Kawasaki Steel Corporation

Kazuyuki Katoh

Kiyoshi Shibuya

Nozomu Tamura

Toru Sato

Toshitane Matsukawa

Saburo Moriwaki

Shun Suhara

Kenji Nakagawa

Apparatus and method of producing a thin metal ribbon by pouring a molten metal onto the surface of a quench roll rotating at a high speed so as to rapidly cool and solidify the metal to form the ribbon, separating the ribbon from the quench roll and conveying the same to a take-up device. A compressed gas is blown tangent to the quench roll to separate the ribbon from the quench roll. The separated ribbon is sucked and caught by a suction conveyor which runs at a velocity greater than the speed of production of the thin meal ribbon thereby imparting tension to the ribbon.

Method and apparatus for producing thin ribbon

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Chiba, Japan

Kazuyuki Katoh