Abstract: An arrangement comprises several work stations for machining and/or assembling components. Receivers for holding components are provided on workpiece holders (3) connected to a feed drive in the form of a conveyor chain (5). Guide devices with guide tracks (11, 12) for the conveyor chain are arranged in identical housing parts (8). The guide tracks (11, 12) are of equal length. The housing parts (8) are connected to one another and to a reversing station (7) for the conveyor chain (5) by means of guide and/or coupling devices (10) to form a housing unit supported on a contact surface (14) by supporting devices (13).

Abstract: Plant (10) to roll flat products which is fed in line by at least one continuous casting line (11) equipped with a shears (12) upstream of a temperature equalization furnace (13), the outlet of which is in the immediate vicinity of and in cooperation with the intake of a rolling train (10), the temperature equalization furnace (13) comprising within itself three walking beams (22-23-24), of which a first walking beam (22) cooperates with an intake roller conveyor (16) of the temperature equalization furnace (13) and is able to take continuously slabs (18) arriving from the at least one continuous casting line (11) and arranged on the intake roller conveyor (16) and to place them on a second intermediate walking beam (23), which is able to transfer these slabs (18) onto a third walking beam (24), which in turn can transfer the slabs (18) onto an outlet roller conveyor (15).

Abstract: Apparatus for feeding workpieces (37, 38) to the collet (3) of a lens lathe comprises a loading device (12) and a magazine (10) for containing a plurality of workpieces (37, 38). The magazine (10) has an opening (11) at one end through which the workpieces (37, 38) are sequentially removable. The loading device (12) is arranged to accept workpieces (37, 38) sequentially from the magazine (10) at a loading station, and to feed them to the collet (3). The loading device (12) has a pair of star wheels (16) for holding a workpiece (37, 38) removed from the magazine (10), and means (34, 35, 36) for positioning said workpiece at the loading station in a predetermined position with respect to the collet (3). The loading device (12) has piston-and-cylinder devices (20) and (23) for moving the star wheels (16) so as to carry said workpiece (37, 38) from the loading station to the collet (3).

Abstract: To increase the overall operating speed of a production, assembly or manufacturing line system, a rapid transport system (6-17) is located beneath normally slow-moving transport belts (3), coupled to a vertical raising system (8, 9), engageable beneath a transport plate between individual belts of the transport system, and rapidly moving a transport plate (2) into and off selected work stations, faster than the movement of the belts. Preferably, the raising system is coupled to a carriage (6) which, in turn, is moved rapidly along the transport path (A, B) by a piston-cylinder unit (16, 17), a motor with a gear belt, or any other similar linear motion transmission.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for supplying a printed circuit board to a printed circuit board drilling machine and for returning the printed circuit board after the drilling. A stocker stores a plurality of printed circuit boards in a tilted state, and a plurality of conveyor rollers provides a conveying path for the printed circuit boards. A conveyor device which includes conveyor rollers provides a conveying path connected to the first mentioned conveying path. The arrival of the printed circuit board is detected at a predetermined position, and the printed circuit board is then decelerated by braking in response to a signal from the detection. A device is provided on the printed circuit board drilling machine for delivering the printed circuit board to the printed circuit board drilling machine.

Abstract: An installation for processing or assembling components, which comprises a succession of transport and work stations. Each station comprises a housing member including a lower base frame and an upper base frame, at least one of the housing members supporting a straight conveying track for a workpiece carrier carrying the components and at least one of the housing members supporting intersecting conveying tracks for the workpiece carrier, the conveying tracks including vertical and lateral guides for the workpiece carrier.

Abstract: In a system for fully automatically assembling a plurality of parts into a workpiece, each part is conveyed to the respective work stations in a holder which is associated with the workpiece at the work station where the part is removed from the holder and assembled.

Abstract: Equipment for machining pieces on a pallet includes a work station, an adjacent station for the loading/unloading of pallets and a single device for transferring the pallets from the work station and the loading/unloading station. The work station includes a pallet-holding carriage which can slide horizontally on a fixed base and the loading/unloading station including two pallet-holding supports, one for receiving a pallet to be loaded with a piece to be machined and the other for receiving a pallet with a machined piece to be unloaded, at a distance from one another and parallel to the direction of sliding of the pallet-holding carriage. The transfer device includes an arm and a forearm articulated with respect to one another, mounted on a lateral appendix of the pallet-holding carriage and which can be operated so as to engage the pallet to be transferred and to move it from one to the other of the work and loading/unloading stations.

