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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 1990
Filed:
Sep. 20, 1989
George D Chandley, Amherst, NH (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A vacuum countergravity casting apparatus includes a vacuum chamber having a thermally conductive peripheral wall and a gas permeable mold sealed to the lower end of the peripheral wall by an elastomeric sealing gasket engaged therebetween. The peripheral wall is cooled at a location above and remote from the sealing gasket and an underlying molten metal pool when the mold is immersed in the pool during casting to maintain, by thermal conduction through the peripheral wall, the sealing gasket at a temperature to reduce thermal degradation thereof during casting; e.g., at a temperature below the gasket's thermal degradation temperature. Reduced thermal degradation of the sealing gasket during casting prolongs its useful life in casting successive molds.