Assembly and Method for Press Forming a Deformable Material
AssigneeThe University of Queensland
InventorsPaul Anthony Meehan, William J.T. Daniel, Shichao Ding
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Abstract
An assembly for press forming a deformable material including: a first die array including a plurality of dies, the first die array defining a first die profile; a second die array that is complementary with the first die array and including a plurality of dies, the second die array defining a second die profile that is complementary with the first die profile; and a drive for driving at least one of the first die array and the second die array; wherein in use the plurality of dies of the first die array and the plurality of dies of the second die array sequentially engage the deformable material along a processing length to deform the deformable material to a predetermined profile.
Claims1
A method of fabricating a die set having a profile for continuous deformation of a deformable material from an initial profile to a final profile including:
- mapping the profile of the die set;
- forming the die set, including a first die and a second die that define the profile of the die set;
- and
- splitting at least one of the first die and the second die to form a die array.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.