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Gibbs Die Casting Aluminum Co.

Kevin L Richard

Patricio F Mendez

Christopher S Rice

Shinya Myojin

Richard I Neill, Jr

Timothy B Gage

John F O'Daniels

Charles E Barron

A die casting system includes a vessel defining a reservoir with a controlled heater and an agitator for maintaining the bath of semi-solid metal in a homogeneous isothermal state, a transfer system capable of transferring a known quantity of metal in its semi-solid state to a mold cavity in a die casting machine, the transfer system including a heated suction tube, a vacuum source for vacuum ladling semi-solid metal from the bath to a die, and a plunger tip providing a path for free air flow to allow evacuation of the suction tube during casting and a metal replacement system for replacing the known quantity of transferred metal with a similar amount of liquid metal so that a stable homogeneous isothermal bath of semi-solid metal is controllably maintained to be available for die casting operations.

Semi-solid casting apparatus and method

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Evansville, IN, United States of America

Kevin L Richard