Abstract: A press machine includes a display unit which displays a first image in a circular shape corresponding to a rotation of an eccentric mechanism and representing one stroke of slide operation and a second image in a circular-arc shape corresponding to an operation of an attachment device interlocked with the press machine, and an operation unit which receives an input operation. The first image indicates at least one slide operation region. The second image is placed concentrically with the first image in relation to the slide operation region. The second image has opposed ends each allowed to move in response to the input operation in a direction in which the second image extends.

Abstract: Hydraulic power savings for a rear module handler cylinder of a round module cotton harvester is possible by using a regenerative hydraulic arrangement for raising an empty handler and using gravity to lower the handler. A bale handler system for a cotton picker baler includes a handler for receiving a round module that is movable between upright and lowered positions and a handler cylinder operably connected to the handler. The handler cylinder system includes a regenerative valve. The regenerative valve is engaged when the handler moves to the upright position during regenerative handler raise mode of operation, the regenerative valve is not engaged when the handler moves to the lowered position during float handler lower mode of operation. While in the float handler lower mode of operation, the handler cylinder retracts and diverts an oil flow pressure from a base end to a rod end of the handler cylinder.

Abstract: A control system includes a load detector, a determination unit, and a drive control unit. The load detector detects a load of a slide. The load of the slide includes a positive load due to a pressing force of the slide during pressing and a negative load at the time of a breakthrough. The determination unit determines whether to execute emergency stopping of the slide based on the positive load and the negative load detected by the load detector. The drive control unit controls the driving of the slide based on the determination result of the determination unit.

Abstract: A secondary battery according to one embodiment includes, an electrode group which is a cathode and an anode wound with a separator being interposed therebetween, a first lead having a first welding surface, a second lead having a second welding surface which is bent with respect to a winding axial direction of the electrode group, a first current collecting tab which is extended from one end of the electrode group on the winding axial direction, and welded onto the first welding surface of the first lead, a second current collecting tab which is extended from the other end of the electrode group on the winding axial direction, and welded onto the second welding surface of the second lead, a first terminal connected to the first lead, and a second terminal connected to the second lead.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to door locking systems for use in connection with trash compactor systems for preventing inadvertent opening of the main door during a compaction cycle.

Abstract: A safety actuator apparatus for a baling machine comprising an extension member coupled to a baling machine having at least one baling chamber, the extension member having at least one end extending outwardly from the baling machine and a support member comprising a safety actuated retention component that aligns with and is configured to contact and restrain the at least one end of the extension member. The apparatus further comprises a detection device for identifying the presence of an obstacle in a predetermined path or a trajectory of movement of at least one component of the baling machine and a communication device configured to send a signal from the detection device to the safety actuated retention component and engage the safety actuated retention component to restrain the movement of at least one component of the baling machine.

Abstract: A lifting apparatus having a tool, which is vertically displaceable by means of a motor and to which at least a first toothed wheel is coupled in terms of movement. The toothed wheel engages over the vertical path of displacement in a stationary toothed rack. The lifting gear includes a safety device having a blocking element which, in a locked position, stops the tool from moving in the direction of gravity, at least when the lifting apparatus is deenergized, wherein the blocking element stops the tool over the vertical path of displacement, at basically any level in any vertical position, and is held against a restoring force in an unblocking position with vertical movement of the tool, and the restoring force pushes the blocking element into its locked position, at least when the lifting apparatus is deenergized.

