Profile: Charles Richter Corp. is engaged in the metal fabrication business. Our products include lamp components, deep draw products and fabricated metal products. Our products are available in steel, stainless steel, aluminum, copper and brass materials. Our lamp components include breaks, caps, covers, cups, fitters, inserts and bodies. We manufacture deep drawn stampings, offering custom metal fabrication services for the industrial industry for nearly all applications. The deep drawn stamping process allows for flat sheet metal, made of various metals to be turned into shapes of three-dimensional form. The stamping presses are made up of a die and a punch. The die section is a cavity, which is in the shape of the desired, end result. Sheet metal must first move over the die before the stamping occurs. Using a mechanical action punch, the metal is deep drawn or stretched into the forming die creating the desired shape. The process of drawing involves forming a sheet metal between an edge-opposing punch and die to produce a cup, cone, box or shell-like part. The metal is then bent over and wrapped around a punch nose, simultaneously, the outer portions of the blank move toward the center of the blank, until they flow over the die radius. During this process the blank is drawn into the die cavity by the punch. This radial movement increases the blank thickness as the metal moves toward the die radius. As the metal flows over the die radius, this thickness decreases, because of the tension in the shell wall between the punch nose and die radius.