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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 1984
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bobby C Gentry, Temple, GA (US);
Assignee:
Southwire Company, , GA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C21D / ; C21D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
148 / ; 148159 ; 148415 ; 266103 ; 266104 ;
Abstract
Solution heat treatment of a rapidly advancing intermediate metallic product (26) is accomplished by preheating the product in a first zone (27) by conventional means, a great length of the product is maintained at the desired temperature in a second zone (36), and the heated product is quenched in a third zone (40) in a special apparatus (25), before further processing.