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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2001
Filed:
May. 09, 2000
Toshio Ishii, Fukuyama, JP;
Munehiro Ishioka, Fukuyama, JP;
Akira Hiraya, Fukuyama, JP;
Seishi Hatakeyama, Fukuyama, JP;
Nobuyuki Ishida, Yokohama, JP;
Teruhisa Kuwana, Yokohama, JP;
Kazumi Jiromaru, Yokohama, JP;
Toshihiko Ooi, Yokohama, JP;
Hideyuki Suzuki, Kawasaki, JP;
Shinichi Tomonaga, Fukuyama, JP;
Hitoshi Oishi, Yokohama, JP;
Kentaro Akashi, Fukuyama, JP;
Takayuki Fukui, Fukuyama, JP;
NKK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for hot-dip coating a steel strip, comprising: (a) an annealing furnace for continuously annealing the steel strip, the annealing furnace having an entrance side and an exit side; (b) a coating pot having a molten metal coating bath for coating the annealed steel strip; (c) a snout through which the annealed steel strip is introduced into the molten metal coating bath, one end of the snout being connected to the annealing furnace and the other end being immersed into the molten metal coating bath; (d) a seal device for sealing between the annealing furnace and the snout, the seal device being disposed at the exit side of the annealing furnace; and (e) a discharge device for discharging a gas containing a metal vapor from the snout to outside of the snout, the metal vapor being evaporated from the molten metal coating bath in the snout.