Precious metal article, method for manufacturing same, moldable mixture for use in manufacture of same and method for producing moldable mixture

Abstract From the Canadian patent

There is disclosed a precious metal article which is formed of a solid-phase sintered product of a precious metal powder. For manufacturing the precious metal article a moldable mixture, which contains a precious metal powder and a binder removable by sintering is shaped into a prescribed molded object and the, molded object is then subjected to sintering. The moldable mixture is produced by preparing a precious metal powder preparing, a jellylike cellulose binder by blending a cellulose with water and leaving for a prescribed period of time and blending, the precious metal powder and the jellylike cellulose binder together. The most preferable moldable mixture contains 50 to 90 % weight of …