Abstract: Apparatus for intermittently advancing successive pallets of a series of pallets with downwardly extending roller followers and profiled sidewalls has two endless belt conveyors which are continuously driven to advance the pallets above them along a horizontal path and into the range of an intermittently rotated cylindrical conveyor having an open-ended helical peripheral groove for the followers of successive pallets. The end portions of the groove extend circumferentially of the cylindrical conveyor and are flanked by front and rear stops for the followers of two successive pallets. The sidewalls of the pallet whose follower engages the stop at the front end of the cylindrical conveyor are engaged by idler rollers which maintain the respective pallet above and out of contact with the belt conveyors.

Abstract: An installation for automatically assembling basic parts of a tilt/turn window lock fitting comprises a line for the automatic assembly of the various basic parts constituting the corner turner and, associated therewith, a line for the automatic assembly of the strap, the link, at least one locking roller and at least one pressure spring to the corner turner assembly. The two lines are preferably made up of modular stations in two parallel planes linked by a transverse conveyor.

Abstract: A manufacturing line along which PCB's are fed and operated on includes a processing fixture for receiving an individual board and displacing it clear of the line toward a router bit. The router bit is shiftable transverse of the line, and the processing fixture is shiftable parallel to the line and in an underlapping relation to adjacent stations so as to address the whole area of the board with the router bit without increasing the length of the manufacturing line.

Abstract: A closed horizontal path nonsynchronous manufacturing system employing dual conveyor chains supporting and transporting fixurized workpiece pallets in single file to a plurality of sequential work stations located at straight segments of the path connected by polygonal obtuse angle corners. Accurate registration and clamping means engaging a straight pallet side with single register pin actuation utilizes straight conveyor segments for inside and/or outside operating stations with minimum lost space for polygonal obtuse angle corner transition.

Abstract: The present invention is a method of quality assurance and rectification of defects in the process of assembling a vehicle on a continuously moving assembly line. The method includes the steps of providing a continuously moving assembly line for assembly of vehicles and providing assembly stations along the length of the continuously moving assembly line attended by operators who perform discrete assigned tasks on incomplete vehicles positioned on the continuously moving assembly line as the incomplete vehicles pass by, leading to building of complete vehicles. The method also includes providing an assembly data input terminal at each assembly station, with each data input terminal having a plurality of manually actuatable switches corresponding to a discrete assigned tasks of an operator. The operators manipulate the switches to indicate successful or unsuccessful completion of discrete assigned tasks with respect to specific incomplete vehicles.

Abstract: This invention relates to a pallet changer suitable for use with a machine tool. When exchanging pallets, the pallet changer employs a drive means 3 for driving a table 2, and a transfer means 12 comprising a chain 66 and sprockets 64, 65. The transfer means 12 is driven by the drive means 3, and the pallet 4 is moved in the same direction as the table 2.

Abstract: In an automated machine tool assembly where a plurality of work stations are interconnected by slide rails on which pallets can slide, the pallets having workpieces affixed to them, with at least one transfer bar for engaging a pallet and sliding the pallet longitudinally along the slide rails, a hydraulic lift and monitoring system includes a plurality of hydraulic cylinders in the transfer bar, a plunger in each cylinder, and a first source of pressurized fluid which urges each plunger upwardly against a pallet. The first source of pressurized fluid is adjustable so as to pre-set the pressure with which the plungers are urged upwardly. A second source of fluid under pressure is linked through the cylindrical chambers in series to a pressure-sensitive switch such that, if a plunger fails to rise to its uppermost position when not loaded with a pallet, the operator is given a signal from the switch that a malfunction exists.

Abstract: A two-stage lift arm for raising a transfer bar used in a multi-station machining assembly includes a central pivot at which it is mounted for rotation in a vertical plane about a horizontal axis, a primary lift roller spaced a first distance from the central pivot location, a secondary lift roller spaced a second distance from the central pivot location, the second distance being greater than the first distance, and means for positively rotating the lift arm between a first position in which only the primary lift roller contacts the transfer bar, a second position in which both rollers contact the transfer bar, and a third position in which only the second lift roller contacts the transfer bar.

