Evaporate pattern casting method
An opening is provided in a foam pattern, and a coating agent is applied to the opening. The coating agent applied to the opening is taken as a beam having a sectional secondary moment I (mm 4 ), a vertical plate thickness h (mm), and a length L (mm). It is assumed that a volume of a cavity part in the foam pattern is V (mm 3 ), a bulk density of the casting sand filling the cavity part is ρs (kg/mm 3 ), a gravitational acceleration is g (mm/sec 2 ), a density of the melt is ρm (kg/mm 3 ), an angle of the opening with respect to a vertical direction is θ, and a transverse strength of the coating agent at the highest temperature during pouring of the melt is σb (MPa). A sectional shape of the opening, the angle θ of the opening, and the transverse strength σb of the coating agent are selected to satisfy the expression: σ bI>V (ρ m−ρs ) g {( hL /2)sin θ−cos θ}.
1. An evaporative pattern casting method for producing a casting by burying into casting sand a mold, which is formed by application of a coating agent to a surface of a foam pattern having a cavity part inside, and then pouring a metal melt into the mold to cause the foam pattern to disappear and be replaced with the melt, wherein
an opening for communicating between the outside of the mold and the cavity part is provided in the foam pattern, and the coating agent is applied to the opening, and
when the coating agent applied to the opening is taken as a beam having a sectional secondary moment I (mm 4 ), a vertical plate thickness h (mm), and a length L (mm), selections are made for a sectional shape of the opening, an angle of the opening, and a transverse strength of the coating agent so as to satisfy the following expression, where a volume of the cavity part is V (mm 3 ), a bulk density of the casting sand that fills the cavity part is ρs (kg/mm 3 ), a density of the melt is ρm (kg/mm 3 ), a gravitational accelaration is g (mm/sec 2 ), an angle of the opening with respect to the vertical direction is θ, and a transverse strength of the coating agent at the highest temperature during pouring of the melt is σb (MPa)
σ bI>V (ρ m−ρs ) g {( hL/ 2)sin θ−cos θ}.
2. The evaporative pattern casting method according to claim 1 , wherein the angle θ of the opening with respect to the vertical direction is 90°.