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US 8,573,284 B2Granted
Casting mold
AssigneeKme Germany GmbH & Co. KG
InventorLudwig Schmitz
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Abstract
A casting mold made of a copper material having a casting surface (2) that faces a metal melt, at least one expansion joint (3) being situated in the casting surface (2); the expansion joint (3) having a width (B) that is so small that, during the casting process, no metal melt penetrates into the expansion joint (3).
Claims11
A casting mold made of a copper material having a casting surface (2) that faces a metal melt,
- wherein at least one expansion joint (3) is situated in the casting surface (2), the at least one expansion joint (3) having a width (B) that closes during a casting process such that no metal melt penetrates into the at least one expansion joint (3);
- wherein the at least one expansion joint is filled with a filler such that during the casting process the filler is released from the at least one expansion joint.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.