Mold assembly and method of making the same

Details Mold assembly and method of making the same Mold assembly and method of making the same

1977-08-29

1979-10-09

Lazarus, Richard B.

Metal founding

Process

Shaping a forming surface

164122, 164 60, B22C 904, B22C 922

Patent

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041702565

ABSTRACT:
A segmented mold assembly is utilized to cast a turbine engine component having a relatively heavy hub from which relatively light vanes project. The mold assembly includes a plurality of sections which are formed of a ceramic mold material and are interconnected at flange joints. The mold sections are advantageously formed by repetitively dipping patterns in a slurry of liquid ceramic mold material to form wet coatings on the patterns. These wet coatings are dried and separated from the patterns to form the mold sections. The mold sections which are used to cast the vanes retard the removal of heat from the vanes to provide time for the hub to solidify. This can be accomplished by using relatively thick walled mold sections to form the mold cavities in which vanes are cast and relatively thin walled mold sections to form the cavity in which the hub is cast. This could also be accomplished by forming the vane mold section of material having a relatively low rate of heat removal and the hub mold section of a material having a relatively high rate of heat removal.

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patent: 3474851 (1969-10-01), Taylor
patent: 3598167 (1971-08-01), Snyderman
patent: 3669177 (1972-06-01), Ingalls
patent: 3724531 (1973-04-01), Erickson
patent: 4063954 (1977-12-01), Brown

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