Trumpf Sachsen Gmbh

Trumpf Werkzeugmaschinen Gmbh + Co. Kg

Klaus Vogel

Eberhard Wahl

Harry Thonig

Martin Petera

Karel Vincke

Utz Schorn

Norbert Gruhl

Wolf Klaiber

Michael Haecker

A mechanical arrangement for processing sheet metal includes a sheet metal processing device, a transport device configured to position a sheet metal workpiece relative to the sheet metal processing device, the transport device including at least one workpiece carrier that is movable along a transport path that extends along a first transport line and a second transport line, and at least two X-guides and at least two Y-guides, the X-guides arranged parallel with the first transport line and the Y-guides arranged parallel with the second transport line. The at least two X-guides and the at least two Y-guides are configured to be coupled to each other by a transfer device to form a transport course, the workpiece carrier circulates along the X-guides and the Y-guides, and the transfer device is configured to move the workpiece carrier from one of the X-guides to one of the Y-guides.

Arrangement for processing sheet metal

A mechanical apparatus maintains and/or cleans support strips of a workpiece support that forms a support plane for supporting workpieces. The mechanical apparatus includes a transport device for moving the workpiece support along a transport axis X and a service device that has a tool for processing the support strips. The service device is movable by means of a mechanical movement unit along a movement axis Y that is arranged at an angle relative to the transport axis X and/or along a movement axis Z that is arranged at an angle relative to the transport axis X and that is different from the movement axis Y, with the movement of the workpiece support along the transport axis X and the movement of the service device along the movement axis Y and/or along the movement axis Z being controllable in a coordinated manner by means of a control unit.

Workpiece support cleaning

A workpiece loading apparatus has a large number of selectively targetable suction grips () provided in a divided suction grip array () which suction is subdivided into individually addressable, mutually intersecting columns () and rows (). All suction grips () are associated with dedicated control pistons () all of which can be moved into an idle position or an operating position upon the release of a lock latch (). Each control piston () is assigned to the point of intersection () of a particular column () and row () and is selectably held in its idle position or locked in an operating position. The idle positions can be sequentially unlocked row by row () and the operating positions of the control pistons () can be addressed by columns () and then locked by rows (). Once all rows () have been set, the suction grips () can be activated into the pick-up mode or deactivated by the control pistons ().

Loader/unloader with selectively actuatable suction elements

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Kirschau, Germany

Klaus Vogel