Controlled nozzle cooling (CNC) of sand casting
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Abstract
A process for the sand casting of metals and their alloys includes the steps of providing at least a mold equipped with a plurality of cooling nozzles, making a layer of coolant permeable materials covering the nozzles and maintaining the materials at desired temperatures, delivering a molten metal into the mold, supplying predetermined amount of coolant to each nozzles to contact the external surface of the casting at desired rate, time, and duration to achieve an acceptable level of progressive solidification from the distal end of the casting towards the riser until the casting has reached desired temperatures.
Claims15
A process for casting metals to maintain an acceptable level of progressive solidification from a distal end of a casting to its riser or its downsprue, comprising the steps of:
- preparing at least an aggregate-containing mold with a cavity for castings and a plurality of nozzle holes spaced at predetermined intervals, each hole for hosting a cooling nozzle with a tip of the nozzle separated from a surface of a casting by a thin layer of coolant permeable materials;
- placing a plurality of venting systems in the at least an aggregate-containing mold to release used fluids, moisture and mold debris;
- holding the at least an aggregate-containing mold at predetermined temperatures;
- introducing a molten metal into the mold cavity to form castings;
- embedding nozzles into the nozzle holes in the at least an aggregate-containing mold;
- delivering a predetermined amount of a selected coolant to the tip of each nozzle at predetermined rates, times, and durations to break the thin layer of coolant permeable materials in order for the selected coolant to directly contact an external surface of a solidifying casting to cool the solidifying casting sequentially;
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- cooling the casting under controlled conditions to predetermined temperatures before removing the casting out of the mold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.