Abstract: A method and a product are provided for improving the resistance to abrasion of a load-carrying surface of a conveyor belt formed of a cord-reinforced elastomer material selected from the group consisting of natural and synthetic rubber, the belt being adapted for use for conveying particulate ore or other particulate material having abrasive properties. The method employed comprises cleaning the surface of the conveyor belt prior to coating the same with an abrasion resistant coating. The conveyor belt is characterized by a distribution of pores in the surface to be coated. A flexible coating of a polymer selected from the group consisting of polyolefins and polyester elastomers is flame sprayed in the molten state onto the conveyor belt surface using a flame spray torch. The flame of the torch is spaced from the conveyor surface to avoid contacting of the flame with the surface being coated.

Abstract: A blended flame spray powder composition is provided for use in producing a bonded wear resistant coating on an aluminum bronze substrate such as a glass mold part. The blended composition comprises a copper-base alloy mixed with a nickel-base alloy, the copper-base alloy powder comprising by weight about 5% to 15% aluminum, about 5% to 30% nickel, 0 to about 1% iron, about 0.1 to 1% silicon and the balance essentially copper. The nickel-base alloy powder comprises by weight 0 to about 0.5% carbon, 0 to about 1% manganese, 0 to about 21.5% chromium, 0 to about 7.5% iron, 0 to about 3.75% columbium, about 0.5% to 3% silicon, 0 to about 9% molybdenum, 0 to about 2% boron, 0 to about 2.5% phosphorus and the balance essentially nickel. The blending ratio of one powder to the other is such that a bonded coating produced therefrom on an aluminum bronze substrate, such as a glass mold part, contains at least about 9% copper and at least about 1.25% aluminum.

Abstract: A method is provided for applying a self-fluxing, self-bonding alloy coating of a hard facing alloy in powder form to a ferrous metal plate or substrate of melting point substantially higher than that of the hard facing alloy. The method comprises providing a plate of a ferrous metal substrate to be coated in which a surface of the plate to be coated is cleaned, e.g., by grit blasting. A retaining bank is formed substantially about a predetermined periphery of the plate by forming a ridge of a predetermined height on the clean surface to provide a confining zone into which a powder of the hard facing alloy is smoothly applied to a predetermined thickness to provide a composite of the alloy powder and the substrate. The powder may have an average particle size ranging from about 40 mesh to about 400 mesh (U.S. Standard) e.g., about 80 mesh to about 325 mesh.

Abstract: An autogenous flame spraying apparatus includes a supply line housing having gas supply lines for combustion gas, carrier gas and acceleration gas; a main housing connected to the supply line housing and having a supply line for a spray powder, and ducts communicating with the gas supply lines, the housing having a first injector for mixing the spray powder and the carrier gas to form a first mixture; an interchangeable nozzle carrier for carrying a releasable torch nozzle, the carrier being releasably attached to the main housing and having a second injector for mixing the combustion gas and the carrier gas to form a second mixture, the nozzle carrier also having ducts for conveying the first mixture and the second mixture to the torch nozzle, whereby the carrier can be replaced so as to alter both flame power and feed of spray powder.

Abstract: The invention contemplates an adapter for easily converting existing gas metal arc welding apparatus to serve the relatively elevated gas-flow requirements of a gas-constricted arc nozzle.The adapter makes it possible to utilize a shop-air or other high-capacity source of pressurized gas, in substitution for a conventional gas cylinder, and in making the substitution the existing solenoid valve and its controls remain without change except that the solenoid valve becomes the control, for pilot operation of a main valve forming part of the adapter.

Abstract: A flux cored tubular metallic arc cutting electrode having a steel tube with a core composition of particulate carbonaceous material which is drawn and compacted within the steel tube by reducing the size of the tube. Preferably the carbonaceous material contains at least 75% carbon and additive selected from the group consisting of arc stabilizers, fluxing agents, and gas formers. The electrode is characterized in use by reduced dross formation.

