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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 1989
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
James M Story, Plum Borough, PA (US);
Assignee:
Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B21D / ; B21D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
72 60 ; 294211 ;
Abstract
A method of forming an object having a relatively deep cavity from a superplastic metallic blank wherein a preform having a bottom portion and sides sloping upwardly and outwardly therefrom is first superplastically formed in a female mold. The preform is then attached to a male mold with the bottom portion of the preform in a snug fit with a top portion of the male mold which has outside dimensions equal to the cavity in the object and thereafter the preform is superplastically forced against the male mold to form the desired object.