Abstract: A food press machine that is used to shape food, such as slabs of meat. The machine has a jaw element. The jaw element is free to rotate about a pivot connection along a curved path between a closed position and an open position. A lower mold head is mounted to a base. An upper mold head is mounted to the jaw element. The upper mold head aligns atop the lower mold head and defines a compression chamber when the jaw element is in its closed position. Conversely, the upper mold head is lifted away from the lower mold head when the jaw element is in its open position. Food is placed in the compression chamber when the jaw element is in its open position. The jaw element is than moved to its closed position with the power of a hydraulic piston.

Abstract: A pneumatic can crusher for compressing a metal can has a hollow pipe. A piston assembly is located inside the pipe with a head attached to a first end of a connecting rod and a bottom air cylinder connected to a second end of a connecting rod. In some embodiments, an opening is located in the pipe near the top end, for allowing the metal can to be inserted into the inside of the pipe and placed on a top surface of the head of the piston assembly. The pneumatic can crusher has a manually activated safety interlock operated by a foot of a user. Air from the air compressor pushes the air cylinder upward toward the top end of the pipe so to crush the metal can on the top surface of the head of the piston assembly.

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 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: The invention relates to a press having a coverable working region in which a pressing process can be carried out by applying compressed air or fluid to the press, a protective device for covering the working region and a pipe conduit for transporting the compressed air or the fluid, wherein a first part of the pipe conduit is arranged on the protective device, a further part of the pipe conduit is arranged on the press, and the protective device is configured in such a way that by removing the protective device from the working region the first part of the pipe conduit is disconnected from the further part of the pipe conduit. The invention makes it possible that the press is not supplied energetically with compressed air or fluid for carrying out the pressing process until after the working region has been closed with the protective device.

Abstract: A can crushing apparatus for crushing a can is presented. The can crushing apparatus includes an elongated structure, a piston drive assembly, a can crushing chamber, a can holding plate, a deflector guide, a control, a safety switch, a push button switch and an attachment means. The piston drive assembly includes a piston designed to crush the can. The piston includes a hammer attached with a hammer plate and a cylindrical housing for securing the piston. The hammer is extendable in a downward direction and retractable in an upward direction. The deflector guide transfers a crushed can to a can collecting bin. The control provides electric power to the can crushing apparatus. The safety switch prevents hand injuries caused by the accidental positioning of hands by a user on the crusher.

Abstract: A pressing tool includes a tool body having a working end, an actuator held by the tool body and operated during a pressing operation, and a disabling device operable to stop the hydraulic actuator during the pressing operation, wherein the actuator is disabled and locked in a disabled position after the disabling device is operated. Optionally, the disabling device may be configured to be reset to a normal operation position by a key.

Abstract: This invention covers to a kind of control valve, materially, it is a kind of Power-Off-Protection Type of Safety Control Double Valve applied to Pressing Machine.

Abstract: A hydraulic fine blanking head for a mechanical press and an infeeding method for same. The hydraulic fine blanking head includes an adjusting mechanism having an adjusting nut provided with an internal motion thread engaged with external motion threads on a main cylinder, the adjusting nut being turnable around a stroke axis, a sprocket wheel rotatable at a frontal surface of the adjusting nut, a hydraulic motor driving the sprocket wheel, and a brake for the motor shaft. Axial backlash between the respective motion threads is prohibited by a pressure generated by a flow of pressurized hydraulic fluid which also generates a part forming force in the head. A conduit in communication with a hydraulic system and the interior of the head delivers the locking pressure, locking the threads against the backlash. Removal of pressure unlocks the threads. Infeed of the main cylinder with regard to the ram is adjustable by switching the motor and the brake on and off.

Abstract: The present invention features a pneumatic can crushing apparatus for compacting cans comprising a pipe having a piston assembly, wherein the piston assembly is connected to an air compressor via hoses and valves. Compressed air causes the piston assembly to move and crush a can or bottle inside the pipe.

