Rolls-royce Corporation

Rolls-royce (1971) Limited

Rolls-royce Business Ventures Limited

Hubert D Sellars

David William Mills

Graham J Marklew

James Broughton

Michael F Ford

Mark H Griffiths

In the manufacture of a wax pattern for use in the lost wax casting of a bladed rotor of the radial flow type, the bladed region of a master pattern is enclosed by a curable epoxy resin/aluminium powder composition. Sufficient of the cured resin composition is then machined away so that a plurality of resin composition segments are defined, one segment being interposed between adjacent blades on the master pattern. The segments are then removed from the master pattern and placed in an appropriately configured die member so as to define a complete die for the production of a wax pattern in the form of the master pattern.

Method of manufacturing a wax pattern of a bladed rotor

A method of insulating a shell mould for investment casting by adhering a particulate or fibrous insulator such as perlite, vermiculite or ceramic fibres to a shell mould by an adherent coating. In a preferred process the shell mould is first dipped into the adherent coating and the particulate insulator is applied to the mould through a stuccoing process. Multiple layers of insulation can be applied to the mould to vary the thickness of insulation as required.

Mould insulation

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Hubert D Sellars