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Method for making a die for stamping metal reflectors

  • US 4,424,727 A
  • Filed: 09/15/1980
  • Issued: 01/10/1984
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/15/1980
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for making a metal stamping tool suitable for use in forming a concave, open ended reflector having a cross-sectional shape in the form of a nonconic, asphere that is bilaterally symmetric about a central axis therethrough and has a radius of curvature that continuously increases with distance along said axis comprising the steps of:

  • constructing a trial metal stamping tool having a cross-sectional shape in the form of nonconic, asphere that is more concave than the reflector, said trial tool curve being of the same general shape as said reflector but having a continuously changing radius of curvature that is generally smaller than that of the reflector at corresponding points along the reflector axis of symmetry;

    forming a trial reflector by stamping with said trial tool a metal blank workpiece of predetermined thickness and material composition; and

    constructing a final metal stamping tool having a cross-sectional shape whose radius of curvature varies continuously along the reflector axis of symmetry in accordance with the ratio between said radius of curvature of said trial tool and said trial reflector at corresponding points along the reflector axis of symmetry.

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