The wasting of cutting fluid mists and contamination of a machining environment
with cutting fluid mists are prevented by feeding optimum amounts of cutting fluid
mists in a variety of machining operations. A main shaft device for machine tools,
comprising a tool holder (8) fixed to a main shaft (2), the tool
holder (8) being provided with a holder main body (8a), a
chuck (18) and a cutting tool stopper member (20), it being arranged
that cutting fluid mists inwardly fed into the main shaft (2) pass through
a mist passageway formed in the cutting tool stopper member (20) and in
a cutting tool (17), whereby they are spouted from the front end surface
of the cutting tool (17), wherein the cutting tool stopper member (20)
is composed of a main body member (22), and a front member (23) exchangeably
fixed to the main body member (22) through a mounting/dismounting structure,
and, in this case, the front member (23) serves as an adjusting nozzle member
for controlling the flow rate of cutting fluid mists flowing out of the main body
member (22) into the cutting tool (17).
