Abstract:
The invention comprises abrading a work surface to desired contour by using a continuously driven endless abrasive belt in the region of passage over a thin air-film or cushion by which the belt is locally supported and shaped at a suitably contoured platen. The platen is air-permeable and is supplied with a continuous flow of pressurized air from within, being directed at the inner surface of the belt, and over the entire region of belt support by the platen. The platen is contoured for the particular finished work contour to be achieved. Various features of worksupport and work-feeding are described.
Abstract:
A heat treatable, temper resistant, chromium-containing, carbidic tool steel having a total carbon content of at least about 6 percent by weight is provided comprising about 25 to 75 percent by volume of primary carbide grains of essentially titanium carbide distributed through a heat treatable steel matrix containing by weight about 6 to 12% chromium, about 0.6 to 1.2% carbon, about 0.5 to 5% molybdenum, 0 to 5% tungsten, the total tungsten and molybdenum content not exceeding about 5%, 0 to 2% vanadium, 0 to 3% nickel, 0 to 5% cobalt, 0 to 1.5% silicon, 0 to 2% manganese and the balance essentially iron, the ratio by weight of chromium to carbon in the steel matrix ranging from about 7:1 to 25:1, the steel matrix surrounding the primary carbide grains being characterized by a microstructure comprising an austenitic decomposition product.
Abstract:
An improved airfoil is provided for turbine engines having locating buttresses at opposite ends thereof, said airfoil having a leading edge and a trailing edge. The body of the airfoil section has a polycrystalline structure of equiaxed grains, at least one of the airfoil edges being comprised of a welded insert having grains running longitudinally of said edge.
Abstract:
Crack-free welds of jet engine components formed essentially of a heat resistant nickel-base alloy having a tendency to be weldcrack sensitive are produced by abutting selected surface of at least a pair of structural elements of said nickel-base alloy, the elements being assembled in welding relationship with an iron-base shim therebetween, the elements being electron beam welded together into a unitary structure by melting the iron-base shim at the interface of the abutting surfaces, whereby the resulting weld which is an alloy of the iron-base shim and the nickel-base alloy is crack-free.
Abstract:
An air blower draws a mixture of exhaust gases emitted from an internal combustion engine and ambient air through a through-flow duct having a valve means therein at a minimum volumetric flow rate for the mixture in excess of the maximum volumetric flow rate the engine is capable of emitting while a proportional sample of said total mixture is withdrawn into a sample container at a uniform volumetric rate during a test period, the sample thereafter being analyzed to determine the concentration of pollutants of gas constituents therein and compared with the concentration of such pollutants or gas constituents in the ambient air which is sampled concurrently at the same flow rate from an area adjacent that where the ambient air is drawn into the through-flow conduit, total mass or weight of such pollutants or constituents being calculable from the concentration thereof in said sample and the known total mass or weight of air and gas mixture drawn through the duct. Temperature sensing and transducer means produce a first or error signal which is a function of the temperature of gases flowing through said duct, volumetric flow rate sensing means and associated transducer means produce a second signal which is a function of volumetric gas flow through the duct and electrical circuit means are provided in association therewith to cause said second signal to modify said first signal to produce a control signal which causes operation of a servomotor to adjust the valve means until an actual required volumetric flow rate through the duct is attained for any given temperature thereof to maintain a constant mass or weight flow, said actual volumetric flow rate for said gases increasing with increasing gas temperatures above a standard initial flow rate for a standard temperature condition. Circuitry is provided for a system for maintaining constant the rate of mass flow of a gas through a conduit despite temperature changes. The system generates an error signal linear with the absolute temperature of the gas, generates a second signal which is linear with differential pressure across a fixed orifice in the conduit, and thus with velocity of flow therein, modifies the error signal by the second signal to produce a command signal of appropriate polarity to adjust the velocity of gas flow in an inverse feedback manner by controlling a throttling valve in the conduit.
Abstract:
Ferrous metal articles, such as stainless steel aircraft components, e.g. turbine vanes, vane/shrouds and the like, characterized by at least one brazed joint, in which the braze is a non-ferrous alloy are aluminized by first uniformly plating onto the entire surface of said articles including the braze, a coating of an aluminide-forming metal selected from the group consisting of iron, nickel, cobalt and chromium and then thermally diffusing aluminum over the entire surface of the article, including the braze, such that a sacrificial corrosion resistant coating is produced characterized by the presence of an aluminide compound selected from the group consisting of iron aluminide, nickel aluminide, cobalt aluminide and chromium aluminide. The aluminide coatings are further enhanced by the application of a non-metallic coating, e.g a conversion coating.