Abstract: A device and method are provided for preventing a tool from breaking during fine blanking and/or forming in a press. The device includes a fine blanking head positioned above a ram that carries out a stroke movement. The fine blanking head includes, among other things, a main cylinder retaining a V-shaped projection piston, a touch piston, several V-shaped projection pins, a main plate covering the main cylinder and a touch table to which the tool can be connected. Pressure provided by a hydraulic system is introduced to the device in distinct regions. Gaps between certain device components are maintained and monitored for purposes of determining the undesirable presence of foreign objects in the press operating path. If a sensor determines that the gaps are not maintained then the computer which operates valves that supply the pressure from the hydraulic system will shut the press down.

Abstract: A hydraulic compactor system includes a portable container adapted to be transported by a truck and having a chamber for receiving a waste material to be compacted. The container has a self-contained compacting ram actuated by a hydraulic cylinder, and a remote hydraulic power supply unit is connected to the hydraulic cylinder by flexible hydraulic hoses. Each of the hoses is provided with a breakaway hydraulic coupling having two sections connected by tension releasable coupling means with the sections having spring biased valves which are open when the sections are coupled together and automatically close when the sections separate due to a predetermined tension force on the hoses. Each breakaway coupling compensates for increases in hydraulic fluid pressure to prevent separation of the coupling sections when the fluid pressure increases to actuate the hydraulic compacting cylinder.

Abstract: A device and method are provided for preventing a tool from breaking during fine blanking and/or forming in a press. The device includes a fine blanking head positioned above a ram that carries out a stroke movement. The fine blanking head includes, among other things, a main cylinder retaining a V-shaped projection piston, a touch piston, several V-shaped projection pins, a main plate covering the main cylinder and a touch table to which the tool can be connected. Pressure provided by a hydraulic system is introduced to the device in distinct regions. Gaps between certain device components are maintained and monitored for purposes of determining the undesirable presence of foreign objects in the press operating path. If a sensor determines that the gaps are not maintained then the computer which operates valves that supply the pressure from the hydraulic system will shut the press down.

Abstract: A pressing tool includes a tool body having a working end, an actuator held by the tool body and operated during a pressing operation, and a disabling device operable to stop the hydraulic actuator during the pressing operation, wherein the actuator is disabled and locked in a disabled position after the disabling device is operated. Optionally, the disabling device may be configured to be reset to a normal operation position by a key.

Abstract: A unit for compacting waste prior to disposal provides a waste compaction unit for fitting into a housing comprising a lid and an interior for collecting waste. The compaction unit comprises a plunger comprising bellows housed in the lid; a pneumatic locking mechanism housed in the lid; and a pump connected to the plunger via the locking mechanism wherein the pump is arranged in operation to activate the locking mechanism prior to inflating the bellows to extend the plunger axially towards the interior of the housing such that any waste collected therein is compacted.

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 safety device for a pneumatic membrane press with door(s) comprises at least one unit for controlled establishment of a leak, each optionally associated with a cooperating opening/door assembly. Each unit includes an actuator module comprising an opening for receiving a key mounted on the door of the press and an actuating member whose position depends on the presence or not of the key in the opening; and a valve module comprising a sealing member for a circulation duct between an aperture in fluid connection with one or more inflation volume(s) pressurised when the press is pressurised and an aperture opening into the open air, the actuating member allowing the closure of the duct by the sealing member when the key is in the receiving opening and forcing the freeing of the duct when the key is not in the opening.

Abstract: A shutheight adjustment system incorporating tie rods and accompanying hydraulic tie rod nut assemblies in connecting a bed to a bolster of a mechanical press for dynamically altering the tensioning of the tie rods. Each hydraulic tie rod nut assembly includes a cylinder with an inner sliding piston threadably engaging the tie rod. A pressurizing mechanism injects pressurized fluid within a chamber formed by the piston and cylinder. By increasing pressure within the chamber of the hydraulic tie rod nut assembly, compression between the press bed and press bolster may be increased, thereby increasing the press shutheight.