Preparation of composite rods
AssigneeCutting & Wear Resistant Developments Limited
InventorMark Russell
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of producing a composite rod from a braze material and a sheet of material comprising cermet. The method comprises scoring a surface of the sheet to produce at least one line of localised stress and subsequently causing the sheet to break along the line or localised stress, thereby to produce a plurality of cermet chunks. The cermet chunks can be combined with the braze material to produce the composite rod. In a particular embodiment, the sheet of material may be a used cermet cutting tip.
Claims6
A composite rod comprising braze material and cermet chunks, the cermet chunks having score lines along at least one edge thereof, wherein the score lines comprise a residue of a laser score line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.