WO1993005940A1 - Method of casting and reproduction and an article produced by this method - Google Patents
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- 238000005266 casting Methods 0.000 title claims description 7
- 239000000463 material Substances 0.000 claims abstract description 46
- XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-UHFFFAOYSA-N water Substances O XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 claims abstract description 30
- 239000004927 clay Substances 0.000 claims abstract description 11
- 229910052573 porcelain Inorganic materials 0.000 claims abstract description 9
- 230000008014 freezing Effects 0.000 claims abstract description 5
- 238000007710 freezing Methods 0.000 claims abstract description 5
- 210000000988 bone and bone Anatomy 0.000 claims description 3
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- 229910052572 stoneware Inorganic materials 0.000 claims description 2
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- 239000000919 ceramic Substances 0.000 description 4
- 239000011347 resin Substances 0.000 description 4
- 229920005989 resin Polymers 0.000 description 4
- 229920002379 silicone rubber Polymers 0.000 description 4
- 239000004945 silicone rubber Substances 0.000 description 4
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- 229910010293 ceramic material Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
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- 235000011128 aluminium sulphate Nutrition 0.000 description 1
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C04—CEMENTS; CONCRETE; ARTIFICIAL STONE; CERAMICS; REFRACTORIES
- C04B—LIME, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDING MATERIALS; ARTIFICIAL STONE; CERAMICS; REFRACTORIES; TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE
- C04B33/00—Clay-wares
- C04B33/24—Manufacture of porcelain or white ware
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B28—WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
- B28B—SHAPING CLAY OR OTHER CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS; SHAPING SLAG; SHAPING MIXTURES CONTAINING CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER
- B28B1/00—Producing shaped prefabricated articles from the material
- B28B1/007—Producing shaped prefabricated articles from the material by freezing the material
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B28—WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
- B28B—SHAPING CLAY OR OTHER CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS; SHAPING SLAG; SHAPING MIXTURES CONTAINING CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER
- B28B1/00—Producing shaped prefabricated articles from the material
- B28B1/26—Producing shaped prefabricated articles from the material by slip-casting, i.e. by casting a suspension or dispersion of the material in a liquid-absorbent or porous mould, the liquid being allowed to soak into or pass through the walls of the mould; Moulds therefor ; specially for manufacturing articles starting from a ceramic slip; Moulds therefor
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B28—WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
- B28B—SHAPING CLAY OR OTHER CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS; SHAPING SLAG; SHAPING MIXTURES CONTAINING CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER
- B28B1/00—Producing shaped prefabricated articles from the material
- B28B1/26—Producing shaped prefabricated articles from the material by slip-casting, i.e. by casting a suspension or dispersion of the material in a liquid-absorbent or porous mould, the liquid being allowed to soak into or pass through the walls of the mould; Moulds therefor ; specially for manufacturing articles starting from a ceramic slip; Moulds therefor
- B28B1/28—Producing shaped prefabricated articles from the material by slip-casting, i.e. by casting a suspension or dispersion of the material in a liquid-absorbent or porous mould, the liquid being allowed to soak into or pass through the walls of the mould; Moulds therefor ; specially for manufacturing articles starting from a ceramic slip; Moulds therefor involving rotation of the mould about a centrifugal axis
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C04—CEMENTS; CONCRETE; ARTIFICIAL STONE; CERAMICS; REFRACTORIES
- C04B—LIME, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDING MATERIALS; ARTIFICIAL STONE; CERAMICS; REFRACTORIES; TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE
- C04B33/00—Clay-wares
- C04B33/30—Drying methods
Definitions
- This invention relates to methods of casting and reproduction of water-containing materials and in particu ⁇ lar, but not exclusively, to casting of clay bodies such as 5 porcelain, bone china, redware, stoneware etc.
- the articles produced by the multipart moulding techniques can look flat and lifeless compared to their resin cast counterparts or one-off original designs.
- a method of casting an article from a water-containing material which comprises the steps of:- (a) introducing a charge of said water-containing material into a mould of flexible or resiliently distortable material;
- said method also includes the step of causing or allowing removal or separation of an amount of water from the charge in the mould before the mould is exposed to said reduced temperature.
- the removal or separation may be achieved in a variety of ways.
- the mould and its contents may be centrifuged to cause an amount of water to separate from the remainder of the material, thus forming a supernatant layer.
- the mould and its contents may be left for a while to cause water to separate from the remainder of the material.as a consequence of natural settlement.
- This natural settlement may be accelerated by vibrating the mould and its contents, for example on a vibrating table.
- the mould and its contents may be left to allow water loss by evaporation until the mould contents reach a semi-dry condition. This may be accelerated by heating until the surface of the contents is semi-dry.
- the water-containing material is preferably a ceramic and the part-formed or "green-formed" article is preferably fired following removal from the mould and drying.
- the water- containing ceramic material may comprise a clay body such as porcelain or bone china, etc.
- the formulation of the clay body, including the particle sizes and the various proportions of the constitu ⁇ ents may be adjusted as required to give a suitable pouring consistency without leaving voids in the mould.
- the clay body may include a flocculant, for example aluminium sulphate, to assist settling-out of the clay body.
- the clay body may be semi-solid or solid and pressed into the mould instead of being poured into it.
- the water-containing material is preferably degassed prior to pouring into the mould, for example, by placing in an atmosphere at reduced pressure, e.g. in a vacuum tank.
- the supernatant water (where present) is preferably removed from the mould prior to the freezing step.
- the article to be moulded is bulky, it may be hollow cast by introducing into the mould a plug or core around which the water-containing material passes.
- the plug or core may be a reduced size replica of the original article, which may be produced by the miniaturisation process defined below.
- the above technique allows articles to be reproduced on a reduced scale whilst maintaining a high definition of detail.
