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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 1978
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
Francis J Harvey, II, Murrysville, PA (US);
Maurice G Fey, Plum Borough, PA (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
75 6 / ; 75 6 / ;
Abstract
A process for the production of aluminum characterized by the steps of chlorinating a material containing chemically combined aluminum and silicon with chlorine to produce aluminum trichloride and silicon tetrachloride, reacting aluminum trichloride with manganese to produce elemental aluminum and manganese chloride, reducing silicon tetrachloride to yield silicon, oxidizing the manganese chloride to produce manganese oxide, and reducing the manganese oxide with silicon to produce manganese which is recycled to the second step for reducing aluminum trichloride.