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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1996
Hideo Itakura, Sagamihara, JP;
Aida Engineering Ltd., Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method according to which workpieces are fed and subjected to stamping by continuously operating a press in which a plurality of slides operating with a difference in phase are arranged laterally in a straight line. A longitudinal feeding device for longitudinally feeding workpieces is provided in each slide. Each slide and the longitudinal feeding device thereof operate in synchronism with each other, so that even when the press is continuously operated, the workpieces can be fed without involving any interference between the press and the transfer device. Further, the feeding of workpieces in the lateral direction, which is executed as needed, is effected outside the machining stage, so that there is no interference regardless of the difference in phase of the slides, whereby it is possible to feed workpieces without having to intermittently operate the press.