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- 229910045601 alloy Inorganic materials 0.000 title description 32
- 239000000956 alloy Substances 0.000 title description 32
- REDXJYDRNCIFBQ-UHFFFAOYSA-N aluminium(3+) Chemical compound [Al+3] REDXJYDRNCIFBQ-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 title description 30
- 239000004411 aluminium Substances 0.000 description 44
- 229910052782 aluminium Inorganic materials 0.000 description 44
- XAGFODPZIPBFFR-UHFFFAOYSA-N aluminum Chemical compound [Al] XAGFODPZIPBFFR-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 44
- 239000010936 titanium Substances 0.000 description 22
- RTAQQCXQSZGOHL-UHFFFAOYSA-N titanium Chemical compound [Ti] RTAQQCXQSZGOHL-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 22
- 229910052719 titanium Inorganic materials 0.000 description 22
- VYZAMTAEIAYCRO-UHFFFAOYSA-N chromium Chemical compound [Cr] VYZAMTAEIAYCRO-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 20
- 239000011651 chromium Substances 0.000 description 20
- 229910052804 chromium Inorganic materials 0.000 description 20
- 150000003839 salts Chemical class 0.000 description 16
- 239000011780 sodium chloride Substances 0.000 description 16
- KRHYYFGTRYWZRS-UHFFFAOYSA-M fluoride anion Chemical compound [F-] KRHYYFGTRYWZRS-UHFFFAOYSA-M 0.000 description 12
- 150000004673 fluoride salts Chemical class 0.000 description 10
- 229910000838 Al alloy Inorganic materials 0.000 description 8
- 230000004927 fusion Effects 0.000 description 8
- KEAYESYHFKHZAL-UHFFFAOYSA-N sodium Chemical compound [Na] KEAYESYHFKHZAL-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 8
- 239000011734 sodium Substances 0.000 description 8
- 229910052708 sodium Inorganic materials 0.000 description 8
- 229910001069 Ti alloy Inorganic materials 0.000 description 6
- 229910052751 metal Inorganic materials 0.000 description 6
- 239000002184 metal Substances 0.000 description 6
- 239000002585 base Substances 0.000 description 4
- OKTJSMMVPCPJKN-UHFFFAOYSA-N carbon Chemical compound [C] OKTJSMMVPCPJKN-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 4
- 229910052799 carbon Inorganic materials 0.000 description 4
- 150000001875 compounds Chemical class 0.000 description 4
- 239000000470 constituent Substances 0.000 description 4
- XEEYBQQBJWHFJM-UHFFFAOYSA-N iron Chemical compound [Fe] XEEYBQQBJWHFJM-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 4
- 238000004519 manufacturing process Methods 0.000 description 4
- 239000000047 product Substances 0.000 description 4
- 238000005096 rolling process Methods 0.000 description 4
- VYPSYNLAJGMNEJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N silicium dioxide Chemical compound O=[Si]=O VYPSYNLAJGMNEJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 4
- 239000002893 slag Substances 0.000 description 4
- 229910001369 Brass Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- QDOXWKRWXJOMAK-UHFFFAOYSA-N Chromium(III) oxide Chemical compound O=[Cr]O[Cr]=O QDOXWKRWXJOMAK-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
- 229910000599 Cr alloy Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 241000183024 Populus tremula Species 0.000 description 2
- 229910000831 Steel Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 239000002253 acid Substances 0.000 description 2
- 239000003513 alkali Substances 0.000 description 2
- 238000005275 alloying Methods 0.000 description 2
- 239000010951 brass Substances 0.000 description 2
- OYPRJOBELJOOCE-UHFFFAOYSA-N calcium Chemical compound [Ca] OYPRJOBELJOOCE-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
- 239000011575 calcium Substances 0.000 description 2
- 229910052791 calcium Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 238000001816 cooling Methods 0.000 description 2
- 230000002950 deficient Effects 0.000 description 2
- 239000012530 fluid Substances 0.000 description 2
- -1 fluorides chlorides Chemical class 0.000 description 2
- 230000005484 gravity Effects 0.000 description 2
- 229910052742 iron Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 239000000463 material Substances 0.000 description 2
- 229910001092 metal group alloy Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 150000002739 metals Chemical class 0.000 description 2
- 238000000034 method Methods 0.000 description 2
- 239000000203 mixture Substances 0.000 description 2
- MYMOFIZGZYHOMD-UHFFFAOYSA-N oxygen Chemical compound O=O MYMOFIZGZYHOMD-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
- 229910052760 oxygen Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 239000001301 oxygen Substances 0.000 description 2
- 229910052710 silicon Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 239000010703 silicon Substances 0.000 description 2
- 239000010959 steel Substances 0.000 description 2
- 239000000126 substance Substances 0.000 description 2
- 239000006228 supernatant Substances 0.000 description 2
- GWEVSGVZZGPLCZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N titan oxide Chemical compound O=[Ti]=O GWEVSGVZZGPLCZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
- C22C—ALLOYS
- C22C21/00—Alloys based on aluminium
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
- Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y10S164/00—Metal founding
- Y10S164/12—Thermit
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- My invention relates to an improvement on the aluminium alloys described and claimed by me in a prior patent application, Serial No. 365,658, filed on September 20, 1890. That application is based upon a discovery that aluminium when alloyed with titanium, espe cially in certain proportions, gives a new product, which, in addition to the many useful properties of aluminium, which render it capable of varied application in the arts, possesses other beneficial properties in which aluminium is deficient. Thus, although pure aluminium is somewhat soft and only slightly elastic, even after hammering or rolling, I find that if it be alloyed with ten per cent.
