(under subclass 343) Subject matter comprising an instrumentality, or the step of using an instrumentality, which is effective to cause or to assure such relative motion between a product of metal deformation and a tool as to detach and remove said product from said tool.
(1) Note. The instrumentality may be active or passive, e.g., it may be a fixed projection against which an article clinging to a retracting tool is struck and dislodged from the tool.
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134, 169, 250, and 257, for product handling, stripping, or ejecting associated with some other type of metal-deforming apparatus.
328, for a stripper or ejector associated with a composite (deforming and cutting) tool.
361, for product handling associated with closed die apparatus.
419, for means to handle product in metal-deforming apparatus.
427, for an ejector associated with metal-deforming apparatus.
