Appeal No. 1997-1594
Application No. 08/247,090
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
examiner’s refusal to allow claims 1 through 14 and 26 through
30 which are all the claims in the application.
THE INVENTION
The invention is directed to a process for the
preparation of a composite material containing diamond
particles. Diamond particles are coated with a region of
carbide forming material and a region of brazeable material.
Thereafter the coated diamond particles are compacted into a
porous body. The body is subsequently heated to a temperature
above the melting point of the brazeable material so as to
infiltrate the porous body with the brazing material.
THE CLAIMS
Claim 1 is illustrative of appellants’ invention and is
reproduced below.
1. A process for fabricating a composite material,
comprising:
coating a quantity of diamond particles with a region of
an adherent carbide forming material followed by a region of
brazeable material;
compacting the thus coated diamond particles into a
porous body; and
2
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