PRESS FOR A CASTING MACHINE AND CASTING MACHINE

The invention relates to a press for a casting machine and a casting machine with such a press. The press has a baseplate, an upper frame and a movable clamping platen, with two front columns and two rear columns arranged at the corner zones of the plates and at the corner zones of the upper frame. These columns extend through suitable through openings in the movable clamping platen and are fixed to the baseplate at the stationary upper frame. The press is characterized in that the front columns have a greater distance from one another than the rear columns. Because of this, essentially wider or longer permanent molds or those with side-protruding slides, up to a width corresponding to the increased distance apart of the front columns, may be inserted into the area between the baseplates and the movable clamping platen, and removed again. This means that better use can be made of the pressure and pressing capacity of the press, while the press is similarly or comparably simple, stable and compact in design and as advantageous for production and maintenance as conventional presses with columns arranged in a rectangle.