Kawasaki Steel Corporation

Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshio Yoshimoto

Toshitane Matsukawa

Shinji Kojima

Hisakazu Mizota

Toshio Fujimura

Noriaki Inoue

Tsutomu Miyake

Gumpei Yokoyama

Susumu Yuhara

Nobuo Matsumoto

Kunihiro Ito

Kouichi Kushida

Continuous forging apparatus for cast strand

A method of continuous compression forging, with a compression forging anvil, the final solidified region of cast steel drawn out from a mold for continuously casting, comprising the step of: compressing said cast steel with said anvil at a compressing cycle which meets the following conditions: ##EQU1## where t: the compressing cycle (sec), .delta.: the overall thickness reduction, Vc: the casting speed (mm), D: the cast steel thickness before compression forging, .theta.: the inclination angle (.degree.) with respect to the flat surface of the anvil. An apparatus for continuous compression forging continuously cast steel comprising: at least a pair of anvils for vertically holding the pass line of cast steel drawn out from a mold for continuous casting and continuously compression-forging the final solidified region of the moving cast steel by moving the anvils toward and away from each other; a frame; a slider; and links, wherein either of said anvils is disposed within said frame which has a port through which said cast steel is introduced, another anvil is secured to said slider which can be reciprocated along a sliding surface formed in said frame, and said frame and said slider are hung from a crank shaft via said links, said crank shaft acting to move said anvils toward and away from each other.

Method and apparatus for continuous compression forging of continuously

A transfer machine and system is disclosed which automatically performs a series of marking, cutting, sorting, and the like operations in the manufacture of a large number of test material samples. The transfer machine operates under the control of a card or tape reader which provides coded information such as marking indicia, pattern number and thickness of the material for each test sample. This information is encoded, temporarily stored and then shifted in a series of parallel shift registers in sequence with the corresponding test sample as it progresses through each stage of the transfer machine. The contents of the shift registers at each stage are decoded to provide the control signals for the corresponding marking, cutting, sorting, and similar operations. After the respective operations at each stage of the transfer machine have been completed, a coincidence signal is generated which causes the transfer machine to index thereby picking up a new test sample blank and discharging a completed test sample. Two lines of operation may progress simultaneously in which case a priority circuit is provided to direct new test sample blanks to whichever line has completed all operations at each respective stage in that line.

Transfer machine and system

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Okayama, Japan

Yoshio Yoshimoto