Casting machine for clad metal bars

Claim 1

A MACHINE FOR CASTING CONTINUOUS LENGTHS OF METALLIC COMPOSITE RODS AND THE LIKE OF UNIFORM CROSS-SECTION AND COMPRISING A CORE MEMBER COMPLETELY ENCASED IN A SHEATH UNITED INTEGRALLY THEREWITH, SAID MACHINE COMPRISING IN COMBINATION, MOLDING MEANS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF MOLDING MEMBERS MOVABLE AT SIMILAR SPEEDS AND HAVING COMPLEMENTARY SURFACES MOVABLE INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH EACH OTHER TO DEFINE A LONITUDINAL MOLDING CAVITY OF UNIFORM CROSS-SECTION FROM THE POINT OF CONTACT AND OF SUFFICIENT LENGTH TO FORM AND STABILIZE THE EXTERIOR SURFACE OF SAID COMPOSITE RODS, TUBULAR SHAPING MEANS SUPPORTED STATIONARILY SUBSTANTIALLY COAXIAL TO AND EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY INTO SAID MOLDING CAVITY AND HAVING AN EXTERIOR SURFACE POSITIONED ADJACENT THE POINT OF CONTACT OF SAID MOLDING MEMBERS TO GUIDE THE FLOW OF SHEATH-FORMING MOLTEN METAL INTO SAID LONGITUDINAL MOLDING CAVITY FOR INITIAL CONTACT WITH SAID MOLD MEANS SUBSTANTIALLY ADJACENT THE POINT OF ENGAGEMENT OF SAID COOPERATING SURFACES OF SAID MOLDING MEMBERS TO FORM A HOLLOW SHEATH AND SHAPE THE EXTERIOR SURFACE THEREOF AND CAUSE INITIAL CHILLING THEREOF TO STABILIZED THE SAME FOR RECEPTION OF MOLTEN CORE-FORMING METAL, WHEREBY MOLTEN SHEATH-FORMING METAL DOES NOT CONTACT SAID MOLDING CAVITY PRIOR TO THE POINT OF ENGAGEMENT OF SAID COOPERATING SURFACES OF SAID MOLDING MEMBERS, FLOW DIRECTING MEANS EXTENDING THROUGH SAID SHAPING MEANS SUBSTANTIALLY COAXIALLY THEREOF AND OPERABLE TO DIRECT THE FLOW OF MOLTEN CORE-FORMING METAL INTO SAID HOLLOW SHEATH IMMEDIATELY AS IT IS FOMED AND PARTIALLY STABILIZED WHILE RETAINING PARTIAL LATENT HEAT OF FUSION, MEANS TO DELIVER MOLTEN METAL OF ONE COMPOSITION OF SAID SHAPING MEANS FOR PASSAGE THEREAROUND AND INTO SAID LONGITUDINAL MOLDING CAVITY TO FORM A HOLLOW SHEATH MEMBER OF CONTINUOUS LENGTH AND SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM CROSSSECTIONAL SHAPE, AND ADDITIONAL MEANS TO DELIVER MOLTEN CORE-FORMING METAL OF A DIFFERENT CONTINUOUS LY THROUGH SAID FLOW-DIRECTING MEANS AND INTO THE HOLLOW INTERIOR OF SAID SHEATH TO FILL THE SAME AND BOND THEREWITH WHILE SAID COMPOSITE ROD PROGRESSIVELY MOVES WITH SAID MOLD MEMBER FOR A PERDETERMINED DISTANCE SUFFICIENT TO CHILL AND STABILIZE THE SAME.