Patents by Inventor Peter Giza

Peter Giza has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of reclaiming sand used in evaporative casting process
    Patent number: 4544013
    Abstract: The invention is a method of reclaiming sand used in a method of casting a metal having a liquidus temperature below 2000.degree. F., the casting method using a vaporizable pattern set within a mold constituted of unbonded sand. The method comprises: (a) blowing, after a predetermined lapse of time after the pouring of the metal into the mold, a combustion supporting gas into and through substantially the entire volume of the mold to levitate at least a region of the sand adjacent to the casting and to combust volatilized byproducts of the pattern entering the mold, and (b) continuing the blowing of the combustion supporting gas to continue combustion and driving of the gas and byproducts of the combustion out of the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Dolores C. Kearney, Peter Giza, Bruno Matz