Method of encasing a structure in metal
AssigneeCorning Incorporated
InventorsRodney D. Bagley, Raja R. Wusirika
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Abstract
An improved method for encasing objects in metal is disclosed as are the novel encased objects so prepared. An object is wrapped with a sheet comprising sinterable particulate or powdered metal and an organic binder, and is the fired to volatilize the binder and to sinter the particulate metal into a unitary metal structure. In the preferred embodiment of this invention, the object to be encased is a green sinterable particulate object which undergoes sintering simultaneously with the particulate metal casing during the firing step.
Claims42
An article comprising an object encased in metal where said metal casing comprises a sheet of sinterable particulate or powdered metal admixed with a binder which sheet has been (a) wrapped around said article (b) has been subsequently fired into a unitary metal structure.
A method of encasing an object in metal comprising (a) wrapping said object in a sheet sinterable particulate or powdered metal and a binder, and (b) firing the resulting wrapped object into a unitary metal structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.