Lonza Inc.

Rainer Dietrich

Peter Kuhn

Reiner Kunz

Albert Babl

Norbert Burkhardt

Ales Zahradnicek

Norbert Burkardt

An abrasive grain with an aluminum oxide base which is distinguished by good throwing power and by a good capability of being integrated in flexible abrasives or in grinding wheels with artificial resin bonding.

Abrasives

An abrasive grain on the basis of silicon carbide with a binder-free coating of highly dispersed silicon, aluminum or titanium oxide for preferred use in resin-bonded or ceramic-bonded abrasive wheels.

Coated silicon carbide abrasive grain

To obtain from a product melt a product strip of uniform gage in the nip between two rotating rolls in a continuous cooling and solidifying of metal oxides by cotinuous casting, the gage of the nip, which is preset by the respective product strip, is measured between the rolls. One of the rolls is prestressed against the other by a force. The deviation of the measured gage from a set value is determined and the roll speed is regulated by means of this deviation.

Process for the continuous cooling and solidification of metal oxides by

If a liquid metal oxide is fed to the nip of an inwardly cooled pair of rolls to cool and solidify, the rolls are subjected to a great material fatigue because of the constantly changing high heat stresses. A configuration of the rolls with few notches can be achieved by an approximation of the contour of a spherical hood. This is achieved in that each of the rolls (1,2) is designed as a truncated conical section, in that adjacent to the base (9,10), exhibiting the greater diameter of each truncated conical section a cylindrical section (5,6) with the diameter of the base (9,10) and a substantially open front surface (23) is provided. Each truncated conical section is closed, by a plane wall, on the front surface (7,8) with the smaller diameter.

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Basel, Switzerland

Rainer Dietrich