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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. 11, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Vijay N. Madi, Fairfield, OH (US);
Jerald W. Leeker, Trenton, OH (US);
Clayton A. Van Scoy, Butler, PA (US);
Assignee:
AK Steel Corporation, Middletown, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23G 1/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C23G 1/02 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a process for pickling hot rolled, hot rolled & annealed, and cold rolled & annealed stainless steel strip in a continuous fashion. The process comprises a series of pre-pickling tanks and pickling tanks, and optionally includes a scrubber-brush tank, a de-smutting tank, a filtration unit and a heat exchanger.