PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SPHERICAL POWDER PARTICLES

摘要

A process is disclosed for producing spherical powder particles from metal or metal alloy scrap material. The process involves mechanically reducing the size of the scrap material, entraining the resulting reduced size material in a carrier gas and passing it through a high temperature zone above the melting point of the material to melt the major portion of the reduced size material and form essentially spherical particles of the major portion, followed by resolidifying the material.