Arc melting and tilt casting apparatus
AssigneeAalto University Foundation
InventorsErno Soinila, Tuomas Pihlajamaki, Sven Bossuyt, Hannu Hanninen
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Abstract
An arc melting and tilt casting apparatus having a casing provided with a vacuum chamber for housing a hearth having a melting trough and pouring means, arc-melting electrode means passing through the casing in the chamber, a mold having a melt receiving orifice, vacuum generating means, sealing means for maintaining the vacuum in the chamber and tilting means for tilting the apparatus to cause the melt to flow from the melting trough via the pouring means in the mold through the mold orifice. The hearth and mold are connected together and moveable as a single unit in the vacuum chamber and out from the chamber.
Claims4
An arc melting and tilt casting apparatus having a casing provided with a chamber for housing a hearth having a melting trough and pouring means, arc-melting electrode means passing through the casing in the chamber, a mold having a melt receiving orifice, the hearth and mold being connected together and tilting means to cause the melt to flow from the melting trough via the pouring means in the mold through the mold orifice, characterized in that the chamber is a vacuum chamber provided with sample manipulator arm, the apparatus being provided with vacuum generating means and sealing means for maintaining the vacuum in the chamber;
- that the hearth and mold are moveable as a single unit into the vacuum chamber and out from the chamber;
- and that the tilting means are arranged to tilt the whole apparatus.
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