Patent ID: 6860198

Claim:
Multi-station press, comprising a plurality of individual presses arranged behind one another, with each press having a press frame, a slide, and a link system for driving the slide of each of the presses respectively, each link system including first knee link elements and second knee link elements, each of the first and second knee link elements being operatively connected between the press frame and the slide of each of the presses respectively, connection means for operatively connecting the first knee link elements and the second knee link elements of each of the individual presses, and an eccentric driving device connected to the first knee link elements of a first press of the individual presses to control tilting movement of the first knee link elements and second knee link elements for carrying out an appropriate stroke movement in each of the individual presses, wherein connection elements connect the second knee link elements of the first press of the individual presses with the first knee link elements of a second press of the individual presses adjacent the first press of the individual presses.