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Peter Helmut Ebner

Heribert Lochner

A system for the heat treatment of metallic annealing material (1, 12) comprising a distributor (3) for the heating or cooling medium consisting of air or a gas, where for the formation of an oblique blast the distributor (3) has tubular or slot-shaped nozzles (4, 4a) directed against the annealing material (1, 12) possibly lying on a transport means (2). For changing the distance of the nozzle orifice from the workpiece surface, the nozzles (4, 4a) are provided with retractable extensions (5, 5a) for increasing the distance between nozzle orifice and annealing material (1, 12).

System for the heat treatment of metallic annealing material

A cooling system for annealing material (4) in the form of plates, strips or bulk material moving on a transport means (5) consists of a plurality of zones (1, 2, 3), in which the annealing material (4) is treated on its lower and/or upper surface with an oblique blast of cooling medium in the form of air or gas emerging from nozzles of nozzle bars (10, 10a, 10b) fed by a compressor-type blower (7, 8, 8a, 11). In order to reduce the required amount of cooling medium, and to reduce the technical effort involved, only the last zone (3) disposed on the outlet end for the annealing material (4) is connected to the supply (7) of pressurized fresh cooling medium. In this zone (3) a collecting fan (8, 11) is provided, which upon formation of the oblique blast urges the cooling medium into a distribution box (9). To the distribution box (9, 12) the nozzle bars (10) of the penultimate zone (2) are connected. This zone is likewise provided with a collecting fan (11) including distribution box (12) for the preceding zone (1). This set-up or arrangement is repeated up to the first zone (1) disposed on the inlet end for the annealing material (4), whose collecting fan (13) finally opens to the outside.

Cooling system for annealing material continuously moving on a transport

An annealing base for hood-type annealing furnaces comprises a support (6) receiving the annealing goods, in particular stacked sheet metal coils. The support (6) rests on the distributor (4) of a central fan (5). The vertical fan axis is surrounded by a thermally insulating filling member (3). The load of the distributor (4) is transmitted by means of a supporting structure (9, 10) through the filling member (3) to a frame member (2) supported on the foundation (1). The filling member (3) consists of insulating wool or the like gas-tightly encapsulated in sheet metal. To avoid the formation of cracks in the filling member (3) during the annealing process, a stronger shaped ring (9) adapted to the bottom surface of the distributor (4) is inserted in the sheet metal constituting the capsule of the filling member (3), which shaped ring constitutes the supporting structure by means of two concentric sheet metal cylinders (10) connecting the same with the frame member (2).

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Leonding, Austria

Peter Helmut Ebner