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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2002
Ho-young Kim, Pohang, KR;
Jong-keun Kim, Pohang, KR;
Goo-hwa Kim, Pohang, KR;
Hee-tae Jeong, Pohang, KR;
Min-su Yoon, Pohang, KR;
Anastasia Kolesnichenko, Pohang, KR;
Ho-Young Kim, Pohang, KR;
Jong-Keun Kim, Pohang, KR;
Goo-Hwa Kim, Pohang, KR;
Hee-Tae Jeong, Pohang, KR;
Min-Su Yoon, Pohang, KR;
Anastasia Kolesnichenko, Pohang, KR;
Posco, Kyungsangbuk-do, KR;
Research Institute of Industrial Science & Technology, Kyungsangbuk-do, KR;
Abstract
A molten metal holding apparatus for the continuous hot dip coating of a metal strip includes a vessel that is substantially rectangular in cross section having long sides and short sides and has formed a slot-shaped opening in a bottom surface, the vessel containing molten metal; subsidiary vessels formed following an outer circumference of an upper end of the vessal and for temporarily storing molten metal that overflows from the upper end of the vessel; chambers formed outwardly following long sides of a lower end of the vessel and that communicate with the vessel via slit-shaped branch openings formed at a predetermined slant toward the vessel; a plurality of subsidiary tubes communicating with the subsidiary vessels; and alternating current electromagnets including a core mounted adjacent to outside side surfaces of the vessel and between the subsidiary vessels and the chambers and a coil wound around the core and to which an alternating current is supplied.