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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2019
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Stephen Bancheri, Albany, NY (US);
Michael Weimer, Loveland, OH (US);
Joan McKiever, Rock Mount, VA (US);
Brian Ellis, Mayfield, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A casting method for titanium and titanium alloys, the casting method including obtaining an investment casting mold composition having calcium aluminate and aluminum oxide, the calcium aluminate combined with a liquid to produce a slurry of calcium aluminate, and wherein the solids in the final calcium aluminate/liquid mixture with large scale alumina is about 71% to about 90%. The method further includes pouring the investment casting mold composition into a vessel containing a fugitive pattern, curing the investment casting mold composition to form a mold, removing the fugitive pattern from the mold, firing the mold, preheating the mold to a mold casting temperature, pouring molten titanium or titanium alloy into the preheated mold, solidifying the molten titanium or titanium alloy and forming a solidified titanium or titanium alloy casting, and removing the solidified titanium or titanium alloy casting from the mold.