Patent · US Expired

Apparatus for processing flat, card-like workpieces

US6147320A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

GIESECKE & DEVRIENT GMBH · DE

Inventors

Otto Bernecker · Neufahrn, DE
Joseph Lass · Munich, DE
Friedrich Winner · Munich, DE
Armin Pollak · Starnberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 24, 1997
Grant date	Nov 14, 2000
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 24, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB23K26/127
WIPO fieldMachine tools
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The apparatus has a processing chamber in which a workpiece is processed with a processing tool. Additionally an introducing device is provided as part of the processing chamber wall, being disposed such that a closed space is formed at least during processing of the workpiece in the processing chamber. Additionally one disposes on the introducing device at least one workpiece holder that is rotatable by a drive about a rotation axis in the workpiece plane and is moved in or out of the processing chamber by the introducing device.

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