Automatic positioning die attachment for die press

Claim 1

AN ATTACHMENT FOR CONVERTING A DIE PRESS WITH A HAND SHIFTABLE HOLLOW DIE TO A DIE PRESS WITH AN AUTOMATICALLY SHIFTING HOLLOW DIE, WHICH DIE PRESS INCLUDES A STATIONARY PORTION CONSTITUTING A CUTTING BLOCK AND A MOVABLE PORTION CONSTITUTING A VERTICALLY SHIFTABLE HORIZONTAL PLATEN AND WHICH DIE PRESS FURTHER INCLUDES A SINGLE CYCLE CONTROL THAT WHEN ACTUATED WILL DRIVE THE PLATEN DOWN TOWARD THE CUTTING BLOCK AND WILL THEN RAISE THE PLATEN BACK TO AN UPPERMOST POSITION OF REST, SAID ATTACHMENT COMPRISING A HOLLOW FRAME, MEANS TO MOUNT SAID FRAME ON THE STATIONARY PORTION OF THE DIE PRESS WITH THE HOLLOW FRAME ABOVE AND CIRCUMSCRIBING A CUTTING AREA OF THE CUTTING BLOCK, A DIE LOCATING CARRIAGE ARRANGED TO HAVE A HOLLOW DIE SECURED TO ITS UNDERSURFACE, MEANS MOUNTING THE CARRIAGE FOR MOVEMENT IN A HORIZONTAL TRANSVERSE DIRECTION RELATIVE TO THE FRAME, POWER MEANS FOR SHIFTING THE CARRIAGE IN SAID HORIZONTAL TRANSVERSE DIRECTION, MEANS MOUNTING THE CARRIAGE FOR VERTICAL MOVEMENT, MEANS BIASING THE CARRIAGE VERTICALLY UPWARDLY TOWARD THE PLATEN, SETTABLE INDEXING MEANS FOR DEACTIVATING THE POWER MEANS AFTER THE CARRIAGE HAS SHIFTED A PRESELECTED INCREMENT, MEANS OPERABLE AFTER DEACTIVATION OF THE POWER MEANS TO ACTUATE THE SINGLE CYCLE CONTROL FOR THE PLATEN, AND MEANS OPERABLE AFTER COMPLETION OF THE SIGNAL CYCLE OF THE PLATEN TO REACTIVATE THE POWER MEANS, SAID POWER MEANS AND SAID SINGLE CYCLE CONTOL FOR THE PLATEN BEING OPERABLE ALTERNATELY TO STEP THE DIE TRANSVERSELY ACROSS THE FRAME WITH THE PLATEN BEING ACTUATED WHEN THE CARRIAGE IS STATIONARY AND WITH THE CARRIAGE BEING ACTUATED WHEN THE PLATEN IS IN ITS UPPERMOST POSITION OF REST.