Assembly for housing, conveying and bringing-forth tools during the operation of numerically controlled machines

Claim 1

An assembly for use in supporting and conveying a plurality of tools, said assembly comprising: a conveyable dolly including a base and a pair of parallel spaced walls extending substantially vertically upwardly from said base, said walls extending vertically to define the height of said dolly and horizontally to define the depth of said dolly; a plurality of tool supports dimensioned to extend between said pair of walls, each said support having fixed thereto a plurality of downwardly-tapered conically-shaped bushing means for supporting therein tools; a plurality of pairs of brackets, one said pair of brackets being associated with a respective one of said supports and including a first bracket to be mounted on a first of said walls and a second bracket to be mounted on a second of said walls; each said bracket including means for supporting an end of a respective said support such that each support is supported at opposite ends thereof by the respective pair of brackets at a fixed orientation to said respective pair of brackets; and means for attaching each said pair of brackets to said walls at a selected fixed position of a plurality of positions varying horizontally and vertically with respect to said walls and rotatively with respect to the orientation of said brackets and said supports, and for thereby mounting said respective supports to said dolly at a selected position with respect to the height and depth of said dolly and at a selected orientation such that said bushing means extend vertically or at a selected inclination to the vertical, said attaching and mounting means comprising: a plurality of openings in each said wall, said openings in each said wall being spaced from each other both horizontally and vertically of said wall, the openings in said pair of walls being aligned; a first hole in each said bracket, and a plurality of second holes in each said bracket, each of said second holes being spaced an equal distance from said first hole; and first and second bolt means associated with each said bracket, said first bolt means extending through said first hole of said bracket and a first selected said opening of the respective wall, and said second bolt means extending through a selected of said second holes of said bracket and a second selected opening of said respective wall.