Abstract: The invention relates, in particular, to the field of plastic bag treatment.The method consists in releasably connecting brackets 29 for holding together stacks 15 to a stack conveying device 21, stacking the individual bags 11 on the legs 31 of the brackets 29 in a stacking station 14 and then taking off the stacks 15 held together by the brackets 29 in a take-off station 22.The apparatus comprises the stack conveying device 21 to which the brackets 29 are connected by a releasable holding device in such a way that each stack 15 can be taken together with the bracket 29 off the stack conveying device in the take-off station 22. The brackets 29 are fed to the stack conveying device 21 in a bracket delivery station 70 preceding the stacking station 14. The legs 31 of the brackets 29 then serve in the stacking station 14 as wicketing pins on which the individual bags 11 are stacked.

Abstract: A rotary transfer system includes an attitude converting station for automatically changing the attitude of a pallet with a workpiece supported thereon into a predetermined attitude, at least two machining stations for machining the workpiece with machine tools, and a feeder for feeding the pallet along an arcuate feed path from the attitude converting station successively to the machining stations. The annular feed path has a pair of upper and lower arcuate movable rails disposed in each of the attitude converting station and the machining stations, and a pair of upper and lower arcuate fixed rails aligned with the movable rails.

Abstract: A pallet magazine for setting a plurality of pallets including a column and a plurality of swing units mounted on the column. A turntable as driven about a horizontal axis and including a plurality of rails for receiving the pallet. An indexing member securing the turntable at a desired position.

Abstract: A set of positioning guide members are mounted on a worktable to delimit receiving areas for a workpiece support plate so that the support plate may be accurately positioned at each workstation on the table to allow accurate machining to be effected; a locking device is provided at each workstation to lock the support plate in a selected position in alignment with a tool at each workstation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a workpiece pallet changer which changes a work pallet fitted on a pallet positioning device on the table of a machine tool. The changer comprises a moveable pallet mounting assembly disposed at plural locations along the peripheral surface of a rotatable frame, each of which engages a work pallet to permit transfer of the work pallet between the pallet mounting assembly located on the surface of the rotatable frame and the pallet positioning device, while simultaneously allowing chips fall automatically from the work pallet as it rotates downward.

Abstract: An electrically driven self-propelled truck having at least one electrically driven wheel guidable along a rail on a floor, an article lift table mounted on the upper side of the truck body, a work space provided around the lift table, and an adjacent truck coupling provided on all four side edge portions of the truck body. At an intersection of truck guide rails on the floor, a rail segment rotating mechanism is provided which has a rail segment for changing the course of the wheel. A truck orientation changing turntable is provided on a floor portion where the orientation of the truck is to be changed.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus for the arrangement and preparation of cores (13) intended for use as reel cores in papermaking in a number of stations with tools for carrying out a number of working operations in and/or on each one of the ends of the cores (13), the stations being disposed in side-by-side relationship and having opening and closing grippers (16) for fixedly retaining the core (13) which is to be arranged and prepared, in each respective station during the execution of one or more working operations therein, the opening and closing grippers (16) being disposed on the one, free end of an arm (17) which is located at each end of the core (13) and which, at the opposite end in relation to the opening and closing grippers (16), is pivotal about a shaft (18) located beside the station.

Abstract: A workpiece positioning fixture for use in a multiple axis machining center having a pallet and a tool holder, and being capable of changing the relative positions of the pallet and tool holder along X, Y and Z linear axes and along a B rotational axes, includes a base, a workpiece holder, and a structure for rotating the workpiece holder in response to circular interpretation of the tool holder with respect to the base. When the workpiece holder reaches its desired angular orientation, a locking pin is used to prevent rotation of the workpiece during the machining operation.

Abstract: A cover unit for covering an external face of a machine tool. The cover unit is formed with small opening for allowing a workpiece to pass therethrough. The cover unit is also formed with a large opening for facilitating maintenance to the machine tool. The small opening is selectively closed by a first closure means to avoid scattering of the cutting chips and machining liquid toward outside during machining to the workpiece. The large opening is selectively closed by a second closure means during machining to the workpiece.

Abstract: This invention relates to a pallet changer suitable for use with a machine tool. When exchanging pallets, the pallet changer employs a drive means 3 for driving a table 2, and a transfer means 12 comprising a chain 66 and sprockets 64, 65. The transfer means 12 is driven by the drive means 3, and the pallet 4 is moved in the same direction as the table 2.

