Separating device for removing the press skin from a combined extrusion disc

A separating device for separating the ring-shaped press skin from a composite extrusion disc comprising a press disc and a stripper disc superimposed but spaced from each other by an annular intermediate space for receiving the press skin, especially for copper containing alloys and difficult to press metals and alloys, which includes in combination;

• a separating head having a passage therethrough, a slideway leading into said passage for receiving and slidingly supporting a composite extrusion disc from which the press skin is to be removed, and two blocks connected to said separating head and located opposite to each other while projecting into said passage so as to be able to engage the annular intermediate space between a press disc and a stripper disc of a composite extrusion disc to be freed from a press skin at said intermediate space when such composite extrusion disc enters said passage, the distance between said blocks being within the range of from the length of the inner diameter of the intermediate space of the composite extrusion disc to be stripped of the press skin thereon to the total length of said inner diameter plus the thickness of the press skin to be stripped.