Abstract: For bending the edge of a thick sheet of metal a tool comprising a yoke with a long and a short leg with plate-engaging bars in the opening between the legs is used. The tool is placed on a sheet so as to straddle the edge to be bent with one bar on each side of the sheet. An extensible member, for example a hydraulic cylinder, bears against the sheet to tilt the yoke so that the bars are pressed against the sheet to bend it. The tool may be provided with transport wheels and drive equipment for automatically moving the tool on the sheet.

Abstract: Handling equipment for a sheet press for feeding sheet blanks to the press and withdrawing pressed products from the press, includes a first station for the reception of pressed products, a second station containing a supply of sheet blanks, a track extending from the press to the stations, and a shuttle movable along the track and having substantially horizontal, first and second transport compartments at different levels, the first compartment receiving sheet blanks from the second station for delivering them to the press, and the second compartment receiving pressed products from the press for delivering them to the first station.