- a product is obtained intrinsically harder than aluminium, approximatel y as incorrodible, and capable of acquiringby hammering or rolling a degree of elasticity and hardness comparable to spring brass.
- the alloy is fusible at a temperature below the melting-point of steel, and its fusing-point and specific gravity increase with the proportion of titanium which it contains. Then the proportion of titanium is less than five per cent, the alloy is nearly as malleable as pure aluminium, and its malleability decreases and its hardness increases as the proportion of titanium in the alloy is increased.
- the best material for commercial uses, where elasticity combined with easy malleability are required, is an alloy containing titanium from one-half of one per cent. (more or less) to two per cent.
- My present invention consists in a new alloy or compound made by adding chromium to my said alloy of aluminium and titanium.
- the chromium addition is of advantage in increasing the stiffness of the alloy. It is preferable that the chromium content should be less than fifteen per cent, preferably less than five per cent. As the chromium is increased a state as possible.
- the difference between the alloy-of aluminium and titanium and the alloy of aluminium, titanium, and chromium is that the chromium confers greater rigidity than the titanium; but if more than five per cent. of chromium is used there is a greater loss of ductility.
- My improved alloy may be made by simple fusion together of its several metallic components or by fusion of one of their metallic constituents with an alloy of the other two; but I prefer to use the following mode of manufacture: I make by fusion a bath of fluorides of aluminium and sodium, or of fluoride of sodium, or of fluoride of aluminium, sodium, and calcium, or, generally, a fluoride or fluorides of a metal or metals more electro-positive than aluminium. I may add to these fluorides chlorides of the alkalies or alkaline earths; but these are unnecessary.
- Oryolite of commerce may be used as the fluoride constituent of the bath; but, although I do not exclude its use from the scope of the broad claim of this application, it is in some respects disadvantageous, because of its iron, which in the al loying process hereinafter described is reduced and by mingling with the alloy impairs its quality. For this reason I prefer to employ the above-mentioned fluorides in as pure Either before or after the fusion of this fluoride bath I add to it reducible oxides or salts of titanium and chromium, preferably titanic oxide and oxide of chromium, and after thorough admixture of these substances I introduce the aluminium.
- fluoride bath fluorides of aluminium and sodium, which may be employed in amount ranging from one hundred to four hundred per cent. of the .weight of the aluminium intended to be added. This bath I melt in a carbon crucible and add thereto the oxide or salt of the metal to be alloyed.
- the oxides or salts of titanium and chromium and their alloying with the aluminium should be cond ueted in a non-silicious crucible, (preferably a carbon crucible,) since, if the vessel be silicious in its composition, a considerable portion of silicon will be alloyed with the aluminium, titanium, and chromium, producing a compound of inferior quality.
Description
NiTED STATES JOHN IV. LANGLEY, OF EDGEIVOODVILLE, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TO HUNT Trice.
(it CLAPP, OF PIT TSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.
ALLOY.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,406, dated April 28, 1891.
Original application filed September 20, 1890, Serial No. 365,658. Divided and this application filed December 31, 1890- Serial No.
376,388. (No specimens.)
T0 at whom it may concern.-
Be it known that I, JOHN W. LANGLEY, of Edgewoodville, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Alloys, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.
