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US 5,670,104 AGranted
Method for cutting undried clay material
AssigneeNippondenso Co., Ltd.
InventorsYasunao Miura, Mamoru Nishimura, Kojiro Tokuda
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Abstract
A method for cutting an extruding honeycomb structure by a jet of high pressure water. The jet is controlled in position to assure a smooth, straight cut perpendicular to the extruding direction.
Claims7
A curing method for cutting an undried clay material, said cutting method comprising the steps of:
- forming an undried honeycomb structure of material from ceramic material;
- and
- cutting said undried honeycomb structure by injecting a jet of high pressure water across said undried honeycomb structure in a radial direction of said undried honeycomb structure and in a direction other than a direction included in an extended face of cell grids forming a cell of said undried honeycomb structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.