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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2013
Trumpf Corporation, Yokohama, JP;
Peter Bytow, Simmozheim, DE;
Katsuya Enomoto, Yokohama, JP;
Trumpf Corporation, Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
Workpieces are unloaded from a workpiece support of a sheet metal workpiece processing apparatus by positioning a blank sheet metal workpiece over a processed workpiece supported on a workpiece support, with the blank workpiece releasably held by a workpiece loader, activating a workpiece fixing device to engage an edge of the processed workpiece, and performing a relative sweeping movement between the workpiece fixing device and the workpiece support whereby the engaged processed workpiece is prevented from remaining on the workpiece support and is thereby unloaded. The workpiece fixing device is moved relative to the processed workpiece while the blank sheet metal workpiece is positioned over the processed workpiece.