Air hardened - A quenching method used to cool tool steel. Air or a vacuum cools the steel slowly.
Annealing – Heating steel and maintaining the temperature, then cooling gradually. This removes stress and hardness. It’s commonly performed to aide in forming.
Blank holder - A mechanism that prevents a blank from moving during the drawing process;
Blanking – Process to form, cut or punch out a rough shape of sheet metal; the resulting part is called a blank;
Bolster plate - A plate attached to the press bed that locates and holds the die shoe in place.
Case hardening – hardening to a pre-determined depth to improve wear resistance and strength for low carbon steel;
Clearance - The space between punch and die; proper die clearance is important to maintaining press speed, minimizing tool wear, and minimizing punch point galling;
Die Button - Also called a die bushing, is a tube or sleeve that makes the opening for a piercing punch. The slug passes through the die button.
Die retainer - A hardened steel block that contains the impressions or cavities that shape the part as the punch descends, and also holds the die button.
Die shoe - Also referred to as a die holder. A lower die shoe is the lower plate of a die set that supports the die retainer and die button. The upper die shoe is the upper plate of a die set that secures the punch retainer.
Flatness - A geometrical tolerance sometimes required, is measured as the distance between two parallel planes within which the entire surface of the part must lie. A flatness measurement determines the degree of variation in the surface of a part.
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