grappes

English translation: batches

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French term or phrase:grappes
English translation:batches
Entered by: Drmanu49

03:59 Feb 2, 2013
French to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Instruments / prostheses production - audit documentation
French term or phrase: grappes
"Pour les embases de notre genou XYZ, nos grappes sont composées de 24 à 26 pièces. [...]
Le décirage se fait à une température de 1000 °C. A la suite, un contrôle de la grappe est réalisé par ressuage. Les trous et fissures éventuels sont colmatés..."

For background, what happens next:
La grappe est ensuite chauffée à 1500 °C. En parallèle l’opérateur prépare son bain de fusion de 10 kg. La température est contrôlé à l’aide d’un piromètre. [XYZ company] a actuellement la capacité de traiter XYZ grappes par jour.
Le refroidissement se fait à l’air. Les pièces sont ensuite séparés de la grappe par meulage et avant traitement thermique. Les premières grappes sont radiographiées à 100%...
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This is the prostheses being created, obviously, but no visuals are provided and am not sure the term to use. At first I thought they're referring to the actual part of the prosthesis (ie the tibial plate as the base) but it doesn't make sense and they could have used a more specific word for that. Now I think they are referring to either each part as it is unmolded (séparés de la grappe) or???

Here is a generic visual:

http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=a00221
Catherine Pawlick
United States
Local time: 09:23
batches
Explanation:
is a word I sould use, but not cluster which is usually a random collection of cases.
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Drmanu49
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Local time: 08:23
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5collections/bunches/groups
Alison Billington
4batches
Drmanu49
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grappe
Roy vd Heijden

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batches


Explanation:
is a word I sould use, but not cluster which is usually a random collection of cases.

Drmanu49
France
Local time: 08:23
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Asker: Thanks DrManu... Batches could work here, I like that better...

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1 day 6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
collections/bunches/groups


Explanation:
Grappe means a bunch as in a unch of grapess or a gropup as in. A group of people

Alison Billington
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:23
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Reference comments


4 hrs
Reference: grappe

Reference information:
« FOND. Ensemble de pièces attenantes à un même jet de coulée »
(http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/grappe)

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Note added at 4 uren (2013-02-02 08:06:28 GMT)
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Ex. :

« On remplit totalement le moule en une seule fois jusqu'à ce que le métal remonte par les masselottes et affleure la partie supérieure du moule. Il est donc important de choisir la taille des louches ou des poches en fonction du "poids de la grappe" (poids de la pièce et de ses différents appendices de coulée). »
(http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonderie_d'aluminium)

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Note added at 4 uren (2013-02-02 08:17:33 GMT)
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stack?

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Note added at 4 uren (2013-02-02 08:35:34 GMT)
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"stack moulding

DEF – A foundry practice that makes use of both faces of a mold section one face acting as the drag and the other as the cope. Sections, when assembled to other similar sections, form several tiers of mold cavities, all castings being poured together through a common sprue."
(http://www.termiumplus.com/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng...


ad "cluster":

« Articles implantables possédant des régions macrotexturées venues de moulage et leur méthode de fabrication
[...]
14.Procédé selon une quelconque des revendications 9 à 13, dans lequel l'étape de la coulée d'une matière fondue s'effectue en :
collant un ou plusieurs moules de coulée à un système central de canaux pour former une grappe telle que chaque moule de coulée communique avec une portion intérieure du système de canaux ;
appliquant une ou plusieurs couches d'une matière liante réfractaire à la grappe tout en laissant la matière liante sécher entre les applications successives de matière liante pour former une grappe enrobée de liant ;
cuire la grappe enrobée de liant ; et couler un métal fondu dans la grappe enrobée de liant cuit. »
(http://www.google.com/patents/EP0672395B1?cl=fr)

"Implantable articles with as-cast macrotextured surface regions and method of manufacturing the same
[...]
14.The method of any one of claims 9 to 13, wherein the step of casting a molten material is accomplished by:
adhering one or more casting molds to a central runner system to form a cluster such that each casting mold communicates with an interior portion of the runner system;
applying one or more coats of a refractory binder material to the cluster while allowing the binder material to dry between successive applications of binder material, to make a binder-encased cluster;
firing the binder-encased cluster; and casting a molten metal in the fired binder-encased cluster."
(http://www.google.com/patents/EP0672395B1?cl=en&hl=nl)

Roy vd Heijden
Belgium
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
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