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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2021
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Michael Edward Badding, Campbell, NY (US);
William Joseph Bouton, Big Flats, NY (US);
Douglas Edward Brackley, Horseheads, NY (US);
Lanrik Wayne Kester, Savona, NY (US);
Thomas Dale Ketcham, Horseheads, NY (US);
Eric Lee Miller, Corning, NY (US);
Cameron Wayne Tanner, Horseheads, NY (US);
James William Zimmermann, Corning, NY (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
A process of forming a sintered article includes heating a green portion of a tape of polycrystalline ceramic and/or minerals in organic binder at a binder removal zone to a temperature sufficient to pyrolyze the binder; horizontally conveying the portion of tape with organic binder removed from the binder removal zone to a sintering zone; and sintering polycrystalline ceramic and/or minerals of the portion of tape at the sintering zone, wherein the tape simultaneously extends through the removal and sintering zones.