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Process for producing a single crystal article

US4634491A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 21, 1985
Grant dateJan 6, 1987
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Expiry dateJun 21, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC30B29/52
  • WIPO fieldSurface technology, coating
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A process for producing a single crystal alloy object comprising providing a preform having coarse columnar crystals in a discard portion, isolating, by cutting, one of the columnar crystals to form a seed crystal connected to metal in a product portion of said preform, zone annealing the thus prepared preform to produce single crystal structure and discarding the discard portion of the preform.

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