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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 1981
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1978
Heinrich Winter, Eschborn, DE;
Dietrich Merz, Kelkheim, DE;
Battelle-Institut e.V., Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Abstract
An apparatus is disclosed for manufacturing splat foils by disintegration and rapid solidification of metallic melts. The apparatus has a self-consuming electrode disposed above a rotatable counter electrode. Attached to the counter-electrode is a conical plate which is cooled by a fluid circulating through its interior. The application of electrical energy to the electrodes causes the self-consuming electrode to melt and drop melt droplets onto the rotating counter-electrode. Centrifugal force causes the melt droplets to fly off the counter-electrode and contact the conical plate at which point they are rapidly cooled to form thin foils. A housing surrounds the electrodes and conical plate to collect the cooled foils and to permit the apparatus to operate in an inert atmosphere, if desired.