Uddeholm Tooling Aktiebolag

Per Hasselstrom

Bertil Johansson

Method to consolidate a metal powder body and forging produced by the

A method of powder metallurgically manufacturing an article with near net shape is disclosed, the method comprising filling the mould cavity (3) of an open ceramic open mould (1), the inside walls of the cavity being precision copying cast surfaces (2), with fine particulate metal powder (5), placing the mould with its content of metal powder in an outer mould (6), and covering the ceramic open mould containing the metal powder with a bed of finely distributed particulate pressure medium (7), heating the bed of pressure medium and ceramic mould and particulate metal powder therein and subjecting the particulate pressure medium to pressure provided by at least one surface acting in an axial direction against the opening (4) of the ceramic mould, so that pressure is transferred by the particulate pressure medium to the metal powder in the mould to consolidate the metal powder to a completely dense body (21) with surfaces (22) which have been shaped by the precision cast surfaces of the mould cavity.

Powder metallurgical method

A method of powder metallurgically manufacturing an object is disclosed, wherein

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Norrtalje, Sweden

Per Hasselstrom