Casting with polished raised logo and method of manufacture

Details Casting with polished raised logo and method of manufacture Casting with polished raised logo and method of manufacture

1990-05-10

1992-04-21

Zimmerman, John

Stock material or miscellaneous articles

All metal or with adjacent metals

Having variation in thickness

428687, 295276, 164 691, B22D 3100

Patent

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051067005

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed hereis is a casting having a cast exterior surface and a gate portion extending adjacently and integrally from the cast exterior surface and including a polished outer face located in adjacently raised relation to the cast exterior surface and having a perimeter or outline defining a desired indicia. The casting is produced by a method comprising the steps of forming a casting with a cast exterior surface and a gate which extends from the cast exterior surface and which includes a gate portion located adjacent the cast exterior surface and defined by an outline in the form of the desired indicia and a projection portion extending from the gate portion, severing the gate to remove the projecting portion, to retain, as part of the casting, the adjacent gate portion, and to provide a surface raised with respect to the cast exterior surface and having the outline in the form of the desired indicia, and polishing the raised surface.

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