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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Katsuhide Ito, Turin, IT;
Assignee:
Amada America, Inc., Buena Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
29818 ; 292435 ; 292813 ; 292814 ; 292815 ; 29798 ;
Abstract
A machine for driving inserts into pieces of sheet metal includes a punch and a die movable relative to one another along an axis along which the inserts are to be driven. The punch and die define a driving zone therebetween, in which a hole in the piece in which an insert is to be driven is positioned. The axis along which the inserts are to be driven is substantially horizontal and the pieces are held in a substantially vertical plane by an automatic handling device.