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US 11,794,435 B2Granted
Aluminum dust collection and compacting method
AssigneeFord Motor Company
InventorFrank Bishop
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Abstract
A method of forming a compact includes removing material from a workpiece, transferring metallic dust released during the material removal into a conduit, operating a plurality of slide gates to selectively control movement of the dust from the conduit to either one of a primary collector and a back-up collector, drawing the dust through the conduit to a compactor, and compacting the dust in the compactor.
Claims20
A method of forming a compact comprising:
- removing material from a workpiece;
- transferring metallic dust released during the material removal into a conduit;
- operating a plurality of slide gates to selectively control movement of the dust from the conduit to either one of a primary collector and a back-up collector;
- drawing the dust through the conduit to a compactor;
- and
- compacting the dust in the compactor.
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A method of forming a compact comprising:
- removing material from a workpiece;
- collecting metallic dust released during the material removal in a first collector;
- operating a rotary valve to move the dust from the first collector to a conduit;
- operating slide gates to selectively control movement of the dust from the conduit to either a second collector or a back-up collector;
- drawing the dust through the conduit to a compactor;
- and
- compacting the dust.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.