Abstract: The invention contemplates a host-torch body configuration for interchangeable use of a selected one of a variety of different welding-process heads. A bayonet-type locking engagement is quickly operable to connect or disconnect any selected process head. The arrangement is such that the same bayonet-lockable engagement serves electrical-supply, consumable-electrode supply, and gas-supply or gas-venting requirements of particular different welding-process heads.

Abstract: A flux cored tubular metallic arc cutting electrode having a low carbon steel tube and a compacted core composition consisting of a particulate reactant metal such as magnesium, aluminum, zirconicum, titanium and alloys of at least two of the particulate reactant metals, mixed with an exothermically reactable metal oxide. Preferably the metal oxide is an iron group oxide such as iron oxide or nickel oxide. The particulate reactant metal is characterized by a free energy of formation of its oxide referred to 25.degree. C. of at least 100,000 calories per gram atom of oxygen, the exothermically reactable metal oxide being characterized by a free energy of formation not exceeding 90,000 calories per gram atom of oxygen referred to 25.degree. C. Additionally the electrode can contain an additive such as an arc stabilizer, a fluxing agent, a deoxidizer or a gas former.

Abstract: An electric-arc discharge device includes an annular gas-flow nozzle surrounding the discharge electrode, the nozzle being configured for discharging gas flows at trans-sonic to supersonic velocity, with circumferential uniformity of the gas flow around the axis of the electrode, and directed downstream to surround and radially inwardly confine and shape the arc. The trans-sonic speeds of gas discharge are the result of special annular gas-nozzle design and suitable pressure of gas supply thereto, whereby a region of criticality characterizes gas flow within the nozzle, i.e., prior to discharge at trans-sonic speeds, the discharge being around the electrode and with such thrusting momentum as to establish shaping confinement and directional stability of the region of electric-arc development.

Abstract: An electric-arc discharge device includes an annular gas-flow nozzle surrounding the discharge electrode, the nozzle being configured for discharging gas flows at trans-sonic to supersonic velocity, with circumferential uniformity of the gas flow around the axis of the electrode, and directed downstream to surround and radially inwardly confine and shape the arc. The trans-sonic speeds of gas discharge are the result of special annular gas-nozzle design and suitable pressure of gas supply thereto, whereby a region of criticality characterizes gas flow within the nozzle, i.e., prior to discharge at trans-sonic speeds, the discharge being around the electrode and with such thrusting momentum as to establish shaping confinement and directional stability of the region of electric-arc development.

Abstract: A flame spray ceramic powder is provided consisting essentially of about 10 to 50% alumina and the balance essentially zirconia. Preferably, the zirconia is stabilized. A method is disclosed for flame spraying the coating composition onto a metal substrate.

Abstract: Plural powders are supplied to one or more torches from different fluidized-powder zones, and plural independent lines through each of these zones enable each torch to be supplied with one or more independent lines of powder flow to the nozzle-discharge region of each torch.

Abstract: A multi-purpose hand tool applicator is provided for applying coating material to a surface. The tool comprises an elongated handle having a blade-receiving slot longitudinally disposed therein for detachably receiving one of a plurality of applicator blades each having a male portion for insertion into the handle and an applicator portion opposite the male portion, the handle having means for detachably holding the blade against dislodgement during use.

Abstract: A flame spray system comprising a torch is provided having a gas mixing chamber and means for feeding acetylene and oxygen to the mixing chamber in a preselected proportion. The system includes acetylene valve means with an orifice restrictor for feeding the gas to a mixing chamber, the orifice size being selected to provide, in the choked state, a flow of acetylene therethrough under a selected choke pressure.

