Kawasaki Steel Corporation

Fumiya Yanagishima

Yuji Shimoyama

Hideo Sunami

Akira Kishida

Takeo Ohnishi

Hideo Abe

Hideo Kuguminato

Kuniaki Sato

Yoshio Nakazato

Toko Teshiba

Hidenori Miyake

Yukio Ida

Hiromasa Yamamoto

Goji Katsushima

Munetoshi Suzuki

Gunji Sakamoto

Makoto Kobayashi

Kazuo Mochizuki

Takashi Obara

Kazuhito Kenmochi

Takaaki Hira

Kusuo Furukawa

Toru Sasaki

Takeo Fukushima

Masanori Kitahama

Norio Ohta

Hiroaki Sasaki

Akihiko Fukuhara

Hironobu Ohno

Tomio Komatu

Tadaaki Yasumi

Toshio Akizuki

Shinichiro Muto

Shigeki Taniguchi

Fumio Kosumi

Toshikazu Kaihara

Tsuneyoshi Wakui

Yoshio Izumiyama

Shunji Fujiwara

Kouichi Tahara

Masanobu Ochiai

An uneven patterned metal strip or plate is formed with an uneven pattern as a surface decorative pattern. The pattern is constituted of one or more pattern unit containing a plurality of uneven dot. Each of the uneven dots has a size D. The uneven dots are arranged in a predetermined density to have given ratio .eta. of occupying area versus plane area in said pattern unit. The size D and area ratio .eta. being in a range of:

Patterned metal plate and production thereof

A process of producing cold rolled stainless steel strip, according to the invention, includes preliminary treatment for hot rolled stainless steel strip, in which preliminary treatment, hot rolled stainless steel strip is, at first, treated through annealing and picking process and is subsequently subject cold rolling without introducing rolling mill lubricant at a reduction of more than 5%. The process of preliminary treatment for preparation of cold rolling is useful for producing high surface brightness cold rolled stainless steel strip, which can achieve both of satisfactory quality and high efficiency.

Method and apparatus for preliminary treatment of stainless steel for

A method and an apparatus for rolling metal strips by a tandem cold rolling mill. The strip is periodically swung in its width directions at a location upstream of the tandem rolling mill, to bring the strip into contact with rolls of the tandem cold rolling mill over areas of the rolls as widely as possible, thereby preventing irregular wears of the rolls to make it possible to produce defect-free metal strips.

Rolling method and rolling apparatus for metal strips

In a method of continuously annealing and pickling steel strips successively transferred through a continuous annealing apparatus including heating and cooling zones and a pickling apparatus, annealing the steel strips is effected in reducing atmosphere and thereafter pickling is effected at least by nitric acid electrolytic treatment. In an apparatus for continuously annealing and pickling steel strips, including a continuous annealing furnace and a pickling apparatus, the continuous annealing furnace consists of vertical furnaces capable of advancing a steel strip in a manner substantially repeating upward and downward movements alternately in substantially vertical directions and the pickling apparatus comprises at least a nitric acid electrolytic cell. In another aspect, continuous annealing furnace consists of one pass furnace capable of advancing the steel strip only once and forming a high temperature heating zone and a high temperature cooling zone of the annealing furnace, and vertical furnaces respectively forming a lower temperature heating zone and a low temperature cooling zone and capable of advancing a steel strip in a manner substantially repeating upward and downward movements alternately in substantially vertical directions. The one pass furnace is horizontal or vertical.

Continuous annealing and pickling method and apparatus for steel strips

A laser butt welding apparatus including a pair of clamp elements at least one of which is movable reciprocally along the steel strip-feed line direction and which are adapted to clamp the edge portions of preceding and trailing steel strips, a shear which is advanceable and retractable between the pair of the clamp elements in a perpendicular direction to the line and cuts the edge portions of the preceding and trailing steel strips, structure for butting the cut faces of the preceding and trailing steel strips while being clamped by means of the clamp elements, and a laser torch adapted to condense a laser beam from a laser oscillator on an off-line at a weld zone and movable in a width direction of the steel strips to be welded together.

Apparatus for butt welding steel strips by using a laser beam in a steel

A method of coiling a thin strip on a tension reel, which comprises coiling a strip rolled to a thickness of not more than 0.3 mm through a last stand of a cold tandem mill at different values of delivery side tension of the last stand and coiling tension produced by arranging a tension control means between the last stand and the tension reel.

