The Hill and Griffith Company

Stephen Louis Neltner

Victor S LaFay

Victor Steven LaFay

Victor Steven Lafay

Sand casting is an old art. In this molding process sand is compacted around a pattern and the pattern is removed, leaving a mold cavity the shape of the pattern. Molten metal can then be poured into the cavity to form the object. To increase the life of the mold, and to make removal of the pattern easier, the pattern must be coated with a protective material. A pattern coating composition is disclosed wherein the composition is an emulsion including oil, water, graphite, a water dispersible amine, and a clay reactive with the amine to form an organophylic clay.

Sandcasting pattern coating compositions containing graphite

Sand casting is an old art. In this molding process sand is compacted around a pattern and the pattern is removed, leaving a mold cavity the shape of the pattern. Molten metal can then be poured into the cavity to form the object. To increase the life of the mold, and to make removal of the pattern easier, the pattern must be coated with a protective material. Despite many available pattern coating compounds, mineral seal oil, and a mixture of mineral seal and clay, have been the commercial choices. Hereby the advantages of mineral seal oil-clay pattern coating compositions are retained without its detriments by utilizing a vegetable oil base in a pattern coating composition to replace some or all of the mineral seal oil to provide biodegradable coating compositions with reduced VOC content.

Sandcasting pattern coating compositions

The forming of shapes using cement and/or concrete is an old art. In this process a form is removed, leaving the shape of the pattern which is the result of the form designed. Fluid concrete and/or cement can then be poured into the cavity to form the object. To increase the life of the forms, and to make removal of the form easier, the form must be coated with a protective material. Despite many available form release compounds, mineral seal oil, and a mixture of mineral seal and oleic acid, have been the commercial choices. A biodegradable form release composition including vegetable oil with a petroleum oil and/or an alcohol and a method of utilizing such a release composition to reduce adhesion between concrete and formwork or a mold is disclosed. The form release composition is biodegradable with a low VOC content.

Concrete form release compositions

A sand molding medium for the use in founding of iron. The medium includes wettable uintaite as a carbon source supplemental to sea coal. The wettable uintaite is included in a carbon additive that is combined with sea coal to formulate the carbon component of an a pre-mix. The pre-mix also includes a clay component. The pre-mix is combined with sand to formulate the sand molding medium.

Sand molding media for iron castings

Sand casting is an old art. In this molding process sand is compacted around a pattern and the pattern is removed, leaving a mold cavity the shape of the pattern. Molten metal can then be poured into the cavity to form the object. To increase the life of the mold, and to make removal of the pattern easier, the pattern must be coated with a protective material. Despite many available pattern coating compounds, mineral seal oil, and a mixture of mineral seal and clay, have been the commercial choices. But they are not without their disadvantages. The properties of mineral seal oil are not entirely desirable, particularly its low flash point and toxicity. Hereby the advantages of mineral seal oil-clay pattern coating compositions are retained without its detriments.

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Stephen Louis Neltner