Abstract: A method for producing a weld-bonded nickel-base alloy coating on a cast iron part with minimum porosity at the weld interface is provided using a plasma transferred arc process in which the cast iron part is electrically coupled to the plasma-forming circuit, the flow of powder being directed into the plasma arc to the surface of the cast iron part. The method further resides in controlling the deposit of the nickel-base alloy during spraying to maintain a puddle of the alloy between the transfer arc plasma and the cast iron part substrate to protect it from overheating and burning from the transfer arc while promoting a welding reaction between the puddle and the cast iron substrate. The plasma spraying is continued progressively along the cast iron substrate to be coated while maintaining the alloy puddle between the plasma arc and the cast iron until completion of the coating thereof. The invention also relates to a composite article of manufacture.

Abstract: Relates to a coating alloy consisting essentially by weight of up to about 0.1% C, about 3% to 30% Mo, up to about 3% Si, up to about 6% W, about 2.5% to 12% Ti, about 10% to 22% Fe, up to about 0.4% V, and the balance essentially nickel.

Abstract: A flux-cored welding tubular electrode is provided made of a low-carbon steel strip having confined therein a uniform mixture of alloying ingredients and fluxing compounds in such proportion that substantially the total composition of the welding electrode including the low-carbon steel sheath consists essentially by weight of about 4.5 to 6% B, about 1.5 to 3.2% Mn, about 1.5 to 2.75% Ni, about 1.3 to 2.25% Si, about 0.375 to 1.2% C, about 2 to 6% of flux material compatible with the alloying ingredients, and the balance essentially iron. The composition of the electrode is proportioned such that the weld deposit produced from the electrode consists essentially by weight of about 0.4 to 0.8% C, about 4.8 to 6.2% B, about 1.6 to 3.0% Mn, about 1.6 to 2.8% Ni, about 1.4 to 2.4% Si, and the balance essentially iron.

Abstract: A nickel-base welding electrode is provided comprising a nickel core and a metallic powder-laden flux coating bonded thereto, the total composition of the electrode comprising about 40% to 50% by weight of the nickel core and about 60% to 50% by weight of the coating. The coating contains as fluxes about 18% to 30% titanium dioxide, about 8% to 16% calcium fluoride, about 1% to 3% iron carbonate, about 1.5% to 4% calcium carbonate, about 2% to 6% calcium-magnesium carbonate, and contains as the powdered metals about 20% to 30% chromium, about 3% to 8% manganese, about 1% to 4% molybdenum, about 1% to 5% niobium, about 8% to 18% iron, 0% to about 6% nickel, up to 1% graphite, and as extrusion aids about 1% to 4% clay and about 1% to 5% organic extrusion aid material.

Abstract: The invention contemplates a powder-feeding system for gas-propelled delivery of a powder to be controllably supplied, as to a flame-spraying gas torch or to a transferred-arc plasma torch. A fluidizing chamber receives (a) fluidizing-gas flow from below a porous screen, and (b) a restricted gravitational flow of powder at a relatively small central discharge location above the porous screen. A gas conduit extends transversely through the chamber between the powder-discharge location and the porous screen; it has a carrier-gas supply connection at one end and a gas-propelled powder-delivery connection at its other end. The conduit also has an upwardly extending opening virtually beneath and facing the powder-discharge location, but a shed interposed between this opening and the powder-discharge location sufficiently overlaps the opening to assure that no powder will pass through the opening and into the conduit unless it has been gas-fluidized.

Abstract: The invention contemplates a plasma-transferred-arc torch construction wherein, optionally, a single releasable clamp enables rapid separation of downstream-end fittings of an anode subassembly and a cathode subassembly, as for inspection, servicing and/or replacement; in an alternative option, release of the single clamp enables rapid further disassembly of the entirety of the respective subassemblies from mounting structure which includes the single clamp. These options are available for torch structure incorporating provision for sealed independent fluid-flow supplies of (a) coolant serving both electrode subassemblies, (b) plasma gas serving an annular interelectrode gap at the downstream end of the torch, (c) a metallic, ceramic or other powder fluidized in a carrier gas, for torch-deposition of the powder, and (d) a shielding gas to protect the zone of plasma-transfer of the arc and any powder conveyed therewith.