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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:
Oct. 16, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Raymond J. Roberts, Voorhees, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Consarc Corporation, Rancocas, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 6/02 ; H05B 6/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 6/02 ; H05B 6/10 ;
Abstract
An increased diameter wire is formed by drawing a feed wire through a cooled nozzle located in a cooled crucible, and through a liquid metal bath contained within the crucible. Liquid metal freezes onto the feed wire as it passes through the bath, thereby increasing the diameter of the feed wire to form an increased diameter wire product. The invention is particularly suited to forming a wire from a metal composition that would undesirably react with refractory apparatus.