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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:
May. 19, 1992
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Walter A Johnson, Towanda, PA (US);
Nelson E Kopatz, Sayre, PA (US);
Joseph E Ritsko, Towanda, PA (US);
Assignee:
GTE Products Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B22F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
75346 ; 75351 ; 75352 ;
Abstract
A process comprising by producing maraging steel powder comprises forming an aqueous solution of iron, cobalt, nickel and molybdenum metals values in a predetermined ratio, forming a reducible solid material from the solution reducing the solid material to metallic powder particles, entraining at least a portion of the powder particle in a carrier gas which is fed into a high temperature zone to form droplets therefrom, and cooling said droplets to form essentially spherical shaped maraging steel alloy particles.