Oerlikon Metco (us) Inc.

Sulzer Metco (us) Inc.

Oerlikon Metco Inc.

Richard McCullough

Ronald J Molz

Robert F Savill, Jr

Dave Hawley

Mark Frank Spaulding

David Hawley

A thermo spray gun () includes at least one of; at least one removable nozzle tip () for spraying a coating material, at least one replaceable nozzle tip () for spraying a coating material, and at least one interchangeable nozzle tip () for spraying a coating material. A thermo spray gun system () includes a thermal spray gun () and at least one mechanism () at least one of; storing at least one nozzle tip installable on the thermal spray gun and being structured and arranged to install at least one nozzle tip on the thermal spray gun. A method of coating a substrate (S) using a thermo spray gun () includes mounting at least one nozzle tip () on the thermo spray gun () and spraying a coating material with the at least one nozzle tip ().

Thermo spray gun with removable nozzle tip and method making and using the same

Plume shield shroud () for a plasma gun () includes a substantially tubular member () comprising an axial length, a plume entry end (), and a plume exit end (). The shroud () is adapted to be mounted to a plasma gun (). A method of protecting, confining or shielding of a gas plume of a plasma gun () includes mounting () a gas plume shroud () on the plasma gun () such that the shroud () is sized and configured to substantially surround at least a portion of the gas plume.

Plume shroud for laminar plasma guns

The present invention provides a method and apparatus of producing a dense coating with desirable stress conditions similar to coatings produced by a cold spray processes, but with higher process efficiencies and lower gas consumption. The inventive process combines features of a plasma process method of gas heating and a cold spray process to accelerate the gas, incorporating these elements into a single hybrid process.

Hybrid plasma-cold spray method and apparatus

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Richard McCullough