Patent ID: 7513135
Filing Date: 2009-04-07
Classification: B21D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A bending press for forming workpieces of sheet metal, comprising: a drive mechanism; first and second press beams one of which defines a press table, and which are displaceable relative to one another by means of the drive mechanism, each press beam supporting a variable number of bending tools that collectively define a required tool length extending along each press beam; a control device connected to the drive mechanism for regulating operation of the bending press; a plurality of electronically detectable information carriers respectively associated with the bending tools, wherein the information carriers have at least machine-readable codes for identifying each bending tool and/or detecting a position of each bending tool; an electronic detection device connected to the control device and operable to detect the information carriers; and at least one displacement mechanism that defines a displacement path extending parallel with the tool length and that accommodates the detection device such that the detection device is displaceable along the displacement path so that the codes of a plurality of information carriers are detected in sequence during a relative displacement of the detection device along the displacement path and are transmitted to the control device, wherein the displacement mechanism for the detection device is recessed in a press beam or in the press table or is at least partially integrated therein.