Patent ID: 8156864
Filing Date: 2012-04-17
Classification: F16P,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A workpiece deforming press with a safety device, comprising: a press housing for containing a plurality of press dies and a plurality of punches arranged in a horizontal plane; a horizontal guide supported by an upright wall that bounds the press housing; a slide mounted on the guide for horizontal sliding movement; a first safety panel pivotably mounted in a first upright position on the slide; a second safety panel pivotably mounted in a second upright position on the slide; a first linear actuator mounted on the guide, for horizontally moving the slide and the safety panels in their upright positions along the guide to an end position; a second linear actuator mounted on the slide, for pivoting the first safety panel from the first upright position to a first horizontal safety position in the housing when the slide is in the end position; and a third linear actuator mounted on the slide, for pivoting the second safety panel from the second upright position to a second horizontal safety position in the press housing when the first safety panel is in the first horizontal safety position.