EXTRUSION DIES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME

• Main Authors: ANTESBERGER, Timothy Eugene, COOTS, Dana Eugene, DACHEUX, Eric Jay, ELLIOTT, Kevin Eugene, HUZINEC, Gary Michael, SIDEBOTTOM, Neil James
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 22.12.2021
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING; APPARATUS THEREFOR; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; CHEMISTRY; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATIONOR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY IONIMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COMBINED OPERATIONS; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; ELECTROFORMING; ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION INGENERAL; MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; METALLURGY; OTHER WORKING OF METAL; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PRODUCTIONOF COATINGS; SHAPING CLAY OR OTHER CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS, SLAG, OR MIXTURESCONTAINING CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THESURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; TRANSPORTING; UNIVERSAL MACHINE TOOLS; WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE; WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL

Methods of manufacturing an extrusion die (100) having a plurality of pins (600a-c) and a plurality of slots (601) defined by the plurality of pins, each pin having a base, the method including applying a coating material (604) over side walls of the bases of the pins of the extrusion die and removing a portion of the coating material coated over the side walls of the bases of the plurality of pins with a cutting tool (650). In some embodiments, the cutting tool has a cutting width (652) equal to a target slot width (640) of the slots. In some embodiments, applying the coating material over the side walls of the bases of the pins includes overcoating a coating material to a thickness that is greater than a thickness needed to define a target slot width of the slots.