process for manufacturing a blade of steel for the agriculture and forestry sector

摘要

A process for manufacturing a blade (8) having at least one cutting edge (7) and being made of steel provides for a blade blank to be punched and this, in the region of the cutting edge (7) to be formed later, to be heated in the surface region and then to be quenched, and the cutting edge being produced on the blade blank by grinding. The blade blank is punched from a low-carbon steel which after heating and quenching attains a core hardness of from approximately 35 to 48 HRc. The blade blank, with its surface resulting after punching, is surface-treated thermochemically by the blade blank in the process being heated as a whole, by there being introduced by diffusion into the free surface of the blade blank at least carbon and/or nitrogen, and the blade blank being quenched, so that the blade blank simultaneously is tempered in its core and on its free surface is hardened, prior to the cutting edge (7) being produced by grinding of the cutting face (6). IMAGE