Automatic tool changer with high capacity magazine

Ramsey, New Jersey – Indexing Technologies Inc.’s CTA-HSL tool exchanger with a compact tool magazine are designed and manufactured to accommodate a high quantity of toolholders in a restricted area, and are particularly suited for use on smaller machine tools. Each tool changer consists of the following:

A CTA dual motion cam operated exchanger that performs the high speed and mechanically synchronized movements for grasping, extracting, exchanging, and inserting the tools simultaneously between the spindle and the magazine, plus the release of the tool grippers. This entire high-speed cycle is operated by one 3-phase, self-braking motor. A mechanical exchange arm with dual rapid-release gripper hands and built-in safety interlocks.

The compact HSL series tool storage magazine, on which all tool holder pockets are hinged to enable a 90° tilt during a tool exchange, are assembled in a moveable track within a support structure designed to gain the optimum utility from the available allotted space on smaller machine tools and is driven via a servo motor.

The toolholder tilt unit is pneumatically operated as is the tool taper cleaning head actuated as the used tool is reinserted back into the magazine. A built-in switch system guarantees precise toolholder identification and is used for management of the migrating tools. Also, a dedicated toolholder to tool pocket identification management system is available upon request.

The main characteristics of these self-contained CTA - HSL tool changers besides the simplicity, reliability and the cleanliness is the high capacity of tools that can be stored in the magazines and the ultra-high-speed tool exchange cycle itself. This exchange time varies from 0.6 seconds to 1.2 seconds, depending upon the frame size of unit, the tool weights, and the length of the exchange arm. 

Source: Indexing Technologies Inc.