High-Speed Press
Built by Martin Greaves in September 2025
This Meccano model of a High-Speed Press (which is model 9.5 on a Special Model Leaflet) is based on equipment in common use in industry where it is employed to stamp repetition components from strip steel or tinplate. The metal strip is fed into the press from a reel and passes over two rollers. These are power driven, and by turning intermittently, carry the strip through the press. In the model, the punching device consists of three rods which rise and fall vertically and mate with holes in the work table. The punching motion is actuated by means of an eccentric drive from the main shaft. This shaft, on one end of which is a heavy flywheel, is driven by a Meccano E15R Electric Motor. At the other end of the main shaft a crank mechanism converts the rotary motion of the shaft into the reciprocal motion required to actuate the intermittent motion of the feed rollers.