| Gantry loading systems (horizontal machines) |
| Gantry loading systems come in a verity of designs with loading arms to accomplish the placing of a bore-type workpiece over the en of a spindle or position a shaft workpiece between chuck and tailstock center. The buffer storage systems used with gantry loading designs are typically palletized conveyor type or tray type, depending upon the amount of unattended operation desired. Workholding fixturing, tools and gantry gripper jaws can be of quick change design. |
| Continuous chain palletized buffer storage arrangement for a horizontal hobbing machine, showing shaft parts pallets. |
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| Gleason-Pfauter P100L hobber with gantry automation for loading/unloading shaft parts. |
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| 90 degree gantry load/unload arm. |
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| Extended gantry, interfacing with a Felsomat stacker with buffer storage trays. |
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