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US 5,793,015 AGranted
Apparatus for rapidly forming laminated dies
AssigneeMIT (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology)
InventorDaniel Walczyk
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Abstract
An improved apparatus for forming profiled edge lamination (PEL) dies rapidly and accurately is disclosed.
Claims29
An apparatus for cutting a plurality of lamination blanks into die lamination members to form a die comprising a cutting means comprising a cutting device for cutting lamination blanks;
- a means for advancing lamination blanks one-by-one to a cutting position in front of the cutting device;
- a means for placing lamination blanks one-by-one in the advancing means;
- and a receiving container disposed adjacent the advancing means, which container receives the cut die lamination members and stores them in a horizontal side-by-side vertical stacked array so as to form a die.
An apparatus for cutting a plurality of lamination blanks used to form a die comprising:
- a lamination blank loading container;
- a gripping means disposed adjacent to the loading container;
- a means for placing a lamination blank into the gripping means;
- a means for advancing a lamination blank into the gripping means;
- a lamination cutting device which is movable along the length of the lamination blank;
- the cutting device disposed adjacent the gripping means so that the cutting device passes in front of a lamination blank advancing into the gripping means;
- a means for disposing a cut lamination into a receiving container after the cutting device has advanced completely past the cut lamination;
- wherein said disposing means works in combination with the placing means so that when a cut lamination is disposed in the receiving container another lamination blank is placed in the gripping means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.