United Technologies Corporation

Carl Edwin Carlson

Eugene J Delgrosso

James Augustus Jennings

Members comprised of materials such as titanium and zirconium and their alloys are bonded together in a non-reacting environment with the aid of foil-type braze alloy preforms. The preforms are positioned between the members to be joined, pressure is applied and the joint assembly is subjected to a temperature in excess of 1550.degree. F but below the beta transus of the members. The preforms are fabricated from a titanium-zirconium foil to which a eutectic depressant alloying agent has been added. The depressant forms, with the titanium and zirconium, a low melting point eutectic which, with extended isothermal heating, will diffuse into the base materials.

Diffusion bonding utilizing eutectic fugitive liquid phase

A method for producing a generally bifurcated metal protective sheath for the edge of an aerodynamic blade comprising the steps of (1) providing a metal sheath mid-section element having a top and bottom surface, (2) covering the top and bottom surface with an aluminum bonding material, (3) laying up separate metal top and bottom sheath cover elements on each of the top and bottom surfaces of the mid-section element to cover and overhang the same, the aluminum bonding material having a solidus temperature lower than the solidus temperatures of the mid-section element and the top and bottom cover elements, and (4) subjecting the layup to heat and pressure in a die for a time sufficient to bring the temperature of the bonding material to a temperature which is below but within approximately 20.degree. F of its solidus temperature to solid state diffusion bond the mid-section and cover elements together without forming intermetallics.

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East Hartford, CT, United States of America

Carl Edwin Carlson