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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 1983
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
Philippe Paulus, Liege, BE;
Assignee:
Centre de Recherches Metallurgiques, Brussels, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C21D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
266112 ; 266113 ;
Abstract
The continuous steel-sheet heat-treatment plant comprises, in sequence, a zone in which the sheet is heated to a temperature above the recrystallization temperature, a zone in which the sheet is held at this temperature for more than 30 seconds, a rapid cooling zone, an optional overaging zone, and a final cooling zone. The rapid cooling zone has devices for spraying a cooling fluid and a tank containing an aqueous bath at above 75.degree. C.