Features
- Joins material by simultaneous application of heat and pressure.
- Bonding occurs in solid state eliminating need for melting materials or melting point metal filler.
- Can be used as a general purpose high-temperature vacuum furnace.
Specifications
| Chamber | Horizontal, 30" diameter x 30" long stainless steel interior 100% jacketed with full-opening, hinged door with clamps, supported by press frame @53"CL elevation. Ports for power, rams, thermocouples, two 2 1/2" shuttered sight glasses, vacuum pumping and inert gas purge. | ||||||||||||
| Press & Frame | Hydraulic press, double-acting with frame-mounted 3 stage hydraulic power unit with force/pressure regulator, advance, hold and reversing valve. Pressure gauges and relief valve. Pedestal and hydraulic rams are water-cooled, may be withdrawn to clear furnace for general use. Stroke 6 5/8". | ||||||||||||
| Vacuum & Inert Gas System | 10" main valve air-operated failsafe closing; 10" 4300 l/sec. diffusion pump; multi-coolant chevron baffle; 50 CFM mechanical pump; 3.5 CFM holding pump; welded steel manifolding and vibration isolation, 3" manual roughing and fore valves; connections for gauges and leak detector; vacuum gauge control combination hot filament ionization and two-station thermocouple, 1 to 1000 microns and 1 micron to 2 x 10-7 torr. Inert atmosphere system includes 5 psig relief valve, 30"-0-15 psig Bourdon gauge, needle valve for gas inlet. Electrics include circuit breakers, pilot lamps, semiautomatic vacuum pump system controller, complete with function selector switch and keylock overrides mounted in NEMA-1 control cubicle. | ||||||||||||
| Internal Mechanism | Furnace cold wall, refractory metal rod elements and inner heat shields. 6" diameter water-cooled ram shanks, 12&qot; daylight when full open without platens attached which act through 6" diameter sliding seals. | ||||||||||||
| Power Supply | 75 kva, three-phase saturable core reactor with solid state linear power control. Includes furnace volt and current meters, cooling water flow interlock, shunt trip circuit breaker. | ||||||||||||
| Temperature Controls (Optional) | 3-mode proportioning control with adjustable set point and strip chart recorder with Pt/Pt-10% Rh thermocouple. Separate indicating over-temperature indicator coutout with thermocouple. | ||||||||||||
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Applications
Materials may be joined by the simultaneous application of heat and pressure for a prescribed time in a high vacuum or inert atmosphere. The bonding occurs in the solid state, thereby eliminating the need for melting the materials as in welding, or the introduction of a lower melting point metal filler, as in brazing. Distortion and localized stresses are minimized and inaccessible surfaces can be successfully joined. Varying section thicknesses may be bonded to achieve a non heat affected zone surrounding the junction. Due to the vacuum environment, atmosphere senstive material can be processed without encapsulation. High vacuum cleans the surfaces to be bonded and assures high integrity joints.
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