Press line with workpiece feeding device

US4037730A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• L. Schuler GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Helmut Fetzer
• Franz Schneider · Göppingen, DE
• Helmut Braitinger · Göppingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 9, 1975
• Grant date: Jul 26, 1977
• Expiry date: Apr 9, 1995

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B21D43/105
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A press line having a transfer system for transferring workpieces from a processing station of one press to a processing station of a subsequent press. The transfer system includes a track extending over the entire interspace between the two successive presses and a single transfer slide mounted for horizontal movement along the track. At least one pair of grippers pointing in opposite directions is mounted on the slide and a single storage station is provided between the two successive presses with a drive being provided which controls the movement of the slide in accordance with the travel path thereof.