above: The illustration shows a typical bedplate and blowplate fitted to a hydraulic press brake. In this instance the tools slide along a tenon groove in the bed and the tools have special bodies with front clamps and stab pins for ease of setting and adjustment. The punch heads come from the standard ‘M’ range ‘Minni-Die’ units.

above: Three stations of tools and stops to punch and notch a component in three ‘stages’ along a 3 metre bed plate in a hydraulic press.

above: A typical unit tool set up in a hydraulic press brake.

Press Brake Die Space

To enable us to quote for bed plates and blow plates to suit various types of press, we need dimensional information to establish the ‘tang’ fixing for the blow plate and other important details for the bed plate lug fixings.

Please supply a sketch or detail shown below with as much information as possible and as many dimensions that might apply.

The maximum die space is measured with -  ‘stroke down’ - and - ‘adjustment up’ = ‘A’

above: a triple slotted bed plate with template slot to accept 4” x 0.25” BDMS templates (or 100 x 8,0 templates-Euro). Lengths are machined in 3 metres and cut to lengths of 1 metre, 1,25 metre, 1,5 metre or 2 metre.