Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes – Formation of solid particulate material directly from molten... – By vibration or agitation
Patent
1986-09-26
1988-09-27
Silbaugh, Jan H.
Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes
Formation of solid particulate material directly from molten...
By vibration or agitation
65 212, 65 214, 75 05C, 264 10, B29B 910, C03B 1910
Patent
active
047740370
ABSTRACT:
A method is provided for producing commercially large quantities of high melting temperature solid or hollow spherical particles of a predetermined chemical composition and having a uniform and controlled size distribution. An end (18, 50, 90) of a solid or hollow rod (20, 48, 88) of the material is rendered molten by a laser beam (14, 44, 82). Because of this, there is no possibility of the molten rod material becoming contaminated with extraneous material. In various aspects of the invention, an electric field is applied to the molten rod end (18, 90), and/or the molten rod end (50, 90) is vibrated. In a further aspect of the invention, a high-frequency component is added to the electric field applied to the molten end of the rod (90). By controlling the internal pressure of the rod, the rate at which the rod is introduced into the laser beam, the environment of the process, the vibration amplitude and frequency of the molten rod end, the electric field intensity applied to the molten rod end, and the frequency and intensity of the component added to the electric field, the uniformity and size distribution of the solid or hollow spherical particles (122) produced by the inventive method is controlled. The polarity of the electric field applied to the molten rod end can be chosen to eliminate backstreaming electrons, which tend to produce run-away heating in the rod, from the process.
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Carnahan L. E.
Fertig Mary Lynn
Hightower Judson R.
Roth Gary
Silbaugh Jan H.
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