Press with stroke control device

A press with a stroke control device comprising:

• a drive shaft adapted to be rotatingly driven and having an eccentric member mounting portion;
• an eccentric member fitting on said eccentric member mounting portion, said eccentric member having an outer peripheral surface which is at an eccentricity with respect to said drive shaft and sliding surfaces which are in vertical sliding engagement with both side surfaces of said eccentric mounting portion;
• a cross slide embracing and rotatably supporting said eccentric member;
• a slide having a hollow portion which surrounds said cross slide and supports said cross slide for lateral movement therein, said slide being slidable up and down while supporting said cross slide which moves laterally when said eccentric member rotates within said cross slide together with said drive shaft;
• a gear shaft vertically extending through said eccentric member mounting portion and provided with spline-type gear teeth on upper and lower end portions thereof, said gear shaft being rotatably supported at its upper and lower ends thereof by said eccentric member;
• a plurality of screw rods arranged on both sides of said gear shaft such as to extend in parallel with said gear shaft through said eccentric member mounting portion, said screw rods being fixed at their upper and lower ends to said eccentric member;
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• gears screwed to upper and lower end portions of said screw rods and meshing with said spline type gear teeth on the upper and lower end portions of said gear shaft, said gears contacting upper and lower end surfaces of said eccentric member mounting portion;
• whereby, when said gear shaft is rotated, said gears rotate to cause said screw rods to move up and down relative to said drive shaft together with said gear shaft and said eccentric member so as to cause a change in the amount of eccentricity of said eccentric member with respect to said drive shaft, thereby allowing a control of the length of stroke of said slide.