Stone working – Sawing – Reciprocating
Patent
1996-04-01
1999-04-06
Morgan, Eileen
Stone working
Sawing
Reciprocating
125 1601, 125 21, B28D 100
Patent
active
058904816
ABSTRACT:
A wire is used to cut or slice diamond by passing the wire rapidly and under light load over and into the diamond surface along a line to be cut. In one form of the invention, the wire comprises a metal that dissolves diamond, such as iron or nickel and the wire and/or diamond is preferably heated to approach the metal-carbon eutectic temperature and create sensible reaction rates of the carbon on the wire surface. In another form of the invention, the moving wire carries a molten oxidant to enhance the cutting rate. The molten oxidant may be, for example, sodium nitrate, which oxidizes carbon.
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Morgan Eileen
Novack Martin M.
Saint-Gobain Norton Industrial Ceramics Corporation
Ulbrich Volker R.
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