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Continuous heat treatment plant for steel sheet

US4417720A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 4, 1980
Grant dateNov 29, 1983
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Expiry dateDec 4, 2000

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC21D9/52
  • WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The continuous steel-sheet heat-treatment plant comprises, in sequence, a zone in which the sheet is heated to a temperature above the recrystallization temperature, a zone in which the sheet is held at this temperature for more than 30 seconds, a rapid cooling zone, an optional overaging zone, and a final cooling zone. The rapid cooling zone has devices for spraying a cooling fluid and a tank containing an aqueous bath at above 75.degree. C.

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