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Pump with porus ceramic tube

US4091970A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 11, 1977
Grant dateMay 30, 1978
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Expiry dateMay 11, 1997

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB22D17/04
  • WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

In a pump for use in a hot chamber type die casting machine wherein corrosive molten metal particularly aluminum or alloys thereof is injected into a metal mould through a goose neck shaped passage, a porous ceramic tube having a porosity of 10 to 40% and acting as the goose neck shaped passage is cast in the main body of the pump. The porous ceramic tube comprises sintered zircon or porous graphite.

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