Metal founding – Process – Shaping liquid metal against a forming surface
Patent
1991-08-02
1993-04-06
Seidel, Richard K.
Metal founding
Process
Shaping liquid metal against a forming surface
164113, B22D 1914
Patent
active
051994828
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a method for the production of a molded casting, particularly made of aluminum, to be provided with a porous insert part which can subsequently be dissolved out.
Such a method, in which such insert parts merely have the purpose of creating cavities in the finished casting, for which purpose the insert parts are removed from the finished casting again, for example by being dissovled out with liquid, is known. In these cases, the insert part is basically not supposed to possess any porosity, but this cannot always be avoided when using a material that can be dissolved out. For example, insert parts produced from pressed salt are used, and these can be easily dissolved out of the finished casting using a liquid. With such pressed salt cores, a slight residual porosity remains, in some cases, into which the melt can penetrate in the surface area, if it is made to solidify under pressure. When the insert part, which served as a casting core, is later dissolved out, this results in an undesirably rough and jagged surface of the cavity to be produced in the casting.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an improvement in the production of a molded casting.
This object is accomplished by providing a method according to the invention wherein a porous insert part is acted upon by a gas pressure equal to the melt penetration pressure acting on the porous insert part.
If an insert part is supposed to have areas which are supposed to be penetrated by the melt, and areas which are not supposed to be penetrated by the melt, then there must be a partition wall between these two areas.
It is a further object of the invention to provide a method for the production of a molded casting comprising: providing a mold with a porous insert part which can subsequently be dissolved out; placing the porous insert part having pores into the mold; subsequently surrounding the porous insert part by a melt; putting the melt under pressure and maintaining a gas pressure on the insert part which is equal to or slightly less than the melt pressure.
An embodiment is shown in the drawing, which shows a mold in cross-section.
In a mold 1, a casting core 2 made of pressed salt, for example, which can be dissolved out and is used to produce a cavity in the casting to be produced, is held in place by means of pipes 3. The feeder 4 of the mold is connected with a compressed air gas line 5. As mold 1 is filled with an aluminum melt 6, the air entering the casting core 2 is discharged to the outside through pipes 3. Then pressurized gas is introduced within the casting core 2 to prevent penetration of melt into the pores of the casting core, by means of a pump 7.
As mentioned above, the casting core capable of being exchanged (released) is held over tubes 3 in a casting mold. This hold can, but is not required to, take place via vacuum pressure applied to tubes 3. However, vacuum pressure applied to tubes 3 has the advantage that casting core 2 can be held relatively simply by tubes 3.
In the production method, aluminum melt 6 is first fed, practically without pressure, into the mold by riser feeder 4. When the mold is filled, whereby casting core 2 is completely surrounded by the molten aluminum melt, a vacuum is no longer applied to tubes 3, due to the use of pump 7. Instead, an overpressure is applied, at the same time, to the melt by duct guide 5 and riser feeder 4. The overpressure applied to the casting core by tubes 3 is set according to the amount of pressure brought about on melt 6 by riser 4. Thus, the overpressure to be applied to casting core 2 over tubes 3 is equal, or somewhat smaller than, the pressure applied to the melt. The overpressure applied to the casting core by tubes 3 will have the effect of preventing melt 6 from entering into the surface into casting core 2, due to the overpressure affecting melt 6.
As discussed above, air admission to casting core 2 is interrupted after filling of the melt into form mold 1. This means that gas from casting core 2 can be discharged to the outside by t
Mahle GmbH
Puknys Erik R.
Seidel Richard K.
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