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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2013
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Michael James Lehman, Canisteo, NY (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
An extrusion apparatus including a die and a mask are provided such that no slots feed directly into the longitudinal skin forming gap between the mask and the die. In a method of forming a die adapted to improve skin uniformity of extruded cellular ceramic substrates a slotted block of die material is provided including central slots adapted to form a cellular matrix of the substrate and peripheral slots located outwardly of the central slots designed to be covered by a skin former mask and adapted to extrude peripheral batch material. An arcuate skin former is cut corresponding to a target shrinkage so as to intersect the slotted block such that skin flow from tangent slots at 90 degree positions of the die is limited to the peripheral batch material.