Abstract: A manufacturing by consolidation system suitable for fabricating a component may include a consolidating head movable in a tamping direction. The consolidating head may include at least one support member. A lower head may be carried by the at least one support member. The lower head may have at least one tamper. At least one material dispensing assembly may be carried by the at least one support member. The at least one material dispensing assembly may be configured to contain or support a supply of at least one consolidating material. At least one material support guide may be carried by the lower head in material-receiving relationship to the consolidating roll unit. The at least one material support guide may have a guide discharge end forwardly of the tamper along the tamping direction. A platform positioning assembly may be disposed generally beneath the consolidating head. A working platform may be carried by the platform positioning assembly.

Abstract: Methods of fabricating reduced weight components for apparatuses include obtaining a component including a relatively lightweight material; placing at least one stabilizing structure on the component; sequentially applying a plurality of applied layers on the component and the stabilizing structure by applying the relatively lightweight material over the component and applying over the relatively lightweight material a plurality of layers having gradually progressively higher proportions of the relatively heavyweight material than preceding ones of the plurality of layers closer to the component, with an outer layer of the plurality of applied layers including the relatively heavyweight material; diffusion bonding the plurality of applied layers by consolidation of the plurality of applied layers; and cutting component features in the plurality of applied layers.

Abstract: A hydraulically-retrievable, reversible flow operation jet pump threadably attached to a tubing string which is powered by fluid supplied through the tubing string. A pump housing, or container, of the jet pump includes a hollow cylinder with an internal diameter closely matching that of the attached tubing string. A jet pump assembly is retainably, scalably disposed within the pump housing. A jet pump reducing nozzle-mixing chamber-diffuser assembly is retainably disposed within the carrier. Power fluid pumped through the nozzle-mixing chamber-diffuser assembly conventionally draws in objective fluid in which the jet pump is immersed, and transports it out of the pump to the desired receiving station. The jet pump assembly can be oriented in either of two directions within the pump housing, for selected fluid direction flow.

Abstract: Methods of fabricating reduced weight components for apparatuses include providing a plurality of layers from a component core including a relatively lightweight material to an outer layer including a relatively heavyweight material heavier in weight than the relatively lightweight material, the plurality of layers having increasingly higher proportions of the relatively heavyweight material than the relatively lightweight material from the component core to the outer layer; and diffusion bonding the plurality of layers and the outer layer by consolidation of the layers.