Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm Gmbh

Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm Gesellschaft MIT Beschrankter Haftung

Karl Butter

Manfred Lechner

Kuno Knauer

Albert Seidel

Dietmar Wolf

Otto Tuscher

Willibald Wittich, Deceased

Helmut Dederra

Kurt Stich

Manfred Christl

Michael Kaufmann

Gunther Pulkert

By Renate Wittich Nee Padberg, Legal Guardian

A method for galvanic deposition of nickel from an electrolyte containing nickel sulfamate and nickel chloride is disclosed wherein the formation of intermediate products resulting from the oxidation of nickel sulfamate and the escape of anode sludge into the electrolyte are controlled to such an extent so as to reduce the amount of sulfur incorporated in the deposition to less than about 15 ppm. This results in avoidance of brittleness in the nickel deposition at high temperatures and allows the coated article to be welded. These properties were difficult or impossible to obtain in the prior art processes.

Process for the galvanic deposition of nickel from a nickel bath

A method of manufacturing a regeneratively cooled rocket combustion chamber which includes a thrust nozzle portion connected to a combustion chamber portion and which is constructed with cooling channels which extend in the longitudinal direction between an inner shell or wall having a smooth interior surface and an outer shell or wall and which are laterally bounded by radially extending webs, comprises forming the inner shell along with the cooling channel webs by electrodepositing metal on an electroplating core which is made up of chemically dissolvable material and has its outside contour conformable to the inside contour of the inner wall of the combustion chamber which is provided with radially extending projections forming mold blades for the webs defining the lateral boundaries of the cooling channels. Thereafter, the cooling channels are filled with a multiple electrically well-conducting filling material up to the level of the outer ends of the webs after these outer ends have been finish turned. A metal layer is then electrodeposited around the complete periphery of the web end faces and over the periphery of the cooling channels to form the outer shell or wall. The filling material is then melted out of the cooling channels and the electroplating core is hollowed out except for some millimeters of residual wall thickness and the remnant of the core is dissolved along with the radial projections to form the slots between the cooling channel webs which open into the center of the combustion chamber. The entire electrodeposited rocket combustion chamber is then engaged over the finishing mandrel and while it is on the mandrel, the cooling channels are deformed by applying pressure from inside the channels to close the slot which extends between the webs. When the thrust nozzle portion is formed integrally with the combustion chamber, the mandrel is transversely parted in the nozzle throat plane to permit insertion during the deforming of the cooling channels.

Method of manufacturing regeneratively cooled rocket combustion chambers

The constructional parts have walls formed of elongated elements, such as res or tubes, wound spirally in juxtaposition about the axis of symmetry of the part and connected to each other. The elongated elements are bent to shape utilizing a bending device having at least one bending groove conformable to the predetermined three-dimensional geometry of the part to be manufactured. One end of each wire or tube is fixed to the bending device and the other end is engaged in a clamping and adjusting device designed as a combined Cardan swivel joint which, during the bending, it utilized to continuously control the adjustment parameters of the wire or tube, about three mutually intersecting axes, in conformity with such predetermined three-dimensional geometry of the part. The bent elements are then assembled in juxtaposition on an assembly core, separate from the bending device, having an external contour identical with the internal contour of the finished part, and the opposite ends of assembled juxtaposed elements are clamped against movements. The juxtaposed elements are then wrapped with a wire winding extending completely over the juxtaposed elements. The wire winding is then removed, by sectors or zones or areas, and the thus-exposed juxtaposed elements are then secured to each other, in the exposed zones, as by welded seams, to form the finished constructional part when the wire wrapping has been completely removed and all of the juxtaposed elements have been secured to each other.

Method and apparatus for manufacturing rotationally symmetrical

In a heat exchanger wall construction, such as used in regeneratively cooled combustion chambers for liquid fueled rocket engines, the wall construction consists of an inner wall with cooling channels spaced apart by webs. The cooling channels are open on one surface of the inner wall. An outer wall contacts the webs of the inner wall and forms a closure over the openings from the cooling channels. The outer wall consists of an intermediate layer electro-deposited on the surface of the inner wall in which the cooling channels are formed so that it provides a closure surface for the channels. The surfaces of the channels within the inner wall are coated by electro-depositing a layer of gold on them. After forming the gold layer on the surfaces of the cooling channels, the outer surfaces of the webs are etched so that the gold layer extends outwardly from the outer surface of the webs. Next the intermediate layer is deposited and it can be either a single layer or multi-layered. The inner surface of the intermediate layer, whether it is of a single or multi-layered construction, is formed of gold. When the intermediate layer is formed of multiple layers, alternating layers of gold and copper are used.

Cooling channel surface arrangement for a heat exchanger wall

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Karl Butter