Abstract: A multi-cyclone collector includes a suction port for sucking an air flow including contaminating particles, a cyclone accommodation chamber allowing the air flow sucked through the suction port to be guided thereinto, a plurality of cyclones each accommodated in the cyclone accommodation chamber, for transforming the air flow taken in to a downward swirl flow, separating the contaminating particles, then reversing the swirl flow to the upward swirl flow and releasing the upward swirl flow as a purified air flow, a cyclone exit chamber provided above the cyclone accommodation chamber, that allows the purified air flow from the cyclones to be guided thereinto, and a drain discharge chamber provided below the cyclone accommodation chamber, for collecting the contaminating particles separated by the cyclones.

Abstract: A cutting liquid supply device in a machine tool is configured to remove gas mixed in a cutting liquid supply line to improve the response of discharging a mist of cutting liquid. Cutting liquid is supplied from a pump (42) through a rotary joint (28) to a mist generation device (24) within a rotating spindle (29). The pressure of the cutting liquid is measured by a pressure sensor (47). An air vent device (30) for opening and closing, with respect to atmospheric pressure, piping (3) that supplies the cutting liquid is provided above the rotary joint (28). A detection signal is inputted in the control board (70) from the pressure sensor (47), and when the control board (70) detects, after the pump (42) stops the supply of the cutting liquid to the piping (3), that the pressure of the cutting liquid does not decrease to a level lower than a predetermined threshold value, the control board (70) instructs the air vent device (30) to open the piping (4) to the atmosphere.

Abstract: A machine tool, wherein the front face of a base of the machine tool is formed in a single plane and a jig for fixing a workpiece to be machined with a tool is installed extending forwardly from a vertical intermediate front part of the base that defines an area between right and left lateral end front parts of the base having the vertical overall length portions or the vertical roughly overall length portions at right and left end parts of the front face formed in the single plane is formed detachably from the other portions of the base. The jig for fixing the work machined with the tool may be installed in the state of being extended from the vertical intermediate position of the front face in a forward direction.

Abstract: A machine tool, wherein the front face of a base of the machine tool is formed in a single plane and a jig for fixing a workpiece to be machined with a tool is installed extending forwardly from a vertical intermediate front part of the base that defines an area between right and left lateral end front parts of the base having the vertical overall length portions or the vertical roughly overall length portions at right and left end parts of the front face formed in the single plane is formed detachably from the other portions of the base. The jig for fixing the work machined with the tool may be installed in the state of being extended from the vertical intermediate position of the front face in a forward direction.

Abstract: In adjusting phase for work (W), the operation of mounting/dismounting a reference tool on a spindle (6) is dispensed with and so is a storage space for the reference tool, and besides, it is arranged that the thrust on the work (W) does not directly act on the spindle (6) at the time of this phase adjustment. In a machine tool in which a spindle housing (7) supporting the specifically directed spindle (6) for rotation alone is supported for parallel motion in orthogonal three-axis directions (XYZ) by a numerical control mechanism (4), in determining the phase for the work (W) is feed-rotated around a specific axis (S), it is arranged that with a reference block (9) fixed to the spindle housing (7), the work (W) is feed-rotated around the specific axis (S) to abut the phase reference section (W1) of the work against the reference block (9), so as to find the amount of feed-rotation of the work at the time of this abutment.

Abstract: A machine tool capable of reducing the lateral width of the upper part thereof by reducing the lateral width of a bed (1) while machining through the same lateral moving distance of a spindle (10) as before, comprising longitudinal guide rails (2) installed on the bed (1), a slide (3) installed through the guide rails (2) movably in a longitudinal direction, a column (6) movable in vertical direction, wherein first cover plates (25) are fixed at the right and left sides of a vertical moving route for the spindle (10), side cover plates (26) are installed continuously with the outer end edges of the first cover plates (25) so as to be turnable rearward, a second cover plate (32) is installed at the front sides of the first cover plates (25) and the side cover plates (26) integrally with the slide (3) so as to cover the front side of the moving range of the column (6), and a shielded machining space (SK) is formed at the front of the second cover plate (32).

Abstract: A main shaft (6) movable in a direction of X-axis is provided at a position on one side of a foundation (1), and a lateral stand (12) is fixed on the top portion of the rotation support shaft (10). On the upper surface of the lateral stand (12), there is provided a work grip rotation feed mechanism portion (13) for rotating bar-like work (w) about a specific lateral axis (S) on the upper surface. The rotation support shaft (10) and the specific lateral axis (S) are horizontally separated by a required distance (L0). The rotational position of the rotation support shaft (10) is varied between the case where the bar-like work (w) is processed by the operation of the main shaft (6).