Method of coiling thin strips

In the operation of a continuous-process annealing furnace for a steel strip of a continuous length which is guided through the high-temperature zones of the furnace by the upper and lower hearth rolls in an alternate up and down vertical movement, each of the hearth rolls having an end-tapered or crowned configuration to correct the meandering of the running strip, each of the hearth rolls is coupled with one or a plural number of straightly cylindrical auxiliary rolls in contact with the strip at a position close to the hearth roll. By virtue of the installation of the auxiliary rolls, the phenomenon of wrinkling or buckling in the steel strip can be effectively prevented without causing meandering and the effect is more remarkable when specific relationships are held among the values of the diameters of the hearth roll and auxiliary roll and the position of the auxiliary roll relative to the hearth roll.

Method for continuous annealing of a metal strip

A method of manufacturing T-3 grade low temper blackplates having an excellent corrosion resistance by a continuous annealing process. In this method, after a continuously cast slab of low carbon aluminum killed steel consisting of 0.02-0.09% of C, not more than 0.04% of Si, 0.15-0.40% of Mn, 0.003-0.02% of soluble Al, not more than 0.0040% in total of N and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities is subjected to hot rolling, coiled at a temperature of less than 580.degree. C., pickled and subjected to cold rolling, the resulting cold-rolled strip is subjected to such a continuous annealing that the strip is maintained at a temperature above 680.degree. C. for at least 20 seconds, quenched up to a temperature below 500.degree. C. at a cooling rate of 10.degree.-500.degree. C./sec, maintained at a temperature of 350.degree.-500.degree. C. for at least 20 seconds and cooled to room temperature.

Method of manufacturing T-3 grade low temper black plates

A method of burning a fuel gas in a low NO.sub.x level in the exhaust gas is disclosed, wherein a radiant tube burner having concentrically arranged outer air flow nozzle, fuel gas nozzles arranged in a circle and inner air flow nozzle and having a particular structure is used and the fuel gas is burnt under a particularly limited condition.

Low NO.sub.x level combustion method in a radiant tube burner and a

Helper rolls in a continuous annealing furnace are divided by a master speed hearth roll serving as the boundary into a plurality of control blocks disposed forwardly and rearwardly of the master speed hearth roll, and the speed of rotation of the master speed hearth roll is used as a reference speed. Tension of a steel strip are continuously controlled on the basis of values detected by a tension meter in the plurality of control blocks towards the inlet of the furnace for the helper rolls disposed forwardly of the master speed hearth roll and towards the outlet of the furnace for the helper rolls disposed rearwardly of the master speed hearth roll.

Method of controlling tensions in continuous annealing furnace and

A steel strip continuous annealing apparatus comprising: a steel strip feeder; a heating-soaking zone for heating and soaking a steel strip at a predetermined temperature; a first cooling zone for rapidly cooling the steel strip at a predetermined cooling rate; a second cooling zone for slowly cooling the steel strip or holding same at a predetermined temperature; a third cooling zone for cooling the steel strip to substantially room temperature; and a steel strip carryout device; wherein the first cooling zone incorporates therein forcible cooling means, the second cooling zone incorporates therein hot-cold change-over means and the third cooling zone incorporates therein forcible cooling means, while said steel strip continuous annealing apparatus further comprises: means for directly bypassing the steel strip from the heating-soaking zone through a first bypass passageway to the second cooling zone; and means for directly bypassing the steel strip from the first cooling zone through a second bypass passageway to the steel strip carry-out device; so that the steel strips different in dimensions and required heat cycle can be efficiently annealed.

Steel strip continuous annealing apparatus

A steel strip continuous annealing apparatus comprising: a steel strip feeder; a heating-soaking zone for heating and soaking the steel strip at a predetermined temperature; a first cooling zone for rapidly cooling the steel strip at a predetermined cooling rate; a second cooling zone for slowly cooling the steel strip or holding same at a predetermined temperature; a third cooling zone for cooling the steel strip to substantially the room temperature; and a steel strip carry-out device; wherein the first cooling zone incorporates therein forcible cooling means, the second cooling zone incorporates therein hot-cold change-over means and said forcible cooling means incorporated in the first cooling zone is provided thereon with self-cooling means; so that steel strips of various grades of steel different in required heat cycle to be applied thereto can be efficiently and stably annealed.

A steel strip continuous annealing furnace comprises a heating zone, a soaking zone and cooling zones, wherein bridle rolls for isolating tension of a steel strip from those in adjacent sections of the steel strip are provided at the inlet and outlet of the furnace and in the furnace so as to define a plurality of tension control blocks and provide tension control mechanisms for controlling the tensions of the steel strip in the respective tension control blocks, so that appropriate tensions can be rendered to the steel strip in the respective zones of the furnace, thereby enabling to secure the safe and satisfactory operating conditions.

Steel strip continuous annealing furnace

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Fumiya Yanagishima