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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2002
Richard Michael Jordan, Hook Norton, GB;
Jonathan Betts, Swansea, GB;
Patrick Grant, Oxford, GB;
Allen Dennis Roche, Saline, MI (US);
Piers Newbery, Chester, VA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A process for producing a metallic tool, mould, die or other body of significant thickness or a coating, the process comprising directing a spray ( ) comprising molten metallic droplets carried by a propelling gas toward an object surface ( ) of a substrate or pattern ( ) so as to build up a metallic deposit or coating comprising the mould, tool, die, body or coating on the object surface ( ) of the substrate or pattern ( ), wherein at one or more predetermined stages during spraying droplets of a relatively large mean size are sprayed and at one or more other stages droplets or a relatively smaller mean size are sprayed.