Abstract: Ceramic guide rails for guiding photographic film into a perforating machine are disclosed. The ceramic includes zirconium oxide and yttria in a molar ratio of yttria to zirconium oxide of from about 3:97 to about 5:95. The zirconium oxide is essentially the tetragonal phase crystal grain. In an alternate embodiment of the present invention the outer surface of the zirconium oxide is altered to the cubic phase crystal grain or the monoclinic crystal grain.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 13, 1995
Date of Patent:
September 12, 2000
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company
Inventors:
Syamal Kumar Ghosh, Dilip Kumar Chatterjee, Theodore R. Kolb