Please,

Blanks are NOT allowed in a URL. Thus
http://www.linghunt.com/Equipment/Mystery Brake.JPG
should be written as
http://www.linghunt.com/Equipment/Mystery%20Brake.JPG

H.L.Law

Joepy wrote in :

Has anyone here ever seen a sheet metal brake like this:
http://www.linghunt.com/Equipment/Mystery Brake.JPG

Other than the dealer plaque (Montague-Harris) on the right side of the
apron, there is no identifying signage or label anywhere on this. As
shown in the pic, there appears to be something on both sides cast into
the upper frame that looks like an "S" on top of a "T" but that's it.
I've sent the pic to a few machinery dealers but they've never seen
this type or model of brake.

It may be more-or-less obvious, but the clamping of the sheet is done
by the vertical fingers via the handle at the right side. Then, as in a
conventional finger brake, the apron is raised using the two handles but
in this machine, the fingers tilt back at 1/2 the rate of the apron so
the the fingers are always bisecting the bend angle.

I'd love to know who made this and what this type of brake is called.
It's been bugging me for years. I have made sense of most of the
adjustments but there is one linkage that has me scratching my head.

Thanks in advance for any help!

-Joepy