Abstract: In an example embodiment, a baler with a bale clear indicator is provided. A passive bale ramp may be configured to deposit a bale clear of the path of a tailgate of the baler. One or more sensors may be used to determine the position of the passive ramp and whether a bale is clear of the ramp and the tailgate path and an indicator provided to notify an operator that the bale is clear. In one embodiment a bale up sensor is used to determine the position of the passive bale ramp. In another example embodiment, a ramp down sensor is used. In another example embodiment, a bale up sensor and bale down sensor are used to determine the position of the passive ramp.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to door locking systems for use in connection with trash compactor systems for preventing inadvertent opening of the main door during a compaction cycle.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus, in particular to a bending apparatus, including at least one movable apparatus part; an operating device for the operation of the apparatus, with at least one first signal for the actuation of the apparatus and one second signal for the stopping of the apparatus being able to be triggered via the operating device; a protection device for the monitoring of a protected zone of the apparatus; and a device for the selective adaptation of the protected zone before the actuation of the apparatus, with the device for the adaptation of the protected zone being able to be acted on by means of a third signal of the operating device. Alternatively, the device for the selective adaptation of the protected zone can include a voice input device.

Abstract: A container with a door forms an operating chamber. A crushing zone within the chamber is defined below by a support and above by a vertically reciprocable ram. A driving assembly raises and lowers the ram to compact a plastic bottle in the crushing zone. A heating element softens the plastic bottle. A programmer is operatively coupled to a plurality of controls for receiving operating instructions and to the heating element and the driving assembly to thereby cause an appropriate cycle of operation for crushing and compacting the plastic bottle.

Abstract: A joining unit contains a spindle drive in the form of a hollow shaft motor that encloses a spindle. The hollow shaft motor serves to achieve a linear movement of a joining tool for the execution of a joining process. The joining unit contains instruments for the presetting and/or determination of the forces exerted and/or the movement of the joining tool during the joining process.

Abstract: A camera unit for monitoring a spatial region has an electronic image sensor arranged on a component carrier, and a lens having a lens body. The lens body and the component carrier are connected via a first coupling piece to form an integrated structural unit. The first coupling piece has at least one limited first mobility relative to the lens body and at least one limited second mobility relative to the component carrier within the integrated structural unit. The integrated structural unit has at least one first and one second releasable clamping mechanism in order to fix the first coupling piece, the lens body and the component carrier relative to one another. Such a camera unit can advantageously be used as an imaging sensor for safeguarding a machine operating in an automated fashion.

Abstract: A safety device for a press having a head for applying force, a single fixed pressure source for actuating a low force pressure driven actuator and a high force pressure driven actuator for the head, wherein the operation of the head is limited to only with the low force actuator until the head is in a safe position, when the head is determined to be in a safe position the high force actuator's use is permitted.

Abstract: A safety device for an automatically operating installation determines at least one movement variable of a moving installation part in a safety-related manner. The safety device includes an acceleration sensor and an evaluation unit. The acceleration sensor is adapted to be coupled to the moving installation part in order to detect any acceleration of the moving installation part. The evaluation unit determines a movement velocity and/or a movement travel of the installation part on the basis of the acceleration.

Abstract: In an energy storage device (1) with evaporation cooling wherein the boiling temperature of a liquid which is disposed in heat exchange relationship with electric capacitors (2, 3, 4) for limiting the operating temperature of the electric capacitors, a thermal vapor condensing arrangement is provided for condensing the vapors formed from the liquid during cooling of the electric capacitors and returning the condensate back to the liquid surrounding the electric capacitors.

Abstract: A safety interlock and retraction mechanism for all types of presses comprising a sensing or activating valve which does not apply full force to a press ram until the ram displaces to the expected work material thickness and a pneumatically operated retraction mechanism which eliminates the need for a return spring. The art differentiates between the thickness of an operator's finger relative to a work material thickness in order to promote safety. The art further provides an increased press ram force by eliminating the return spring force subtracting from the ram force.

Abstract: A truss fabrication system for fabricating trusses includes a table, a gantry press and an obstruction detection device. A top of the table receives truss components arranged with at least some connector plates engaging at least some of the truss members. The gantry press includes a gantry mounted for movement along a path relative to the table for pressing the connectors into the truss components for joining the truss members together. An obstruction detection device is mounted on the gantry for detecting obstructions in the path of the gantry. The detection device defines a vertical detection plane located a predetermined distance from the gantry and is adapted to detect the presence of all obstructions entering the plane at substantially the same time for stopping movement of the gantry.

