Patent ID: 8042599
Filing Date: 2011-10-25
Classification: B22D

Abstract:
1. A method comprising producing a multiplicity of structural parts comprising providing a melt of titanium aluminide, introducing the melt into shell molds wherein each of the shell molds is reproductively negative with respect to one single structural part, removing the shell molds after the solidification of the melt, wherein the melt is introduced into the shell mold by placing an individual shell mold upside down onto the margin of a crucible filled with melt to form an arrangement, such that the crucible and the shell mold enclose a common cavity, and subsequently rotating the arrangement of crucible and shell mold about a horizontal axis by more than 90°, providing a casting chamber in which crucibles with molten material and shell molds for forming one single structural part of the multiplicity of structural parts are made individually available at a clocked rate, providing a casting apparatus in the casting chamber, wherein the casting apparatus joins one of said crucibles and one of said shell molds for forming one single structural part such that said shell mold after inversion rests on the margin of the crucible, and which tilts said shell mold joined with said crucible about a horizontal axis by more than 90°, wherein the shell molds are individually supplied to the casting apparatus at a predetermined work cycle and wherein the melt needed in each instance of the work cycle is provided in a quantity required for filling a single shell mold, wherein the melt is currently generated in the same work cycle from an ingot of a size corresponding to the amount of melt needed for filling a single shell mold, wherein the casting chamber is preceded by a melting chamber, into which the crucibles each filled with an ingot are introduced at a clocked rate and are exposed to an energy source which melts the ingot in the crucible.