Patent ID: 7168903

Claim:
A punching/binding machine having a framework, having a die, having a rake, having a comb, having a cutting blade and having an operating lever by means of which the cutting blade and/or the comb can be displaced in relation to the die and/or the rake, wherein the operating lever is integral with the framework and engages with at least one driver element which, for the said displacement movement, engages with the cutting blade and/or the comb individually or at the same time; wherein the framework comprises a base element which is adjoined, on the front side, by a bow-spring element which forms an acute angle and is adjoined by a first arm of an essentially V-shaped operating lever which, in the depth of the V, merges, via a further bow-spring element, into the second arm of the operating lever, the free end thereof engaging with the at least one driver element; and wherein the bow-spring elements are pre-bent, and wherein the second arm of the operating lever is prestressed under prestressing against the free end of a housing cover surface, which extends in an essentially parallel or slightly inclined manner in relation to the base element and projects from the latter by way of a curved element.