Abstract: A manually operated press has an actuating member, the movement of which being translated into a stroke movement of a press ram. A stroke stop is provided for inhibiting an undesired stroke movement of the press ram. The stroke stop comprises a first sensor for detecting the stroke movement of the press ram as well as a clutch. The clutch is actuated under the control of signals of the first sensor and is adapted to inhibit a transmission of force between the actuating member and the press ram.

Abstract: A safety block device for supporting a generally vertically movable component about a guide post of a press device. According to one embodiment of the invention, the safety block device includes a generally upright column (42) adapted to be disposed adjacent the guide post (18) and moveable between a retracted non-working position, wherein the column does not support the moveable component, and an extended working position, wherein the column is effective to support the moveable component and prevent movement thereof. The column includes an upper end portion and a lower end portion. According to one feature of the invention, the lower end portion of the column includes a generally rounded first portion (62a) and a generally second flat portion (62b) which is slightly offset with respect to the first portion.

Abstract: There is disclosed a baler for paper recycling having a control system responsive to switches and digital timers, and an electromagnetic interlock coupling a loading door and a chamber door, said control system including a programmable relay having outputs to motor starter, control valves, and electromagnetic interlock. A mode selection switch enables automatic, manual down, and manual up modes, the latter of which is used to eject a bale. The electromagnetic interlock performs multiple functions reducing the number of components needed in the system, improving reliability and reducing maintenance.

Abstract: A method for the failsafe monitoring of the rotational movement of a shaft comprises a first step of picking up a characteristic pulse train with a number of pulses following one another at successive times, the time interval between the pulses is dependent on the rotational movement. A second step determines a monitoring time period and a third step monitors whether an expected pulse of the pulse train occurs within the monitoring time period. Finally, there is a fourth step of generating a control signal when the expected pulse does not occur within the monitoring time period. The mounting time period is repeatedly adapted to the time interval of the pulses during monitoring.

Abstract: A punch and press system includes a low voltage safety circuit and a high voltage control circuit. The high voltage control circuit is further divided into a high voltage low current region and a high voltage high current region. The high voltage low current region is isolated from both the low voltage safety circuit and the high voltage high current region of the control circuit. As the upper tool of the press strikes an object, the object's conductivity will govern whether the press will continue to act on the object. Thus, if the object is conductive, then the upper tool will continue to act on the object. If the object is not conductive, then the upper tool will raise to a neutral position.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a simple and small slide-falling preventing apparatus capable of reliably preventing a slide from falling within a short time in an arbitrary slide position without slight falling of the slide, and capable of being additionally mounted to an existing press machine with small modification within a short time while securing excellent maintainability. The slide-falling preventing apparatus comprises an external tooth gear of a rotating and driving system of a slide, an external tooth gear mounted on a rotation shaft of a rotating and driving system of a slide or an external tooth gear which meshes with a tooth gear of a rotating and driving system of a slide.

Abstract: Roll grooving apparatus for rolling a circumferential groove in a pipe comprises a first support rotatably supporting a first grooving roll, a second support rotatably supporting a second grooving roll and being displaceable relative to the first support for displacing the second grooving roll toward and away from said first grooving roll, a stabilizer on the first support for stabilizing a pipe to be roll grooved, and first and second guards pivotally mounted on the second support for displacement therewith. The first guard engages the stabilizer, the second guard engages a pipe being roll grooved during a roll grooving operation and each guard is spring biased to engage the corresponding one of the stabilizer and a pipe being roll grooved. A member on the first support engages and displaces the second guard away from a pipe which has been roll grooved when the second support is displaced to move the second grooving roll away from the first grooving rolls.

