Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Structurally defined web or sheet – Discontinuous or differential coating – impregnation or bond
Patent
1976-12-23
1979-02-20
Bell, James J.
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Structurally defined web or sheet
Discontinuous or differential coating, impregnation or bond
310248, 310253, 427114, 428290, 428408, 428902, H01R 3926
Patent
active
041408322
ABSTRACT:
Electromotive brushes having improved commutating properties composed of a dense, rigid plate of self-bonded, non-woven carbon fibers formed from mesophase pitch fibers. The brushes are produced by spinning a mesophase pitch to form carbonaceous pitch fiber; disposing staple lengths of the spun fiber in intimately contacting relationship with each other in a non-woven fibrous web; heating the web produced in this manner in an oxidizing atmosphere to thermoset the surfaces of the fibers to an extent which will allow the fibers to maintain their shape upon heating to more elevated temperatures but insufficient to thermoset the pitch in the interior portions of the fibers to an extent which will prevent the pitch from flowing and exuding through surface pores or flaws in the fibers when the web is further heated to more elevated temperatures under compressive pressure; further heating the web containing the externally thermoset fibers under compressive pressure in an oxygen-free atmosphere to a temperature sufficiently elevated to cause the mesophase pitch in the unoxidized interior portions of the fibers to undergo liquid flow and exude through surface pores or flaws in the fibers and contact the surfaces of the adjacent fibers; continuing to heat the web in an oxygen-free atmosphere to a carbonizing temperature so as to expel hydrogen and other volatiles and produce a dense, rigid carbon body wherein the fibers are bonded to each other by infusible carbon bonds; optionally, further heating the carbon body to a graphitizing temperature in an oxygen-free atmosphere; and then impregnating the carbonized or graphitized body with a thermosetting resin and heating it at a temperature sufficiently elevated to cure the resin impregnant.
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Bell James J.
Piscitello John S.
Union Carbide Corporation
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