Patent ID: 7210328

Claim:
A metal sheet folding device, comprising a table beam stationarily arranged an a machine frame; a press beam arranged on the machine frame in guide arrangements with a driving device, and movable in an adjustment and work plane relative to the table beam; and a sheet-depositing/positioning device for receiving and supporting at least one sheet metal plate or workpiece for intermediately positioning the workpiece for carrying out on the workpiece a clasping operation by means of the gripping means of a handling device, wherein the sheet-depositing/positioning device is adjustably supported on the machine frame arid is displaceable in a linear guide arrangement in a longitudinal direction along a longitudinal expanse of the table beam over at least part of the length, wherein the sheet-depositing/positioning device is formed by two support consoles that are movable in the guide arrangement in the longitudinal direction both synchronously with each other for adjusting a longitudinal position of the sheet-depositing/positioning device and independently of each other for adjusting a longitudinal width of the sheet-depositing/positioning device.