Abstract: A pressing machine, particularly a fast operating pressing machine equipped with a pressing head forced into longitudinal jigging motion in a working range over a bench (46) by an eccenter disk (8), having an eccentric shaft, through a crank arm (9). The pressing head (12) has a lower pressing block (13) removable from the work range above the bench (46) and an upper pressing block (14) arranged slideably in relation to the lower and forced into jigging motion by the crank arm (9) and there is a connecting element (15) joining the lower pressing block (13) to the upper pressing block (14). The connection between the upper and lower pressing block (14, 13) can be broken, thereby motion of the lower pressing block (13) can be stopped while the eccentric disk (8), its shaft and any flywheel or similar inertial mass connected with the upper pressing block (14) continues to rotate.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a sudden braking apparatus for a press comprising a driving motor (6), a flywheel (5) connected to the motor through a pulley (7) and a belt (8), a small gear (9) connected to the flywheel through a rotational shaft (3) installed horizontally to a supporting frame (2), a large gear (10) engaged with the small gear and installed on a crankshaft (11b) of the press, and a cam (14) mounted at the crankshaft (11a, 11b) and connected to a slide-block (12) via a crank rod (13), characterized in that the apparatus comprises a circular guide (19) slidably connected to the crankshaft (11b) and having a brake lining (16) on one side of the guide (19) facing the supporting frame (2), a radial toothed gear (18) on the other side of the guide and a tapered groove (15) extending from the circumference. In addition the apparatus includes a clutch plate (22) shifting device which enables the circular guide (19) to move horizontally.

Abstract: An improved punch and press system includes a low voltage safety circuit and a high voltage control circuit. The high voltage control circuit is further divided into a high voltage low current region and a high voltage high current region. The high voltage low current region is isolated from both the low voltage safety circuit and the high voltage high current region of the control circuit. As the upper tool of the press strikes an object, the object's conductivity will govern whether the press will continue to act on the object. Thus, if the object is conductive, then the upper tool will continue to act on the object. If the object is not conductive, then the upper tool will raise to a neutral position.

Abstract: A pressing machine, particularly a fast operating pressing machine equipped with a pressing head forced into longitudinal jigging motion in a working range over a bench (46) by an eccenter disk (8), having an eccentric shaft, through a crank arm (9). The pressing head (12) has a lower pressing block (13) removable from the work range above the bench (46) and an upper pressing block (14) arranged slideably in relation to the lower and forced into jigging motion by the crank arm (9) and there is a connecting element (15) joining the lower pressing block (13) to the upper pressing block (14). The connection between the upper and lower pressing block (14, 13) can be broken, thereby motion of the lower pressing block (13) can be stopped while the eccentric disk (8), its shaft and any flywheel or similar inertial mass connected with the upper pressing block (14) continues to rotate.

Abstract: A fixed stroke power press safety stop block, manufactured of a light weight metal or plastic sufficient to withstand the dead weight of a ram and an attached upper die shoe preventing inadvertent downward movement of said ram. The stop block manufactured to be disposed on top of an existing die stop of a lower die shoe of said press and extending upwardly beneath the upper die shoe in the relative space between said die stop and said upper die platen when ram is in a upper most open position. Said block having a height equivalent to the fixed stroke of said ram less no greater than 0.250 of an inch permitting use of stop block in all die sets used relative to said press notwithstanding variances in shut heights. It is understood said shut height is determined by adjustment of ram crankshaft configuration causing contact by said upper die shoe with lower die stop at the lower most position of said ram.

Abstract: A system for use in a press machine includes a drive assembly in the form of a pinion gear that selectively engages the flywheel to enable operative driving rotation of the pinion gear by the flywheel. A load system in the form of a hydraulic pump is arranged in operative driving relationship with the pinion gear. Accordingly, rotational energy withdrawn from the flywheel becomes available for use in driving the hydraulic pump, which is preferably arranged in fluid communication with the press machine to supply a flow of oil for lubrication purposes. An adjustment assembly is arranged to controllably reversibly displace the pinion gear to effect its selective engagement with the flywheel. The pinion gear is provided with a geared peripheral surface for intermeshing engagement with the flywheel at a geared periphery thereof. The system may also be operated in reverse to drive the flywheel.