Patent ID: 6612229
Filing Date: 2003-09-02
Classification: B21D

Abstract:
Multistatioin press, comprising a plurality of slides which are movable up and down and equipped with tools for forming workpieces, and a transport arrangement for transporting the workpieces at least one of within and between the stations, wherein the transport arrangement includesat least one cross traverse for holding the workpieces which, in a resting condition thereof, is aligned at least approximately perpendicularly with respect to a transport direction of the workpieces, the at least one cross traverse being held at two ends thereof by a lever arrangement so as to be orientable in a desired space including directions skewed to the transport direction as viewed in horizontal and vertical planes, a length compensating device being arranged on at least one of the two ends of each of the at least one cross traverse to change the overall length of the at least one cross traverse between the two ends thereof, and the length compensating device having an exterior tube element mountable at one end of the at least one cross traverse on the one lever arrangement, and an interior element displaceably arrangeable inside the exterior tube element mountable at the other end of the at least one cross traverse on the other lever arrangement.