US Patent 7214012 Multi-shaft spindle head of machine tool

A multi-shaft spindle head, wherein a plurality of spindles (11) having tools at the tips thereof are disposed in the same direction, the rear ends of cutting fluid feed passages (21a) formed as the inner holes of cutting fluid feed tubes (21) installed in a non-rotating state at the rotating center parts of the spindles (11) are allowed to communicate with a common closed chamber (8) formed at the rear parts of the spindles (11), and atomized cutting fluid fed into the common closed chamber (8) is jetted from the tips of the openings at the rear end of the cutting fluid feed passages (21a).