PRECISE ROTARY TABLE INDEXING SYSTEM USED ON MILLING MACHINING CENTRES

MARIAN FUNARU, GHEORGHE STAN, LUCIAN MIHAILA, MARIUS PASCU, DRAGOS ANDRIOAIA

“Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacau, Calea Marasesti 156, Bacau, 600115, Romania

Abstract

Growing performance demands in the mechanical manufacturing field have lead to a great development of the machine tools domain, regarding especially the productivity and the manufacturing precision. When equipping a machine tool with an automatic tool changer and an automatic pallet mechanism, the obtained result is a machining center. For small series products, milling machining centers fulfill the precision and productivity requirements, through the advantages of a reduced auxiliary time and reduced operating errors. This paper presents a new technical solution of the rotary table indexing mechanism used on milling machining centers, which offers a very high positioning precision, by using a curvic coupling and a hydraulically driven table clamp/unclamp mechanism.

Keywords

machining center rotary table indexing system clamp/unclamp mechanism