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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2015
United Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Steven J. Bullied, Pomfret Center, CT (US);
David Ulrich Furrer, Marlborough, CT (US);
John Joseph Marcin, Marlborough, CT (US);
Venkatarama K. Seetharaman, Rocky Hill, CT (US);
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
An investment casting apparatus includes a furnace having an opening, a mold support, and a multi-axis actuator connected with the mold support and configured to retract the mold support from the opening with multiple-axis motion. An investment casting method includes withdrawing, with multiple-axis motion, a mold through the opening of the furnace to solidify a molten metal- or metalloid-based material in the mold. The apparatus and method can be used to form a cast article that has a body formed of the metal- or metalloid-based material. The body has a multi-textured, single crystal microstructure.