Claims
- 1. A method of forming pellets or agglomerates consisting of high density boron nitride comprising the steps of forming high purity hexagonal boron nitride; crushing said high purity hexagonal boron nitride into boron nitride particles extending in size over a size range of at least 100 microns with the majority of the particles having a particle size above 50 microns, cold pressing the crushed particles into a compacted form and granulating the compacted particles into a granulated powder with the operations of cold pressing and granulation occurring in one or more stages for forming pellets of boron nitride or agglomerates of high density boron nitride.
- 2. A method as defined in claim 1 further comprising the additional step of crushing the compacted boron nitride into a multiplicity of particles which vary in size over a wide particle size distribution with a majority of particles lying in the size range of between 20-500 microns and agglomerating the boron nitride particles for use as a filler.
- 3. A method as defined in claim 1 wherein the majority of the particles have an average particle size above 200 microns.
- 4. A method as defined in claim 3 wherein said particle size range extends from below 20 microns to above 400 microns.
- 5. A method as defined in claim 4 wherein said particle size range extends up to 500 microns.
- 6. Boron nitride pellets consisting of boron nitride having a density of between 1.86 and 1.91 g/cc for use in converting hexagonal boron nitride into cubic boron nitride formed by the process comprising: crushing high purity hexagonal boron nitride into a multiplicity of boron nitride particles which vary in size extending over a particle size range of at least 100 microns with the majority of the particles above 50 microns in size, cold pressing the crushed particles into a compacted form, granulating the compacted particles into a granulated powder and cold pressing the granulated powder into pellets with the operations of cold pressing and granulation occurring in one or more stages.
Parent Case Info
This application is a division of application Ser. No. 08/968,959 filed Nov. 12, 1997, Pat. No. 5,898,009, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/618,361 filed Mar. 19, 1996, abandoned.
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