Maschinenfabrik Muller-weingarten Ag

Schuler Pressen Gmbh

Ulrich Amann

Thomas Spiesshofer

Gunter Kuppinger

Karl Geisinger

Ralf Heudorfer

Egon Feirer

Hans Engelhardt

Harald Hacker

A transport device for transporting a work piece along consecutively arranged processing stations of a production installation or a forming press. The transport device includes a first handling installation which transports the work piece which is assigned to the transport device and/or to a transport device which comprises a first transport rail which is longitudinally vertically and/or transversely displaceable. The first handling installation is arranged at the first transport rail or at one of the processing stations and/or at the production installation or at the forming press. A drive is assigned to the transport device. The drive drives the first transport rail and/or the at least one handling installation. The first handling installation is one-dimensionally or multi-dimensionally displaceable so that a multi-axis transport of the work piece is flexibly realized by the first handling installation alone or through an interaction of the first handling installation with the transport rail.

Transport device for transporting a work piece along consecutive processing stations of a production installation, a production installation, a multistage forming press, and a method for manufacturing products from work pieces by means of a production installation

For the exchange of tools in a press, the tools, including their associated gripper rail sections, are moved out of the press on a sliding table having a gripper rail support. To ensure that the gripper rails do not block access to the tool, the gripper rail support is adjustable in height. This permits lowering of the gripper rails sections to the extent that access to the tool is unimpeded.

Sliding tool table intended for the exchange of tools in presses

The present invention relates to a parts depository particularly for large-area workpieces processed in a transfer press handling large workpieces, with the tool free stage disposed between the machine columns being designed as a so-called empty stage for the deposit of the workpiece parts. To avoid the manual work previously required to adapt the parts depository to the new workpiece when changing from one workpiece type to another and to make the change as fast and automatic as possible, the present invention proposes to arrange a plurality of supporting elements in the empty stage so as to serve as support for the workpiece part, with the supporting elements being adjustable and settable in height.

Parts depository, particularly for large-area workpieces in a transfer

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Baindt, Germany

Ulrich Amann