Abstract: A machine tool has a machine tool body, a spindle attached to the machine tool body for holding a tool, a bed provided on the machine tool body, and a table located on the bed for supporting a workpiece at a desired position and orientation so that the workpiece can be machined by the tool. The machine tool further includes a workpiece station for storing workpieces and a workpiece changer for moving the workpieces between the workpiece station and the table. The workpiece station is an endless conveyor having a series of setting openings located at regular intervals. Each workpiece is supported by a workpiece holder, and each of the workpiece holders are detachably set in one of the setting openings. A spring within each setting opening holds the workpiece holders.

Abstract: A pallet changer for a machine tool comprising:(a) a work station comprising a plurality of members which form holes for a plurality of pallets each having a workpiece, the members being arranged at predetermined intervals in an endless chain manner such that one of the members can be positioned at a predetermined position;(b) a table for the machine tool for mounting one of the pallets; and(c) a pallet transferor positioned between the workstation and the machine tool to exchange one of the pallets positioned at the predetermined position for the pallet mounted in the table, the pallet transferor comprising,(1) a first mover arranged to be movable in a first direction parallel to the arrangement direction of the pallets positioned in the predetermined position,(2) a swinger mounted with respect to the first mover, the swinger being rotatable at a predetermined angle,(3) a second mover for moving the swinger along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction,(4) a rotator operably arranged with the

Abstract: A machine tool includes two movable tables on which workpiece is mounted. A base mount has an upper surface provided with at least two machinable regions and workpiece handling regions. A column is supported above the base mount and movable in a first direction, and a spindle head is supported on the column and movable in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The spindle head is movable over the machinable regions. The tables are arranged in parallelism and movable in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions. Each of the tables is movable between each of the machinable regions and the workpiece handling regions. First, second and third drive means are connected to the column, the spindle head and the tables, respectively. The drive means are also connected to a numerical control unit for numerically controlling the movements of the column, the spindle head and the tables in the first, the second and the third directions respectively.

Abstract: The conventional multiple-spindle automatic lathes are expensive on account of their complicated construction, and the production output and production possibilities are limited on account of the restricted number of work spindles utilized. The novel automatic lathe is to offer higher production outputs and more universal manufacturing possibilities with a simpler construction.The basic structure of an automatic lathe with eight tool spindles (10) for the manufacture of workpieces in eight successive machining stations resides in that, additionally to the number of basic tool stations (1 through 8), each basic tool station, except for the first, is once more included as an additional tool station (2 through 8) arranged in the same sequence of machining upstream of the basic tool stations (1 through 8) so that the total number of machining stations amounts to N=2n-1, a loading and unloading station being provided at the tool station (1).

Abstract: A machine tool has an array work stations which includes a plurality of machining stations. A plurality of hydraulic pallet assemblies are provided to hold workpieces to be machined. The hydraulic pallet assemblies are movable along a main track which extends through the work stations. Each of the hydraulic pallet assemblies includes hydraulic actuators which operate clamps to grip a workpiece. A test station is disposed to one side of a path of movement of the hydraulic pallet assemblies between the various work stations. A motor at the test station is operable to move a pallet assembly from the main track to a secondary track located at the test station. A connector assembly at the test station connects hydraulic fluid pressure with the hydraulic pallet assembly to operate the clamp assemblies under the same hydraulic pressure that they are actuated at a work station.

Abstract: These as well as other objects are accomplished by an improvement to a computer numerically controlled apparatus wherein there is provided a vertically oriented workholder including means for guiding the workholder into and out of the enclosure of a computer numerically controlled apparatus. The workholder includes means for holding a plurality of shafts in a vertical orientation to permit the plurality of shafts to be machined within the computer numerically controlled apparatus with only one loading and unloading of the apparatus.

Abstract: A modular assembly line apparatus for automatically assembling multiple component devices, such as sprinkler units and the like, includes a central support table including upper and lower reference rails for mounting assembly fixtures and mechanisms, high and low pressure air manifolds built into the table, a conveyor for continuously moving support pallets along the table, and multiple independent work stations with pallet stop and support fixtures responsive to indicators on the pallets for selectively stopping and supporting work pieces for programmed work or assembly functions.

Abstract: A machine tool having pallets each being movable between machining region and non-machining region. At the machining region, there are provided a movable column which supports a spindle head, and a stationary table confronting the column. In front of the stationary table, a workpiece handling station is provided which defines the non-machining region. When one of the pallets is positioned at the machining region for machining to the one of the workpieces, another pallet is brought to the non-machining region, where already machined workpiece is replaced by a new workpiece, and the another pallet is again introduced into the machining region while the first workpiece is still subjected to machining. Machining to the new workpiece is achievable by simply moving the column within the machining region.

