Abstract:
A wear-resistant hardfacing and a method for applying such a hardfacing is taught herein. A finely powdered, wear-resistant alloy and a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) solution slurry is coated onto the metal surface of a tool, implement, or similar item to be hardfaced. Alternatively, a binding coating of PVA solution may be applied to the metal surface followed by application of a layer of a powdered alloy. After the slurry or PVA binding coating has dried, leaving a dry coat of alloy in a PVA matrix, the metal surface is heated to the fusion temperature of the alloy in vacuum, in an inert gas atmosphere, or in hydrogen atmosphere. The metal item with the fused coating is heat treated to impart desired mechanical properties to the part substrate material. The method of the present invention gives a smooth, dense coating of the wear-resistant hardfacing without nonmetallic inclusions.
Abstract:
A self-lubricating sintered sliding member and its producing method, the member having excellent seizing resistance and wear resistance even in offset load and high load applications. The self-lubricating sintered sliding member is composed of an iron-family metal substrate and a sintered contact layer that is formed on a sliding side of the iron-family metal substrate and made from a sintered contact material containing an iron-family material. The sintered contact layer has, on a surface thereof, protrusions formed from solid lubricant particles including graphite. A solid lubricant layer is laid over the surface of the sintered contact layer where the protrusions are formed.
Abstract:
A sliding bearing having improved seizure resistance has the following structure.
(a) A bearing layer (2). It comprises a copper alloy containing in a Cu matrix Ag, Sn, Sb, In, Mn, Fe, Bi, Zn, Ni and/or Cr. (b) A fisrst sub-layer (3) of the bearing layer (2). It (3) contains concentrated element, hexagonal compound or eutectic of said element(s). (c) A second sub-layer (2a) in which said element in essential solid-solution state. (d) Metal backing (1)
Abstract:
A base metal repair tape (11) includes a first layer (13) formed braze alloy bonded together with fibrillated polytetrafluoroethylene, a second layer (14) formed from powdered base metal bonded together by fibrillated polytetrafluoroethylene and a third layer (15) comprising a brazing alloy bonded together by fibrillated polytetrafluoroethylene. This is used to repair base metal by placing the layer (15) on the base metal and brazing the base metal powder so that the brazing alloy melts and diffuses into the base metal powder bonding it to the surface of the article. This permits the braze powder to be bonded to the base metal surface with minimal distance between the base powder particles. The number of alternating layers of base metal (22) and braze alloy (23) can be increased to increase the thickness of the repair. This can also be used to form small intricate parts.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of controlling the densification behavior of a metallic feature in a ceramic material, the method including the steps of: obtaining an unsintered ceramic material (12) having at least one metallic feature (14) therein; providing at least the metallic feature with a predetermined amount of carbonaceous material; heating the ceramic material and metallic feature to a predetermined temperature sufficient to cause sintering of the ceramic material, the metallic feature being at least partially inhibited from densifying at the predetermined temperature by the presence of the carbonaceous material. A key aspect of the invention is subsequently removing with an oxidizing ambient some or all of the carbonaceous residue at a predetermined temperature for the optimization of the physical characterization of the fired metallic component in ceramic material without adversely affecting distortion and alignment of the metallic feature.
Abstract:
Coating with high-melting metals can be simplified by alloying high-melting metal with sufficient aluminum to make low-melting alloy that is applied, bonded in place, and then subjected to the leaching out of some or most of the aluminum. The resulting surface is porous and will receive and hold top coatings as from spraying nozzles (12). Leached surface can be pyrophoric and top coating can be exothermically combustible. Pyrophoric powder can also be coated on boron or carbon fibers or sintered with combustible particles. Porosity can be created by subjecting workpiece to diffusion conditions in contact with depleting material such as powdered nickel or high-nickel aluminides or cobalt or high-cobalt aluminides. Aluminum particles can be electrophoretically deposited on foil and then diffused in. Leaching aluminum out with caustic is improved when a little H2O2 is present in the caustic in the leach tank (22). Subsequent treatment of the leached surface with weak acid further improves pyrophoricity, and folding of the pyrophoric member extends its pyrophorically-generated high temperature dwell. Resin foil containing pyrophoric particles makes effective decoy.