My invention relates to an improvement on the aluminium alloys described and claimed by me in a prior patent application, Serial No. 365,658, filed on September 20, 1890. That application is based upon a discovery that aluminium when alloyed with titanium, espe cially in certain proportions, gives a new product, which, in addition to the many useful properties of aluminium, which render it capable of varied application in the arts, possesses other beneficial properties in which aluminium is deficient. Thus, although pure aluminium is somewhat soft and only slightly elastic, even after hammering or rolling, I find that if it be alloyed with ten per cent. of titanium or less a product is obtained intrinsically harder than aluminium, approximatel y as incorrodible, and capable of acquiringby hammering or rolling a degree of elasticity and hardness comparable to spring brass. The alloy is fusible at a temperature below the melting-point of steel, and its fusing-point and specific gravity increase with the proportion of titanium which it contains. Then the proportion of titanium is less than five per cent, the alloy is nearly as malleable as pure aluminium, and its malleability decreases and its hardness increases as the proportion of titanium in the alloy is increased. The best material for commercial uses, where elasticity combined with easy malleability are required, is an alloy containing titanium from one-half of one per cent. (more or less) to two per cent.
My present invention consists in a new alloy or compound made by adding chromium to my said alloy of aluminium and titanium. The chromium addition is of advantage in increasing the stiffness of the alloy. It is preferable that the chromium content should be less than fifteen per cent, preferably less than five per cent. As the chromium is increased a state as possible.
there is acorresponding increase of hardness. The difference between the alloy-of aluminium and titanium and the alloy of aluminium, titanium, and chromium is that the chromium confers greater rigidity than the titanium; but if more than five per cent. of chromium is used there is a greater loss of ductility.
My improved alloy may be made by simple fusion together of its several metallic components or by fusion of one of their metallic constituents with an alloy of the other two; but I prefer to use the following mode of manufacture: I make by fusion a bath of fluorides of aluminium and sodium, or of fluoride of sodium, or of fluoride of aluminium, sodium, and calcium, or, generally, a fluoride or fluorides of a metal or metals more electro-positive than aluminium. I may add to these fluorides chlorides of the alkalies or alkaline earths; but these are unnecessary. Oryolite of commerce may be used as the fluoride constituent of the bath; but, although I do not exclude its use from the scope of the broad claim of this application, it is in some respects disadvantageous, because of its iron, which in the al loying process hereinafter described is reduced and by mingling with the alloy impairs its quality. For this reason I prefer to employ the above-mentioned fluorides in as pure Either before or after the fusion of this fluoride bath I add to it reducible oxides or salts of titanium and chromium, preferably titanic oxide and oxide of chromium, and after thorough admixture of these substances I introduce the aluminium. A reaction between the aluminium and said oxide or salt at once takes place, the oxide or salt is reduced, its oxygen or acid radical combines with a part of the aluminium, and the freed metallic bases immediately alloy with the remainder of the aluminium. In practice I prefer to use as the fluoride bath fluorides of aluminium and sodium, which may be employed in amount ranging from one hundred to four hundred per cent. of the .weight of the aluminium intended to be added. This bath I melt in a carbon crucible and add thereto the oxide or salt of the metal to be alloyed. When the whole mass is incorporated and as nearly fluid as possible, I charge metallic aluminium into the crucible, the relative proportions of the aluminium and oxide or salt being such that the percentage of oxide or salt shall be about twice the percentage in which its metallic base is desired to be present in the alloy. Immediately on the introduction of the aluminium the reaction above noted takes place between the aluminium and the oxide or salt and is accompanied by a rapid elevation of temperature of the bath. After waiting until further reaction ceases, Which is indicated by cessation of rise of the temperature, the contents of the crucible are poured into a suitable receptacle, and after cooling somewhat the melted fluoride can be separated as a supernatant slag from the metallic alloy at the bottom of the vessel. The alloy is then collected, and is 20 preferably remeltcd to cleanse it thoroughly from slag and otherwise to improve its properties.
The oxides or salts of titanium and chromium and their alloying with the aluminium should be cond ueted in a non-silicious crucible, (preferably a carbon crucible,) since, if the vessel be silicious in its composition, a considerable portion of silicon will be alloyed with the aluminium, titanium, and chromium, producing a compound of inferior quality.
I claim- As a new article of manufacture, an alloy containing aluminium, titanium, and chromium, substantially as described.
In testimony whereof I have hereu nto set my hand this 26th day of December, A. D. 1890.
J OIIN IV. LANGLEY.
\Vitnesses:
II. L. GIIJTJ, THOMAS W. BAKEWELL.
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US2931722A (en) * | 1956-11-21 | 1960-04-05 | Nat Lead Co | Aluminum-titanium master alloys |
US2955935A (en) * | 1956-11-21 | 1960-10-11 | Nat Lead Co | Manufacture of aluminum titanium alloys |
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US2931722A (en) * | 1956-11-21 | 1960-04-05 | Nat Lead Co | Aluminum-titanium master alloys |
US2955935A (en) * | 1956-11-21 | 1960-10-11 | Nat Lead Co | Manufacture of aluminum titanium alloys |
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