Patent ID: 6116328
Filing Date: 2000-09-12
Classification: B22D

Abstract:
A method of fabricating a composite product made from metallic material reinforced by tiles embodied therein, involving the steps of: positioning the tiles within a mold within which centrifugal casting of said metallic material about the tiles is performed to produce said product, the improvement residing in additional steps of: assembling each of the tiles within metallic framing grooves prior to said positioning thereof within the mold; and heating the metallic material to a molten state for deposit into the mold after said positioning therein of the tiles assembled within the metallic framing which is bonded to the metallic material by said casting thereof wherein said centrifugal casting is performed by rotation of the mold at 450 RPM with the metallic material in the molten state at a temperature of 1350-1400.degree. F.