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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ahmad P. Zahedi, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Nicholas Damlis, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Paul A. Siemers, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23P 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23P 1/700 ;
Abstract
Hard tooling for consolidation of a workpiece there between is preserved for reuse by disposing between the tooling and a workpiece a plurality of distinct, superimposed sacrificial sheets, for example metal foils, to isolate the workpiece from the tooling. The sacrificial sheets are substantially non-adherent one to another; and a sheet in contact with a workpiece surface is substantially chemically non-reactive with such workpiece surface.