Patent ID: 8245554

Claim:
A mechanical arrangement for processing sheet metal, the arrangement comprising: a sheet metal processing device; a transport device configured to position a sheet metal workpiece relative to the sheet metal processing device, the transport device including at least one workpiece carrier that is movable along a transport path that extends along a first transport line and a second transport line; and at least two X-guides and at least two Y-guides, the X-guides arranged parallel with the first transport line and the Y-guides arranged parallel with the second transport line, wherein the at least two X-guides and the at least two Y-guides are configured to be coupled to each other by a transfer device to form a transport course, the workpiece carrier circulates along the X-guides and the Y-guides, and the transfer device is configured to move the workpiece carrier from one of the X-guides to one of the Y-guides, and wherein the transfer device is a lifting device configured to vertically adjust the one of the X-guides and the one of the Y-guides relative to each other to transfer a workpiece carrier from a position in which the workpiece carrier is supported by the one of the X-guides into a position in which the workpiece carrier is disengaged from the X-guide and taken up by the one of the Y-guides, the workpiece carrier thus being enabled to subsequently move along the Y-guide.