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Article: Michigan Inventor Develops Hot Cut Aluminum Billet Saw
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- February 19, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Thomas F. Kohn of Belding, Mich., has developed a hot cut aluminum billet saw.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "process and apparatus for extruding aluminum into products, wherein aluminum logs are first heated to a predetermined temperature in a furnace, then are cut into billets of predetermined lengths, and then the billets, while still hot, are extruded into predetermined products in an extruder. In the process, the logs are cut into billets with a cross cut circular saw immediately after the logs are heated and before the logs are permitted to cool to a temperature below a suitable extruding temperature."
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