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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Frank D Gac, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Rodger D Blake, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Delbert E Day, Rolla, MO (US);
John S Haggerty, Lincoln, MA (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Department of Energy, Washington, DC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
65 214 ; 65 22 ; 65 61 ; 65142 ;
Abstract
A method for making uniform spherical shells. The present invention allows niform hollow spheres to be made by first making a void in a body of material. The material is heated so that the viscosity is sufficiently low so that the surface tension will transform the void into a bubble. The bubble is allowed to rise in the body until it is spherical. The excess material is removed from around the void to form a spherical shell with a uniform outside diameter.