Including Post-heating Patents (Class 228/231)
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Patent number: 4442968Abstract: Disclosed is a brazing filler metal composition comprising, by weight, about 8% to 11% chromium, 2.0%-3.0% boron, 3.0%-4.5% silicon, 2.5%-4.0% iron, 7.0%-9.0% tungsten, a maximum of about 0.06% carbon and the remainder nickel. Further disclosed is a vacuum brazing process utilizing said filler metal composition.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1982Date of Patent: April 17, 1984Assignee: Avco CorporationInventors: John H. McMurray, Jule Miller
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Patent number: 4412122Abstract: A method for welding bodies made of very hard or highly refined armor steel, particularly objects to be armored against the penetration of projectiles, flying bodies, splinters or the like, wherein armor steel bodies arranged in juxtaposition with a gap therebetween are provided, in the region of the root of the joint, with preferably one bar each, and/or a filler body of, in particular, an unalloyed steel is arranged in the joint so as to cover the joint gap. The armor steel bodies are welded together without preheating with a suitable ferritic welding material, of like base, under a protective gas atmosphere and after cooling of the weld seam from the welding heat to not less than 100.degree. C., the weld seam is heated locally and progressively without any holding period to at least 450.degree. C. and subsequently, without maintaining a certain ambient temperature and/or period of time, the weld seam is cooled to ambient temperature in air.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1978Date of Patent: October 25, 1983Assignee: Thyssen Industrie Ag MaschinenbauInventors: Gunter Bohm, Wolfram Funk
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Patent number: 4375008Abstract: Method for encapsulating components in cases, which includes connecting a gold wire to an aluminum surface, subsequently closing the case by welding in a vacuum, and tempering the case in a hydrogen-containing atmosphere and an encapsulation produced by the method.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1980Date of Patent: February 22, 1983Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Joachim Dathe
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Patent number: 4366735Abstract: A workpiece holding device having an expandable mandrel for engaging a bore of the workpiece is disclosed. The holding device includes an expandable sleeve of generally cylindrical shape having a thin outer shell with a pair of opposed thick wall circular ends integral with the shell extending radially inward to form a bore. An elongated generally circular central body with a central bore for containing pressure and adapted to be mounted on a machine tool having an outside diameter engageable with the bore. A pair of opposed arcuate undercut grooves are formed at an intersection of the outer shell and the circular ends to prevent the formation of destructive stress concentration at the intersection. Chamfers are formed at the outer edges of the bore and copper rings are inserted therein and melted to form a seal between the bore and mount the expandable sleeve to the central body.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1980Date of Patent: January 4, 1983Inventor: Russell E. Dubois, Sr.
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Patent number: 4362582Abstract: Tungsten is placed in contact with either molybdenum, tantalum, niobium, vanadium, rhenium, or other metal of atoms having a different diffusion coefficient than tungsten. The metals are heated so that the atoms having the higher diffusion coefficient migrate to the metal having the lower diffusion rate, leaving voids in the higher diffusion coefficient metal. Heating is continued until the voids are interconnected.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1967Date of Patent: December 7, 1982Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of EnergyInventor: Joseph C. Danko
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Patent number: 4332343Abstract: Extraction of non-lead components (e.g. tin, indium, etc.) from solder joints with monocarboxylic acids of alkylated hydrophenanthrene nuclei to increase the lead content of the solder joints.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1980Date of Patent: June 1, 1982Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nicholas G. Koopman, Vincent C. Marcotte, Stephen Teed
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Patent number: 4302658Abstract: A process for improving the mechanical properties of welded silicon steel. The weld heat affected area of welded silicon steel is heat treated while retaining the welded lengths within a clamping fixture so as to restrain movement thereof from the initiation of welding through the completion of the heat treatment.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1980Date of Patent: November 24, 1981Assignee: Allegheny Ludlum Steel CorporationInventor: Jack M. Beigay
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Patent number: 4256518Abstract: A box tool joint member of generally tubular configuration is adapted for securement by welding to one end of a steel tube to form a drill pipe. The box tool joint member comprises a body having a cylindrical outer periphery, an internally threaded socket at one end of the body, and a weld neck of smaller outer diameter than the body adjacent to the other end of the body. A tapered transition piece connecting the neck with the adjacent end of the body provides an elevator shoulder. A correlative pin tool joint member is welded to the opposite end of the tube to complete the drill pipe.The box tool joint member has an annular band of hard facing over the outer periphery of the transition piece and extending down over the adjacent part of the weld neck and up around the adjacent part of the body. The hard facing is corrosion resistant and has a smooth finished surface. Underneath the hard facing and extending beyond both ends of the hard facing is an annular butter layer of non-hardenable steel.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1979Date of Patent: March 17, 1981Assignee: Smith International, Inc.Inventors: Jimmie B. Bolton, Sam T. Crews
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Patent number: 4188419Abstract: A method for preventing the development of cracks below seams during the plating and welding of material by employing a heat source for producing local heating of the regions of the material adjacent the welding zone.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1978Date of Patent: February 12, 1980Assignee: Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-G.m.b.H.Inventors: Klaus Detert, Wolfgang Bertram, Hermann Fischdick