Abstract: A work supplying system for conveying work attached to a pallet to a plurality of machine stations disposed around an imaginary center line iin a circumferential direction, and a work conveying and delivering unit for conveying the work to the work conveyor and delivering the work from the work conveyor, wherein a conveying and delivering station is disposed for conveying and delivering the work attached to the pallet, and a plurality of releasable stations are disposed corresponding to respective machine stations for machining the work, and are located on linear lines connecting the imaginary center line to the respective machining stations, and the conveying and delivering station and the releasable stations are installed around the imaginary center line at circumferentially equal intervals along an imaginary circle which has a center on the imaginary center line, the work conveyor comprising a post stand with an axis thereof aligned with the imaginary center line, slide units each reciprocatively movable b

Abstract: An assembly line has an assembly station including tools installed in a work zone of the assembly station and a transporting device having a generally horizontal travel path passing through the assembly station. The transporting device carries a workpiece into and out of the assembly station along the travel path. The work zone and the tools are situated at a level above that of the travel path. A hoist is situated in the assembly station laterally of the travel path for lifting the workpiece into the work zone from the travel path and for lowering the workpiece from the work zone into the travel path.

Abstract: A device is provided for conveying a workpiece along a conveyor path having spaced therealong at least two workstations to present the workpiece in seriatim to the workstations in at least two positional orientations as required for each particular workstation. The device comprises a base for being transported along said path from a first workstation to a next successive workstation along the path, a member mounted on the base for nesting the workpiece in a positional orientation with respect to the base to present the workpiece to each of the workstations, and at least one device for repositioning the nesting member from one position to at least a second position.

Abstract: Described is a procedure for machining wooden articles in which a plurality of machining operations is carried out on a wooden article in a series of machining operation stations.The wooden articles are transported along the series of machining operation stations whereby each article remains fixed on one and the same clamping bench during all operations; following each operation the bench is moved to the next station while the wooden article remains clamped thereon.During moving the clamping is carried out with clamping devices which can move synchronously with the clamping benches; in a station a clamping bench is fixed and the clamping action may be achieved either by stationary clamping devices connected to a station or the clamping devices which can move with a bench.Also is described an installation for carrying out the procedure.

Abstract: An automatic pallet changer includes a pallet supporter for receiving a first pallet, a table for receiving a second pallet on the machine, a pallet exchanger arm carried on a supporting shaft disposed between the pallet supporter and the table, the exchanger arm being rotative around the supporting shaft and movable up and down along it, the exchanger arm carrying the first pallet at one hand and the second pallet at the other hand.

Abstract: The present invention provides an integrated buffing and grinding system. The system includes a first conveyor for transporting an article to a grinding station. The article is grasped by a robot and brought into and out of contact with an abrasive surface of a sanding device. The article is then transferred by the robot to a second conveyor. The article travels along the second conveyor to a shuttle assembly. The article is then transferred by the shuttle assembly to a moveable table of a buffing device. The moveable table moves the article into and out of contact with a buffing wheel of the buffing device. The article is then transferred by the moveable table to the shuttle assembly. The shuttle assembly transfers the article to the second conveyor. The article travels along the second conveyor to an unloading station where it is unloaded.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mounting device for the automatic assembly of prefabricated parts or such as aggregates to a car body from below. For this purpose the aggregates 14 are arranged centeredly, but removably on installation plates 12, which are mounted liftably and in the lifted position floatingly yielding on a mounting frame 9. The aggregates 14 are penetrated by vertical centering journals of the installation plates 12. The protruding part 24 of the centering journal 17 is tapered in its face region and serves to enter an assigned centering bore of the car body 1 while the mounting frame is lifted. As the installation plate 12 is mounted floatingly on the mounting frame 9 in this phase, the aggregate arranged on it moves automatically into an assembly position in which an automatic process can take place.

Abstract: An automatic coil winding and finishing machine. First and second bobbin conveying devices of the apparatus are capable of reciprocating on linear lines while holding coil bobbins, and of stopping the coil bobbins at predetermined positions. The first conveying devices allow the coil bobbins to be fed from a feeding device to a coil winding device and then to be discharged therefrom after the completion of the coil winding process. The second conveying device receives the coil bobbins from the first conveying device, and then allows them to be subjected to coil finishing processes in cooperation with devices for the coil finishing processes, as the coil bobbins remain held by the second conveying device. The intervals at which the conveying devices hold the coil bobbins may be determined in such a manner that the intervals are reduced when the coil bobbins are transformed from the first conveying device to the second conveying device.

