David W Lauzon

US Patent:

7949422, May 24, 2011

Filed:

Jun 22, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/767184

Inventors:

Robby J. Little - South Londonderry VT, US
Jeffrey P. Ramen - Brattleboro VT, US
David W. Lauzon - Springfield VT, US
Philip H. Caron - Springfield VT, US
Richard L. Desbiens - Newport NH, US

Assignee:

Vermont Machine Tool Corporation - Springfield VT

International Classification:

G06F 19/00
G06F 9/44

US Classification:

700180, 700 17, 700 83, 700181, 700182, 715764, 717113

Abstract:

A machine tool control system. A machine tool controller is provided to receive commands from an input source and provide control instructions to a machine tool based at least in part on the commands. An operator interface is provided for inputting commands to the controller. The interface includes a display screen having images of individual command functions, the images being selectable on the screen to place into a sequence of command functions selected by an operator. A sequence generator indicates sequential ordering of the command functions represented by the sequence of images on the screen, such that a sequence of images on the screen selected by the operator is translated by the operator controller sequence generator into a sequence of commands to be inputted into the controller. The operator interface may include one or more images each representing a plurality of individual command functions in a defined sequence.