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US 5,226,953 AGranted
Process and device for producing a laminated material for slide elements
AssigneeGlyco-Metallwerke Daelen & Loos GmbH
InventorsErich Hodes, Robert Mergen
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Abstract
A process for producing a laminated material for slide elements including at least one backing layer and at least one functional layer of a material frozen in the amorphous state and the backing layer.
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A process for making a laminated material for a slide element, said process comprising the steps of:
- (a) forming a substrate including at least one backing layer;
- (b) continuously transporting the substrate along a path of the substrate;
- (c) making at least one alloy including at least two metallurgical components with a monotectic misability gap of immiscible particles;
- (d) continuously casting a functional layer at a predetermined rate from the alloy on the backing layer, at least at one location along the path, thereby forming the laminated material;
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- (e) thereafter solidifying the functional layer at a high cooling and solidification rate while continuing to advance the material along the path to prevent the growth of immiscible particles in the functional layer above 1 .mu.m and to form said particles in a dimension range between 0.01 and 1 .mu.m.
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An apparatus for carrying out a process for manufacturing of a laminated material for slide elements, said apparatus comprising:
- delivering means for continuously transporting a substrate including at least one backing layer along a path of the substrate;
- at least one crucible along the path for making an alloy including at least two metallurgical components having a plurality of immiscible particles;
- casting means operatively connected with the crucible for casting from the alloy a strip of a functional layer on the substrate at a casting rate at at least one application location, said strip and said substrate forming a laminated material;
- applying means downstream from the crucible for removing the strip of functional layer applied on one side of the laminated material from the application location;
- separating means downstream from the applying means for removing the strip of functional layer from the applying means;
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- cooling means along said path for cooling the laminated material at a cooling rate, said cooling means including:
- at least one guide formed with a receiving forced-cooled surface taking up said laminated material at said application location and juxtaposed with another side of the laminated material opposite the one side,
- sprinkling means spacedly juxtaposed with the laminated material for sprinkling a coolant thereon, and
- a plurality of cooling rollers along said path downstream from the guide, the functional layer being solidified at a cooling rate with the immiscible particles in the being in a dimension range between 0.01 and 1 .mu.m.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.