Free-piston cutting machine

Patent · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2000

OSTI ID:873273

Ciccarelli, Gaby ^[1]; Subudhi, Manomohan ^[1]; Hall, Robert E ^[2]

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1. East Setauket, NY
2. Port Jefferson, NY

A cutting machine includes a gun barrel for receiving a projectile. A compression tube is disposed in flow communication with the barrel and includes a piston therein. A reservoir is disposed in flow communication with the tube and receives a first gas under pressure. A second gas fills the compression tube on a front face of the piston. And, the pressurized first gas is discharged into the tube on a back face of the piston to accelerate the piston through the tube for compressing the second gas, and in turn launching the projectile through the barrel to impact a workpiece.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-98CH10886
• Assignee: Brookhaven Science Associates (Upton, NY)
• Patent Number(s): US 6125834
• OSTI ID: 873273
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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