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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1976
Filed:
Nov. 27, 1973
Horst Schreiner, Nurnberg, DT;
Bernhard Rothkegel, Nurnberg, DT;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DT;
Abstract
To make an electric contact material, a molten alloy of silver and a non-noble metal is atomized into spheroidal particles having a particle size ranging up to almost 1 mm, and the fraction of these particles having a particle size ranging between 0.2 and 1 mm is separated, a small remainder of smaller particle size being treated as a reflux. This fraction is heated in an oxidizing atmosphere to oxidize the non-noble metal internally within the particles and the latter are then mechanically broken, as by suitable milling or pulverizing, into fragments having a particle size no greater than about 0.3 mm. The fragmented particles are then compressed, as by pressure molding, extrusion, etc., and sintered to provide a sintered silver-metal oxide electric contact material.