L. Schuler Gmbh

Schuler Pressen Gmbh

Wolfgang Michael

Hans Hofele

Karl Thudium

Franz Schneider

Kurt Strommer

Peter Klemm

Walter Rieger

Burkhardt Schumann

Rudi Brandstetter

Hermann Braun

Gerhard Roos

Peter Pfeifle

Hartmut Dexling

Martin Kaletka

A transfer press or similar press installation is provided with a press frame including press supports, a press bed, and headpieces, these press parts being rigidly connected with one another by turnbuckles. The press installation includes slides and a transfer device, which are movable by driving devices. Longitudinal traverses are provided which extend along the length of at least the working stages. The press supports are arranged in front of and behind the working stages, and the longitudinal traverses are placed on these press supports. The longitudinal traverses are provided with guides which interact with guides mounted on the slides for the bearing of the slides which move up and down. As a result, a stable and cost-effective construction of the press installation is achieved while supports in the central working areas are omitted.

Press installation comprising longitudinal traverses

A multistand press or similar press facility for the forming of sheet metal parts, is provided with bedplate, press stand and several press slides driven by the press drive for tool top parts interacting with tool bottom parts. Gearings for deflecting the rotating movement of the motor drive into the upward and downward movement of the press slides are arranged between press stands which each form a pair of stands, and are disposed opposite one another, and above the introduction of force into the press slides. Two gearings are provided for the respective pair of stands of two press slides. This make it possible to drive the press slides assigned to a pair of press stands from one press stand area.

Multistand press or similar press facility for forming sheet metal parts

A multiple stand press or similar press facility for the forming of sheet metal parts has a bedplate, several press stands, and a press slide 7 which can be moved up and down by the press drive via drive gear boxes and connection rods. Tools in progressive stations follow a drawing station. In order to be able to reduce the size of the press facility, the press slide extends along at least two stand areas, and the introduction of force takes place via the connecting rods into the press slide in the stand areas.

Multiple stand press

A transfer device in a press line has traverses which are situated transversely with respect to the workpiece passage and can be adjusted in the horizontal and vertical direction, and which support sheet metal parts placed on them. The traverses are fastened on toothed belts are movable in guide strips on deflecting rollers by servomotors.

Press comprising a transfer device for sheet metal parts

In a press, an individual press, a multistage press, a multistand press and similar forming facilities, transfer devices are provided for the transport of sheet metal parts in the machining stages. These transfer devices have guide strips which can be lifted and lowered in vertical guides on the press stands via adjusting devices. In each guide strip, toothed belts are arranged which are guided on deflecting rollers. The moving drive in the horizontal direction takes place from a motor-transmission device. As a result, a reduction of the mass of the movable structural members of the transfer device is achieved while the construction of the transfer device is modular.

A press installation that has working stages with a press frame having press supports, a press bed, a headpiece, and turnbuckles which rigidly connect the press supports, the press bed, and the headpiece with one another. The press installation has a slide for forming that extends along a plurality of the working stages, a transfer device that transfers workpieces between the working stages, and driving devices that drive the slide and the transfer device. Connecting rods link the slide without pressure points and therefore directly in four linking points. The centers of the two linking points respectively of one side of the slide and of two turnbuckles situated opposite one another in the press frame are arranged on a common line which is aligned horizontally and vertically with respect to a press passage. The slide is an outer slide, while inner slides are provided in the working stages, these inner slides being vertically slidably disposed via guides. At least one overload safety device is respectively arranged between each of the inner slides and the outer slide, the overload safety device including a pressure space in a pressure cylinder and a piston. The pressure space is prestressed for operation of the press installation while admitting pressure via pressure lines to the piston and thereby to the inner slide in a vertically downward direction.

Press installation with slides connected at linking points by connecting

A transfer device permits different moving sequences of holding devices for sheet metal parts which are to be moved through a metal-forming machine. The holding devices are fastened to carriages. The carriages are cam-guided, in which case carriage carries out a transfer movement from a working stage to an idle stage while taking along a sheet metal part. The return movement is interrupted in an intermediate position during the deforming operation of the sheet metal parts. The carriage carries out a transfer movement from the idle stage to a working stage and a return movement which is temporarily interrupted in an intermediate stage. As a result of the low-mass construction of carriages, high accelerations are possible in the movements. The transfer movements are shortened significantly by the use of intermediate depositing devices in the idle stages.

Transfer device in a transfer press or similar metal-forming machine

A drawing apparatus in a press for holding the sheet metal part during the drawing and for the ejection thereof. Additionally, blocking devices are provided which prevent the ejection of the sheet metal draw part at the same time with the upward movement of the press ram. Each blocking device is thereby to be rendered selectively operable or inoperable. A continuous flow of the hydraulic liquid is to be precluded during the inoperative condition of the blocking device. The blocking device consists of a pressure cylinder, of a pressure piston which is displaceably movable on the piston rod displaceable by the draw cushion, and of a compression spring for the displacement of the pressure piston in the ejection direction. The pressure space formed above the pressure piston is selectively pressureless for the inoperative condition, respectively, adapted to be acted upon with controlled pressure for the operative condition of the blocking device. The arrangement enables, on the one hand, the operation of a press and especially of a transfer press with large stroke numbers; with the latter without the operation of the transfer device effecting the transfer movement of the sheet metal draw parts, on the other, the operation with reduced stroke number of the press under utilization of the blocking device.

Drawing apparatus in a press

A drawing apparatus, by means of which the different individual functions such as control of the sheet metal holder pressure, control of the sheet metal holder upward movement, control of the ejector movement and of the end position abutment are adjustable, respectively, controllable independently of one another. In a drawing apparatus with pressure cylinders (8) for the sheet metal retention during the drawing and with pressure cylinders (9) for the ejection of the workpieces, with a pressure cheek (1) guided in the press table and movable and supported by the pressure cylinders (8, 9) and with a follower control installation (48) acting in the lower dead-center position on a pressure cylinder (8) effecting the sheet metal retention during the drawing operation, the pressure cylinders (8, 9) are thereby held fixed at the press; the piston rods (6) of the pressure cylinders (8, 9) effecting the sheet metal retention are adapted to be placed in the direction (14) of the sheet metal retaining pressure against the pressure cheek (1) and one follower control installation (48, 49) is coordinated to each pressure cylinder (8) effecting the sheet metal retention and to each pressure cylinder (9) effecting the ejection; with the use of several pressure cylinders (9) for the ejections, one follower control installation each is connected thereto, possibly one follower control installation common to all such pressure cylinders may be used.

Drawing apparatus in presses

With workpieces to be drawn, especially large-area body parts or sinks, the possibilities of tearing the walls, respectively, undulated surface structure exists within the area of the corner formation. The present invention is therefore predicated on the concept to match the support pressure to the shaping of the workpiece in the different abutment areas thereof. A number of pressure cylinders fixedly installed in the press table serve for that purpose, whose piston rods are adapted to be to displaced in the vertical direction by way of a pressure plate acting in unison on all piston rods. The piston rods acting on the other end of the support are lowerable under the ram movement against the controllable pressure differing in the pressure chambers by way of valves.

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Wolfgang Michael