Abstract: A blind trimmer includes a machine frame and an immovable as well as a movable trimming mechanisms respectively mounted on two longitudinal sides of the frame. Each trimming mechanism includes a plate, a saw, a cylindrical milling blade, and a clamping device having a slide piece which is slidable on the plate and spacedly mounts thereon two jaw members clamping therebetween a respective end portion of a collapsed blind so that the respective end portion will be trimmed by the saw when the slide piece is slid on the plate to let the respective end portion pass through the saw.

Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is an apparatus for the transfer of pallets having workpieces clamped thereto between a pallet terminal and the work support of a machine tool. In order to permit positioning of the pallet terminal close to the machine tool with small dimensions, the apparatus is provided, according to the invention, with a pallet carrier (10) with longitudinal guides (11) arranged between the pallet terminal (6) and the work support (2). The apparatus is rotatable about its vertical axis (20) between an inoperative position and a transfer position and has motor-actuated pushers (18) for transporting the pallets (12).

Abstract: An automated machine tool assembly has a plurality of work stations between which pallets with workpieces mounted on them can be moved for the performing of various machine tool operations on the workpieces. The pallets slide on slide rails, and during their movement an upward force is exerted on the pallets which is sufficient to reduce the frictional drag between the pallets and the slide rails, but is insufficient to lift the pallets off the slide rails.

Abstract: A transfer machine has at least one station at which a stationary clamping device is provided to which workpieces can be transported on pallets by a feed device, wherein the pallets are constructed as clamping shoes, and the clamping device includes a lifting arrangement and a clamping holder against which the workpieces can be clamped via the pallets through the lifting arrangement.

Abstract: Precision centering device useful for positioning items in a predetermined position has first and second halves which are held within a frame. The first and second halves are maintained against retaining walls within the frame by resilient material. The bottom portion of the halves extends from the bottom of the frame and each has a tapered edge which face each other in order to hold the item to be positioned. The top of the halves are maintained within the frame by a resilient structure which allows the halves to move in a vertical position. The halves which accomplish the positioning do not have to be made from precision parts. As the parts wear the centering precision is maintained since the parts are mirror images of each other made from a common piece of stock material.

Abstract: A machine tool has a machine tool body, a spindle attached to the machine tool body for holding a tool, a bed provided on the machine tool body, and a table located on the bed for supporting a workpiece at a desired position and orientation so that the workpiece can be machined by the tool. The machine tool further includes a workpiece station for storing workpieces and a workpiece changer for moving the workpieces between the workpiece station and the table. The workpiece station is an endless conveyor having a series of setting openings located at regular intervals. Each workpiece is supported by a workpiece holder, and each of the workpiece holders are detachably set in one of the setting openings. A spring within each setting opening holds the workpiece holders.

Abstract: A pallet changer device is associated with a milling or machining device and has a table that indexes 180.degree.. A pallet is held in an upright position for loading of fresh workpieces, while machining is carried out automatically on workpieces on a similar pallet. When the machining is complete, the table indexes 180.degree. exposing an available station, and an arm retrieves the pallet of machined parts and moves it onto the table. Then the table is indexed again, and the pallet of fresh workpieces is moved to a work station at the machining device. A wash cycle is carried out on the pallet of workpieces, now suspended beneath the inverted table. After the cycle, the table is inverted placing the cleaned finished workpieces upright. These are removed from the pallet and replaced with fresh workpieces.

Abstract: A woodworking machine has a series of stations spaced along a conveyor having a clamp support for holding flat wood parts and passing the edges through the stations which include cope stations as well as others. The coping stations have a tool unit with a stack of tools mounted on a common spindle. The tools in each stack at the several stations are interrelated such that the cuts of the individual tools can be combined to form different final profiles in a wood part moving through the several stations. The particular cuts in the profile line are analyzed and interrelated to define basic cuts which can be combined to form the final profiles. One tool of each tool stack provides a particular cut, and by precise positioning of the individual tools, the combination of sequential cuts provide the final profile. Each tool may form a complete cut, may overlap a previous cut to form a continuation of such previous cut or may form a cut which includes only a portion of its cutting face.