Kawasaki Steel Corporation

Yukio Ida

Yuji Shimoyama

Fumiya Yanagishima

Takeo Ohnishi

Hideo Sunami

Goji Katsushima

Yasuhiro Yamaguchi

Takeo Fukushima

Hisao Yasunaga

Munetoshi Suzuki

Isamu Shioda

A process for preventing transverse displacement of metal strip comprises correcting a shape of metal strip into flat form prior to the travel of the metal strip into a continuous annealing furnace when continuously annealing the metal strip in the furnace under a condition of LSD.gtoreq.100 (representing a product of line speed and strip gauge).

Process for preventing transverse displacement of metal strip

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.

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Chiba, Japan

Yukio Ida