GB1312917A - Setting fixture for machine tools - Google Patents

Abstract

1312917 Setting devices WICKMAN MACHINE TOOL SALES Ltd 30 June 1970 [7 July 1969] 34135/69 Headings B3B and B3T A setting fixture for machine tools, e.g. a turret lathe having multiple slides, comprises a support 10, a bracket 15 for carrying a workpiece or replica or part thereof, at least two parts, e.g. 11, 12 and 13, mounted on the support 10 and representing, e.g. a pair of cross-slides and a turret slide, the said bracket and parts being disposed in similar relationship on the support to the equivalent parts on the machine tool for which the setting fixture is used, the slide representing parts 11, 12, 13 each have a plurality of spaced mounting means 23, 24 corresponding in position to similar means on the machine tool, and there are provided gauging units 25 detachably securable to any one of said mounting means and including adjustable stop means 26 detachably securable to the units 25. In operation a workpiece on the form of a tool and tool holder are aligned on the relevant part 11, 12, 13 in a required position relative to the workpiece or replica held in the bracket 15 and clamped thereat by means of the T-slots 22; a gauging unit and adjustable stop 25, 26 are mounted on an appropriate mounting means 23 and the stop adjusted to engage the tool holder; the tool holder, and adjusted stop are then transferred to the machine tool to set up the tool holder in the equivalent position using the pre-set stop 26 on an equivalent gauging unit 25 and mounting means 23 on the machine tool. Further stops 40, 41 (43) (Fig. 2, not shown) may be provided on the support 10. For large workpieces the bracket 15 may be replaced by a mounting (48) (Fig. 7, not shown) on superposed slides for movably positioning a part only of a workpiece or replica thereof.