Compound tool for hot-working

• US 4,466,265 A
• Filed: 03/25/1982
• Issued: 08/21/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/1981
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mannesmann AG (Vodafone Group PLC)
• Original Assignee: Mannesmann AG (Vodafone Group PLC)
• Inventors: Wessel, Otto
• Primary Examiner(s): Parker, Roscoe V.
• Application Number:
  US06/361,806
• Time in Patent Office: 880 Days
• Field of Search: 76/101 R, 76/101 A, 428/550, 428/553, 164/99, 72/97, 72/209, 72/478, 72/476
• US Class Current: 72/97
• CPC Class Codes: B22D 19/06 for manufacturing or repairing tools
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12063 Nonparticulate metal component

Abstract

The compound tool is made from a powder-metallurgically-prepared portion, establishing the wear-resisting zones onto which a carrier body is cast from steel.

Claims

1. A tool for the hot-working of steel or the like, comprising:

a first part, being a powder-metallurgical part having a surface-defining wear zone for the tool; and

a second part, being a steel part having been cast onto the first part and being intimately bonded thereto;

a bond having resulted from interfacing of the first part with the molten steel during casting, thereby establishing the compound tool.

2. A tool as in claim 1, the first part being porous with a continual porosity.

3. A tool as in claim 2, the pores defining the porosity being filled with a fluid.

4. A tool as in claim 2 or 3, the second part including duct means interfacing with the first part for running a fluid to the porosity.

5. A tool as in claim 1, the first and second parts having an interface that includes force-transmitting keying surfaces.

6. A tool as in claim 1, the first part being stratified.

7. The method of making a compound, hot-working steel tool having particular surface zones expected to experience heavy wear, comprising:

making a first part of such a compound tool by powder-metallurgically-press-working and sintering powder, the first part having a first surface portion which will become said surface zone, further having a second surface portion;

casting a second part from molten steel in a mold while using the first part in the casting process, the molten steel interfacing with said second surface portion and being cast around a part of the first part and said second surface portion; and

causing the molten steel to solidify for establishing a carrier for the tool, being unreleasably bonded to the first part through an interface that includes said second surface portion, said second surface portion being configured for clamping the first part to the second part.

8. A method as in claim 7, said first-part-making step including the step of providing the first part with a continual porosity.

9. A method as in claim 7 or 8, including the step of using at least one of the following:

a high-alloyed steel powder, and/or nickel-alloyed powder, and/or cobalt alloy powder, and adding a powderous, hard material for enhancing the wear resistivity of the tool to be made.

10. A method as in claim 9, said hard material being of or including corundum and/or chromium nitrite and/or iron carbide and/or tungsten carbide and/or boride.

11. A method as in claim 7, the metallurgical press working including the step of stratifying the first part, the parts differing by grain size and/or powder composition and/or absence or presence of hardness-enhancing additives.