Abstract:
An apparatus for treating a surface of a strip casting twin roll includes: a laser machining unit configured to form dimple patterns on a surface of a rotating casting roll using a laser; a machining region processing unit, wherein if the casting roll is rotated by a critical angle, the machining region processing unit calculates a size and a position of a machining region, in which a dimple pattern will be formed, based on image information obtained by imaging the machining region; and a laser beam absorbing unit, wherein if the size of the machining region is smaller than a size of the dimple pattern, the laser beam absorbing unit places a screen at an overlap start position from which the machining region and the dimple pattern start to overlap each other, so as to absorb a laser beam emitted toward a peripheral region of the machining region.
Abstract:
An apparatus for treating a surface of a strip casting twin roll includes: a laser machining unit configured to form dimple patterns on a surface of a rotating casting roll using a laser; a machining region processing unit, wherein if the casting roll is rotated by a critical angle, the machining region processing unit calculates a size and a position of a machining region, in which a dimple pattern will be formed, based on image information obtained by imaging the machining region; and a laser beam absorbing unit, wherein if the size of the machining region is smaller than a size of the dimple pattern, the laser beam absorbing unit places a screen at an overlap start position from which the machining region and the dimple pattern start to overlap each other, so as to absorb a laser beam emitted toward a peripheral region of the machining region.
Abstract:
Apparatus and method for continuously casting metal strip includes a pair of casting rolls having casting surfaces with a center portion, edge portions each having average surface roughness between 3 and 7 Ra, and intermediate portion between each edge portion and the center portion, the center portion average surface roughness between 1.2 and 4.0 times the edge portion surface roughness, and the intermediate portions average surface roughness between that of the edge and center portions. The surface roughness of the center portion is tapered across its width, and may be tapered across its width is in stepped zones. The center portion may have surface roughness varied across the surface to correspond to a desired variation in metal shell thickness across the cast strip. The center portion may be at least 60% of the casting roll width, and each edge portion may be up to 7% of the casting roll width.
Abstract:
Apparatus for preparing alloy sheet, comprising a container for melted alloy liquid positioned in an inductive heating coil; a liquid flow stabilization outfit comprising a barrel container with open bottom and a base board arranged below the open bottom, and the barrel container's upper part being positioned below the mouth of the container for melted alloy liquid; a quenching wheel positioned below the melted alloy liquid flown from the liquid flow stabilization outfit's base board, which carries the melted alloy liquid and spins it into strips, so as to make the strips become alloy sheets after collision; a transferring outfit positioned below the wheel for further cooling and transferring of the alloy sheets, characterized in that the quenching wheel is equipped with a means for differentiating cooling rate for various alloy sheets. The apparatus for preparing alloy sheets of this invention can produce rare earth-transition metal alloy sheets at different cooling rates, and make a proper distribution of grain size. The magnetic material made of these alloy sheets is good in orientation, easy for post-sinter processing, and suitable for mass production.
Abstract:
A sealing device for a main roller coaster including a transition piece positioned above a melt pool formed between chilled rolls, rotatable cylindrical brushes extending axially of the rolls and each abutting against an outer periphery of the corresponding roll all over an axial length thereof on a side away from the pool and below the transition piece, first cowlings each covering the roll in between the transition piece and the brush, second cowlings each surrounding a portion of the brush not in contact with the roll, third cowlings each covering the roll below the brush and outlets for feeding sealing gas to between the transition piece and the rolls, the sealing gas from the outlets filling up to outlet portions of the third cowlings.
Abstract:
A strip caster (10) for producing a continuous strip (24) has a tundish (12) for containing a melt (14) and a pair of horizontally disposed water cooled casting rolls (22). The casting rolls are juxtaposed relative to one another for forming a pouring basin (18) for receiving the melt through a teeming tube (16) thereby establishing a meniscus (20) between the rolls for forming a strip (24). The melt is protected from the outside air by a non-oxidizing gas passed through a supply line (28) to a sealing chamber (26). Devices (29) for conditioning the outer peripheral chill surfaces of the casting rolls includes grit blasting nozzles (30A, 30B, 30C, 30D), a collection trough (32) for gathering the grit, a line (34) for recycling the grit to a bag house (36), a feeder (38) and a pressurized distributor (40) for delivering the grit to the nozzles. The conditioning nozzles remove dirt, metal oxides and surface imperfections providing a clean surface readily wetted by the melt.
Abstract:
A method of direct casting molten metal into strip by providing a melt of the metal to be cast, providing a continuously driven metal chill surface, flowing a layer of the melt onto the moving chill surface and extracting heat from the layer of melt to solidify and temporarily bond the layer of melt to the chill surface and to shrink the solidified layer and cause it to be released from the chill surface, withdrawing the released solidified layer as a continuous metal strip, establishing a natural oxide layer on said chill surface to provide an interface between said layer of melt and said chill surface, and maintaining said natural oxide in a smooth layer of substantially uniform thickness.
Abstract:
An apparatus for producing a metal ribbon has a rotary roll. Molten metal is poured from a heated nozzle onto the outer peripheral surface of the roll to form a solidified metal ribbon on the roll surface. To facilitate easy separation of the metal ribbon from the roll surface, a jet of a non-oxidizing gas is directed to the point of separation of the ribbon from the roll surface. The roll surface just upstream of the metal-pouring nozzle is enclosed by a cover the inside of which is evacuated to assure intimate contact of the poured metal with the roll surface and thus improve cooling of the poured metal. A heater is provided in the cover to heat the roll surface just upstream of the metal-pouring nozzle for thereby removing dew droplets and ambient gases from the roll surface whereby the formation of depressions or recesses in the roll-containing ribbon surface is prevented.
Abstract:
A twin-roll strip caster includes: a pair of casting rolls rotating in opposite directions to each other, and having an edge dam adhering to both end surfaces of the casting rolls in a length direction of the casting rolls; a submerged nozzle discharging molten steel between the pair of casting rolls; a meniscus shield disposed above the molten steel supplied through the submerged nozzle to prevent the molten steel from contacting air; and a focused gas supply nozzle disposed between the submerged nozzle and the meniscus shield to supply inert gas therebetween so as to displace air between the submerged nozzle and the meniscus shield before the molten steel is supplied.
Abstract:
Apparatus and method for continuously casting metal strip includes a pair of casting rolls having casting surfaces with a center portion, edge portions each having average surface roughness between 3 and 7 Ra, and intermediate portion between each edge portion and the center portion, the center portion average surface roughness between 1.2 and 4.0 times the edge portion surface roughness, and the intermediate portions average surface roughness between that of the edge and center portions. The surface roughness of the center portion is tapered across its width, and may be tapered across its width is in stepped zones. The center portion may have surface roughness varied across the surface to correspond to a desired variation in metal shell thickness across the cast strip. The center portion may be at least 60% of the casting roll width, and each edge portion may be up to 7% of the casting roll width.