Cutting dies are used to cut metal and prepare blanks for further operations. There are several types of cutting dies including blanking dies, which cut a complete contour from stock material, and piercing dies, which cut openings and holes leaving the punched out section as waste. Additional types are inverted dies, which have the punch mounted on the die shoe; notching dies, which remove small amounts of material from edges; and trimming dies, which remove excess material from deep drawn or forged parts.
Cutting dies are used to cut metal and prepare blanks for further operations. There are several types of cutting dies including blanking dies, which cut a complete contour from stock material, and piercing dies, which cut openings and holes leaving the punched out section as waste. Additional types are inverted dies, which have the punch mounted on the die shoe; notching dies, which remove small amounts of material from edges; and trimming dies, which remove excess material from deep drawn or forged parts.
Cutting dies are used to cut metal and prepare blanks for further operations. There are several types of cutting dies including blanking dies, which cut a complete contour from stock material, and piercing dies, which cut openings and holes leaving the punched out section as waste. Additional types are inverted dies, which have the punch mounted on the die shoe; notching dies, which remove small amounts of material from edges; and trimming dies, which remove excess material from deep drawn or forged parts.
Cutting dies are used to cut metal and prepare blanks for further operations. There are several types of cutting dies including blanking dies, which cut a complete contour from stock material, and piercing dies, which cut openings and holes leaving the punched out section as waste. Additional types are inverted dies, which have the punch mounted on the die shoe; notching dies, which remove small amounts of material from edges; and trimming dies, which remove excess material from deep drawn or forged parts.
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PRESS TOOL DESIGN
3. CUTTING DIES
Cutting dies are used to cut the metal. They utilizes the cutting or shearing action. They prepare blanks for further operations like bending, forming and drawing etc. Common cutting dies are blanking, piercing, compound etc.
a) CLASSIFICATION OF CUTTING DIES
BLANKING DIES: These dies are used
to cut about a complete contour from the stock material. The article, punched out is called a ‘blank’ and it is the required product. The hole and metal left behind is discarded as waste or scrap. For blanking, the clearance is always provided on the punch side and die is made accurate.
b) PIERCING DIES: These dies are used
to punch or cut-out any opening into a blank or a semi-finished product. In these dies, the hole is the desired product and the material punched out to form the hole being waste or scrap. In these dies, it is not necessary that a circular hole is produced, they can be of any shape and form. e.g. square, rectangle or any other irregular shape. In these dies, clearance is provided in the die and the punch is made accurate as per the required size. Piercing Die
1 PRESS TOOL DESIGN 3. CUTTING DIES c) INVERTED DIES AND COMPOUND DIES i. INVERTED DIES: On conventional dies, the punching element is generally in the punch holder and the die is carried on the die shoe attached to the bolster. Some times this arrangement is reversed and the punch is mounted on the die shoe. This type of die is called an ‘Inverted die’ and its advantage is that there is little possibility of thin blanks being bent.
Inverted Die c) SECONDARY OPERATION DIES i) NOTCHING DIES Notching dies removes a small amount of material from either or both edges of the strip or blank. It serves to shape the outer contour of the workpiece in progressive dies or to remove excess material before a drawing or forming operation in a progressive die. The excess metal allows the metal to flow or form without interference from excess material on the sides. In the notching die the punch may act on two sides or three sides but never on all sides.
Notching die
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ii) TRIMMING DIES
The trimming dies removes the distorted or the excess metal from deep drawn shapes or forged parts which imparts a certain shape to the sides of strip or a component.
Trimming die
iii) SHAVING DIES
Shaving dies generally involves finishing operations in which very small amount of material is removed from the edge of the blank or pierced hole. In these dies, no cutting clearance is made. Its objective is to obtain straight, smooth sidewall to accurate dimensions.
Shaving Die
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iv) PARTING OFF DIES
The parting off dies separates the work material along a straight in a double line cut. It usually occurs in final stages of progressive dies. These dies are frequently used when the component shapes are more complicated in one direction and straight in another.
Parting off die
v) CUT OFF DIES Cut off dies separates the work material along a straight line in a single line cut. These dies are used to chop-up the scrap strip selection as it leaves the die. It occurs in final stages of progressive dies and produces no scrap.
Cut off die
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vi) PERFORATING DIES
The perforating dies are used to produce series of evenly spaced holes in a regular pattern on a sheet metal. In perforating dies the number of punches and dies depends upon the number of holes to be produced.
