Vertical broaching machine

Vertical broaching machine, specifically an internal broaching machine, including:

• at least one workpiece holder mounted on a machining table of the broaching machine;
• a vertically displaceable broaching slide mounted beneath said machining table for drawing a broach through a workpiece at the at least one workpiece holder;
• a vertically displaceable broach feed slide mounted above the at least one workpiece holder;
• at least one inclined feed channel for workpieces, said channel terminating in front of and above the at least one workpiece holder;
• at least one mask extending up to one end of the at least one feed channel, said at least one mask being swivelable from the plane of said at least one feed channel to the at least one workpiece holder and back again by means of a swiveling drive means;
• at least one ejection chute extending from the at least one mask;
• at least one separating means mounted above the at least one feed channel, said at least one separating means being for moving between two end positions and releasing one workpiece to the at least one workpiece holder when the at least one mask in the raised position;
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• at least one stop mounted on the broaching slide associated with each of the at least one each workpiece holders, said at least one stop projecting between the at least one mask and the at least one ejection chute, and, said at least one stop also blocking the at least one mask when the broaching slide is in the raised position and cutting the at least one mask off from the at least one discharge chute, and further said at least one stop releasing the at least one mask when the broaching slide is in the lowered position.