Forged sideways extrusion

摘要

A method and apparatus for forming metal parts in a progressive forming machine wherein one of the opposed tools on a ram and die breast is spring biased to operatively close the tools before the ram reaches front dead center thereby allowing material of the blank to extrude sideways through an aperture formed by both of the opposed tools in the final forward movement of the ram.

主权项

1. A method of forming a workpiece comprising transferring a metal blank to a workstation in a multi station forging machine with a stationary die breast part and a reciprocating ram part, mounting a set of opposed tools on the die breast part and the ram part at the workstation that when closed relative to one another cooperate to define both a working cavity and a lateral extrusion aperture, one of the tools being provided with a mechanism capable of holding the one tool towards the other opposed tool with a force adequate to maintain the tools in fixed relation to one another in opposition to pressure forces in the blank as the blank is worked during a final period of ram motion towards the die breast with the configuration of the aperture fixed, and extruding material of the blank laterally through the aperture as the one tool retracts relative to the part of the machine on which the one tool is mounted.