Abstract: A sheet punching and embossing machine includes a device for punching blanks from sheets. The device has a frame and a bearing plate is mountable in the frame. The bearing plate is equipped with punching and grooving knives. Hydraulically activated clamping elements are provided for clamping the bearing plate in the frame. A hydraulic system includes a piston braced by a mechanical spring for building up hydraulic pressure for activating the clamping elements.

Abstract: A sheet punching and embossing machine includes a device for stripping waste from a punched and embossed sheet at a stripping station, the device having a stripping plate for supporting the sheet. Also included are gripper carriages fixed to revolving chains, for gripping the sheet at a leading edge thereof and for then pulling the sheet intermittently through the stripping station and further stations in the machine. The stripping plate has, in an inlet region for the sheet and before stripping openings, at least one suction opening to which vacuum is applicable from below.