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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7156926 | Method of removing scale and inhibiting oxidation in processed sheet metal A method of removing iron oxide scale from processed sheet metal comprises the steps of: providing a surface conditioning apparatus; and conditioning a surface of the processed sheet metal with the surface conditioning apparatus. In general, the iron oxide scale gen... | 01/02/2007 |
| 6959574 | Continuous pickling and cold-rolling equipment and operating method thereof A new configuration and operating method therefore improves conventional continuous pickling and cold-rolling systems in response to increasing demands for high-propertied steel plates. The continuous pickling and cold-rolling equipment system comprises a uncoiling ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6210501 | Heavy-duty cold-rolling for mechanically descaling a hot-rolled steel strip before pickling When a hot-rolled steel strip 1 is rolled at a large rolling reduction by a cold-rolling mill 4, cracking and interlayer peeling occur in those mill-scales which can not keep up with the elongation of base steel so as to weaken the adhesiveness of the mil... | 04/03/2001 |
| 5542995 | Method of making steel strapping and strip and strapping and strip A method of making flat steel strapping or strip from rods, bars or slit steel includes the steps of heating a piece of steel to an elevated temperature greater than the upper critical temperature, hot rolling the steel and quenching the rolled steel from... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5401339 | Atmospheres for decarburize annealing steels A process for producing low-cost atmospheres suitable for decarburize annealing carbon steels from non-cryogenically generated nitrogen containing up to 1.54 residual oxygen by catalytically deoxygenating a non-cryogenically generated nitrogen stream at l... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5121902 | Apparatus for cooling hot rolled steel rod using a plurality of air and water cooled sections A conveyor defines a path along which hot rolled steel rod is transported in the form of overlapping mutually offset rings. Air nozzles are arranged beneath the conveyor path to direct air upwardly against the rings from underlying plenum chambers fed by ... | 06/16/1992 |
| 4589933 | Method of quenching hot strip mill product A method of improving the quenched metallurgical qualities of a hot strip mill product quenched with recycled industrial water. The improvement is achieved by coating the throat plates of the quenching station with an oil and grease repellant compound to ... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4329188 | Method for cooling metal articles Metal articles are cooled continuously by means of a conical jet of liquid injected into a jet of gas projected at low pressure and high speed onto the articles. The injection is carried out in such a way that particles of liquid are distributed throughou... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4088513 | Method for heating a silicon-containing steel slab in a walking-beam type heating furnace A method for treating a steel slab containing 2.5 to 4% Si to a temperature not lower than 1260° C. in a continuous heating furnace of the walking-beam type, comprising; charging the slabs into the continuous heating furnace through its charge inlet, tra... | 05/09/1978 |
| 4032365 | Warm form cooling and heat recovery tunnel A method for controlling the temperature of a formed workpiece is provided. The method utilizes an apparatus in the form of a multi-tier rotary preheat, quench and heat recovery tunnel which provides for transfer of heat between tiers from workpieces to b... | 06/28/1977 |
