The invention relates to a clamping chuck for holding clamped a brush body, in particular a toothbrush body in its head region, comprising at least two clamping jaws spaced apart from one another in the longitudinal direction of the brush body to be held.
Brushes, in particular toothbrushes, are fed successively during production to a plurality of processing stations, for example a tufting device, a shearing device and a grinding device. Here, the brush bodies can be transported on a conveyor belt or a transport chain, with the individual brush bodies each being held in a clamping chuck.
It is desirable here for as many clamping chucks as possible to be arranged next to one another in the narrowest possible space so that the cycle width can be reduced and the switching times can be reduced and the processing of more brush bodies per unit time is possible. In addition, the wear must be reduced and it is possible for more brushes to be processed simultaneously on a grinding disk with a certain diameter if the clamping chucks in which the brush bodies are held are arranged closer to one another.
A problem, however, is that, in order to open the clamping chucks for inserting and removing a brush body, mechanical devices are required which require a certain minimum spacing between adjacent clamping chucks.