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- Patent Title: Mold system including separable, variable mold portions for forming casting article for investment casting
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Application No.: US15728890Application Date: 2017-10-10
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Publication No.: US11148331B2Publication Date: 2021-10-19
- Inventor: Jose Troitino Lopez , Eric Lee Bell , Jeffrey Clarence Jones
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: Hoffman Warnick LLC
- Agent James Pemrick
- Main IPC: B29C45/26
- IPC: B29C45/26 ; B22C9/10 ; B29C45/14 ; B33Y80/00 ; B22C7/02 ; B29C45/78 ; B29L31/00

Abstract:
A mold system and method for forming a casting article for investment casting is disclosed. The mold system includes a mold for receiving therein a selected core chosen from a plurality of varied cores. The mold includes a plurality of separable mold portions that are coupleable together to create the mold and configured to form a sacrificial material from a sacrificial material fluid about the selected core. At least one selected separable mold portion of the plurality of separable mold portions includes a set of varied interchangeable versions of the at least one selected separable mold portion. Each varied interchangeable version of the selected separable mold portion is configured to accommodate a different core of the plurality of varied cores. A number of systems for controlling a temperature of the mold are also disclosed.
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