PRESS MED TVA TRYCKPLATTOR OCH SEKERHETSANORDNING

A safety device for avoiding excess pressure in a continuous press of the type having two rotatively driven endless conveyor belts forming opposed, substantially linear spans defining a press zone with press platens applying pressure through the travelling spans to work carried therebetween and in which a plurality of hydraulic cylinders or spindles are inserted between the press platens and rigid supports with pressure supplied to the cylinders through a pressure-controlling valve which is sensitive to the movement of the pressure platen to regulate the pressure in the cylinders maintaining a constant platen spacing in which the pressure-controlling valve is coupled to the press platen through a piston and cylinder arrangement having a pressure therein maintained so as to not exceed a pre-determined value whereby pressure in the hydraulic cylinders exceeding that pressure will cause the piston to yield and relieve the pressure.