Abstract: A tool holder comprises a receptacle having one end connectable with a machine spindle, to a receptacle and the like and an opposite end, a head provided on the opposite end and having a coaxial cylindrical head opening, a housing received non-rotatably and axially longitudinally displaceable in the head opening and having a coaxial cylindrical housing opening, a quick exchange insert for a tool insertable in the housing opening and coupleable with the housing, and an inner signal device reacting to a relative movement between the head and the inserted quick exchange insert to produce a disturbance signal which identifies a damaged or a destroyed tool.

Abstract: A tool holder, particularly a fast exchange chuck preferably for thread cutting, thread shaping and the like has a receptacle having one end receivable in a machine spindle, a machine tool receptacle and the like, and another opposite end provided with a head having a coaxial cylindrical head opening, a housing received and guided in the cylindrical head opening non-rotatably but displaceably in a longitudinal direction and provided with a coaxial cylindrical housing opening, a fast exchange insert insertable in the housing opening a torque-transmitting unit for transmitting torque between the head and the housing and including a head longitudinal groove provided in the head, a housing longitudinal groove provided in the housing, and at least one drive body partially received in each of the longitudinal grooves so as to transmit torque between the head and the housing and to roll during a relative displacement between said head and said housing.