Composite material for making cutting and abrading tools

Abstract

Abstract A superindurate, texturally stable abrasive composite material useful in the making of cutting and abrading tools, such as oil well drills, industrial metal cutting bits, mills, planar knives and abrasive grinders. The superficies of the object tool is comprised of the outer face of a tough matrix material and the projecting ends of a preferentially oriented indurate fibers or filaments, such as boron or the indurate intermetallic compounds of boron endowed with a hardness closely approaching that of industrial diamonds, which have been dispersed in collocated array and embodied within a tough matrix material such, for example, as in a sponge iron matrix which has been briquetted in the configuration of the object tool and then heated at temperatures sufficient for incipient fusion to occur to form the composite tool. Other ductile metals such as aluminum, nickel and cobalt, including certain of their alloys, together with steel and titanium are further examples of matrix materials which may be employed. The indurate filaments are so dispersed and collocated that the outer ends of the fibers or filaments are aligned normal to the tool''s work-taction surface and consequently to the surface of the object material to be cut or abraded.

Inventors

• 👤 Joy R Nix
• 👤 Michael R Sargent
• 👤 William T Kaarlela

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