Also known as the "lost wax method." This is a process where a wax part is repeatedly dipped with layers of ceramic material slurry. After many layers are applied, the entire part is baked at a very high temperature. The high temperature hardens the layers and melts out the wax, leaving a mold ready for casting. The metals most commonly cast are aluminum, steel, zinc and magnesium.
A casting process that uses a wax or thermoplastic pattern and is surrounded in a refractory slurry to form a mold. Once the refractory slurry is dry, the wax or plastic is melted out and the mold is formed. Molten metal is then poured in to fill the area that was previously filled with wax.
type of casting, also known as the lost-wax method, in which a wax model of the desired object (called an investment) would be made and surrounded by a plaster-like compound. The compound would harden and then be heated until the wax melted, leaving the imprinted shape in the mold
Also known as Lost Wax Process. A casting technique generally used for the production of small items of jewellery e.g., rings, earrings etc. Briefly, a rubber mould is produced from a master pattern, wax castings are then produced from the mould by injecting wax into it. The wax castings are then attached to a wax post (known as a tree) and the whole thing then coated in an investment which hardens to form a mould. This mould is then heated to melt out the wax. Molten metal is then cast into the investment mould and once cool the mould is broken away leaving the metal castings attached to the tree. These are then cut from the tree ready for further manufacturing i.e., setting, polishing etc.
the manufacturing process that pours molten metal into preformed molds. In investment casting the molds are used only once. This process is less expensive than the previously used forging process where clubs are pounded into shape. Casting allows more variations in head shape which has led to many innovations in weight distribution (see perimeter weighting).
processing procedure where molten metal is cast into a mold by surrounding an expendable pattern with a slurry that sets at room temperature. Subsequently the expendable pattern is removed by heat.
a casting process using molds that are destroyed at some point during the casting process
A pattern casting process in which a wax or thermoplastic pattern is used. The pattern is invested (surrounded) by a refractory slurry. After the mold is dry, the pattern is melted or burned out of the mold cavity, and molten metal is poured into the resulting cavity.
(1) Casting metal into a mold produced by surrounding (investing) an expendable pattern with a refractory slurry that sets at room temperature after which the wax, plastic, or frozed mercury pattern is removed through the use of heat. Also called precision casting, or lost-wax process. (2) A casting made by the process.
