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A Market Profile Of Epc Foundries In North America, Jennifer D. Ballacchino
A Market Profile Of Epc Foundries In North America, Jennifer D. Ballacchino
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The expendable pattern casting (EPC) process was patented on April 15, 1958 by H. F. Shroyer. Shroyer's casting process required cutting a foam pattern out of a block pf expanded polystyrene and placing the foam pattern in bonded sand before metal pouring. This process became known as the full mold process. Later, in 1962, M.C. Flemmings is credited with using unbonded sand with the foam patterns (Monroe 1992). The use of unbonded sand is the process that we now refer to as expendable pattern casting. The process is a metal casting procedure that uses a polystyrene pattern instead of a …