Cam driven tool changer Colombo Filippetti Torino CTM
CTM ROTARY TOOL MAGAZINE
This kind of tool changer is suitable for installations on NC milling machines, vertical and horizontal work centers and it is manufactured in different sizes according to the type of tool holder. For each size there is a corresponding magazine having a capacity of 12, 20 or 30 tools in standard version and 24, 40, 48 or 60 tools in the special version.
The CTM tool changer is composed of:
a CUT cam changer that after being activated by a single self-braking gear motor, executes a mechanically synchronized movement : it couples, pulls out, changes and simultaneously introduces tools in the spindle and in the magazine.
A completely mechanical activate BP rapid gripper arm.
A wheel type magazine composed of a cam indexing table RIG activated by a self braking asynchronous three-phase motor with a disk plate completed with tool pockets.
CTM is almost entirely built using light alloy and plastic materials so it could be directly fixed on the machine support.
Its main characteristics are silence and fast movement: the changing time varies from 0.8 to 3 seconds, in accordance to the tool weight and the exchange distance.
