Creusot-Loire

Yves C Honnorat

Gerard D Raisson

Jean G Morlet

Andre Pineau

Ricardo Cozar

Yannick Bonnor

The invention is directed to the production of non-fragile shaped members from powders comprising spheroidal metal particles. For this purpose, the invention provides a process for the production of shaped parts from powders comprising spheroidal metal particles which are mixed with from 0.2% to 2% of lubricant, comprising the combination of the following successive steps, performed in the below-indicated order:

Process for the production of shaped parts from powders comprising

A device for the manufacture of spherical metallic powder comprising a vertical cylinder-conical vessel having in an upper part, means for introduction of a stream of liquid metal and for atomizing said stream using jets of gas and, in a lower part, gas inlet means for producing upwardly inclined tangential jets of gas for generating vortices along an ascending spiral centered on the axis of the vessel. The device also comprises a gas outlet connected to a cyclone dust remover whereby metal powder carried by the gas is separated from the gas, the gas outlet of the cyclone dust remover being connected to the gas inlet means and the dust outlet of the cyclone dust remover being connected to a duct opening into the vessel in the immediate vicinity of the jets produced by the gas inlet means.

Device for the manufacture of spherical metallic powder

In the manufacture of metal and alloy powders in the form of small diameter spheres whose shape and diameter must be maintained within narrow limits, a substantially cylindrical solid electrode of the material from which the powder is to be made is rotated at high speed about its longitudinal axis and one end of the electrode is heated to fusion point, the molten material being sprayed therefrom under centrifugal forces in the form of small diameter spheres, wherein fusion of the one end of the electrode is obtained by means which produce a local fusion zone on the end surface of the electrode and means for causing the local fusion zone to move along a spiral path on the end surface of the electrode as the electrode rotates.

Machines for manufacture of powders

Method of preparation of an alloy comprising the steps of preparing a nickel-iron-chromium based alloy, placing the alloy in solution at temperatures between 925.degree.C and 1060.degree.C, followed by a quick cooling, aging the alloy at a first level of temperature and exposure time to obtain a precipitation of .gamma.' phase prior to a precipitation of a .gamma.' phase and reducing the temperature to a second level of at least 700.degree.C.

Alloys having a nickel-iron-chromium base for structural hardening by

In the production of metallic powder by atomization, using jets of inert gas, of a stream of molten metal entering a receiver, the atomized stream of molten metal is subject to the action of vortices produced within the receiver by a tangential flow of inert gas in the lower part of the receiver in order to increase the number of impacts between the atomized metal and the receiver walls to increase the rate of cooling of the atomized metal.

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Yves C Honnorat