Abstract:
A process or method used to produce a free-machining, high sulfur steel alloy is accomplished by continuously casting the molten metal rather than ingot casting and processing in a blooming mill. The process begins with a molten alloy having a high sulfur content (0.40-0.65%). The molten metal is poured from the ladle into the tundish of the continuous casting machine. From there, the molten metal is fed into an oscillating mold having the desired cross section. As the molten metal passes through the mold it is cooled to form a solidified metal body. Finally, the metal body is withdrawn and cut into the desired lengths. Additional measures may be incorporated into the process to improve the machinability and surface characteristics. They include feeding aluminum wire into the mold, protecting the casting stream from the atmosphere, and using a slide gate ladle pouring system.
Abstract:
A HOT-FORMED COPPER-BASE PRODUCT IN WHICH THE COPPER BASE METAL HAS COPPER OXIDE INCLUSIONS WHICH ARE SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORMLY DISPERSED AND HAS A SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM FINE GRAIN STRUCTURE. IN THE FORM OF A ROD OF TOUGH PITCH COPPER, THE HOT-FORMED COPPER-BASE PRODUCT IS SUPERIOR TO PRIOR ART HOT-FORMED COPPER-BASE PRODUCTS FOR DRAWING INTO WIRE AND FOR OTHER USES. THE HOT-FORMED COPPER-BASE PRODUCT IS PRODUCED IN THE FORM OF A ROD OF TOUGH PITCH COPPER BY SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETELY SOLIDIFYING A MOLTEN COPPER-BASE METAL TO OBTAIN A CAST METAL AND BY HOT-FORMING THE CAST METAL INTO ROD, THE HOTFORMING BEING INITIATED WHILE THE CAST METAL IS IN SUBSTANTIALLY THAT CONDITION IN WHICH IT SOLIDIFIED AND BEING OF SUFFICIENT DEGREE TO SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETELY DESTORY THE COLUMNAR DENDRITIC STRUCTURE OF THE CAST METAL.
Abstract:
An apparatus for the manufacture of strands of molten metal, in particular nonalloyed and alloyed steels, by continuous casting, comprising a mold for continuously casting a strand and means for simultaneously withdrawing the cast strand from the mold. The cast strand which exits from the mold is in a partially solidified state and has a molten core. The withdrawing means comprise a pair of spaced grooved rollers which define a box-pass therebetween. The bottom of the groove of each roller includes a convexedly curved portion, the camber of convexity of which amounts to 10-25 percent of the height of the box-pass. Pressure producing means are operatively connected to the pair of grooved rollers. This pressure producing means being selectively variable in applying pressure at ratios ranging from 1:4 to 1:8.
Abstract:
Described herein are 6xxx series aluminum alloys with unexpected properties and novel methods of producing such aluminum alloys. The aluminum alloys are highly formable and exhibit high strength. The alloys are produced by continuous casting and can be hot rolled to a final gauge and/or a final temper. The alloys can be used in automotive, transportation, industrial, and electronics applications, just to name a few.
Abstract:
A method and device for producing hot-rolled products in a combined continuous casting and rolling system includes a device for separating and removing. In order to overcome a disruption in production in a part of the system located downstream of the device for separating and removing, the method includes: (a) separating the endlessly produced precursor material into a strand portion with shears; (b) clamping the strand portion; (c) raising the trailing part of the strand portion from the roller table by a raising device, so that the strand portion is drawn away from the shears in the direction of transport; (d) cutting the precursor material into a precursor material portion with the shears; (e) removing the precursor material portion from the roller table, and removing the strand portion until the combined continuous casting and rolling system is ready to operate again.
Abstract:
Methods of forming a high-strength metal alloy precursor by tailor-casting strips having a tailored thickness across a width of a strip material are provided. The tailor-cast strips have varying thickness throughout the width, which can then be further tailor rolled to a final required thickness profile/tailored thickness. Such tailor-casting method can be conducted by contacting a patterned surface of a casting roller or a casting block with a liquid high-strength metal alloy in a continuous casting process. The present disclosure provides methods of continuously casting a strip having varying thickness across the width allows for improved product in subsequent processing, like tailor rolling. Methods of making a high-strength metal alloy structural automotive component from a tailor-cast blank having a tailored thickness are also provided.
Abstract:
Continuous casting equipment includes a casting product reduction apparatus and a casting product drawing apparatus, the casting product reduction apparatus including a pair of casting product reduction rolls that sandwich and apply pressure to a casting product and being configured to apply reduction to the casting product, the casting product drawing apparatus being provided in a following stage of the casting product reduction apparatus and configured to sandwich and draw the casting product with a pair of casting product drawing rolls. At least one of the pair of casting product reduction rolls includes a large-diameter part that projects radially outward in an axial-direction center region and applies pressure to a width-direction center region of the casting product. The casting product that is subjected to reduction by the casting product reduction apparatus has a depressed part corresponding to the large-diameter part. At least one of the pair of casting product drawing rolls of the casting product drawing apparatus includes a depressed part supporting part that contacts with and supports the depressed part, and is driven by a driving mechanism. An axial-direction length L2 of the depressed part supporting part and an axial-direction length L1 of the large-diameter part of the casting product reduction roll satisfy 0.5×L1≦L2
Abstract:
The present invention provides a sector-shaped section of a continuous casting machine for heavy reduction of a solidified terminal of a continuously cast slab and a heavy reduction method. The sector-shaped section of a continuous casting machine comprises an upper frame, a lower frame, an upper driving roller, a lower driving roller, a left driven roller set, a right driven roller set, a screw-down gear and clamping cylinders which are positioned on the sector-shaped section; the clamping cylinders are used for clamping the upper frame and the lower frame and keeping the upper frame and the lower frame at a set interval; the upper driving roller is connected with the screw-down gear; the upper driving roller is connected to the upper frame through a bearing base; the lower driving roller is connected to the lower frame through a bearing base; the left driven roller set and the right driven roller set, are respectively positioned on two sides of the driving rollers; the left driven roller set is used for clamping the cast slab before reduction; the right driven roller set is used for clamping the cast slab after reduction; and the diameter ratio of the driving rollers to the driven rollers is 1.1:1-2:1. The deformation permeability of the present invention is increased, equivalent to the deformation of one rolling pass of a two-roller mill with a relatively large roller diameter, which facilitates improvement on the looseness and segregation of the center area of the continuously cast slab.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide an aluminum alloy foil for an electrode current collector, the foil having a high strength after the drying step while keeping a high electrical conductivity. Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy foil for electrode current collector, including: maintaining an aluminum alloy ingot comprising 0.1 to 0.5% of Fe, 0.01 to 0.3% of Si, 0.01 to 0.2% of Cu, 0.01% or less of Mn, with the rest being Al and unavoidable impurities, at 550 to 620° C. for 1 to 20 hours, and subjecting the resulting ingot under a hot rolling with a starting temperature of 500° C. or higher and an end-point temperature of 255 to 300° C.