US PATENT SUBCLASS 29 / 563
.~ With means to feed work intermittently from one tool station to another

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33 R  DF  PLURAL DIVERSE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS INCLUDING MEANS FOR METAL SHAPING OR ASSEMBLING {32}
563.~ With means to feed work intermittently from one tool station to another {3}
37 R  DF  .~.~> Stock turret {1}
38 R  DF  .~.~> Blank turret {6}
38.9  DF  .~.~> Endless belt

DEFINITION

Classification: 29/563

With means to feed work intermittently from one tool station to another:

(under subclass 33) Apparatus including means to convey material successively from one material modifying means to another, the material movement being intermittent.

(1) Note. A plurality of tools mounted on a common support

or driver, which support moves relative to work to effect treatment of said work by each tool in a single work contacting cycle--between successive feed movement of the work --is not considered to constitute "separate tool stations". Even if the work feed is such that some portions of work are acted on more than once by some of the tools (as in progressive shaping operations) the congregation of tools so arranged is considered a tool complex for subclasses 565 or 566, below.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

566, for apparatus including composite tools and see (1) Note, above.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

407, Cutters, for Shaping,

1, for a composite tool, per se. 483, Tool Changing,

15, for apparatus including a tool transfer means combined with either a tool support or storage means, and further including plural machine tools.

901, Robots, subcollections 6+ for a robot which conveys work and cooperates with another machine.