Method of making a container

US4830881A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Aluminum Company of America · US

Inventors

• Aaron J. Becker · Monroeville, US
• G. Edward Graddy, Jr. · Murrysville, US
• Stephen C. Libby · Pittsburgh, US
• Gerald E. Carkin · Lower Burrell, US
• Jan H. L. van Linden · Washington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 22, 1987
• Grant date: May 16, 1989
• Expiry date: Jun 22, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C22B21/0084
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A container for a material, said container having a liner comprised of an equilibrated reaction product of the material. Preferably, the material is a molten aluminum-lithium alloy and the reaction product consists essentially of lithium aluminate. A method of making the container comprises shaping a substance into a vessel, said substance having sufficient porosity to react with the material and form a non-wetting reaction product without spalling; and introducing the material to the vessel. A method of making a container liner by applying a substance to the container inner surface and introducing the alloy to the inner surface is also disclosed.