Method and device for positioning workpieces to be joined

摘要

To avoid a special work-transfer system, at least one workpiece (13, 14), while still passing the same through a vacuum chamber (12) virtually without loss of vacuum, is connected non-positively, positively and/or frictionally to an auxiliary body (26, 27) of the same outer profile (35, 36), and workpiece (13, 14) and auxiliary body (26, 27) are moved together into or through the vacuum chamber (12), the overall length of workpiece and auxiliary body being greater than the passage length (29) of the chamber. Due to the inexpensive auxiliary body (26, 27), which is simple in its construction and manipulation and is adapted in its outer contour (35, 36) to the workpiece profile (15, 16), a method and a device are advantageously provided for the series production of workpieces (13, 14) with the same outer profile (15, 16). <IMAGE>