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Countergravity casting apparatus

US4828011A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 24, 1988
Grant dateMay 9, 1989
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Expiry dateJun 24, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB22D18/06
  • WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Immersion-type vacuum countergravity casting apparatus having a vacuum chamber including spring means for pressing the mold portions sealingly together and/or resisting destructive inward flexure of the mold. A split vacuum chamber, including a floating lower skirt portion, avoids the creation of stress concentration sites between the chamber and the mold.

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