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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 1993

Filed:

Nov. 15, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:

William B Johnson, Newark, DE (US);

James C Wang, Newark, DE (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B22D / ; B22D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
164 91 ; 164 98 ; 164 691 ; 264 44 ; 264344 ;
Abstract

This invention relates generally to a novel method for removing metal from a formed self-supporting body. A self-supporting body is made by reactively infiltrating a molten parent metal into a bed or mass containing a boron source material and a carbon source material (e.g., boron carbide) and/or a boron source material and a nitrogen source material (e.g., boron nitride) and, optionally, one or more inert fillers. Once the self-supporting body is formed, it is then placed, at least partially, into contact with another material which causes metallic constituent contained in the self-supporting body to be at least partially removed.


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