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US 2025/0144771 A1Published application
Methods of processing a superabrasive element
AssigneeUS Synthetic Corporation
InventorsMichael James Gleason, Victor Hugo Ortiz
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Abstract
Methods of processing a superabrasive element may include disposing one or more superabrasive elements in one or more protective leaching cups and exposing the leaching tray to a leaching agent such that at least some of the leaching agent contacts the one or more superabrasive elements while disposed in the one or more protective leaching cups.
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A method of processing a superabrasive element, the method comprising:
- disposing one or more superabrasive elements in a receiving space of one or more protective leaching cups;
- inserting the one or more protective leaching cups into one or more tray receptacles of a plurality of tray receptacles in a tray body of a leaching tray, wherein the plurality of tray receptacles have an inner width and the one or more protective leaching cups have a width that is approximately the same as or greater than the inner width of the plurality of tray receptacles;
- exposing the leaching tray to a leaching agent such that at least some of the leaching agent contacts the one or more superabrasive elements while disposed in the one or more protective leaching cups;
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- removing the one or more protective leaching cups from the leaching tray.
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A method of processing a superabrasive element, the method comprising:
- disposing one or more superabrasive elements in one or more protective leaching cups;
- inserting the one or more protective leaching cups into one or more tray receptacles in a leaching tray, wherein the one or more tray receptacles have an inner dimension that is approximately the same as or smaller than an outer dimension of the one or more protective leaching cups;
- and
- exposing the leaching tray to a leaching agent such that at least some of the leaching agent contacts the one or more superabrasive elements.
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A method of processing a superabrasive element, the method comprising:
- disposing one or more superabrasive elements in one or more protective leaching cups;
- forming a seal between at least one protective leaching cup of the one or more protective leaching cups and the one or more superabrasive elements with a seal contact portion of the at least one protective leaching cup, the seal contact portion comprising an inwardly extending portion of a sidewall of the at least one protective leaching cup that defines an inner dimension within the at least one protective leaching cup that is less than an inner dimension defined by an adjacent portion of the sidewall;
- exposing the one or more protective leaching cups to a leaching agent such that at least some of the leaching agent contacts the one or more superabrasive elements while disposed in the one or more protective leaching cups;
- and
- removing the one or more superabrasive elements from the one or more protective leaching cups.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.