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Abstract

The invention is a method, and its accompanying apparatus, for charging and discharging short-cycle and/or coating presses with layered pressing material. In order to reduce the charging and discharging times, the method entails inserting a first transport device, or charging device, having a plurality of clamping devices into a charging region and inserting a second transport device having a plurality of suction devices into a pressing chamber, wherein the first and second transport devices are inserted transverse to a longitudinal central axis from a pair of supply axes to a pair of charging and discharging axes. The pressing material is clamped in the charging region and a plate is accepted in the pressing chamber; the first transport device is then moved into the pressing chamber and the second transport devices into a discharging region. The pressing material is then deposited onto a lower heating element and the first transport device is removed from the pressing chamber and a pressed plate is deposited in the discharging region. Next, the first transport device is withdrawn from the pressing chamber and the second transport device is withdrawn from the discharging region. The first and second transport devices are withdrawn in a direction transverse to the longitudinal central axis from the pair of charging and discharging axes to the pair of supply axes. Last, the transport devices are returned to an original position for a new cycle.

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