Automatic lathe

Claim 1

IN A FEEDING DEVICE FOR AN AUTOMATIC LATHE, IN COMBINATION, PUSHING MEANS AXIALLY MOVABLE BETWEEN A REARMOST POSITION AND A FOREMOST POSITION AND HAVING A FRONT END PORTION FORMED WITH AN AXIAL CONICAL CAVITY ARRANGED FOR BEARING AGAINST A CONICAL REAR END OF A STOCK BAR TO PREVENT SAID STOCK BAR FROM ANY BACKWARD MOTION AND TO CENTER THE REAR END OF THE STOCK BAR WITH RESPECT TO SAID PUSHING MEANS WHILE PERMITTING FREE ROTATION OF THE STOCK BAR RELATIVE TO THE PUSHING MEANS; DRIVING MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID PUSHING MEANS FOR MOVING THE LATTER FROM THEIR FOREMOST POSITION TOWARD SAID REARMOST POSITION; GRIPPING MEANS ON SAID PUSHING MEANS FOR CATCHING THE STOCK BAR PUSHED BY SAID PUSHING MEANS AND FOR DRIVING IT BACKWARD TOGETHER WITH SAID PUSHING MEANS WHEN SAID DRIVING MEANS DRIVE SAID PUSHING MEANS TOWARDS THEIR REARMOST POSITION AND FOR RELEASING SAID STOCK BAR WHEN SAID PUSHING MEANS COME NEAR THEIR REARMOST POSITION UNDER THE ACTION OF SAID DRIVING MEANS, SAID GRIPPING MEANS HAVING A PLURALITY OF ARMS ENGAGING THE STOCK BAR DURING MOVEMENT OF SAID PUSHING MEANS FROM SAID FOREMOST TO SAID REARMOST POSITION THEREOF FOR PULLING THE STOCK BAR REARWARDLY AND SAID ARMS BEING SPACED FROM THE STOCK BAR DURING REVERSE MOVEMENT OF SAID PUSHING MEANS SO AS NOT TO IMPEDE FREE ROTATION OF THE STOCK BAR RELATIVE TO THE PUSHING MEANS DURING MOVEMENT OF THE LATTER FROM THE REARMOST TO THE FOREMOST POSITION THEREOF; AND A GUIDING DEVICE PROVIDED IN THE REAR PORTION THEREOF WITH A LONGITUDINAL SLOT TO FORM A PASSAGE FOR ELIMINATING FROM SAID GUIDING DEVICE THE STOCK BAR PORTIONS DRIVEN BACKWARD BY THE GRIPPING MEANS OF SAID PUSHING MEANS UNDER THE ACTION OF SAID DRIVING MEANS.