is supported on the machine tool (20) and, in particular, a machine slide (25) via a first pivot drive (41) so as to be pivotable about a first pivot axis (S1). On the other end, the pivot arm (40) supports a second pivot drive (42) that defines a second pivot axis (S2). A workpiece gripper (43) is supported so as to be pivotable about this second pivot axis (S2). The two pivot axes are inclined by 45 relative to each other. A workpiece (23) held by the workpiece gripper (43) has a workpiece longitudinal axis (W) that extends in a first position (I) of the workpiece gripper (43) at a right angle with respect to the pivot axis (S1). In a second position (II) of the workpiece gripper (43), the workpiece longitudinal axis (W) is oriented parallel to the first pivot axis (S1). The workpiece longitudinal axis (W) of the workpiece (23) held by the workpiece gripper (43) is inclined by 45 relative to the second pivot axis (S2).

A balancing device for a bar loading magazine for guiding material bars on a turning machine, includes at least one mass body that can be repeatedly positioned in relation to a guiding unit that allows a rotation of an introduced material bar about a rotary axis. The mass body is, after each completed positioning, in a connection with the guiding unit and/or the material bar, so that the mass body rotates, during the rotation of an introduced material bar, together with the material bar at the same angular speed about the rotary axis. At least one positioning unit is designed to bring the mass body into a starting position in relation to the guiding unit, to detect during rotation any required repositioning because of an imbalance, and to reposition in each case the mass body in response to the detection of any required repositioning in relation to the guiding unit.