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A heat pipe formed by metal deposition, on porous metal wick parts, which forms the enclosure and provides both a metallurgical bond to the wick and a hermetic seal.

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A heat pipe comprising: a single walled case having an internally contained capillary wick which is metallurgically bonded to said case; a vapor space adjacent said wick; a working fluid; means to fill said heat pipe with said working fluid; and said case having no seams other than at said means to

A heat pipe comprising: a single walled case having an internally contained capillary wick which is metallurgically bonded to said case; a vapor space adjacent said wick; a working fluid; means to fill said heat pipe with said working fluid; and said case having no seams other than at said means to fill said heat pipe with said working fluid. A method of making a heat pipe comprising: shaping porous wick material to the desired shape of the finished heat pipe; attaching means to fill said heat pipe with working fluid to said porous wick; and subjecting said porous wick material and said attached means to fill said heat pipe to a metal deposition process to form an enclosure by bridging the pores in said porous wick material and the joint between said wick material and said means to fill said heat pipe, whereby forming a continuous metal hermetic seal over the entire exterior of said heat pipe.