PRESS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a press which can provide a plurality of working spaces around an arm and enables work in the working spaces, by one press. SOLUTION: The press comprises an arm 10 provided rotatably on a base 1, a heater plate 20 which is provided at the tip of the arm 10 by the medium of a suspended connecting shaft 11 so that it can move upward and downward, a support 30 with which the heater plate 20 comes into contact detachably, a rotating mechanism 40 which makes the heater plate 20 rotatable around the connecting shaft 11 as the central axis, and a four-side link 50 which is composed of base links 51 provided on the rotation base point side of the arm 10, tip links 52 having the same length as the base links 51 and provided on the heater plate 20 side and a pair of connecting links 55 and 56 which connect these base links 51 and tip links 52 by the medium of spherical joints 53 and 54 and also can be extended and contracted in the same prescribed extent with the upward and downward movement of the heater plate 20. The tip links 52 are provided at higher positions than the base links 51 so that each of the paired connecting links 55 and 56 be put in an extended state. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT