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Method for refurbishing used jet engine hot section airfoils
Assignee: Alloy Surfaces Co Inc
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Filing: 1988-12-22
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Granted: 1990-10-23
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Expires: 2008-12-22
Abstract
Abstract Workpieces are very rapidly diffusion coated by heating the packed workpiece at a rate that brings the workpiece to diffusion-coating temperature and then completing the diffusion coating, all in less than 50 minutes, then cooling. Workpiece can have top coating layer of aluminum flake covered by a layer of extremely fine alumina or silica in a magnesium chromate binder, to provide surface having roughness at least about 10 micro-inches smoother than before the top coating. Used aluminized jet engine hot section members can be reconditioned by a fluoridizing treatment that deoxidizes and also removes residual aluminizing, so that the members can then be repaired if necessary and re-aluminized.
Inventors
- 👤 Alfonso L. Baldi
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
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2026-11-09 14:31
CPC Classifications
B; B22; B22F; B22F7/00; B22F7/002; B65; B65D; B65D43/00; B65D43/02; B65D43/0202; B65D43/0214; B65D43/022; C; C06; C06B; C06B21/00; C06B21/0083; C06B45/00; C06B45/12; C06B45/14; C06C; C06C15/00; C08; C08F; C08F283/00; C08F283/01; C09; C09D; C09D5/00; C09D5/04; C23; C23C; C23C10/00; C23C10/02; C23C10/04; C23C10/06; C23C10/28; C23C10/30; C23C10/34; C23C10/36; C23C10/38; C23C10/40; C23C10/42; C23C10/52; C23C10/54; C23C10/56; C23C10/58; C23C10/60; C23C12/00; C23C12/02; C23C22/00; C23C22/73; C23C22/74; B65D2543/00; B65D2543/00009; B65D2543/00018; B65D2543/00064; B65D2543/00074; B65D2543/00092; B65D2543/00342; B65D2543/0037; B65D2543/00435; B65D2543/00444; B65D2543/00481; B65D2543/0049; B65D2543/00509; B65D2543/00537; B65D2543/00546; F; F05; F05B; F05B2250/00; F05B2250/60; F05B2250/62; G; G01; G01N; G01N15/00; G01N2015/0042; G01N2015/0046; H; H05; H05K; H05K2201/00; H05K2201/02; H05K2201/0203; H05K2201/0206; H05K2201/0209; Y; Y02; Y02T; Y02T50/00; Y02T50/60
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 3
Claim 1
Independent Claim
72 words
In the re-use of a used jet engine hot section airfoil that had been aluminized, the improvement according to which the used airfoil is cleaned of accumulations resulting from its use, and the cleaned airfoil is subjected to fluoridizing at a temperature at least aS high as about 1650° F. to remove the aluminum remaining from the original aluminizing and deoxidized the airfoil surface, and then the de-aluminized de-oxidized surface is re-aluminized.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
72 words
In the re-use of a used jet engine hot section airfoil that had been aluminized, the improvement according to which the used airfoil is cleaned of accumulations resulting from its use, and the cleaned airfoil is subjected to fluoridizing at a temperature at least aS high as about 1650° F. to remove the aluminum remaining from the original aluminizing and deoxidized the airfoil surface, and then the de-aluminized de-oxidized surface is re-aluminized.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
28 words
The combination of claim 1 in which the airfoil is a nickel-base superalloy and the fluoridizing treatment is conducted at a temperature no higher than about 1750° F.
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