- the method preferably includes the step of causing or allowing removal of an amount of water from said charge in said mould before said mould is exposed to said reduced temperature.
- the hardening or setting is preferably achieved by firing the material.
- original is used to identify the article to be copied, and is not intended to exclude the possibility that the article is itself a copy.
- the reduced size copy produced in step (f) may itself be used as an original in a subsequent process in which steps (a) to (f) are repeated as necessary to produce successive reductions in size.
- the reverse of the above technique may be applicable in some circumstances.
- a water- containing material is formed around an original article of flexible material, an amount of water is then separated from said water-containing material, the remaining water- containing material is then frozen, the flexible original is removed, and the water-containing material caused to harden or set and shrink thus producing a reduced size three-dimen ⁇ sional "negative" of a flexible original "positive".
- Example 1 A series of silicone rubber moulds was prepared by carving original pieces and placing them in separate mould boxes into which was poured a silicone rubber and catalyst. Once the silicone rubber had cured, the original pieces were removed leaving the moulds ready for use.
- a porcelain slip was selected with a "runny” consistency which could be po ⁇ red freely into the mould and be de-gassed relatively easily.
- a suitable slip is "White Orchid Porcelain Slip” available from Bell Ceramics, Clermont, Florida, U.S.A., although many other materials may be formulated and used.
- the slip was placed into a vacuum tank of the type used for de-gassing resins in resin casting processes for about 15 minutes to de-air it.
- the slip was. poured into the moulds and . the moulds then returned to the vacuum tank for about 10 to 15 minutes.
- the moulds were then placed into a centrifuge having a mean radius of about 0.75m and operating at between 40 and 80 rpm, for half an hour so that the constituent particles of the porcelain slip separated out from the excess water, with the majority of the water lying on the surface as supernatant fluid.
- the moulds were removed from the centrifuge and the supernatant fluid poured off. The moulds were then placed into a freezer at temperature of about -10°C for between 1 and 2 hours until the mix was frozen. The frozen pieces were removed from the moulds and left for about 2 days to dry completely, ready to be fired. The dry pieces were fired in a kiln in the normal way. The finished pieces were typically 10% to 12% smaller than the original piece.
- Example 2 The series of moulds of Example 1 were filled with de- aired porcelain mix and de-aired as previously and then left to dry for a period of a few days, depending on the volume of the moulds, until the top surface of the contents was semi-dry. The moulds were frozen, the frozen pieces were removed and allowed to dry before being fired as previously to produce the finished pieces.
- the above techniques allow extremely complicated pieces to be cast in a single mould. . 5 Also, the techniques allow a design to be made smaller and this may be repeated as necessary progressively to reduce a design to a required size. Thus one of the finished pieces in the above example could be used as an "original" to produce a further silicone mould of reduced 10. size compared to the original mould which then produces a finished piece of further reduced size and so on.
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JP5505878A JPH06510712A (en) | 1991-09-14 | 1992-09-11 | Casting and reproduction methods and articles produced by this method |
EP92919453A EP0603277A1 (en) | 1991-09-14 | 1992-09-11 | Method of casting and reproduction and an article produced by this method |
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GB919119696A GB9119696D0 (en) | 1991-09-14 | 1991-09-14 | Methods of casting and reproduction |
GB9119696.4 | 1991-09-14 |
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EP (1) | EP0603277A1 (en) |
JP (1) | JPH06510712A (en) |
AU (1) | AU2560892A (en) |
GB (1) | GB9119696D0 (en) |
WO (1) | WO1993005940A1 (en) |
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DE19612386A1 (en) * | 1995-03-29 | 1996-10-02 | Ngk Insulators Ltd | Freeze moulding process for prodn. of ceramic mouldings |
RU2716677C1 (en) * | 2018-12-03 | 2020-03-13 | Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования Санкт-Петербургская государственная академия ветеринарной медицины ФГБОУ ВО СПбГАВМ | Method for making anatomical copies of bones by casting in silicone mould |
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CH497956A (en) * | 1968-09-14 | 1970-10-31 | Schimmel Stay Annemarie | Mould for casting artificial stone |
US3732048A (en) * | 1970-02-18 | 1973-05-08 | Int Standard Electric Corp | Apparatus for casting of ceramics |
DE2361304A1 (en) * | 1973-01-30 | 1974-08-01 | Kahla Veb Porzellan | Moulded ceramic article prodn - by freezing slip in undercooled mould, demoulding, and dehydrating |
GB2118475A (en) * | 1982-04-08 | 1983-11-02 | Norton Co | Slip-casting method |
GB2232115A (en) * | 1989-05-31 | 1990-12-05 | Hoechst Ag | Ceramic castings |
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- 1992-09-11 WO PCT/GB1992/001674 patent/WO1993005940A1/en not_active Application Discontinuation
- 1992-09-11 JP JP5505878A patent/JPH06510712A/en active Pending
- 1992-09-11 AU AU25608/92A patent/AU2560892A/en not_active Abandoned
- 1992-09-11 EP EP92919453A patent/EP0603277A1/en not_active Withdrawn
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US3732048A (en) * | 1970-02-18 | 1973-05-08 | Int Standard Electric Corp | Apparatus for casting of ceramics |
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DE19612386A1 (en) * | 1995-03-29 | 1996-10-02 | Ngk Insulators Ltd | Freeze moulding process for prodn. of ceramic mouldings |
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RU2716677C1 (en) * | 2018-12-03 | 2020-03-13 | Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования Санкт-Петербургская государственная академия ветеринарной медицины ФГБОУ ВО СПбГАВМ | Method for making anatomical copies of bones by casting in silicone mould |
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GB9119696D0 (en) | 1991-10-30 |
JPH06510712A (en) | 1994-12-01 |
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