Extruded Stock
OwnerChris Taylor, Steve Grangettoinventors
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Abstract
An extruded workpiece for use as raw material stock in machining is described. The material is extruded through a die that includes a section to form a clamping region, said clamping regions sized and shaped to fit the clamp of a vise used to hold parts during machining. Another embodiment describes the die used to make the workpiece and another embodiment describes a process for using the die and the work piece to generate a finished part.
Claims9
A raw material workpiece for machining wherein said workpiece comprises an arbitrarily shaped first section joined to a second section sized and shaped to fit a tooling vise to be held while machining the workpiece wherein the workpiece including the section sized and shaped to fit a tooling vise is made by extrusion through a die.
A die for making a raw material workpiece by extrusion of material through the die, said die including a section sized and shaped such that the corresponding region on the extruded workpiece will mate with a clamping section of a vise to hold the workpiece when machining.
A process for making a raw material workpiece for machining, said process including:
- a) forming a die said die shaped to include a an arbitrarily shaped first section joined to a second section, said second section being sized and shaped to match that of a clamp of a vise,
- b) extruding raw material stock through the die to produce a workpiece said workpiece thereby including an arbitrarily shaped first section joined to a second section that is sized and shaped to match the clamp of the vise.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.