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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. 30, 1983
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
Vernon N Tramontini, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Assignee:
Stewart-Warner Corporation, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K / ; F27B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
228217 ; 266250 ; 432-2 ; 432249 ;
Abstract
A method of vacuum brazing large assemblies in an enclosed evacuated furnace with brazing material containing a gettering agent in the area of the joints to be formed, including sensing the temperature of the assembly to be brazed adjacent the joints on the exterior surface of the assembly, and shifting an additional quantity of gettering agent from a cool zone into a hot zone in the furnace as the surface temperature of the assembly approaches the brazing temperature. A furnace adapted to carry out this method is also disclosed.