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Patent number: 4178665Abstract: A method of fabricating a gate valve having a hollow body with inlet and outlet conduits mounted therein and seat support members mounted on inner ends of the conduits includes fabricating and stress relieving a seat support assembly, then machining it to finished dimensions, then inserting the seat support assembly into a hollow body member. After this is done, the seat support assembly is welded inside the hollow body member. Local stress relieving of welds in the body can be employed during and after assembly and welding.One arrangement includes inlet and outlet conduit sections welded to the hollow body and opposed inner conduit sections having the opposed seat support members thereon with the inner conduit sections welded to the inlet and outlet conduit sections from a position inside the conduits to form a continuation of the outer conduit sections. Another arrangement includes inlet and outlet conduits having seat support members welded and finish machined prior to assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 1978Date of Patent: December 18, 1979Assignee: ACF Industries, IncorporatedInventors: Willard E. Kemp, Bert L. Morrison
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Patent number: 4177916Abstract: Soldering method comprises placing a cadmium-zinc-lead solder on a copper base and exposing the solder joint to about 200.degree. C. for at least one hour to produce a copper-cadmium-zinc ternary interface barrier layer which inhibits migration.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1978Date of Patent: December 11, 1979Assignee: Hughes Aircraft CompanyInventors: Michael C. Denlinger, Robert W. Korb, Vernon F. Lardenoit
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Patent number: 4176433Abstract: A method for remanufacturing turbine vane clusters of gas turbine engines is disclosed. Concepts and techniques for salvaging undamaged vanes from a damaged vane cluster are developed. In accordance with the method taught, protective coatings on the vane clusters are removed and residual stresses in the vanes are relieved before salvageable vanes are separated from their original vane cluster.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1978Date of Patent: December 4, 1979Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Jack W. Lee, Charles A. Voehringer
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Patent number: 4144993Abstract: In a continuous casting mold of a copper alloy havng a nickel layer plated on the mold cavity surface, wherein an alloy layer of nickel containing one of Co, Fe and Mn and 3-5 mm thickness replaces the Ni layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1977Date of Patent: March 20, 1979Assignee: Mishima Kosan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuji Ushio, Satoru Tatsuguchi, Hoshiro Tani
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Patent number: 4134528Abstract: Copper-clad steel wire is produced by forming a copper tube around the wire, and drawing down the copper tube and wire to reduce the cross-section of the wire by at least 30%. The wire is annealed, slowly cooled and the cross-section further reduced by at least 10%.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1977Date of Patent: January 16, 1979Assignee: Kabel-und Metallwerke GutehoffnungshuetteInventors: Werner Bahre, Karl H. Stobaus, Gerhard Ziemek
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Patent number: 4120440Abstract: A steel which contains up to 0.15% carbon, 0.5 to 1.5% manganese, 0.03 to 0.10% silicon, less than 0.2% molybdenum, up to 0.05 aluminum, 0.03 to 0.05% titanium and 0.002 to 0.008% boron is particularly suitable as a welding consumable, for example as an electrode for the submerged arc welding of high strength micro-alloyed structural steels. Especially when used with a basic flux, welds can be produced showing excellent notch toughness characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1977Date of Patent: October 17, 1978Assignee: British Steel CorporationInventors: Philip R. Kirkwood, Allan Clark
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Patent number: 4076164Abstract: A method, in the art of brazing metallic parts to one another, including a step of subjecting a brazed assembly to relatively high temperatures over a relatively short period of time in a manner to induce blistering of unbrazed or weakly brazed areas. Blistered material can then be removed, leaving a soundly brazed structure which in use will not fragment and give up loose materials to ambient surroundings.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 1977Date of Patent: February 28, 1978Assignee: United Aircraft Products, Inc.Inventor: Ivan Gene Freshcorn
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Patent number: 4063674Abstract: A method for making a wound musical instrument string having improved tone quality and life involves the winding of a cover wire onto a core wire followed by a thermal conditioning step in which the string is heated to an elevated temperature for a significant period of time.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 1976Date of Patent: December 20, 1977Assignee: National Musical String CompanyInventors: W. Norman Stone, Alfred S. Falcone
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Patent number: 3997099Abstract: A method of producing composite material for bearings or sliding members, comprising applying pressure, by rolling, simultaneously to a strip having a steel backing and a layer of copper-base alloy bonded to the steel backing, and a strip of lead-base alloy with the copper-base alloy layer positioned between said steel backing and said lead-base alloy strip, said pressure being such as to bond the two strips to each other to form the composite material.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 1975Date of Patent: December 14, 1976Assignee: Daido Metal Company, Ltd.Inventor: Nobukazu Morisaki
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Patent number: 3938724Abstract: A butt welded tube is provided having excellent properties by the steps of forming a skelp onto a round shape, butt welding the edges thereof with butt welding rolls, blowing oxygen or air into the weld zone, so that said zone is brought to a melted condition with oxidizing heat based on said blowing and some notches which are formed are blown off with said blowing, and then said tube is passed through a train of reducing rolls to obtain a smooth surface and the required dimension of said tube.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1973Date of Patent: February 17, 1976Assignee: Nippon Kokan Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takao Nakamura, Itsuo Hirose, Rokuro Misawa, Hidenori Horii, Akira Hagio, Tetsuo Sada
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Patent number: 3935988Abstract: A process for making a solderable composite body containing silver cadmium oxide comprising forming an assembly having an intermediate layer of a silver copper alloy located between a layer of a silver cadmium alloy and a layer of silver of silver alloy, welding the layers together, and subsequently oxidizing the cadmium.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1974Date of Patent: February 3, 1976Assignee: Eugen Durrwachter DoducoInventors: Ulf O. Harmsen, Wolfgang S. Pottken