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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2009
Applicants:
Craig W. Morton, Nolensville, TN (US);
Dewitt Dortch, Christiana, TN (US);
John Bost, Franklin, TN (US);
David J. Wills, Franklin, TN (US);
Inventors:
Craig W. Morton, Nolensville, TN (US);
Dewitt Dortch, Christiana, TN (US);
John Bost, Franklin, TN (US);
David J. Wills, Franklin, TN (US);
Assignee:
TDY Industries, LLC, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to cutting tools. The disclosed cutting tools may have a wear resistant coating on a substrate. The substrate may have hard particles cemented in a binder phase. The binder may have a near-surface concentration gradient of at least one platinum group element and/or rhenium. Processes for producing cutting tools are also disclosed.