Patent ID: 11951515
Assignee: DESKTOP METAL, INC.
Field: Materials, metallurgy (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  Y | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A method for extracting one or more additively fabricated parts from a powder bed comprising a powder and the one or more additively fabricated parts, the method comprising:
inserting at least part of the powder bed into a chamber, the chamber comprising one or more inlets and one or more outlets, wherein the one or more inlets comprise one or more openings into the chamber;
forming a hermetic seal around the at least part of the powder bed;
directing, using one or more nozzles, one or more jets of gas onto a surface of the powder bed within the chamber; and
producing, concurrently with said directing the one or more jets of gas onto the surface of the powder, a continuous flow of gas through the chamber from the one or more inlets to the one or more outlets such that powder from the powder bed is transported through at least some of the one or more outlets.