Patent ID: 7125240
Filing Date: 2006-10-24
Classification: B21C

Abstract:
1. In combination with a press that outputs an elongated workpiece in a direction, a withdrawing device comprising: a first guide extending in the direction; a first carriage displaceable in the direction along the first guide; first motor means for displacing the first carriage in the direction along the first guide; a second guide extending in the direction on the first carriage; a second carriage displaceable in the direction on the second guide, whereby the second carriage can move relative to the first carriage; means for clamping the workpiece to the second carriage; second motor means separate from the first motor means for displacing the second carriage on the second guide; and control means connected to the first motor means and to the second motor means for shifting the second carriage in the direction at a speed independent of a speed of the first carriage while the first carriage is moving in the direction.