Patent ID: 6990843

Claim:
A pressing tool with three or four pressing mandrels for pressing a workpiece which can be moved towards one another during a pressing operation, each pressing mandrel having a roof-like cross-sectional profile which defines first and second roof edges which meet at a roof ridge, said first roof edges of each said pressing mandrel generally face said second roof edges of an adjacent pressing mandrel, and thus, furthermore, a lateral clearance space between the pressing mandrels is increasingly reduced during a pressing process, and disposed between two pressing mandrels is an extension element for engaging a workpiece which extends from one pressing mandrel to the other and moves into the other pressing mandrel during pressing, wherein the extension element, for the purpose of blocking the clearance space, is disposed such that, in the initial state and during pressing, the respectively facing first and second roof edges of the two pressing mandrels having the extension element disposed therebetween, cut across the extension element.