Abstract: A multi-shaft spindle head, wherein a plurality of spindles (11) having tools at the tips thereof are disposed in the same direction, the rear ends of cutting fluid feed passages (21a) formed as the inner holes of cutting fluid feed tubes (21) installed in a non-rotating state at the rotating center parts of the spindles (11) are allowed to communicate with a common closed chamber (8) formed at the rear parts of the spindles (11), and atomized cutting fluid fed into the common closed chamber (8) is jetted from the tips of the openings at the rear end of the cutting fluid feed passages (21a).

Abstract: A boring control method for a machine tool for automatically boring a deep hole using a central control means performing boring with programmed control. In the boring, the number of processing and steps of the machine tool is kept minimum, load torque of a tool is detected continuously using torque detection means, and the movement of the tip portion of the tool desired for a piece of work is confirmed from a reference point to a hole bottom using a Z-axis movement device. The boring is continued in each step until the load torque exceeds a predetermined torque limit value, performed in a condition where a main shaft rotation number, or rotation speed of the tool, and feed speed form a specific pattern, and a condition is set where a total step number (f) does not exceed a predetermined limit step number (N).

Abstract: A tool holder of a machine tool, wherein a holder rear end part is fixed to the front end part of the spindle of the machine tool, a tool receiving surface part (8d) for receiving the rear end face of a shaft-like tool (11) fixed to a holder front end part so that a closed space in contact with the rear end face can be formed and mist cutting fluid passages (8f, 9c) for leading mist cutting fluid fed from the front end part of the spindle to the closed space (12) are formed in a holder body at a center of rotation, and exhaust passages are formed for opening a part of the tool receiving surface part in contact with the closed space (12) to the atmosphere, whereby even when the shaft-like tool (11) is small in diameter and the amount of the mist cutting fluid flowing out to the atmosphere through a passage hole (11a) in the shaft-like tool is small, the liquefied cutting fluid can be prevented from being accumulated in the mist cutting fluid passages by maintaining the flow velocity of the mist cutting fluid i

Abstract: A spindle device of a machine tool, which can prevent the liquefaction of atomized cutting fluid in atomized cutting fluid passage downstream of a straightening unit 14, enhance a responsiveness to an ejecting start or stop instruction, and prevent a waste of cutting fluid. The spindle device for a machine tool has atomized cutting liquid passage (e1, e2) each having a single-shape passage section and formed inside the device ranging from the spindle 1 to the tip end of a cutting tool 13 mounted thereto in one piece, and is operated so as to eject atomized cutting tool 13 via the atomized cutting fluid passages (e1, e2), wherein a straightening unit 14 formed with a plurality of small-diameter passages h are provided in the middle of the cutting liquid passages (e1, e2).

Abstract: A machine tool capable of jetting atomized lubricant (h) forward from the tip of a cutter (17), characterized by comprising a lubricant jetting state detector for detecting the jetting state of the atomized lubricant from the tip of the cutter, the lubricant jetting state detector further comprising a guide member (21) having a straight inner hole (21a), wherein a light detection device for detecting the degree of transmission or reflection of the detection light due to injecting the direction light (c) to a specified position (b) inside the inner hole through a transparent member installed on the peripheral wall portion of the guide member or through the transparent peripheral wall portion of the guide member, and a fluid feed device (23) for feeding clean fluid of rather thin layer flowing in a specified direction along the longitudinal direction of the inner hole is installed near the inner surface of the transparent member or so as to cover the transparent peripheral wall portion, whereby a defective part

Abstract: A multispindle machine tool, characterized in that outside cylindrical members (19) having a plurality of spindles (2) and fixed to a support frame (3b) are inserted into the center holes (2c) of the spindles, a mist generator (22) for generating lubricant mist in the spindles and inside cylindrical members (20) having the mist generator fixed to the tip thereof are installed on the inside of the outside cylindrical members so as to be withdrawn the outside cylindrical members held in fixed state so that, under the installed state, the mist generator can generate the lubricant mist since compressed air and liquid lubricant are separately fed from the outsides of the spindles thereto through the outside cylindrical members and the inside cylindrical members and the inside cylindrical members and, under the withdrawn state, the lubricant mist is fed from the outsides to the insides of the spindles through the outside cylindrical members to jet out the mist from the tips of the cutters fixed to the tips of the s

Abstract: A work carrier capable of moving a work stage 45 to an arbitrary position in the left/right direction and stopping the work stage 45 thereat with an accuracy equivalent to that of a conventional carrier or above through an inexpensive structure. The work carrier comprises a fixed guide rail member 15 and movable guide rail members 17, 18, 19 mounted on a supporting table 10, a driver 16 for moving the movable guide rail members to the left and the right, rail member interlocking mechanisms 35a, 35b for interlockingly operating the movable guide rail members 17, 18, 19, and the work stage 45 mounted on the movable guide rail member 19, wherein the driver 16 is a motor having a rotational speed being varied by inverter control and employing an open loop rotation control system, and a plurality of stopper members 52a, 52b, 52c are provided in order to stop the movable guide rail member 17 at a specified position.