Abstract:
DISCLOSES A REFRACTORY METAL ARCING CONTACT AND A METHOD FOR MAKING IT AND FOR JOINING IT TO CONNECTION METAL SUPPORT. REFRACTORY METAL IS PLASMA-ARC SPRAYED ONTO THE ROUGHENED SURFACE OF THE SUPPORT TO FORM A POROUS, REFRACTORY METAL COATING INTERLOCKING WITH THE SURFACE. THEN MOLTEN, HIGH CONDUCTIVITY METAL IS INFILTRATED INTO THE COATING TO FILL ITS PORES, AFTER WHICH THE INFILTRANT IS SOLIDIFIED IN THE PORES.
Abstract:
DISCLOSES AN ARC CHUTE COMPRISING INSULATING SIDEWALLS AND SPACED-APART METAL RUNNERS PROVIDING PATHS ALONG WHICH THE TERMINALS OF AN ARC TRAVEL AS THE ARC MOVES INTO THE CHUTE. ONE OF THE RUNNERS COMPRISES A STRIP OF CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL AND A COATING OF THERMALLY SPRAYED REFRACTORY METAL BONDED
TO A SURFACE OF THE STRIP TO DEFINE AT ITS EXPOSED SIDE AN ARCRUNNING SURFACE.
Abstract:
In this method, a tubular end ferrule is placed about the end of a short length of metal braid, and this assembly is placed in a chamber with the ferrule projecting through a hole in the chamber wall. A flow of nonoxidizing gas, such as nitrogen, is introduced into the chamber to form a blanket of nonoxidizing gas around the braid. While this blanket is present, heat is applied to the ferrule portion outside the chamber as part of a brazing operation that raises the temperature of the ferrule and the braid to a high level. After such heating, liquid nitrogen is introduced into the chamber to rapidly cool the braid and the ferrule.
Abstract:
Discloses an arc chute having spaced sidewalls of a first insulating material and arc runners having most of their active surfaces of a refractory metal. Between one of the runners and the sidewalls are two face plates of a second insulating material, such as glass-bonded mica, that is characterized by low gas evolution and greater surface resistivity than said first material under high humidity conditions. The face-plate surfaces adjacent an arc are shielded from the arc by a thermally-sprayed coating of refractory ceramic insulating material on said surfaces.