Patents Assigned to Manlabs, Incorporated
  • Ternary boride product and process
    Patent number: 3937619
    Abstract: A hard, tough, strong ceramic body is formed by hot pressing a mixture of a powdered metal and a powdered metal diboride. The metal employed is zirconium, titanium or hafnium and the diboride is the diboride of a different member of the same group of zirconium, titanium or hafnium to form a ternary composition. During hot pressing at temperatures above about 2,000.degree.F., a substantial proportion of acicular ternary monoboride is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1973
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1976
    Assignee: Manlabs, Incorporated
    Inventor: Edward V. Clougherty