Patent ID: 8167602

Claim:
A tool for compacting a sintered component or a powder for the sintered component, with a clamping element and a compacting element which can be radially adjusted in terms of its dimensions and has a contact surface for the sintered component or powder, the surface of which complements the surface of the sintered component to be produced, and the clamping element has an oblique first surface and the compacting element has an oblique second surface complementing it and the first and the second oblique surface co-operate in order to prise apart and open or make smaller the compacting element, and the clamping element and/or the compacting element can be displaced in the axial direction, and a support element is provided if necessary, wherein the clamping element has at least one first clamping element part and at least one second clamping element part and at least one spring element is disposed between the first clamping element part and the second clamping element part.